Go Back  PPRuNe Forums > Aircrew Forums > Military Aviation
Reload this Page >

Remember these beasts?

Military Aviation A forum for the professionals who fly military hardware. Also for the backroom boys and girls who support the flying and maintain the equipment, and without whom nothing would ever leave the ground. All armies, navies and air forces of the world equally welcome here.

Remember these beasts?

Old 2nd Dec 2014, 11:08
  #1 (permalink)  
Thread Starter
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: 59°09N 002°38W (IATA: SOY, ICAO: EGER)
Age: 80
Posts: 812
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Remember these beasts?

Petrol cooker
ricardian is offline  
Old 2nd Dec 2014, 11:15
  #2 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Hants
Age: 80
Posts: 370
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Yes, but shouldn't it be in a trench?

ACW
ACW418 is offline  
Old 2nd Dec 2014, 17:09
  #3 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: South East of Penge
Age: 74
Posts: 1,788
Received 7 Likes on 7 Posts
I remember, on a certain well-known Towers' annual tented Rock Ape Funfest in the forests of Germany in the late 60's , waking most mornings to hearing the pre-dawn mutterings of the breakfast cooking detail as they scratched about and tripped over each other in the camp catering area.
This morning Reveille would shortly afterwards be followed up by the side of the tent facing the food area lighting up to the WHOOMPH! of the stove igniting : accompanied by a stream of expletives as yet another Flight Cadet had duly singed his eyebrows.

Last edited by Haraka; 2nd Dec 2014 at 17:25.
Haraka is offline  
Old 2nd Dec 2014, 18:34
  #4 (permalink)  

Avoid imitations
 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Wandering the FIR and cyberspace often at highly unsociable times
Posts: 14,561
Received 402 Likes on 210 Posts
Yes, but shouldn't it be in a trench?
Preferably in an enemy trench!
ShyTorque is offline  
Old 2nd Dec 2014, 19:19
  #5 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: New Braunfels, TX
Age: 70
Posts: 1,954
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Playing with fire

On the subject of "playing with fire" check out this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILA1ic-Q8_E
KenV is offline  
Old 5th Dec 2014, 19:54
  #6 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: nr Ely, Cambs
Age: 61
Posts: 379
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Apparently the 5 burner "suitcase" style field kitchen (with the fold out table) was also originally issued with duel fuel (gas/petrol) capacity. Must have made the morning fry up taste lovely with all those petrol fumes!
brokenlink is offline  
Old 5th Dec 2014, 20:07
  #7 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: UK.
Posts: 4,390
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
That's taken me back a few years. Weren't they called 'Hydraburners'?

I have a petrol equivelant of the Primus stove vapourising cooker.
Frightens the crap out of me in a way paraffin doesn't.
Basil is offline  
Old 5th Dec 2014, 23:02
  #8 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Location: Location!
Posts: 2,295
Received 33 Likes on 25 Posts
......issued with duel fuel

Crikey! At how many paces?

Jack
Union Jack is offline  
Old 6th Dec 2014, 03:57
  #9 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Cardiff
Age: 80
Posts: 65
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
I recently put together an account of my involvement in the goings on in 1982 (nothing to exciting). Not really relevant but a good story from Stanley in July of that year.

