ted angus
01-01-2011, 00:44
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Avro Vulcan: Owner's Workshop Manual - Price, Blackman, Edmondson
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: J H Haynes & Co Ltd (3 Jun 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1844258319
ISBN-13: 978-1844258314
I received this book as a Christmas present as family members know my affinity with the aircraft, Scampton 67 to 70, Akrotiri 70 to 73 Goose 83/4 where I started the last Vulcan to pass through- The aircraft turn round crew were terrified of the STAD which was badly misbehaving in the cold ! so I was duty hero !! One thing spoilt the book for me was the statement that Vulcans on QRA with Blue Steel missiles did not sit with HTP in the missile as it was too dangerous ! What absolute hogwash - Plunge baths were constantly heated and a fire tender & crew sat 24/7 at Q - most of us who had to venture onto Q had a far greater fear of the HTP that was circulating through the missile and the on- ground containers than we were of the warheads. That one mistake made me ask myself did this book tell me anything I hadn't read in a dozen other books or articles ?? I doubt if any of the authors had actually been on the Vulcan/Blue Steel QRA dispersal at Scampton.
Avro Vulcan: Owner's Workshop Manual - Price, Blackman, Edmondson
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: J H Haynes & Co Ltd (3 Jun 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1844258319
ISBN-13: 978-1844258314
I received this book as a Christmas present as family members know my affinity with the aircraft, Scampton 67 to 70, Akrotiri 70 to 73 Goose 83/4 where I started the last Vulcan to pass through- The aircraft turn round crew were terrified of the STAD which was badly misbehaving in the cold ! so I was duty hero !! One thing spoilt the book for me was the statement that Vulcans on QRA with Blue Steel missiles did not sit with HTP in the missile as it was too dangerous ! What absolute hogwash - Plunge baths were constantly heated and a fire tender & crew sat 24/7 at Q - most of us who had to venture onto Q had a far greater fear of the HTP that was circulating through the missile and the on- ground containers than we were of the warheads. That one mistake made me ask myself did this book tell me anything I hadn't read in a dozen other books or articles ?? I doubt if any of the authors had actually been on the Vulcan/Blue Steel QRA dispersal at Scampton.