WIWOL...

[AllTrimDoubt]

Probably been seen before but....

Public Information Films | 1951 to 1964 | Film index | Streaked Lightning (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/films/1951to1964/filmpage_streaked.htm)

...and a whole host of other long forgotten public info films!

[Tankertrashnav]

Yes, has been here before, but if the BBC can do repeats so can PPRuNe I reckon. Thanks anyway.

Love the music, and those voices!

I went to OASC Biggin Hill in 1964 in the firm belief I was going to be a Lightning pilot - ended up in the back of a Victor.

Ah well :(

[AllTrimDoubt]

Here's one from my lot then...

http://www.aviationancestry.com/Recruitment/NavyRecruit/RoyalNavy-Aircrew-1967-1.jpg

[AllTrimDoubt]

One more!

http://www.aviationancestry.com/Recruitment/NavyRecruit/RoyalNavy-Aircrew-1967-2.jpg

[thefodfather]

Somehow flying one of these is somewhat less attractive and it wouldn't get recruits through the door, sometimes reality is a sad thing.

http://www.office-desk.co.uk/img/jetstream-radial-beam-desk.jpg

[airborne_artist]

http://www.aviationancestry.com/Recruitment/NavyRecruit/RoyalNavy-Aircrew-1967-2.jpg

I used to go beagling with the Britannia Beagles with Admiral Sir Jim Eberle. I was a snotty at the time, and out of uniform he was rank-blind ;)

[1.3VStall]

I'm sorry, but the thread is entitled "WIWOL". That American triumph of thrust over aerodynamics in naval uniform has no place here - however fast it could go carrying no stores whatsoever!

[soddim]

Best line from the film is 'the worlds best fighter' and in its' day it was.

[airborne_artist]

I'm sorry, but the thread is entitled "WIWOL". That American triumph of thrust over aerodynamics in naval uniform has no place here - however fast it could go carrying no stores whatsoever!

Still sex on a stick though, and the RN paintjob is a winner:

http://honda-tech.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=149513&stc=1&d=1280418909

[1.3VStall]

Yes, but twice as many seats as necessary!

[airborne_artist]

They had to put in a seat for the lookers to make up for all the trips they did in the coal-hole on Sea Vixens.

[SilsoeSid]

I used to fly one of those RN jobs.

I learnt the basics in the living room, progressed onto the stairs then graduated outside to the garden with about a 75 metre final approach. :cool:

Super Flight Deck (http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/superflightdeck.htm)


http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/images/superfd1.jpg

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/images/sfdgarden.jpg

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/images/superfd3.jpg

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/movies/FDECK7.MPG


Then one day an RN Gazelle visited our school and that looked so much more fun ! :ok:

[Tankertrashnav]

CI to chopped pilot on our nav course

"And what do you hope to get posted onto Bloggs?"

"Lightnings sir"

CI - with patronising smile - "Ah but the Lightning is a single seat aircraft Bloggs".

Bloggs - "That's right sir"

Cant imagine why anyone has dragged the Phantom into this - good aircraft, but a mile behind the Lightning in the looks department.

[newt]

The best looking and more fun to fly!:ok::ok::ok:

[November4]

SiloeSid - thanks for reminding of a toy that I had. Only problem with it was that our house had rooms that were too small to give the game full justice.

Was it really almost 40 years ago....

[500N]

November4

That's makes two of us.

[diginagain]

Almost three - my parents could only afford the earlier manual-launch model.

[500N]

Not too sure which model I had, it just came back that I had something like that when I saw the picture.

Spent many a happy hour making Airfix models of planes with the Grandparents.
(One was RFC, one Navy)

And then of course you had the Battleships Game and Scalextric Cars and Trains.:O

[parabellum]

I went to OASC Biggin Hill in 1964


Snap! Around 21st October, been back from Aden two weeks and still had two weeks leave left.