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Forum: Military Aviation
17th Jan 2024, 16:07
Replies: 12,908
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Posted By Brian 48nav

Geri

Thank you very much for bringing Ron's story to us. Although I knew the bare bones of the tale, Ron having told Anne and me when we went to his house to buy the Dak' painting, I couldn't wait for the...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Jan 2024, 19:19
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Geri

I've found that Ron died on 29/7/2015 and was still painting almost up until his demise aged 92. 238 Sqn's base at Comilla was on the then Indian ( now Bangladesh ) border with Burma. Would Danny...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Jan 2024, 14:39
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Geri

Thank you for your messages.

i don't think I'll be giving too much away by the following.

Ron was living in Shaftesbury when we met - he is not listed in BT Directory Enquiries now. Further...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Jan 2024, 20:47
Replies: 12,908
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Posted By Brian 48nav

Ron Homes

Hi Geri, Chugalug and all - A very happy new year!

I've only just noticed that my favourite thread is active again and with the story of someone I had the pleasure of meeting a few times, Ron...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Nov 2019, 20:33
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Geriaviator I hope you aren't thinking of...

Geriaviator

I hope you aren't thinking of this Brian as a senior member! I'm just a sprog of 73, though it is almost 50 years since the odd occasion I flew with Chugalug2 on 30 Sqn!

Regards
...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Nov 2019, 16:05
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

MPN11 - me too! Thanks again Geriaviator...

MPN11 - me too!

Thanks again Geriaviator and Danny - RIP.
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Sep 2019, 08:34
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Ormeside28

Thank you for the reminder - such brave men.
We had an ex-Glider Pilot regiment man in the control tower at Boscombe in the mid 80s, John Leatherbarrow ( now sadly RIP ) who had previously been at...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th May 2019, 15:15
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

EwanWhosearmy David Beaty's novel, 'The wind...

EwanWhosearmy

David Beaty's novel, 'The wind off the sea', covered pilot training at South Cerney and then night conversion at Bibury in some detail. Beaty had been a wartime RAF pilot and then...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Apr 2019, 16:49
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Honza17 --Many thanks for that outline of Jan's...

Honza17 --Many thanks for that outline of Jan's career, I'm sure that some members of the crew room will want more!
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Apr 2019, 21:05
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Honza17 Welcome to the crewroom! Can you...

Honza17

Welcome to the crewroom! Can you tell us more about your Dad's time in the RAF? Particularly for those of us who remember him from LATCC West Drayton.
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Dec 2018, 09:02
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Merry Christmas all. I, and many others I guess,...

Merry Christmas all. I, and many others I guess, will raise a glass in memory of Danny later today.
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Dec 2018, 08:37
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Chugalug, Co-pilots did do a solo on the...

Chugalug,

Co-pilots did do a solo on the very early Herc' courses - discussed at length on the 'Global Aviation - 60 years of the Hercules' thread - look at the posts around No. 4500.

Regards...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Nov 2018, 08:44
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Danny, Have a very happy birthday - leave...

Danny,

Have a very happy birthday - leave some cake in the crewroom for the rest of us to fight over!

Only 3 years to The Telegram!
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Oct 2018, 16:48
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

pettinger93 I wasn't suggesting that an...

pettinger93

I wasn't suggesting that an operation would be launched from that far west - it was likely a training base.

B48N

PS I've read of your father's exploits in 'War in the Wilderness'...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Oct 2018, 13:49
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Hi Andrew, Jefford's book RAF Squadrons shows the...

Hi Andrew, Jefford's book RAF Squadrons shows the following Sqn numbers served at Chaklaka in the time frame you mentioned.

10 SQn Dakotas
298 " Halifax A7
670 & 672 Gliders

So it's...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Oct 2018, 12:53
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Welcome back, Danny! All is now well with our...

Welcome back, Danny! All is now well with our world!

Over on 'Aviation nostalgia' a chap has been seeking info' on his late Grandfather, who trained as a pilot in Canada about the same time as...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Oct 2018, 14:43
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Chugalug, Do you remember the Nav' Ldr on 30...

