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Old October 18th 03, 10:41 AM
Vygg
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Richard Brooks wrote:

Further to my other post I include the following URL that may put
some light on the situation.

http://f-111.net/t_no_E.htm

There are a couple of fuel dumping measures taken but before an
impending crash but the TV and newspaper story I remember didn't
have a crash.

Richard.

Wow! I'd sent an email to the webmaster of that site a couple of
years ago about my rambling musings over tail numbers when I was
stationed there, but never bothered to check the site. I'm surprised

that my words are now posted there. Guess I should check in once and awhile.

Couldn't find anything specific to fuel dumping, but I can really only
speak to the years that I was there. I don't doubt that it may have
happened at some time prior to '83. I'm not sure when the prohibition
went into effect. Even so, I'm sure that procedures would have required
that it occur at an altitude well above anything that would have
endangered any thatched roofs. ;-)

I lived on the economy (in Northants) while there and the Oxford Mail
was a bit outside my budget. I was paid in dollars and pretty much lived
by the exchange rate. The year that the Iron Maiden took on King Arthur
I was able to afford a subscription to the Buckingham paper (the title
escapes me), but it didn't seem to have much interest in anything other
than the market price of rapeseed, so I let it go. The Banbury paper was
free (and, therefore, within my budget).

I know for a fact that I kept at least one of the Banbury papers with
the notorious "world's largest tactical nukes" photos on the front page.
I'm just a bit loathe to crawl up into the attic and dig through those
boxes to find it in this heat (I live in Arizona, now).

Vygg


 




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