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Originally Posted by BazMason
Yip, it was the same for us in the Nimrod - even with 13,000 yard runway at sealevel in Iraq using power against brakes, we had to go with significantly less than max fuel just to make it off the ground....still it meant the sorties were shorter.
I remember one of my old engineers telling us about the JATO on the 8 sqn Shakletons - "4 turning, 2 burning" must have made the take off roll....interesting
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I was on the Jag OCU at Lossiemouth from '82 to '86 working from the 'pan next to 8 Squadron's Shacks. Their ground crew tee shirts had the slogan 'eight screws are better than two blow jobs' if I recall. I enjoyed my time at Lossie even though it was a
long way from anywhere else - I once drove for seventeen hours solid in the winter to get home to Essex to see my parents. I had a
slightly different hairstyle then too
Happy days...