View Full Version : Could you trace everything you flew? Nice tale
NutLoose
7th Apr 2015, 19:34
Of a RN pilots quest to do just that.
Jerry Grayson travelled 23k miles to find EVERY chopper he ever flew | Daily Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3027594/Helicopter-hero-travelled-23-000-miles-track-chopper-flew-one-fitted-posh-campers-sleep-in.html)
Tankertrashnav
8th Apr 2015, 08:40
I'm amazed he found as many as he did. I doubt if half a dozen of the aircraft in my logbook have survived - one Victor at Duxford, a Hastings at Newark and maybe one or two more. Still I guess it wasn't so easy to buy a Victor and sling on the back of a truck!
Lima Juliet
8th Apr 2015, 12:02
Thanks to successive Governments, most of the aircraft I have ever flown for the military can now be found in Boots the Chemist!
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/157/358309802_2739352245.jpg
LJ :{
Shackman
8th Apr 2015, 12:50
Aircraft! I can't even find some of the airfields I flew from any more.:{
knarfw
8th Apr 2015, 20:38
UK Serials (http://www.ukserials.com/)
Tengah Type
8th Apr 2015, 21:20
Apart from a couple at Bruntingthorpe, and those detailed by TTN, I think the rest perished during fire training at Manston or Catterick. A few may still be in use having been converted into saucepans.
LOMCEVAK
10th Apr 2015, 17:12
There are three jets in the IWM at Duxford that I flew in service: Buccaneer XV865, F-4J ZE359 (now painted in USN colours again) and Jaguar XX108. Makes me realise that the years have passed ...
RRAAMJET
11th Apr 2015, 04:28
I was horrified to realize I'm officially history by finding no less than 3 airframes I'd actually flown at Hendon. And I'm not sure about the Grasshopper glider in reception, coz I flew those, too. Oh dear....
Lomcevak: 74F phantoms, I guess? Ex-Marine Corps jets. (Sorry..."former Marine", you're never "ex")
LOMCEVAK
11th Apr 2015, 10:57
RRAMJET,
It was a 74(F) Sqn aircraft but I flew it when it was loaned to Boscombe Down for a HaveQuick radio trial. I believe that it had some battle damage repairs from service in Vietnam with the USMC.
Rgds
L
Fareastdriver
11th Apr 2015, 11:05
jets in the IWM at Duxford
Get some Vampire time.
LOMCEVAK
11th Apr 2015, 11:17
Fareastdriver,
I was talking about individual airframes, not types. But if you are offering me some Vampire flying ....
Rgds
L
Rakshasa
12th Apr 2015, 06:24
As someone who got his knuckles wrapped for transposing serials in his log book, I'm not sure I'd be certain I'd have the right a/c! :O
Pontius Navigator
9th May 2015, 16:53
One of mine caught fire this week and landed at Coningsby.
Fantome
9th May 2015, 17:06
thought at first glance the man's crazy
but hats off to Jerry Grayson
excellent material for the proposed book
brilliant photos
and no doubt a pretty good story line
encompassing his whole career
singing 'in the navy'
should be a best seller
like to meet him in Melbourne
calling all stations . .calling all stations
and nuttie . . . well found that man
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/06/16/2751C17900000578-0-image-a-95_1428332550931.jpg
Stitchbitch
9th May 2015, 18:34
LOMCEVAC that vampire time would qualify you for the 'vintage pair', just need a Meteor T.7 now ..:E
Four Types
10th May 2015, 10:58
The internet is a wonderful thing. I recently surfed around and have compiled a list and many pictures of the aircraft I have flown in, including some of the trainers. All to go in the Annex to my book!
Trim Stab
10th May 2015, 11:28
I've also rather nerdishly surfed around and traced all 117 aircraft in my logbook, and uploaded photos of them all to my LogTen Pro. Somewhat disconcertingly, eight of them have been destroyed in crashes, two fatal.