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Forum: Rotorheads
5th Aug 2015, 22:09
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

You'll need a day or two! ...

You'll need a day or two!

http://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/329990-gaining-r-f-pilots-brevet-ww11.html
Forum: Rotorheads
5th Aug 2015, 01:17
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

Fareastdriver has been narrating his fascinating...

Fareastdriver has been narrating his fascinating career in another forum and has allowed me to copy his posts (or some of them!) here on our Rotary Nostalgia thread.

There's a lot of reading going...
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Jan 2014, 19:34
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

As Bravo73 has pointed out, moderation is about...

As Bravo73 has pointed out, moderation is about maintaining a thread topic and this is not a thread about misguided perceptions of one poster being picked on. Since Savoia has made it plain that he...
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Dec 2013, 09:47
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

Looking at your post, there was no image...

Looking at your post, there was no image attached!

Obviously one of those jungly moments....
Forum: Rotorheads
24th Aug 2012, 11:55
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

The description 'queer' in the original meaning...

The description 'queer' in the original meaning of the word is not unusual throughout Mechanix Illustrated. But not for this October 1923 article :cool:
...
Forum: Rotorheads
23rd Aug 2012, 01:25
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

Some real nostalgia: Mechanix Illustrated...

Some real nostalgia: Mechanix Illustrated (http://blog.modernmechanix.com/this-helicopter-car-flies-over-traffic/) from November 1941 :ok:
...
Forum: Rotorheads
11th Jul 2012, 09:06
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

Immersion suit, ready to fly: aircrew. ...

Immersion suit, ready to fly: aircrew.

Probably the Lynx observer: he looks familiar! Pilot was Lt Chris Clayton: later Rear Admiral Clayton. They had a few 'happenings' during the Falklands...
Forum: Rotorheads
26th Mar 2012, 06:58
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

More on the actual story here: Torrey Canyon - 18...

More on the actual story here: Torrey Canyon - 18 March, 38 years ago (http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/167499-torrey-canyon-18-march-38-years-ago.html)
Forum: Rotorheads
8th Mar 2012, 06:28
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

That would be one of the HAS1 Whirlwinds embarked...

That would be one of the HAS1 Whirlwinds embarked on HMS Protector back in the mid 1950's for Antarctic research. XA870 was one, and is currently at Aeroventure, Doncaster.

Airfix did a model of...
Forum: Rotorheads
4th Mar 2012, 07:00
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

901 was the ship's flight/planeguard for HMS...

901 was the ship's flight/planeguard for HMS Eagle in 1954. "J" was Eagle's deck code until the mid 1960's, when it changed to "E".

http://www.abpic.co.uk/images/images/1164887F.jpg
Forum: Rotorheads
8th Feb 2012, 16:05
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

Another of those aviation mysteries? Why 'cab'...

Another of those aviation mysteries? Why 'cab' and when? (http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/450103-why-cab-when.html)
Forum: Rotorheads
21st Dec 2011, 21:50
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

It would seem to be the searchlight tower of the...

It would seem to be the searchlight tower of the Shivering Sands fort: Radio Sutch (http://www.bobleroi.co.uk/ScrapBook/SutchCityPics3/SutchCityPics3.html).
Forum: Rotorheads
4th Nov 2011, 11:13
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

I fixed your link, Geoff: Flikr needs the image...

I fixed your link, Geoff: Flikr needs the image opened in a separate tab, as a .jpg, and use that url to embed.

ISTR you have posted these photos before on another thread, with the survivors...
Forum: Rotorheads
7th May 2011, 23:48
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

It is not an American registration: it is the...

It is not an American registration: it is the original military registration allocated in 1915. There is a composite 'original' at the FAA Museum, RNAS Yeovilton
...
Forum: Rotorheads
17th Apr 2011, 11:12
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

Thread title

Heliport has quite rightly pointed out that this is now such a general Nostalgia Thread that it is time to drop the G-TALY reference and make it The Rotary Nostalgia Thread :ok:
Forum: Rotorheads
16th Mar 2011, 10:32
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

NJT, Welcome: no doubt you can straighten...

NJT,

Welcome: no doubt you can straighten out a few of the stories here :cool:
Forum: Rotorheads
25th Jun 2010, 23:55
Replies: 2,607
Views: 2,853,016
Posted By Senior Pilot

A campervan with a loft :eek: You are a man...

A campervan with a loft :eek:

You are a man of many talents, Geoffers :ok:
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