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Forum: Military Aviation
15th Jul 2012, 09:51
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Petet Did we get frustrated? Oh yes, I had been...

Petet
Did we get frustrated? Oh yes, I had been attached to Harrowgate for 10/12 months and sent out on various detachments to keep me quiet. On one occasion three of us decided that since no one...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Feb 2012, 15:18
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Rear Sear

Danny 42.c
At ITW Paignton we, of course had to study armaments, and I recall this wag of an weapons instructor lecturing on a rifle. The first lesson was on the 'REAR SEAR' the next 'REAR SEAR...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Feb 2012, 13:21
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Thurleigh On the 5th December 1962 I carried...

Thurleigh
On the 5th December 1962 I carried out 4 landings in thick fog at London Airport ( see GOOGLE- Flt Lt. C. Grogan)
The following day Mr Prescott a senior BLEU Scientist telephoned me to...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Feb 2012, 09:38
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Thurleigh

Green Granite

Many thanks. This is a most interesting post for me. I will give it more study before I donate to it. Paddy
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Jan 2012, 12:12
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

The Last...At last

My swan song in the service was
The Night London Airport Was Mine.

However I am sure this has been posted some time before so before I clutter up more of this thread. Let me say that it can be...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Jan 2012, 16:42
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Service history

Service History C.D. Grogan. AFC Flt.Lt. RAF Retd.
Event Date
Date of Attestation 1801002 6 January 1942 Euston Rd London
Date of call up 13 July 1942 To Lords...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Jan 2012, 16:30
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

RAE Bedford. Blind Landing Experimental Unit

Chapter 20
Royal Aeronautical Establishment Bedford (RAE) Test Pilot

When I learned that I was to test fly the Vulcan on automatics I had some misgivings because at that time I could not...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Jan 2012, 16:04
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

angels What a mix up! My mate Cliff was working...

angels
What a mix up! My mate Cliff was working for a couple of smugglers flying ,I think a Cessna. They took Sterling to Switzerland and came back with watches. At that time it was illegal to...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2012, 15:27
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Return to the UK. Our return to the UK was a...

Return to the UK.

Our return to the UK was a shock in more ways than one. First of all, the temperature. We experienced real cold as we stepped out of the plane in Cyprus. For the first time in...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2012, 14:49
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Malaya

Chapter 18

Malaya. Singapore.

I had just been commissioned and was in the RAF sick bay with a heavy dose of Flu when I learned that I was posted to Singapore. At first I was not too...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2012, 14:38
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Union Jack My wings had already been awarded in...

Union Jack
My wings had already been awarded in the RAF.
One point I must make, and that is,that these memoirs were intended for my family so I am sure from time to time I am guilty of slippiing...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2012, 14:32
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Commision

Commission

The subject of Commission has become a sore point with me, mainly since I have retired from the Forces. Of course when I got my wings I was so thrilled with that achievement the...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2012, 14:26
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Chapter 16 Flying Instructor... ...

Chapter 16
Flying Instructor...

Although not aware of it at the time I had often been at the wrong end of what I later considered to be poor instructor techniques. My inability to...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2012, 14:24
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Demob

Chapter 15

Demob...Return to WORK...Marriage.

One day we were at a loss as to what mischief we could get up to when it struck one of us that perhaps we had been forgotten in Ireland! Our...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2012, 09:10
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Chapter 17 Fleet Air Arm. Lee on Solent. ...

Chapter 17

Fleet Air Arm. Lee on Solent. Ireland. Isle of Man. Jan 45-May 46
The arrangements laid down in the Air Ministry Order for our transfer to the FAA were such that Sergeants would...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2012, 08:57
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Thank you glojo. However I live in Brittany....

Thank you glojo.
However I live in Brittany. Now you have given me the courage to continue my Chapter 13


Harrogate

Having passed out of No 3 BFTS we again travelled back to Moncton to...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2012, 07:50
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Tommyov What has happened to this Thread it...

Tommyov
What has happened to this Thread it seems to have come to a grinding halt. Of course it could be something to do with me!!
Please give me a buzz
[email protected]
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Dec 2011, 08:25
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

My memoirs

Chapter 12


Miami Oklahoma
The Spartan School of Aeronautics.

This was it!! What we had all been waiting for...Flying. But of course there was the dreaded drill and the Physical Training...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Dec 2011, 08:05
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Icare, Many thanks. I am still amazed at the...

Icare,
Many thanks. I am still amazed at the information you chaps can unearth. Makes me realise what a 'Sprog' I am with computers. Also I remain amazed at how few of my old aircrew mates are on...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Dec 2011, 08:19
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

My memoirs

Chapter


Off to the States by Queen Mary

What excitement!! A posting to Miami U.S.A. All those sun drenched beeches, lovely American dolly birds and the cream of Britons youth!! What a...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Dec 2011, 08:06
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

My memoirs

Chapter 10

Heaton Park Manchester

This was where we were to learn our fate as to what aircrew category we were to become, also where, in the world we would carry out our training. A few...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Dec 2011, 07:56
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

My memoirs

Chapter 9

High Wycombe... First flying.

I was posted to High Wycombe and happily Chas was still with me. The course was 12 hours flying on Tiger Moths. We were expected to go solo at about 8...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Dec 2011, 07:50
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

My memoirs

TommyOv
You are right. The popular idea that a pilot must have had a university training, be 7 feet tall,3 feet wide, with a big handlebar moustache was rubbish. As I said in my earlier memoirs...I...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Dec 2011, 13:17
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

My memoirs

Chapter 8


Initial Training Wing PAIGNTON

This was going to be the big test for us because it would determine if we were to go on to any form of aircrew category. It was a three month...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Dec 2011, 12:00
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

My memoirs

Chapter 7


LUDLOW

From Brighton as I have said, we should normally have gone straight to I.T.W. (Initial Training Wing) but for reasons we shall never know we were posted to LUDLOW. What a...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Dec 2011, 11:57
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

My memoirs

Chapter 6


Brighton

The aim of this course was to improve our knowledge of Math’s. I have always thought it strange that so much emphasize was placed on this subject and yet I can recall of...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Dec 2011, 08:26
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Paddy's memoires

This is somewhat out of sequence but I thought you might like something with a bit more meat in it. This was almost my last flight in the RAf.


The night London Airport was mine

I was coming...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Dec 2011, 09:20
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Paddy's memoirs

Chapter 5

Early Days in the RAF

The early days spent at St.Johns Wood, were in fact quite hectic. I had chummed up with Chas Blythe, a Londoner from the East End who was in every way the...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Dec 2011, 09:13
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Paddy's memoirs

(From the thoughts of Chairborne PAD)
Mrs Carlisle gets to see the sights
I was at this time a flying Instructor at RAF SYERSTON and although not part of the plot myself I was in on the detail. It...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Dec 2011, 14:12
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

To Cliffnemo

Hello Cliff, I have posted on this site in the past but have refrained lately because my early history was so close to your's, even our ages are the same.
Anyway i have once again been scanning this...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Jun 2009, 10:06
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

Cliffnemo Have just browsed through your thread...

Cliffnemo
Have just browsed through your thread and was delighted to see a picture of The Majestic Hotel. I certainly spent many nights there. Were any of you there the day the Sqdn Ldr C.O. ( An ex...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Jul 2008, 11:53
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,845,434
Posted By Padhist

The war

Hello CLIFFNEMO
I am the chap that contacted you Not George but Paddy. I did go the same route as you but ended up in Miami Oklahoma not Florida. Our stories are of course similar except that I...
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