New forum open. Aircraft History and Nostalgia

[CamelPilot]

A brand new forum, for aviation nuts of all kinds. Retired like me, but still with the bug that daily courses the veins from which there is no know cure.

When this forum was first muted, I wanted to ensure that it would be possible to express every facet of aviation. With contributions and discussions from display pilots, from test pilots, from Captains or FO's of some of the world's most brilliant aircraft sallying forth to their hearts content about the great steeds they have had strapped to their rears.

From fighter pilots old an new. I will get some input from BoB pilots I hope. Our friend John Farley will make a contribution or two and I will, a little at a time, pick out a few of the precious aeroplanes I have flown.

Talk about 'old' aircraft if you can, but this doesn't mean that you must, talk of the olden and golden days too.

Just let go and let people know how you feel and how you felt about your careers and your memories. Get the log books out and pinpoint those great moments.

That's it for now. I have officially opened the forum so please enjoy it - with each other. I'll get ringing old friends. Now where is that telephone number of he who used to fly Constellations for Britannia.

I want to make this forum one of the MOST read on PPRuNe.

Any contribution from anyone in MIL would be more than welcome. Especially with some of the types you guys fly

[Dan Winterland]

Should mean lots of V bomber and Phantom stories (from BEagle!), and BA guys can probably mention the Trident without persecution.

[TimC]

Nah, BEagle will probably want to talk of his time on Zeppelins!

Sorry, couldn't resist it :D .

[BEagle]

I said to Orville and I said it to Wilbur - "Stick to bicycles, dudes - that Wright Flyer thing will never get you anywhere..........."

[chippy63]

Maybe apocryphal- but just before WW1 didn't a British Army general address a staff college along the lines of "I hope none of you gentlemen is so unwise as to believe that the aeroplane will ever have a military use"

[1.3VStall]

DW,

Come on, if we're going to have a wallow in nostalgia let's keep it to British aircraft: Avro, Handley Page, Vickers, English Electric, Hawker, Supermarine, Blackburn and aaaaaaaah De Havilland.

For goodness sake don't give BEagle an opening to talk about that awful American triumph of thrust over aerodynamics! :mad:

[ 18 December 2001: Message edited by: 1.3VStall ]

[Archimedes]

Chippy - perfectly true: General Sir Douglas Haig, July 1914.

(He had become a big fan of the RFC by March 1915, though, and was arguably the greatest proponent of air power in the war outside the RFC)

[Mike Cusack]

I was looking at a Short Sperrin engine the other day ... oh what might have been!

[XM147]

Brakes off to Mach 0.9 at 36,000ft in 110 secs in a clean (no ventral) Lightning F1 used to get my adrenaline going!

[chippy63]

Thanks, Archimedes, I was going to try to look it up, this saves me some time. Happy Christmas!

[1.3VStall]

XM147,

Bet you didn't stay there long though! ;)

[CamelPilot]

Gentlemen, the purpose of the forum is to get you to hopefully discuss that which is of interest to a much wider 'public'. You know, like the public who follow Mil pilots all over the country.

PPRuNe has a major number of those too.

Soooo, come on then, let us all hear about some of your experiences. There were plenty in the Glider Pilot Regiment and later the AAC. Just as there was, and is, in the Royal Air Force from 1918, perhaps before, so it won't be difficult.

Aviation history goes back a relatively short time. Shouldn't be a problem there.

Nostalgia, on the other hand, is within the person to whom it belongs, and here is an opportunity to share it with the many many like minds on the same website you choose to get your interest. I rest my case.

Must be a million tales to tell. But don't make it a million please - the server will not survive.