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Post by mastersig on Aug 9, 2013 13:37:37 GMT 12
On the single control RNZAF Freighters, the Navigator sat up top next to the Driver. In the Dual control model, his position was downstairs in the nose doors.
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Post by mastersig on Aug 9, 2013 13:52:43 GMT 12
Not so. I spent 10 years on RNZAF Freighters 63-71 and 73-75. The Nav occupied the right hand seat on both models.On the singles the nav hat a proper plotting table but on the dual control aircraft the poor Nav had a clip board with his plotting chart and log on it. There was a facility to have a 4th crew station in the starboard nose door but we never used it during the time I was on them. In earlier years the Nav may have been a dungeon dweller. BC
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Post by vansvilla on Aug 11, 2013 20:16:45 GMT 12
I was on 41 Sqn 72-74 and the Sqn operated both B170 and Iro at the same time. So you serviced whatever was flying at the time, B170's usually disappeared for days at a time so were not as labour intensive as the Iro.
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Post by Eng on Aug 13, 2013 17:48:49 GMT 12
>but on the dual control aircraft the poor Nav had a clip board with his plotting chart and log on it.<
He certainly had to do some juggling with his clipboard with everything attached to it . I very vaguely remember ( everything I can remember seems to get vaguer and vaguer these days!) flying North towards Hong Kong and we happened to somehow inadvertently fly across the Seventh Fleet . Apparently this was a an American NoNo . Us Kiwis were violating their air space and next thing two Thunder whatsits were on each side of us . We had to go Up ! One thing in our favour was the fact that the good old B170 had its undercarriage down which to all and sundry was an indication of surrender apparently. So instead of landing at the nearest airfield we went Up ! The Ugly was not however possessed of an oxygen supply and consequently as we reached for the stars we anxiously looked at our finger nails and noted the blueness commencing we were mortified that we were heading for a sudden death. Our intrepid Nav however was made of sterner stuff and took advantage of the situation.He opened his side window ,looked at the flurry of papers leaping unbidden though it and carefully wrote on his new chart. Map lost though window . He did this three times . Much later that evening in a bar in Wanchai he confided in me. "Eng, It really saved me a hell of a lot of work ."
He no doubt will disavow this story when his grand children read this
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Post by suthg on Aug 13, 2013 18:39:30 GMT 12
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Post by mastersig on Oct 1, 2013 12:38:37 GMT 12
On the single control RNZAF Freighters, the Navigator sat up top next to the Driver. In the Dual control model, his position was downstairs in the nose doors.
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Post by mastersig on Oct 1, 2013 12:41:56 GMT 12
On the single control RNZAF Freighters, the Navigator sat up top next to the Driver. In the Dual control model, his position was downstairs in the nose doors.
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Post by mastersig on Oct 1, 2013 12:44:33 GMT 12
see previous post
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Post by lancelink on Oct 28, 2013 16:23:02 GMT 12
Only flew in a Bristol once, from Woodbourne to Auckland for the Auckland phase of fitter's course. Joined up with Dennis George who was on 41 when they were brought back from Singapore.
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