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The Smellies

  • Shiv Chand
  • Interview by: Jess Boydon-Juckes

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anywhere there's helicopter operations.

You'll see the,

test over you guys or the refueling

as they smell is just the nice.

Yeah. Smelling. You smell.

It's it's a nickname

are uniforms.

You get a lock in, your refuel kit

goes into the locker

You go.

So the smell transfers and when they,

you can see a fuel coming along

And that was the old days.

Nowadays we're more clinical.

And, you know, it's

because we know more

the carcinogenic properties of the fuel

So we do tend to be more clinical.

But in the old days

you had your denims

Right.

And the smell of fuel

And it was there's no difference.

You didn't have a sweaty

when I was in TSW, I actually,

purchased my property

my wife initially going to the bathroom,

change or into the bedroom,

but eventually it got to stage garage.

Garage.

Fresh clothing

Straight into the bathroom,

the shower, wash off

that was that.

That was a ritual

Yeah, that was the early days.

Long time ago.

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