Global Aviation Magazine : 60 Years of the Hercules
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Good morning AA62 ...
Sorry I missed your post yesterday ... SWMBO had me tasked otherwise !
Yes 0.25M Hits with 2.3K Contributions over the 9 Months the Thread has been running ... Simply outstanding, and if I may say, a true reflection of the affection you all continue to hold for RAF Albert and the times you had together be it in the air flying or on the ground fixing him
I've said it before ... but it's been great to see old colleagues hook up along with some of the early crews joining in when RAF Albert had just entered service
Now I know there are a few members out there that are still sitting on pics ... as you have yet to take the plunge and post your first images using my "Quick Start Guide"
I guess there will come a point where interest in the Thread may wane ... BUT if anyone has suggestions as to where we might take the Thread next PLEASE feel free to jump in and take the lead
I'd also like to thank some of our lead contributors for their interest and continued support ... AA62 and Smudge in particular
Best wishes to all ...
Coff.
Sorry I missed your post yesterday ... SWMBO had me tasked otherwise !
Yes 0.25M Hits with 2.3K Contributions over the 9 Months the Thread has been running ... Simply outstanding, and if I may say, a true reflection of the affection you all continue to hold for RAF Albert and the times you had together be it in the air flying or on the ground fixing him
I've said it before ... but it's been great to see old colleagues hook up along with some of the early crews joining in when RAF Albert had just entered service
Now I know there are a few members out there that are still sitting on pics ... as you have yet to take the plunge and post your first images using my "Quick Start Guide"
I guess there will come a point where interest in the Thread may wane ... BUT if anyone has suggestions as to where we might take the Thread next PLEASE feel free to jump in and take the lead
I'd also like to thank some of our lead contributors for their interest and continued support ... AA62 and Smudge in particular
Best wishes to all ...
Coff.
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Coffman,
my pics are running out but one or two tales still to come. If we can encourage others to put up pics (Brian where art thou ?) and stories we may yet hit 300000 !
This was taken during the practice for the post GW1 flypast. The two well known mudmovers can be seen at the bottom of the pic.
my pics are running out but one or two tales still to come. If we can encourage others to put up pics (Brian where art thou ?) and stories we may yet hit 300000 !
This was taken during the practice for the post GW1 flypast. The two well known mudmovers can be seen at the bottom of the pic.
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After prompting by AA 62 and help from Coff, I'm going to try and upload some of my depleted supply of pics......
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This is a 47 Sqn crew in Guam 1977 on an East-about. The crew (L to R) are:
Nav (Dougie M); Eng (myself); Capt (Dave C); Co; Loadie (Micky S); Nav; G/E; G/E.
If this works, I'll post some more.........
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[/IMG]This is a 47 Sqn crew in Guam 1977 on an East-about. The crew (L to R) are:
Nav (Dougie M); Eng (myself); Capt (Dave C); Co; Loadie (Micky S); Nav; G/E; G/E.
If this works, I'll post some more.........
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I seem to remember a disabled stripper at the Hobo Bar in Guam and Sephie and myself having to help her with her crutches.(support variety). She didn't do much dancing but she had a good "mat finish".
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Well remembered, Dougie. The other stripper was billed as 'Lady Ponsonby-Smythe from England'.
When we questioned her, it turned that she was, indeed, English and that her father had been a Flt Lt at RAF Yatesbury...........
When we questioned her, it turned that she was, indeed, English and that her father had been a Flt Lt at RAF Yatesbury...........
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Ah Lady Jane.
That was a voyage of quite a few incidents and anecdotes which somehow slipped inclusion in the memoires. Must rewrite again.
Thanks Coff for resurrecting a lot of pics and material from the crypt.
That was a voyage of quite a few incidents and anecdotes which somehow slipped inclusion in the memoires. Must rewrite again.
Thanks Coff for resurrecting a lot of pics and material from the crypt.
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I was lucky enough to be one of the engs on a global which went through Guam. The current SMO had blagged his way on to the trip to "study crew fatigue". He never studied anything when we were airborne as he was always asleep having gone out with us in the evening. At Guam I was at a table with him and Mick Bedford (our Loadie) when the stripper appeared on roller boots! Needles to say we were impressed the Doc muttered something about skin tone, but couldn't speak properly as his tongue was dragging on the floor. She performed some amazing manoeuvres on the rollers but then did something for which Mick could never forgive her. She at this juncture was starkers, and was rolling backwards whilst holding her ankles. Shall we say that Mick was impressed that she winked at him, but then lost his cool when she over-estimate distances and crashed into our table! The place fell about laughing and hooting but Mick was really upset........she had knocked his beer over!!!!!!
