Kneepad info
Me: I need some more grease pencils
Supply PO: But Sir, we gave you TWO last month !
Supply PO: But Sir, we gave you TWO last month !
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Remember NASA put out a request for a pen that would write in space and the result after a lot of money was spent was the pressurised spacepen, very good it is, I use one at work, the first one in the link..
Russia simply issued their cosmonauts with pencils
https://www.penheaven.co.uk/pen-bran...SAAEgJIafD_BwE
Russia simply issued their cosmonauts with pencils
https://www.penheaven.co.uk/pen-bran...SAAEgJIafD_BwE
On a fuel stop during a transit through Europe on the way to an AMF(L) Exercise one of the more senior Puma Crewmen was struggling to put the UTM grid for the next waypoint into the TANS. Eventually he worked out that the numbers on his kneepad were in fact the phone number of a ‘friend’ he’d made the previous evening. Happy days.
PTO. (On both sides)
String came detached from my chinagraph in a JP during basic training in the 60’s and fell onto the floor of the cockpit. It wouldn’t re-appear despite -ve G and rudder-trampling so I duly reported it and was invited to invert my body in the cockpit (after landing!) and look for it - to no avail.
Bombheads were not pleased at having to remove and replace the seat overnight but triumphantly presented me with a yellow chinagraph at met-brief the following morning, to a round of raucous applause. Cheering turned to groans when I told them that the one I had lost was, in fact, blue!
Mog
Bombheads were not pleased at having to remove and replace the seat overnight but triumphantly presented me with a yellow chinagraph at met-brief the following morning, to a round of raucous applause. Cheering turned to groans when I told them that the one I had lost was, in fact, blue!
Mog
Chap on the UAS was on solo X country and decided to do some aeros on route.
Subsequently his map floated to the roof and then fell behind him out of reach.
IIRC he then tried further sequences until it came back in his lap.
On Tucano students knee pads, when visiting Valley in the 90s:-
“RIP OFF POCKET FROM HERE!”
The legend was to aid the steely eyed jet jocks in the bar on Fridays…
allegedly. 😎
“RIP OFF POCKET FROM HERE!”
The legend was to aid the steely eyed jet jocks in the bar on Fridays…
allegedly. 😎
Remember NASA put out a request for a pen that would write in space and the result after a lot of money was spent was the pressurised spacepen, very good it is, I use one at work, the first one in the link..
Russia simply issued their cosmonauts with pencils
https://www.penheaven.co.uk/pen-bran...SAAEgJIafD_BwE
Russia simply issued their cosmonauts with pencils
https://www.penheaven.co.uk/pen-bran...SAAEgJIafD_BwE
Its hard to find a worse pen, it doesnt write good even as new. It might work better in space maybe 😅
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Try "is the war over yet?" in Fenland. Some might not know the answer.
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Originally Posted by fl2006 View Post
Hi,
I was wondering what information is put on a flying suit kneepad? Or got boxes to write on? Especially if flying a light aircraft (Tutor/Prefect). Thanks
Hi,
I was wondering what information is put on a flying suit kneepad? Or got boxes to write on? Especially if flying a light aircraft (Tutor/Prefect). Thanks
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—> Narrowing the navigation issue down, by knowing that I am in a country that there is (or isnt) a war :-)
Back of the knee pad might have ”Do You have a King, Queen or a President?”.
Starting to feel mirrored in now.
In my JP days I recall having a local map with a compass rose stuck on it tell help work out where I was when I called ATC for a 'True Bearing'! Apart from the callsign other info was useful Happy Hour memory jogging stuff such as '6 pints, 2 x G&T, 8 packets of crisps'
In my JP days I recall having a local map with a compass rose stuck on it tell help work out where I was when I called ATC for a 'True Bearing'! Apart from the callsign other info was useful Happy Hour memory jogging stuff such as '6 pints, 2 x G&T, 8 packets of crisps'
Reminds me of Friday 1630 at JHQ ............... sometimes the cavalry charge on bikes down the hill to the Mess was less inviting that the Cloggy Bar or the Belgy Bar. On such Fridays I and my two immediate colleagues went to one or the other and ordered 9 beers and a tray. The barman looked in vain for the other six Brits. The beers were tiny little 0.2 L. Our drill was subsequently to collect them in threes, to keep 9 on the tray, until we were spending as much time in the bogs as in the bar. Then it was finish the 0.6L each and try to get back on the bikes.
There was an incident at Valley when a Gnat sortie on a late winter afternoon culminated in a double ejection over the sea. The QFI lost his dinghy pack in the ejection and was aware that the Whirlwind did not have a night winching capability. As dusk fell he prepared himself for a night he was unlikely to survive. He used his kneepad to write a farewell message to his wife. Happily the Chopper driver was made of sterner stuff, decided it was still Civil Twilight, and an eagle-eyed winchman spotted McMurdo lights and picked up both QFI and student. Cue fast rubbing out of kneepad.
