You could ask on the 41 Retro site

41’s was L Stanford-Brick who is AWOL!

I would be more inclined to think they would be for removing perhaps a SNEB or Bomb. At a Support Command station f’rinstance they would not have any weapon loading equipment such as R Loaders or Jammers/Wendys, so if an armed aircraft diverted in and needed the ordnance removed in a hurry, it would have to be done mandraulically.

No. The ac would have been made safe by the aircrew and then left (in a safe location) until it could be done correctly by properly qualified ac type plumbers.

UW tank hernia bars are an option, however, because of the fragility of most tanks, the bars need to be profiled to fit to the cradling marks and wouldn’t be used by a crash crews.

I think there was one medium level loss when the stores detonated soon after dropping.

Stick of Airburst destroyed the ac.
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I would guess 2-3 thousand pensioners could be housed at Coltishall alone, who are on the waiting list for decent housing which is quite frankly appalling. It would keep the houses in better condition as well.

Confusing comment? Just where exactly would you house all these pensioners at Coltishall (now known as Badersfield)? Perhaps in the old MQs: Oh no, they’re full of home owners. Perhaps in the Barrack Blocks: Oh no, they are full of Cat C Sex Offenders. I know, of course, the hangars and bomb dump are empty!

The picture brings back memories of bruised and scraped knuckles, caused by fumbling around under Vulcan and Buccaneer ejection seats.

They aren’t the easiest of items to push home, or remove, while sitting on the seat, and reaching blindly under the seat pan.

In case you’re wondering, I’m an ex-armourer who spent many many hours fitting and removing BANG SEATS from Both types of aircraft.

Regards, Cabbage

Didn’t your mates tell you that the simple way to fit LR pins was do it upside down! Then you could see it all and simply slide them into place. Much practiced on JP, Lightnings Jaguars etc.

Cabbage, theres no such thing as an “ex-armourer” – you must be a “retired armourer”!

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If the aircraft had exploded nuc material would have been scattered across the airfield. That’s a pretty disastrous situation. 🙁

Not sure that that F-100 was loaded at the time, but the storage facilities were being swamped by burning fuel.

As J Boyle commented, a mushroom effect was unlikely; however, a large explosion and area of contamination was highly probable if fire had penetrated the buildings. Not much sophistication in those days with the pits or HE.

I was just browsing this site:

http://krepon.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/3310/broken-arrows#more-2150

and noticed mention of a UK nuclear incident.

January 16, 1961, Undisclosed U.S. Air Force Base, Great Britain. A nuclear bomber on airborne alert crashed on takeoff causing spilled fuel to erupt into flames which engulfed the aircraft at an undisclosed USAF base in Great Britain. A nuclear weapon mounted on the aircraft’s centerline pylon was badly damaged before the fire could be extinguished. The U.S. Government has not acknowledged the accident and it is not included on the Pentagon’s list of broken arrows.

Does anyone have any more info…specifically where it was?

An F-100 at Lakenheath went off runway into munitions area adjacent to runway 06 end. Rumour has it that fire crew commander received “praise or an award” for prioritising protection of endangered “sensitive assets” rather than concentrating on aircrew rescue – IE He prevented a disaster!

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Moore & Wright are still going – founded in 1906. As suppliers of the tools of choice within the engineering trade, it’s a name I’ve heard of before but not sure if it was during my RAF career or not?

Found THIS image on a google search – seems to be identical to how you describe yours?

Quite likely to have been a standard procured tool for the Air Ministry – we tended to have the best available, although that was no guarantee that erks like us could always use them to their best during training;)

Yes, its a standard RAF fitter’s 6″ square used for metalworking. Moore and Wright supplied a lot of the precision tools and measuring equipment (micrometers, vernier calipers, thread gauges etc) – really good high quality stuff.
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