Re: Another Airbus down ....


"Johnny Melvin" <johnny@melvin.com> wrote in message
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> I used to cadge a lift from RAF Lyneham. to RAF Dishforth when I was
> at RAF Compton Basset   ( learning my Morse )
>
> The plane was always on the same Sat morning run.
> An old Valletta. it was old in 1955.


Not a plane I'd heard of so I had to google it. It seems the Mk1 Valetta was
current in 1948 so  yours may not have been that old. May be it had a hard
life ;-)

> I though it was a scrapper on the runway before I was told to board it.
> What seat belts ?

Can you remember which way the seats were facing? I was surprised to learn
on my first RAF flight (a BAC 1-11 of RAE Farnborough) that the passenger
seats faced backwards.

> You could see some of the wing rivets rotating as you flew.
>
> Last trip I had they were moving a Sergeants furniture to his new camp.
> Settee Wardrobe etc that seemed so odd to see.

I expect you never rode in a C130, they had (probably still have) a sort of
"deck chair" which are uncomfortable after minutes rather than hours.

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Brian G8OSN/W8OSN
www.g8osn.org.uk
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