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  • February 27, 2015 at 4:15 pm in reply to: Kinloss – environmental tests #890148
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    [ATTACH=CONFIG]235589[/ATTACH]THIS IS THE DUMP IN 1977, AN MR3 A T4 AND THE REMAINS OF ANOTHER BADLY BURNT

    January 17, 2015 at 1:10 pm in reply to: B52 crash 1980's #926014
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    It’s not a fuel truck it’s a foam tanker you can see the foam monitor on the back of the trailor

    April 14, 2014 at 9:06 am in reply to: Taylor Pressure helmet? #934278
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    [ATTACH=CONFIG]227326[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]227327[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]227328[/ATTACH]

    The company that made these helmets is still in existence at Adlington in Cheshire, BWT Ltd

    January 4, 2014 at 3:10 pm in reply to: Viscount with slipper tanks? #932478
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    [ATTACH=CONFIG]224222[/ATTACH]

    November 28, 2013 at 6:40 pm in reply to: Fabric Cover ID #957928
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    Its a camera insulated cover PR3 or PR7

    November 16, 2013 at 10:38 am in reply to: Orange Putter required #970201
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    Never ever saw a Canberra of any mark fitted with Orange Putter from late 1960’s although all the wiring was there, the PR9 also had provision for it but never fitted.

    October 27, 2013 at 2:35 pm in reply to: RAF Winthorpe Research Assistance (2013) #990483
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    Married quarters were definitly still in use in 1971, I stayed there with a friend who was based at Cranwell at the time.

    April 1, 2013 at 11:56 am in reply to: Help for Canberra Part ID please #946149
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    Stick snatch unit for pilots control column, it severs the elevator control rod and snatches the control column forward on ejection to prevent the pilots knees from being removed!!

    February 13, 2013 at 12:57 pm in reply to: Space suits on display #998602
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    No mention made of the fact that the articulated joints were a British invention and these early space suits were developed by Baxter Taylor in the UK!! http://www.senioraerospacebwt.co.uk/

    January 10, 2013 at 12:20 pm in reply to: Airbase Museum moving to Newquay:BBC #971596
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    So not exactly a mass exodus is it? This could go on for months, I bet theyll be an alladdins cave of stuff left lying about when they do move out, might have to have a drive around with my van one sunday afternoon!;)

    The “stuff” belongs to someone, posting before you commit the crime of theft is rather silly.

    January 4, 2013 at 5:50 pm in reply to: Canberra PR.9 belly pod, any ideas? #980288
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    To remove the systems 3 pod the aircraft had the front and rear flare bay fairings removed. Then it was backed into a very small hangar with about 6″ wingtip clearance and positioned over a pit with a lift in it. The lift and a pod trolley were raised and the pod fitted to the trolley. The lift was lowered, the aircraft towed out, the lift raised and then the pod was taken under guard to the photogs building.
    Many a wingtip was damaged getting the aircraft in/out of that hangar. The works & bricks people who built it used the dimensions of a PR7 instead of the PR9!!! Amazing that it actually fitted in.

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    The early pods had a sliding cover that protected the camera windows.

    Not photogs, Air Camera Fitters, the diminsions were given by the Station Nav Leader (he knows who he is) and as a navigator assumed that all Canberras were the same.

    January 4, 2013 at 3:06 pm in reply to: Canberra PR.9 belly pod, any ideas? #980582
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    That will be it then!!

    January 4, 2013 at 11:05 am in reply to: Canberra PR.9 belly pod, any ideas? #980910
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    No, The PR9 capsule was built by Short Bros at Belfast. The American sensor engineers were amazed at how heavy and strong it was during initial trials as it was “over engineered” as you would expect from a ship builder!!

    January 4, 2013 at 10:43 am in reply to: Canberra PR.9 belly pod, any ideas? #981055
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    No it was in the flare bay, the 6 tank is at the front, the B(I)8 had a full length bomb bay

    January 4, 2013 at 10:21 am in reply to: Canberra PR.9 belly pod, any ideas? #981073
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    XH134 and XH169 were the original systemIII aircraft and I believe that after I left the system flight another airframe was modified. The capsule was pressurised with Nitrogen and air conditioned over a long period to stabalise the system before flight.
    The more recent picture shows the LOROP pod which was a much more advanced design

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