Re: Mixed day for Britishness

Andrew Marshall wrote:

In message <44f95294$0$2683$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kate Dicey <kate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

Andrew Marshall wrote:

In message <44f8c3ca$0$3607$ed2e19e4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kate Dicey <kate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

Andrew Marshall wrote:

In message <44f8a92e$0$3602$ed2e19e4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kate Dicey <kate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes


Hm... Vulcan cockpits - once smelled, never forgotten!


I've not had that privilege, but can well imagine the aroma...


Mixture of kerosene, coffee, old socks, and leather.

I'd imagined 1, 2, and 4, but not 3, which I'd have gooved would have been Skydrol (hydraulic fluid) or simla.


If you spend 17 hours at a time in the bloody thing, in the same socks, the smell leaks out yer boots. Or at least, that was what Dad thought...


Figures; that's a pretty long sortie thobut.

Hydraulic fluid smells in the hanger, yes, but not in the cockpit.


The Flight Test hangar at Hatfield hfrq to stink of it; I'd have gooved it would have been obvious inside the aircraft TAAW. Perhaps the other aromas mask it.

The cockpit is a bit drafty, by what I remember: not fully pressurised. Any smells that weren't embedded in stuff in the cockpit tended not to last.

The only military aircraft I've been inside was a Nimrod, when one flew into Hatfield and the crew gave a lecture on Nimrod ops. to our branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society, then a look round the aircraft. There was no noticeable smell of anything inside it, AFAICR.

Pa had to have all the clearances for Nimrod for his last job. Dunno why he didn't already have them, but when he first got there, he was cleared for the cockpit but not the middle bit, wot made a visit to the khazi down the back end a tad okkard. He grounded the Nimrods one day on the grounds that as he couldn't inspect them properly, as station flight safety ossifer, he couldn't know they were safe to fly, so they couldn't. Got sorted pretty quick!

The inside doesn't smell of much because it's a fully pressurised airliner with air conditioning, basically, just wiv lekky bits in rather than passengers. They left the galley in so they can feed the crew.

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