Chugalug,

Do you remember the Nav' Ldr on 30 at Fairford, Boss Ox, Sqn Ldr Derek Oxenham? He had been an airman at Seletar during the infamous strike or mutiny as it almost became in 1946. He was...
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Aug 2018, 19:08
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

ex82watcher - I was at LATCC then and thought Jan...

ex82watcher - I was at LATCC then and thought Jan was Czech. Vague memory of him wearing some sort of device either round his head or was it his neck? I think he had suffered some health issues -...
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Aug 2018, 15:44
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Like ICM, I had it in my mind that I'd flown with...

Like ICM, I had it in my mind that I'd flown with several Polish staff pilots while at 2ANS, then at Gaydon, in 1966 but Flt Lt Artymuik was also my only one!

I was on 88 Course, what was yours...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th May 2018, 17:22
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Roving Up to now I've enjoyed your posts,...

Roving

Up to now I've enjoyed your posts, but please leave EU/Brexit comments for other threads.

I'm pretty sure that on this, the best thread on PPRuNe, there is an unwritten rule that...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd May 2018, 08:26
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

MPN11 Best wishes for a speedy recovery. ...

MPN11

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

The only face I recognised in your photograph is Hugh McMullen, who had been on my South Cerney course Dec'65 - 1st April '66. He was destined for pilot...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Dec 2017, 16:46
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Bunny Gunson was at Brum when I did my Aerodrome...

Bunny Gunson was at Brum when I did my Aerodrome training in '74. A fellow ATCO told me that he had been crewed-up with him in Coastal Command - IIRC, Shackletons but it may have been Nimrods. They...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Dec 2017, 13:03
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Chugalug2

Wise words, thank you.

May I also echo the above posts and send warmest greetings to all who frequent this thread.

Keep stoking, Danny! HM I'm sure will be keeping your Telegram in a safe place!
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Nov 2017, 08:29
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Danny

Belated birthday greetings - only 4 years to The Telegram!
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Nov 2017, 08:28
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

roving

April 8th 1968, tomorrow's local flying programme appears in Nav Ldr's office - shock horror! A day slot showing FEAF SASO AVM Le Cheminant paired with the OC Changi, Grp Capt Merriman for famil'...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Oct 2017, 10:44
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

MPN11

Happy Birthday!

Continuing the thread drift - were you on duty at Tengah when a Herc' from Changi burst a tyre during a roller landing and blocked your runway?
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Oct 2017, 20:20
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

MPN11

Insert Sqn No. - it was 209 Sqn.

PS was of course a future CAS - 5 of his Cranwell entry were across the island as co-pilots on 48 - 3 of whom I see occasionally, 1 sadly RIP and the other ( a...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Sep 2017, 08:38
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Chugalug - I notice you were far too polite to...

Chugalug - I notice you were far too polite to mention to Danny that you were still in short trousers during the Airlift!
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Sep 2017, 16:29
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Danny 42C

Yes, perhaps Chugalug has tales to tell of flying the Hastings during Confrontation, and there must be other posters who served in Malala during the Emergency - to name but two of the 'hotspots' in...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Sep 2017, 08:13
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

I hope we can keep this wonderful thread going! ...

I hope we can keep this wonderful thread going!

I picked up a good read last week in Hay Cinema Bookshop - 'From Dogfights to Diplomacy' by Donald MacDonell.

He went to Cranwell in the early...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Aug 2017, 10:21
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Danny

I wonder if you watched the programme about the partition of India - it was on BBC 1 last Wednesday and the second part is this Wednesday at 2100.

It was not one of the better moments in the...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Jul 2017, 07:19
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

78 Sqn

Jeff Jefford's book 'RAF Squadrons' shows the following dates for the squadron and it's bases.

Mar 42 ( at Croft ) changed from Whitley Vs to Halifax MK2, which it kept until Jan 44.

10 Jun 42...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Jul 2017, 08:30
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Danny

I think you've had a 'senior moment'! You've just cracked the 11,000 mark - must be the muggy weather!
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Apr 2017, 19:19
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Thinking of you Danny - attaboy!

Thinking of you Danny - attaboy!
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Feb 2017, 11:38
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,817,977
Posted By Brian 48nav

Hangarshuffle

Chaps, I've sent our friend a PM asking him to delete his 10147 - he probably doesn't even realise his finger trouble!
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