probably the wrong scale for what I want 

It may be a little large, but if you put it right at the back it'll look small, y'know, like the Father Ted sketch...

..."right Dougal, one more time, ...  ....small...  ...far away."

but then I'd need to get a bomb trolly to the same scale ....... :'(

I just don't get it, you try to help some people...

 

Quote from: emjaybee on October 19, 2019, 01:12:06 PM
It may be a little large, but if you put it right at the back it'll look small, y'know, like the Father Ted sketch...

..."right Dougal, one more time, ...  ....small...  ...far away."

or put the layout on top of it then you can adjust the height easily

would make wiring easy wouldn't it 

Quote from: zwilnik on October 19, 2019, 02:43:30 PM

Quote from: emjaybee on October 19, 2019, 01:12:06 PM
It may be a little large, but if you put it right at the back it'll look small, y'know, like the Father Ted sketch...

..."right Dougal, one more time, ...  ....small...  ...far away."

or put the layout on top of it then you can adjust the height easily

You can't beat a bit of lateral thinking!

Quote from: emjaybee on October 19, 2019, 03:17:24 PM

Quote from: zwilnik on October 19, 2019, 02:43:30 PM

Quote from: emjaybee on October 19, 2019, 01:12:06 PM
It may be a little large, but if you put it right at the back it'll look small, y'know, like the Father Ted sketch...

..."right Dougal, one more time, ...  ....small...  ...far away."

or put the layout on top of it then you can adjust the height easily

You can't beat a bit of lateral thinking!

Vertical Thinking surely??

yes, if it was lateral it would unbalance, and fall off.

mind you not as much of a disaster as if  that fell off....

Quote from: StufromEGDL on October 19, 2019, 07:33:43 AM
A 'wendy' was the colloquial term for a W (weapons) loader...an improperly balanced low version of a fork lift which offered bombs up to the wing for the Armourer to attach. Complete pain to drive and load with.

Later,
Stu from EGDL.

Only a complete pain to drive after they fitted them all with engine restrictors, as I recall a couple of plumbers (armourers) were racing them (pre restricted) and one of the ended up badly hurt, don't recall if it was a fatality or not. There was also a few stories about jets getting damaged because the plumber forgot how bad the brakes were on the wendy, not good form to have your munitions rolling across the pan 

what steps do you take when a bomb falls off a wendy ?


B****Y big ones 

Quote from: class37025 on October 19, 2019, 05:29:29 PM
yes, if it was lateral it would unbalance, and fall off.

mind you not as much of a disaster as if  that fell off....

Nah, you'll be alright. Blue munitions are inert/drill rounds.

that's good to know,
so I'd only need to worry about these falling off?



amazing what results you get when you search for 'raf weapons loader photos', best off topic I found was this



I'm guessing someone had a rather uncomfortable interview with his sdn commander 

I remember the VC10 incident. Was a defuel but there was unknown fuel in the fin but a broken fuel gauge. The aircraft tipped gracefully when the Cpl tech doing the defuel stepped off the flight deck on to the front stairs.

Later,
Stu from EGDL.