XV179 Remembered

[thetorquaymuffinman]

Found this moving video on youtube remembering the crew and passengers of XV179 brought down three years ago to this day on 30th January, 2005.

RIP Gents.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YVdeAsU_W8

[ExALM]

Hey there fellas.

Always remembered. RIP

Cheers thetorquaymuffinman.

[airsound]

And here's another. This is a real-time recording of the memorial flypast at the Royal International Air Tattoo on Sunday 17th July 2005, complete with the words and music. It takes 2mins 41secs.

airsound

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SK3YV5E1ZQhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SK3YV5E1ZQ

[Squawk7143]

Does anyone know if C/T Richard Brown was on Flight Systems Cse TFS DE 73 at Cosford July 83 - Jan 85 ? This guy looks awfully familiar...

RIP guys.....

[Green Flash]

And here's another. This is a real-time recording of the memorial flypast at the Royal International Air Tattoo on Sunday 17th July 2005, complete with the words and music. It takes 2mins 41secs.

airsound

Thanks Sean. Hadn't seen that vid (although I was there on the day). Took me a few minutes to pull myself together again. And thanks for your words too. You doing RIAT again this year?

[chappie]

thank you for that. i was going to do this earlier but have not managed to pull myself together today and sadly the ol' chin has been a bit wobbly.

they may be gone but i hope never forgotten and pray their legacy lives on. we know that they will never come back but couldn't cope if i heard the news that someone else lost their life the same way.

the albert is such a beautiful plane and i love the way the roar of the engines resonate through your entire body. for those of you out flying today, stay safe.

XV179 detoured to the bar in the sky...have a cold one for me lads. curry for tea tonight in honour of my big brother. sleep tight.

most importantly one last message to all you fellow ppruners. thank you for holding my hand through the challenges we have faced and supporting me to the end to get what you rightly deserve. i will be forever in awe of you and always in your shadow.

keep the faith.

[propulike]

Don't pop in to Pprune that often any more, but back today to remember the boys on the 3rd anniversary of the tragedy.

They may be gone, they're not forgotten. God bless, blue skies and soft landings lads.

[SirPeterHardingsLovechild]

Here you go Sarah


http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/SirPeterHardingsLovechild/OConnors.jpg (http://www.pprune.org/forums/%3Ca%20href=)

Me and my little chum will be raising a glass tonight in memory of our workmate, your brother.

Richie Brown's Gym is nearby but I haven't found that yet.

[Chugalug2]

My thoughts today are with those who have been left behind to bear the unbearable. Thank you for the videos, both tributes to the noble fallen and to the Service family that unites us all in times such as this.

for those of you out flying today, stay safe.

Chappie, they will indeed be safer thanks in part to your untiring efforts. That it takes the protests of the bereaved to right a glaring deficiency in airworthiness is a scandal, that you were prepared to make that protest is a tribute to you and everyone else who was involved. Respect.
Chug

[ExHerkmate]

Rough year 2005 for all in our community, but I pull up my socks and try to live my life worthy of their sacrifice. I listen more closely to my loadies, and have a longer look beyond the glareshield everytime I get into the seat. Raising a glass tonight to you all.

Still missed, still remembered.

ExHerkmate

[airsound]

Chugs, I entirely second what you say about Chappie - and she reveals another unique side of herself. I don’t know anyone else who thinks
albert is such a beautiful plane
not suggesting, of course, that Albert isn’t an entirely wonderful bit of kit.......

Actually, that missing crew manoeuvre in the video undoubtedly has its own innate beauty - and looking at the perfect weather for that flypast made me think of the weather today near Cottesmore village when the IX B Sqn Tornado flew the memorial for the 40th anniversary of the crash of Vulcan XM604. It was perfect today as well, when we remembered the rear crew who died that day. For anyone who hasn’t ventured into it, I strongly recommend SarBen’s ‘Does anyone remember my Dad? 'Vulcan Bomber'‘ thread

Green Flash, thanks for the kind words - in answer to your question
You doing RIAT again this year?
at the end of RIAT 2007 I announced that it had been my last. I figured that 28 years was quite long enough doing something allegedly creative. Not retiring, or stopping any other shows, just not doing RIAT any more.
Sorry, thread creep.

airsound

[DME MILOS]

Miss you all every day guys, don't let Dougie lead you astray up there!

[chappie]

i have done nothing but merely survive. it is you guys and gals that do it every day that deserve the respect.

to the crew and colleagues you lost and to those of you who continue...through adversity the stars....

i must also add beauty comes in many shapes and sizes :} have to believe that as i live by that and come in many sizes : /

[chappie]

ooh and another thing can someone go out and have a pint or two for the boys for me?!

[Lara crofts pants]

Already have Chappie,

Great lads, sorely missed.
Cheers boys.

Eif

[Permanent Sand]

Having a nice cold drink as I write these few words. A toast to the lost ones and a toast for those that carry on in their name.

Chappie says 'keep the faith', too bloomin true. Always keep the faith.

PS

[airsound]

Kam has asked me to post this message.

