Tales from the RAF.

[Guest Canberra Man]

We have a new erk (Aircraftsman) on the dispersal and I am showing him round the Avro Lincoln on a need to know basis. Its a cold day and as the NAFFI wagon had been we took our coffee and wads up into the nose out of the wind and I continued my chat. Break was over and we tidied up, but before I could stop him, the new lad threw his coffee dregs down what looked like drain in the floor. It wasn't a drain. Worse! There was a bang and a thud and a ten man dinghy erupted out of its stowage in the wing root. The look alike drain was the flotation switch for the dinghy in case of a ditching at sea. Fun over for the day!!!

 

Ken