The BBC gets it wrong again !!!!!

[scarecrow450]

The BBC strikes again !!!!

"The parachutist, believed to be from the RAF Falling Rocks team, was unhurt."

Parachutist lands on a bystander at a display in Devon. According the BBC must have renamed the Falcons !!!!

Does'nt take much to do some checking. :ugh::ugh::ugh:

Maybe I should have checked first - DOH !

[airborne_artist]

http://www.hrmconsultancy.net/pprune/fallingrock.jpg

[fabs]

THE FALLING ROCKS PARACHUTE TEAM - Display Parachutists (http://www.raf.mod.uk/fallingrocks/theteam/displayjumpers.cfm)

Maybe journos aren't all bad;)

[Climebear]

Hold on there tiger...

The RAF Regt have a parachute display team called (funnily enough) the Falling Rocks.

[harrogate]

Tedious, uninformed Beeb bashing.

[scarecrow450]

I have got my coat and am leaving the building !

[StopStart]

Followed the link to the team's site - I must say those are some of the most fabulous berets I've ever seen.......they look like the cast of Allo Allo.

:rolleyes:

[harrogate]

I have got my coat and am leaving the building !

Aw.

We've all done it.

[PPRuNe Pop]

I was thinking that SS. I used to shrink mine but one of them is a master at it. Fiver a hit I'll bet. The Sgt had other ideas though. :D :D :D

[wg13_dummy]

Who the **** are they trying to look like with those absurd berets?

Do they think they look 'ally' or do they think they are proper Paras?

Chisellers either way and seeings how they are 'in the public eye', they look like bloody air cadets. Outraged! :rolleyes:

[Pontius Navigator]

Nah, the Beeb got it almost right. Not Falling Rocks, Mrs PN has always called them the Falling Fools.

[SirToppamHat]

Who the **** are they trying to look like with those absurd berets?

They are trying to not look like the rest of the RAF. Rumour has it they're going to start wearing 'blues' to work next...:p

STH

[Guzlin Adnams]

:ok:Yep, the Rocks were involved in the opening of our local community center in Bury St Edmunds a few years ago. Dropped onto a postage stamp of a playing field and handed over the keys to the place to local dignitaries. All landed withing a few yards of the cross, damn good effort.
I believe that they carry with them the ashes of a former member who passed away several years ago. He makes every jump with them. I'm ashamed to say that I cannot remember his name. Full of praise for all Rocks at the moment!!

[hurn]

I was thinking that SS. I used to shrink mine but one of them is a master at it. Fiver a hit I'll bet. The Sgt had other ideas though. :D :D :DI hadn't noticed his beret, instead being drawn to that 'tache the size of a Choppers handlebars. Good show ole boy. :ok:

Falling Rocks, strange name for a parachute team me thinks.

[Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!]

Ascending Rocks would be a strange name

[Rocket Chucker]

I can't believe I'm reading this. Penguins having a go at Rocks for not being dressed correctly!! :ugh:

For your information the majority of the team are 'proper paras' as they have served on 2 (field) Sqn. Not only do they have to pass P company they have to go through Pre Para (an equally gruelling course) to be allowed to go through P company.

Additionally, much to the chagrin of the Parachute Regiment, 2 Squadron RAF Regiment were the last british airborne unit to carry out an operational drop - in Sierra Leone.

So instead of knocking them and how they look - and believe me I've seen a shed load of RAF technicians/aircrew/officers in general look a bl**dy sight worse - try to get some basic facts straight at least.

[airborne_artist]

Chocket Rucker - I too have done all the Rocks discussed above have done, and another "special" s*l*ction.

I think wearing the beret like a Frenchie (and that includes the Paras) looks dire.

[Ewan Whosearmy]

What's the deal with this guy's beret? Isn't that the Iraqi way of wearing it?

http://www.raf.mod.uk/fallingrocks/rafcms/mediafiles/083C6339_1143_D71E_464A357F7189E4C8.jpg

[Skipness One Echo]

Well according to this, they're not getting two new carriers but 65,000. Which is nice........

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Warship deal takes a step closer (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7481923.stm)

[airborne_artist]

From the above:

The project to build the 65,000 carriers was first announced in 2003, but was delayed due to Ministry of Defence spending plans. The vessels were due to enter service in 2014 and 2016 with each likely to carry 36 fighter jets as well as four early warning aircraft.

65,000*36 = 2,340,000 F-35B.

Just think of the low-level flying complaints....

[mikip]

It's not only the BBC I've just had the unfortunate experience of flying with EasyJet and in their in flight magazine is an article about one of their captains having a session in a tucano which it describes as the RAF's premier fast jet trainer, all the hawk's gone then?

[Skipness One Echo]

Oooooh nice. Time to buy shares in Lockheed-Martin I say before the market finds out !

[Wader2]

Message post time and sequence check

Posted 01 Jul at 1058 UK time.

[Rocket Chucker]

Oh my God we've got a Hereford farmboy having a pop now - the unit most unlikely to adhere to dress regs. I give up!! :ugh::ugh::ugh:

The majority of guys I know from our 'special selection' bretheren wouldn't give a stuff at how they wear their beret - just how they do their job.

[fastener]

http://www.raf.mod.uk/fallingrocks/rafcms/mediafiles/083C6339_1143_D71E_464A357F7189E4C8.jpg

I just can't wait to jump. I'm so happy, I love this job. No really!!!

[airborne_artist]

Chocket - didn't wear my own beret too often, as you surmise, but a Rock trying to look like a Para, who looks like a bike-riding, striped shirt wearing onion seller is a bit much to take.

