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Everyone else somehow manages to get through this minefield - turn up to a UK, or any other airshow and half the static display will be bombed up with something.
It still doesn't explain why only one PC-9 had the tanks and one didn't - and no, I don't believe that anyone walking past them went 'wow, external fuel tanks!'....
Everyone else somehow manages to get through this minefield - turn up to a UK, or any other airshow and half the static display will be bombed up with something.
It still doesn't explain why only one PC-9 had the tanks and one didn't - and no, I don't believe that anyone walking past them went 'wow, external fuel tanks!'....
This is the kind of ignorance of aerosexuality that I thought society had left behind.
But to be serious, I would imagine there were people interested. Some will go for the flashy F-35 display, others, the real connoisseurs, will admire a set of dayglow tanks on static display....
Maybe they were not required and it was simply for training?
Distance from Baldonnel to Fairford - 363km as the crow flies
Max range of a PC9 over 1500km
"He is an enemy officer taken in battle and entitled to fair treatment."
"No, sir. He's a sergeant, and they don't deserve no respect at all, sir. I should know. They're cunning and artful, if they're any good. I wouldn't mind if he was an officer, sir. But sergeants are clever."
Maybe they were not required and it was simply for training?
Distance from Baldonnel to Fairford - 363km as the crow flies
Max range of a PC9 over 1500km
I rather doubt they were actually required - as you say, Fairford and 2 dozen divert airfields are easily within range of a cleen PC-9 - but I'm struggling to imagine why you might want to familiarise only one crew out of a pair on flying with them, particularly given that if one aircraft has them and the other doesn't they will have different fuel burn rates, different most efficient speeds and altitudes, different turn and climb rates - perhaps the most likely answer is that some halfwit said 'you can only take one set, we've got to make them last 100 years!'....
Maybe they have a really strict Q who will only sign out one set of tanks from the stores.
Maybe he said “ye’s can have one each, ye’s don’t need twoâ€...
'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night. http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
He spoke to the pilots, the PC9M's came with one set of drop tanks on one & one with no drop tanks as that's just the way the aircraft happened to be configured before they left Bal.
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