"A more humorous story that did the rounds at the time concerned the catering arrangements of various units. As previously mentioned the MCSU had set up shop to the North of the runway, however, a large number of units/formations dotted around the islands were self catering for a variety of reasons. The standard piece of issue kit for cooking in the field was a petrol fuelled stove/cooker. These were universally disliked and considered quite dangerous by most who had used them. The consequence of this was that over the years most tactical units (Army & RAF) had invested (from unit funds) in two-ring camping gas stoves and a supply of butane gas cylinders, TCW was no different in this regard and despite taking a large supply of gas bottles with us they would not last forever and there wasn't a gas plant on the Islands to replenish them. This problem had been anticipated by the supply people at the airfield who had sent a signal to UK for 2,000 butane gas bottles to be flown down. They subsequently arrived, the outcome, one very embarrassed supply officer wishing he had asked for FULL ones".
Mickj3 is offline  
Old 6th Dec 2014, 06:24
  #10 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Dead Dog Land
Age: 77
Posts: 531
Received 3 Likes on 3 Posts
Maybe send one to Akrotiri so that the night shift can toast their cheese sandwiches.
The Oberon is offline  
Old 6th Dec 2014, 09:56
  #11 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: SW England
Age: 77
Posts: 3,896
Received 16 Likes on 4 Posts
I have a petrol equivelant of the Primus stove vapourising cooker.
Frightens the crap out of me in a way paraffin doesn't.
My dad was an AA superintendent in Scotland in the 1950s. At that time the AA had a Dragon Rapide which was flown by an ex WW2 Mosquito pilot with a splendid handlebar moustache. In the winter when motorists in the Highlands could get stuck in snow drifts for days the Rapide was used to air-drop emergency supplies, which included a mini petrol cooker. These were nothing like as scary as the ones being discussed here. My dad acquired one and I used it for camping for many years, and as it didn't need pressurising it was a lot easier to use than the then common paraffin stove. Once you got used to the fact you were burning petrol, not paraffin, I found they had the opposite effect on me, Basil, although my mates often retired to a safe distance when I got it out to make a brew!

Here's the Rapide, which was painted in AA black and yellow (scroll down for the pic).

Aircraft of the Automobile Association.
Tankertrashnav is offline  
Old 6th Dec 2014, 23:44
  #12 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: PORTUS SETANTIORUM
Age: 73
Posts: 310
Received 6 Likes on 2 Posts
PETROL STOVES

Great for camping in winter, GAZ was not hot enough when the temp. was low. Ideal on the motorbike, as you had fuel in hand, although lead used to block the wick, and when you got the tent up and wanted a brew and meal it was frustrating trying to light the thing, and pretty scary under the awning if it was raining!
Fishtailed is offline  
Old 7th Dec 2014, 00:01
  #13 (permalink)  
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
 
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Derbyshire, England.
Posts: 4,091
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Yes, a Hydraburner should ideally be set up in a small trench, they go rather well on Avgas!
parabellum is offline  
Old 7th Dec 2014, 13:36
  #14 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Tennessee - Smoky Mountains
Age: 55
Posts: 1,602
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
The no1 Burner, a most excellent piece of kit.

However, if it started leaking from the pressurization system (i.e. behind the heat shield) and you didn't catch it in time to kill the flame, all you could do was run away, because it would go up in a sheet of flames. I never saw one explode, but it wasn't unknown, apparently. I certainly saw a couple go up in flames.
Roadster280 is offline  
Old 7th Dec 2014, 17:29
  #15 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: York
Posts: 620
Received 23 Likes on 14 Posts
Lazy Man water boiler and a few Jerry cans of harrier juice. Saviour of morale when out camping with the vertical killing machine in the wilds of Vandel.
dctyke is offline  
Old 7th Dec 2014, 19:02
  #16 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: London
Posts: 189
Received 26 Likes on 5 Posts
Definitely not a good idea to refuel the Number 1 burner by the light of a hurricane lamp, as one of our PSIs found out. The subsequent conflagration burnt out the seals, so the rest of the exercise was cooked on hexi
topgas is online now  
Old 7th Dec 2014, 20:58
  #17 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Nevada, USA
Posts: 1,597
Received 35 Likes on 24 Posts
Perhaps instead of selling them off they should have sent one to the Tornado Det at Akrotiri. With a bit of self-help initiative they could have negated the need for (as I write) 34 pages of comment on AARSE about the "RAF Morale Failure at Akrotiri" !

I jest of course - numerous other options available to solve that one as discussed on the relevant thread.
RAFEngO74to09 is offline  
Old 8th Dec 2014, 16:59
  #18 (permalink)  
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Anglia
Posts: 2,076
Received 6 Likes on 5 Posts
I seem to remember a RAF Cook losing an arm while cleaning one of these during GW1...On the Puma Det I think?
Rigga is offline  

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


Thread Tools
Search this Thread

Contact Us - Archive - Advertising - Cookie Policy - Privacy Statement - Terms of Service

Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.