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What does this button do?
Posted: 14 Oct 2018, 18:18
by TobyV
Perhaps that was what the mechanic was thinking, or maybe he'd just been fixing the cannon and wanted to test if it was working now?
How does one end up in this situation?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/1 ... et-cannon/
Re: What does this button do?
Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 08:25
by Dev One
Short circuit somewhere - or did he put a spanner in the workings?
Keith
Re: What does this button do?
Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 12:19
by FlyTexas
And
where does one end up
after this situation? Probably scrubbing toilets instead of working on aircraft.
Brian
Re: What does this button do?
Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 14:11
by Tomliner
Oops! It can be docked from his pay I suppose although he would have to sign up for several hundred years service.
EricT
Re: What does this button do?
Posted: 15 Oct 2018, 14:18
by Scorpius
In the RAF;
Board of Inquiry followed by Courts Martial if the board think he was at fault.
Not a promising career move.
However it could just as easily been an electrical fault. Runaway Vulcan canons are not unheard of.
Nev