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Helluva Haircut

  • Shiv Chand
  • Interview by: Jess Boydon-Juckes

Transcript

The tactical suppliers, they,

you acquire, you know quite a lot skills

the supply arena, more of a chemistry sort

With the fuel

after that fuel from the minute

to the minute issued off to the,

in perfect condition

parameters

when it

and with the

the anti icing inhibitors inside it,

that we've mixed inside it from something

It's a very fine art.

The fuel has to be tested every couple of

Tested for water.

Condensation forms in the tank,

it's an art form looking after fuel

And the other thing

they became masters

while the rotos are turning.

Chinook, very high rotor base.

You can walk in, right?

Although still you see the guys

Right.

But then you've got things like,

gazelles, the old days.

Right?

Lynx, which is the rotor blades,

You get the feeling

You look up and you go, oh, now

Very rarely refueled

you cannot stand under that aircraft,

that helicopter and hold you head up high

because you have a hell of a haircut.

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