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Day shift, LTF Binbrook. Cab just dropped off sticks and required flap funct's. Shame that the jacks hadn't been moved out from under the wings. Flaps down, metal grinding and splashing noises as the cab jacked it'self up on its formerly fuel filled flaps.
 
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Binbrrok again.

Binbrrok again.

I heard a story (myth?) in regards to a truck (I believe it was One of those MT furniture type trucks) bimbled past the flashing red lights to go across the runway and One, possibly Two Lightnings came over just as the truck was passing over the runway...Apparently scorch marks were left on the top of the truck....How true this story is, I have no idea.
 
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Cottesmore 2003/4 there was a harrier being cleaned up after a flight but they forgot to chock it up, cue harrier going for a walk by itself into a hangar door made a good hole in it too

had another one where there was a problem with the stations email boxes. 4 techies looking at it trying to find where the problem was so we could sort it before bringing up the backup. smart arse S/L orders us to bring up the backup anyway. Amid alot of protests and a " i've promised the staish" the fault was then copied across to the backup and f**ked the lot

one very red faced S/L:pDT_Xtremez_42:
four very ****ed off techies spending the next fri - mon sorting it :pDT_Xtremez_25:
 
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shettie

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T93 said:
I heard a story (myth?) in regards to a truck (I believe it was One of those MT furniture type trucks) bimbled past the flashing red lights to go across the runway and One, possibly Two Lightnings came over just as the truck was passing over the runway...Apparently scorch marks were left on the top of the truck....How true this story is, I have no idea.
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Canberra - Wyton - Bedford CF van... Skid marks - and more that just over the roof of the CF...
 
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Someone with a sense of humour "adjusted" the valve on a hydraulic lifting trolley at EROS in the late 80's early 90's. Lad lines up bakers tray with rack and gets called away to the phone, so off he goes leaving the tray half on the trolley and half on the rack.
The lift slowly drops until the RB199 LP compressor, brand spanking new in every feature, could no longer retain it's balance and fell off onto the floor with the second loudest crash I have ever heard. It was due to head out the door too....... :pDT_Xtremez_42:
 
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Seem to recall a Victor captain from back in the day who was detailed to do a flypast for 57 Sqn disbandment. Flypast was to be conducted at 250Kts and 500ft (or something like that) said captain (a bit on the gung-ho side of punchy) transposed the figures and this Victor nearly parted the trees on the waterfront!!!!!! I was on guard of honour for this parade and I ducked!!!!!

Captain immediately hauled before Harry Staish, lots of ex 57 personnel nearly having clutchers, captain grounded. However a prestige air-show was due to be visited by the mighty Victor and given as said captain was only full category captain available at the time, he was immediately un-grounded till he got back!!!!:pDT_Xtremez_19:

Another one, happened to mate of mine who had been posted back to Marham after a short period away. This was during the Falklands era and the Victors were not using their wing pods usually (not much point for a Vulcan or C130!!!) so a bright spark thought use them as countermeasures:pDT_Xtremez_19: if you taped a bag stuffed with chaff around the basket, if you got targeted trail hose bag rips and you disappear off radar:pDT_Xtremez_19: Well my mate had done pod stuff before, but was blisfully unaware of this "special feature" until doing some diagnosis including a full trail of the hose, when with one almighty yank said mate discharged chaff all over the place!!!! would not have been so bad but it was a nice day so he was working outside!!!!!:pDT_Xtremez_31: Radar blacked out until it all dispersed!!!!!!!!
 
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ROTORHEAD

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Nother Binbrook one. Abingdon RSS just finished replacing an undercarriage "D" door on a Frightning. Cab was towed out onto the pan outside ASF and a Houchen put beside it redy for runs. The handbrake on the houchen wasn't on, so it set off down the pan, neatly shearing off the new "D" door. Bugger!
 
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HAS doors at Leeming. Some bright operator on 90SU drove a landrover out of the has, stopped and walked back in to close the doors. Didn't move the landrover far enough out. Cue lots of crunching metal. Ontop of that, the Landrover was a bowman fit so there was lots of Sulphuric Acid on the pan from the UPS batteries.

Outcomes from this? We now have to do a Q Course on how to operate the HAS doors. The operator in question got a one way conversation from first the Group Captain on 90SU an then the Adj, he was walking very funny fora while after that.
 
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ROTORHEAD

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White hand gang

White hand gang

Not an almighty one but made me laugh--LATER!
AOC's Leuchars circa '78. AVM's plane landed, I put recently painted white chocks (not by me) in on the nose wheel of the HS125, noticing that the paint was still wet. Remembering that the VIP step rails and bannisters had had the same treatment, I had a quick look round the nose to see the big man sashaying down the steps sliding his hand down the bannister on the way. He then shook hands with harry staish. This wasn't so bad as they were both wearing gloves, but then having shaken hands, both of them then placed their hands on the skirts of their best blues! I went to hide just about then!

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In a previous life, as another trade, I was part of a training move of a bucket of sunshine somewhere in Western Europe. All agencies were in place and said move was going swimmingly well until the final arrival infront of the receiving HAS.

As the driver swung round in front of the HAS doors, the bucket of sunshine (concrete) unceremoniously rolled off its trailer and fell onto the floor, rolling into the HAS door.

Not being high enough up the food chain I wasn't privvy to the ensuing b0ll0cking, but im sure it was a beauty!
 
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Has this fcuk up been covered?

http://www.spyflight.co.uk/Nim aew.htm

I was there but it wasn't my fault, honest!
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Very interesting, that. One of my 'students' was involved with bits of that radar and it worked, he said, all too well. None of us could fathom why the data wasn't sent to a ground station (or a ship) for processing. Shorts did a kite that had a Raytheon radar and apparently that worked fine, within its limits.
 
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