Issue Number 18
February 2009
The Journal of the 81st Entry
Uploaded by Brian Spurway
Edited by Mike Stanley
Welcome to the eighteenth edition of The Journal.
- The Memories of my time at Halton.
- The Further Adventures of Alan Lowther. Armourer
- "Three Little Tales from Gib are we…..!"
- A Brief CV of Herb/Hutch Hutchinson.
- Whilst at Duxford (or back to Halton). (681187)
- The Adventures, or Trials and Tribulations, of... Airframe Fitter, Part 4
- Planes to Trains.
New Articles
Some mothers do 'ave 'em!
sent in by Alan England.
Early this year (2008) some Boeing employees on the airfield decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747s. They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home.
Shortly after they took it for a float on the river, they noticed a Coast Guard helicopter coming toward them.
It turned out that the chopper was homing in on the emergency locater beacon that activated when the raft was inflated.
They are no longer employed at Boeing.
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