God knows how long they spend in front of the mirror getting it right :=

[Rocket Chucker]

Oh dear, strange how the fact the those who like to throw themselves out of perfectly serviceable aircraft can stir the juices so much just by wearing their head gear in and unorthodox fashion. :ugh:

It's not too long ago when there were techies, shineys & zobs of all trades breaking their necks to get inside a camouflage jacket, wearing chip bags or wooly hats and stable belts with aircrew boots and gloves. :8

Look around nearly any RAF station today and it still looks like Fred Carno's! I'll wager one or two taking the yellow and steamy here recognise themselves. :\

[waterhorse]

slag the BBC but don't worry about the bystander??????
have u ever tried getting the correct info out of the MoD ??
falling rocks more like getting blood out of rocks
no wonder they got it wrong

[wg13_dummy]

Rocket Chucker;

the majority of the team are 'proper paras'

As in 'The Parachute Regiment'? They are the only 'proper paras' not a bunch of playing-at-being-ally-walt rockapes.

As for you larging it by saying the rockapes were the last british airborne unit to carry out an operational drop, you and I know the real truth and they didn't exactly advance to contact after the 'operational drop' did they?

The Parachute Regiment can look ally wearing their berets in a jaunty fashion; rockapes just look like a bunch of air cadets who have watched too many war films when they try it. We're not on about dress regs or the correct way to wear a beret. We're on about it just looking crap.


Are rocks easier to wind up than RAF coppers?

[airborne_artist]

Rocks = SRDG

[wg13_dummy]

SRDG equalling Short Range Dogging Group.

[Rocket Chucker]

The aptly named WG and Airborne Arstit,

Little sensitive are we?

Pick your dummies up and hop back in your respective prams. :ugh::ugh::ugh:

[wg13_dummy]

I think youre the one being a bit over sensitive. But I guess in your line of work, it may as well be at FL195. In fact, anything booked into the LFS would be a bit over your head. :rolleyes:

[airborne_artist]

Chocket - are you any relation of Cattivo? - you and he use very similar tactics (http://www.pprune.org/forums/military-aircrew/332305-pilots-target-scottish-homes-5.html#post4207370) :ok:

Keep it it, we love it :E

[Rocket Chucker]

What in God's name has the Lancaster Finishing School got to do with anything? :ugh::ugh::ugh:

What's 'keep it it' mean?

I think the pair of you have been wearing your berets a bit on the tight side. :}

[November4]

BBC get it wrong...again.... (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7489418.stm)

He went on to appear in a number of TV shows including Gerry Anderson's Space 1999 and army sitcom Get Some In, which also starred My Family actor Robert Lindsay.

That'll be the army sitcom where the regiment initials were RAF and they decided to wear blue uniform instead of green....

[Riskman]

WG13_Dummy,

What is it with you and Air Cadets? Twice you compared the professional airmen's standard of dress to that of the Air Cadets, as though they epitomised the nadir of compliance with military dress regulations.

Air Cadets are kids who take a great deal of pride in their appearance. Some of them may need a little sharpening up in the beret wearing department, and some may need to grow a bit before the smallest woolly pulley fits properly, but they try very hard to look good.

Isn't there a more appropriate group for comparison to which you could refer, like sqn lineys or QHI's at morning prayers?:)

[Stitchbitch]

If you think thier berets are bad, you can't have seen some of the more 'senior'
sncos' efforts. You could use some of them as a DZ!

[petermcleland]

The berets have been exagerated by distorting the pictures by resizing them WITHOUT preserving their proportions, giving them a completely squashed look like looking in a fairground "Fat Man" mirror :bored:

[wg13_dummy]

Fair point, Riskman. It was unfair comparing a professional military organisation who maintain high standards................. with the RAF Regiment. :ok:

[lokiukuk]

He's sporting a comedy Tash!!

[exscribbler]

From today's Barnsley Chronicle... :ugh:
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm250/exscribbler/img229.jpg?t=1215774799

[mystic_meg]

BBC NEWS | Business | F22 Raptor wows Farnborough (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7510364.stm)

The F22 Raptor fighter jet took to the skies at the Farnborough air show. The US army aircraft is made by Lockheed Martin, and is arguably the world's most sophisticated fighter jet.

Does anyone inside the BBC even have the faintest idea about aviation? :mad:

Edit: It's now been corrected - hurrah!

[Eagle402]

Slightly off thread I know but isn't that Robbie Williams on the left of the pic provided by exscribbler ? I know he's not selling many records but come on....

On a more serious note - great thread chaps esp wg13 dummy's relentless and deadly accurate 155mm !

[StopStart]

Awesome - I'd forgotten about this thread! :eek: Quite pleased to see that, as usual, a mild ribbing has led to the usual coronaries and apoplexy I've come to expect from Pprune of late - good drills girls, keep up the fretting.

No one even would begin to suggest that aircrew and techies are the masters of millinerial elegance however you must admit that some of those berets do just look daft..... Not cool, not ally, just daft.

:hmm:

[aviate1138]

MM said,


Quote:
"The F22 Raptor fighter jet took to the skies at the Farnborough air show. The US army aircraft is made by Lockheed Martin, and is arguably the world's most sophisticated fighter jet.
Does anyone inside the BBC even have the faintest idea about aviation?"

Aviate noted.....
On BBC 10 o' clock News the voice over said "blah blah F-22 Blah" Cut to an F-16 pulling into the vertical!!!!!

:rolleyes:

[cornish-stormrider]

I'll have you know some of us techies were picked as tg1 due to our inability to look smart. Our natural brilliance and technical abilities were obviously ignored.

When you have sooties and riggers doing the heavy and dirty work all the time, don't expect them to look like the QCS. Ever.

Less time in uniform = more time in denims maintaining the "master race's" chariots.