My son was determined to build a hercules for a school project on transportation. Plenty of chicken wire, flour and water, newspaper and egg cartons later, this gorgeous strong but scruffy, formidable but huggable creation was made. I think it went beyond the expectations of the teacher! Not just a project but a tribute to their dad and his friends who died with him.
To all who lost loved ones on the 30th Jan 2005, my thoughts are with you. They were admired and adored by so many for their professional and personal qualities.

They were great characters all of them full of fun and mischief,
and laughter. They lived and laughed and fought together and
they died together (Grp Capt Paul Oborne)


http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j134/airsound/KAMherc.jpg

[bay17-20]

Not a day goes past without regret that these fine chaps are no longer with us.

Sadness tempered only by time and the knowledge that somewhere out there, they are still together.

Best wishes to those they left behind on what must be a very difficult anniversary.

Steve O

[treaty]

Kam
Just seen your sons Herc. Best looking Herc we have seen for ages - and I live next to Lyneham!!!
Hope you are OK, yesterday was tough - it doesn't get any easier. Laid flowers in the memorial plot at Lyneham.
Thinking of you all

RIP lads - flying with the angels

[Scribbly]

Gosh, Kam, that's truly the most beautiful Herc I have ever seen.

Thinking of all of you at this difficult time.

[herkman]

I am mindfull of a couple of comments made by army guys, when waiting for a C130 to arrive at their pick up point.

"God thats an ugly airplane" says one.

Son says his WO, that can be the most beautiful sight you can ever see.

When you are pinned down somewhere, and your only chance to get out is to be picked up, and the C130 comes in, in spite of the weapons firing, in spite of the fact that she is more vunerable than you.

When you are lying on the ground, with your life is slipping away, and your only chance to live and see your kids and wife again, lies in this airplane and its crew taking you away, then you will know what beauty really is.

The story is true, I cannot think how many of us today, are here because of this airplane and its crews are true. Thousands owe their lives to this airplane and the devotion of its crews.

If you think that thousands is too high, think again.

I am proud to have served with her, and am saddened that sometimes that sometimes people have been taken from us.

KAM I often think of you, and your bravery, and the fine man that Paul was. I also suspect that your Dad is very proud of his girl.

They may be gone, but not forgotten.

Every best wish

Col

[Aynayda Pizaqvick]

I had one for you tonight Smudge, but will remember you all!

[DummyRun]

Hi Chappie,

I was flying the last Albert to land that day. I also flew the herc nearest the crowd line at RIAT when we did the missing man. I have a photo of DW at work with me in Sierra Leone, it took me a long time to find but if you have any contact details for Mrs W I would like her to have a copy.

LOL,

Moose.

P.S. Please pm me anytime.

[Zoom]

I can barely believe what I have just watched. I see this video as a tacky, amateurish insult to the fine men who died. Whoever cobbled it together could not be bothered to write the men's names and ranks correctly and even did the same with aircraft name. If someone is going to tap into the emotions of the many people affected by this tragedy he or she should at least make the effort to get the basics right. Shame on him or her.

[Smudger]

I've just stumbled across the video and was moved by it. I was a co on 24 and a captain on 70, at Lyneham from 1980-1988, I flew 179 many times and am enormously proud to have been part of the Albert fraternity, the Falklands having been my 'finest hour' on the Herk. I am not a religious man but I hope that the crew who were lost are with their god and are at peace.

[chappie]

each to their own zoom, the fact that the effort has been made and people remember is comfort that cannot be expressed because believe you me sometimes the aftermath of this all can leave you so devastated and feeling isolated that any sign that you are not alone is of immense comfort.
thank you for your opinion.

DM will do best.

right crack on then guys.

scribbly something in post for you!

[Zoom]

Yes, I understand that, chappie, and I have calmed down somewhat since yesterday. But I would like to have seen the author make a greater effort to get everything right. Sorry if I have hurt anyone directly affected.

[Chugalug2]

Kam, I have just seen your son's excellent Hercules, the best Budgie ever, and large enough it would seem for your son to climb into to finish the interior to the same high standard! Has your kitchen recovered yet? What better way for him to express his own special remembrance? Well done indeed. :D
PS Love the crew runabout on the ramp! We were never allowed that in my day! :)

[Hammerwest]

Hello just to answer your question about Richie ...I beleave he was on flight system at cosford back in the 80s I remember him coming home and telling us about the running track there . I cant tell you where he went after that but he never stayed in one place for too long ..I hope this helps ......The proud brother of Richard Brown ....Guy Brown

[RAF_SARGE]

"Quote - Does anyone know if C/T Richard Brown was on Flight Systems Cse TFS DE 73 at Cosford July 83 - Jan 85 ? This guy looks awfully familiar...

RIP guys....."

The timing is about right, shortly before Bruggen IIRC. A good guy. Had a night in Tenerife with him circa 2000? I think he carried me home.

As for Bob, I carried him back to the Hilton on Cocoa Beach, from the Irish Bar in the retail park nearly opposite, another good guy.

Cheers fellas and all the best, hope the GE's bar where you are has removable windows too!!!!!!!!