Chinook Bomber

[sitigeltfel]

"A Chinook helicopter taking part in Exercise Joint Warrior has accidentally dropped a box of rations hundreds of feet into a field, just 100 yards from the M4."

Chinook helicopter makes accidental 800ft cargo drop in field - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11551535/Chinook-helicopter-makes-accidental-800ft-cargo-drop-in-field.html)

Oops! :ooh:

[Cows getting bigger]

Could have been worse. Might have been a Rapier fire unit...............:oh:

[ORAC]

That'll be the pear drops.........

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03274/chinoook_3274556b.jpg

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03274/Chinook-drop_3274548b.jpg

[Sandy Parts]

that bottom photo is just dying for a caption..

[Pontius Navigator]

Mint sauce?

[NutLoose]

I think we have a child serial killer on our hands detective, there are babies heads strewn all over the place.

****

Ahh just as I like it prepared.. Al dente'd

[Satellite_Driver]

BYSTANDER: According to the labels, this was 60 packs of Menu F - Lamb Curry.

SHEEP: Nooooo! Not Aunty Ethel!

[INT ZKJ]

That's the closest real meat has come to ration packs in years :)

[Bob Viking]

I just love the quote along the lines of :

"Thank God it wasn't a jeep".

Because the Chinooks often carry cargo nets bristling with multiple jeeps. It brings to mind an image of Santa's sleigh bursting at the seams.

You've got to love eyewitness quotes,

BV:rolleyes:

[November4]

The MSN version (http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/tabasco-sauce-and-cake-rain-from-the-sky-after-helicopter-accidentally-drops-cargo-100m-from-m4/ar-AAboLVD) of the story uses a photo of a Chinook over London.

Did like the

No animals were hurt in the accident.

comment

[langleybaston]

The onlookers were not rushing to loot, which tells us something.

A slight tangent, the drop reminds me of the official issue red [warm front] blue [cold ditto] and purple [occlusion] crayons at RAF Guetersloh c. 1970.

Without exception, they were broken internally, ie just when you thought the lead in your pencil was kosher, a little bit dropped out.

Point of story is that they were alleged to have been air-dropped many years earlier, probably at Arnhem.

[NutLoose]

Without exception, they were broken internally, ie just when you thought the lead in your pencil was kosher, a little bit dropped out.



Off track, but if you want a wheeze with a colleagues lunch, take his Banana if he has one, insert a pin or needle down the black area of the skin and move it from side to side, either do once or repeat up its length. The result is when he peels it, the said banana falls out of the skin in either one bit or nice cleanly cut multiple slices, with no evidence to show as the skin tends to split down the black bit as peeled.

[Rosevidney1]

Didn't drop much, did they? I've seen 'aircrew rations' nearly that size!

[charliegolf]

Mmm, no Tiffin!

CG

[huge72]

At least it wasn't the Butcher's Shop roof courtesy of the XMG bombing team.:oh:

[teeteringhead]

just when you thought the lead in your pencil was kosher, a little bit dropped out

Apparently that happens with age LangleyB :(

At least it wasn't the Butcher's Shop roof courtesy of the XMG bombing team Wasn't that J** J*******?

'Tis said the following conversation took place as J** began aerobatic evasive action following incomers to the fort when he was on short finals.

Crewperson: Pilot! - Remember we've got a USL!! :eek:

J**: Not any more we f***in' haven't! :ok:

[Lingo Dan]

It was indeed J** J*******. The way I heard the story, they were almost in the hover with the load when the stuff started flying and the load-pickling happened from a good bombing height of about 2000 ft - after J** overshot - with some degree of enthusiasm . However, no story loses anything in the telling!!

Hope all is well mate :)

[teeteringhead]

Hope all is well mate Indeed it is thanks! :ok:

[AR1]

What on earth is a 'Biscuit Brown' ?

[Hempy]

"Pack contained within the 24 Hour ration pack. Consists of 6 slices of compressed cardboard, occasionally supplied with dog **** in a can to spread over said cardboard."

http://www.extremeadventurefood.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/390x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/b/i/biscuits_brown.jpg

[charliegolf]

Reminds me of the, 'this week's latest wheeze" the brains trust came up with on 33 in the 80's. All aircraft to have a designated crashout pack- shovel (toilet?) and various other pointless bits; and a rat pack for (maybe) 2 days. As in, foxtrot and be self sufficient till the rad count drops a bit.

Thing was, the only containers they could come up with for this 3ish cubic feet of crap, were HUGE 'married quarter for the vacating of' boxes we had to construct for the job. They all but bulked out the cabin. It was priceless, especially when a note came round warning not to eat the cheese possessed- might be gone off see!

CG

[Old-Duffer]

A tiny weeny box of goodies - cor you lot don't you've been born!!

When you're waiting for a Beverly to drop everything you need for the next three weeks and the parachute attached to the one ton pallet, roman candles, that's spectacular, particularly the speed with which the ground handling party leg it!

When part of the load comprises four dozen live chickens - well they were when the pallet left the aircraft - for the men from Nepal to eat, it all gets quite interesting. Unfortunately, the padded box containing the bottles of rum and brandy didn't survive either.

Old Duffer

[olddog]

"Do you think it could have been a meat seeking missile?"

[MATELO]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03274/Chinook-drop_3274548b.jpg


Ah Man!..... they will be inedible now!!!

[huge72]

Teetering head, it was indeed J** J****** with A*** N*** in the left hand seat. Your telling of it is pretty close as I was said Crewperson. We had only reached about 200ft by the time it was pickled and we never lived down the fact that we only got the Butcher's Shop and not the Provo Statue in the Square.:ok:

[Rosevidney1]

"Pack contained within the 24 Hour ration pack. Consists of 6 slices of compressed cardboard, occasionally supplied with dog **** in a can to spread over said cardboard."

http://www.extremeadventurefood.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/390x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/b/i/biscuits_brown.jpg


Isn't that information considered sensitive?
Who did the user trials on them?

[NutLoose]

And here was me thinking the UK still provides weevil infested hard tack for those in HMP South.

:O

[tezzer]

Back in a former life, we were loaned a Chinook, to operate out of Coltishall.

We bodge fitted a rudimentary direction finding antenna array, that sat in the big hole in the floor, with 4 antennas, made from foot long lenghts of silver steel. The captain looked at it and gave it the OK, so we took off for a test flight which went reasonably well.

When we landed, only one of the 4 antenna elements remained, the other three having been dropped and no doubt embedded themselves in the Norfolk countryside. A delay in the job, as usual gave us time to re manufacture it properly, when our intended foe made his way across the North Sea.

Oh, how we laughed.

[Fournierf5]

http://i1095.photobucket.com/albums/i473/fournierrf5/Chinook-drop.jpg (http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/fournierrf5/media/Chinook-drop.jpg.html)

[Old-Duffer]

Without success, I've been seeking (not Sea King) the photo of an RN Wessex sans blades and engine (it was a Mk 1) on its way to mother earth, after it was released from beneath a Belvedere over the Borneo jungle.

Unfortunately, it started to swing a little more than was thought safe and hence off it went into the trees, where presumably it still resides - Captain Fish-Fingers was right vexed!!!

Old Duffer