I was lucky enough to be one of the engs on a global which went through Guam. The current SMO had blagged his way on to the trip to "study crew fatigue". He never studied anything when we were airborne as he was always asleep having gone out with us in the evening. At Guam I was at a table with him and Mick Bedford (our Loadie) when the stripper appeared on roller boots! Needles to say we were impressed the Doc muttered something about skin tone, but couldn't speak properly as his tongue was dragging on the floor. She performed some amazing manoeuvres on the rollers but then did something for which Mick could never forgive her. She at this juncture was starkers, and was rolling backwards whilst holding her ankles. Shall we say that Mick was impressed that she winked at him, but then lost his cool when she over-estimate distances and crashed into our table! The place fell about laughing and hooting but Mick was really upset........she had knocked his beer over!!!!!!
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Here Coff, just one detail on your list . . .
Dengue_Dude and I are one . . .
It has been so good to see folks here that were so much a part of all our lives at Lyneham.
All good stuff.
Dengue_Dude and I are one . . .
It has been so good to see folks here that were so much a part of all our lives at Lyneham.
All good stuff.
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Yep ... Got that Brian ... It's just that the PPRuNe Metrics Page isn't that sophisticated 
Glad everyone is still enjoying the stories and pics
Glad everyone is still enjoying the stories and pics
Does anyone else remember the year that Fairford were celebrating a Hercules anniversary and were trying to get that number of aircraft on static. As I recall, they found that they were going to be several short so the duty working crew spent a couple of days ferrying frames over to be part of the static......only for a last minute push (Mogadishu?) to arise whereupon we had to retrieve said airframes!!
If it was Mogadishu, I remember being crew 2 or 3 - paxing with 100 odd other crew members as far as Dar ex Salaam and picking up the first airframe as it came out of Mogadishu to return it to Cyprus......only thing was by then the Americans had offered a C5 which took the entire slip pattern of freight in one!!!
I think one crew who ate out in Dar Es Salaam ended up in Wroughton on their return...
I'm sure someone can add more detail!!!M
If it was Mogadishu, I remember being crew 2 or 3 - paxing with 100 odd other crew members as far as Dar ex Salaam and picking up the first airframe as it came out of Mogadishu to return it to Cyprus......only thing was by then the Americans had offered a C5 which took the entire slip pattern of freight in one!!!
I think one crew who ate out in Dar Es Salaam ended up in Wroughton on their return...
I'm sure someone can add more detail!!!M
found another pic. The sound and smoke of freedom coming to pick me up 
Kilwhang,
Didn't Dougie M wear well. I have several good pictures of the man himself, on a route I shared with him, many years after your experience (8 - 20 Oct 94). By then he had given up strippers, and confined himself to trekking in the Jungles of Borneo with the hash house harriers (as a means of acquiring a beer or three). It's also worthy of note that your photograph, in 77 was only three years after we parted company as fellow Jnr Techs at Akrotiri, I was still struggling to become a Cpl. Good photo though. Now, we need Gopher 01 to tell us who your two GEs were, certainly his era, he's an old gentleman you know. I wonder also if you ever shared a trip with a certain Al B, our ex Sgt, Hydraulic Bay, who I believe was the S&D GE around your time. Keep the pictures coming, I for one can't get enough of the light stone/Dark earth finish.
DC Thumb, do you have a year for that "Mogadishu" Jobby ? Could it have been the lift in to Kigale (July/August 94) through Dar Es Salaam ? It has memories for me. With your description of an early return to UK, it sounds very similar to the Kigale job.
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Didn't Dougie M wear well. I have several good pictures of the man himself, on a route I shared with him, many years after your experience (8 - 20 Oct 94). By then he had given up strippers, and confined himself to trekking in the Jungles of Borneo with the hash house harriers (as a means of acquiring a beer or three). It's also worthy of note that your photograph, in 77 was only three years after we parted company as fellow Jnr Techs at Akrotiri, I was still struggling to become a Cpl. Good photo though. Now, we need Gopher 01 to tell us who your two GEs were, certainly his era, he's an old gentleman you know. I wonder also if you ever shared a trip with a certain Al B, our ex Sgt, Hydraulic Bay, who I believe was the S&D GE around your time. Keep the pictures coming, I for one can't get enough of the light stone/Dark earth finish.
DC Thumb, do you have a year for that "Mogadishu" Jobby ? Could it have been the lift in to Kigale (July/August 94) through Dar Es Salaam ? It has memories for me. With your description of an early return to UK, it sounds very similar to the Kigale job.
Smudge
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Smuj, it could well have been Kigale - Africa all looks the same! Trawling through the logbook I see June 29 1994 - Lye to Fairford (DWC IAT Static) followed by Aug 1 Dar Es salaam to Akronelli (Op Gabriel) with a note "Cargo pack fail - 8 hours on O2!)