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I seem to remember a LOX film from the States - shown I believe at AMTC N Luff. Some poor guy go caught in a LOX blast during pre-flt maintenance and collected 100 degree burns.
It showed him lying on top of a bed with not an inch of skin anywhere on his body. It was ghastly. He lived for a few days before mercifully passing away...
It showed him lying on top of a bed with not an inch of skin anywhere on his body. It was ghastly. He lived for a few days before mercifully passing away...
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BN, you beat me to it! I was about to mention that the chaps at DASC (Beags, the old IFS!!
) had the flying trowel FS vid, 'Frustration' on disc now too!
They show it with the up to date version involving a couple of F3 mates on det. They have even gone to the expense of using a couple of pukka lovies, notably the chap from 'The Bill' and more recently, 'Doctors'. Very high brow!
Same old same old though. Chain of events including no air con in hotel en route, pants food, blunties doing their usual etc, etc....
Very well made all the same and scarily realistic. I'm sure we all have stories that could have almost resulted in a BOI were in not for a break in that chain somewhere along the line.
On the flip side, the illustrious brown jobs have an equivalent and very telling 'Frustration' vid. It starts off at ‘0’ dark hundred hours at a secret former Meatbox, Javelin and Phantom Suffolk base. The 'stars' are doing what pongoes do best, running around with large bits of ungainly baggage on their backs. Their flight commander tells them that they are now night flying that night and it sort of goes from bad to worse. Rushed planning, lots of niff naff and trivia bowled their way in the form of non aviation related pressures and all the usual 'outside the bubble' claggage. The result is the 'players' cuff the recce and end up rather dramatically taking out a set of wires on their night sortie.
I asked (using small words of less than two syllables and speaking slowly) a brown job mate if the film was a bit OTT? His reply was it was actually the rule rather than the exception.
The Air Force should at least consider itself lucky in some way. Flying is sometimes, at least on the top ten list of priorities.
) had the flying trowel FS vid, 'Frustration' on disc now too! They show it with the up to date version involving a couple of F3 mates on det. They have even gone to the expense of using a couple of pukka lovies, notably the chap from 'The Bill' and more recently, 'Doctors'. Very high brow!
Same old same old though. Chain of events including no air con in hotel en route, pants food, blunties doing their usual etc, etc....
Very well made all the same and scarily realistic. I'm sure we all have stories that could have almost resulted in a BOI were in not for a break in that chain somewhere along the line.
On the flip side, the illustrious brown jobs have an equivalent and very telling 'Frustration' vid. It starts off at ‘0’ dark hundred hours at a secret former Meatbox, Javelin and Phantom Suffolk base. The 'stars' are doing what pongoes do best, running around with large bits of ungainly baggage on their backs. Their flight commander tells them that they are now night flying that night and it sort of goes from bad to worse. Rushed planning, lots of niff naff and trivia bowled their way in the form of non aviation related pressures and all the usual 'outside the bubble' claggage. The result is the 'players' cuff the recce and end up rather dramatically taking out a set of wires on their night sortie.
I asked (using small words of less than two syllables and speaking slowly) a brown job mate if the film was a bit OTT? His reply was it was actually the rule rather than the exception.
The Air Force should at least consider itself lucky in some way. Flying is sometimes, at least on the top ten list of priorities.
Yes, I saw the new version shortly before I pulled my black-and-yellow and left the mob.
Well made indeed - but the earlier one gave you a glimpse of what the proper Air Force must have been like.
It was the threat of a final posting to DASC which made me take the pins out; the actual timing of the handle pull was a tactical decision based on maximising leave entitlement and final salary scale etc.....
Well made indeed - but the earlier one gave you a glimpse of what the proper Air Force must have been like.
It was the threat of a final posting to DASC which made me take the pins out; the actual timing of the handle pull was a tactical decision based on maximising leave entitlement and final salary scale etc.....
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Fond memories of HISS the Russian snake video. The one where he is down a back alley with a tray of matches round his neck calling, "Souvenirs, novelties, party treeks!" in the heaviest Russian accent imaginable.
Needless to say, some poor unsuspecting Fg Off fell for his evil lures to pay for his wife's new fur coat. Never a senior officer to fall foul though, was it? Combination of military pay in the 70s, the fact that women could wear fur in those days and er, it's always the Fg Off isn't it?
And if anybody from FOLA (Flying Officers' Liberation Army) is reading - let it go, your miserable cause is lost. Mainly because you cannot read, you illiterate virgins. Curl up and die and accept the the two stripe masters will not accept your ilk (that means you).
This message has been brought to you by GANG (Graduates Against Non Graduates) and refers to a brief but bitter spate of inter-rank warfare on 72 Sqn in Northern Ireland in the early 90s.
Fortunately, the literati won, the evil SPONI (Senior Pilot Officer Northern Ireland) was promoted to Kinder Command (hence the state of the training system), and GANG organized the peace, although Bill Clinton took the credit.
Death to FOLA! GANG and FLANGE (Flt Lts Against Non GraduatEs) Rule OK!
Needless to say, some poor unsuspecting Fg Off fell for his evil lures to pay for his wife's new fur coat. Never a senior officer to fall foul though, was it? Combination of military pay in the 70s, the fact that women could wear fur in those days and er, it's always the Fg Off isn't it?
And if anybody from FOLA (Flying Officers' Liberation Army) is reading - let it go, your miserable cause is lost. Mainly because you cannot read, you illiterate virgins. Curl up and die and accept the the two stripe masters will not accept your ilk (that means you).
This message has been brought to you by GANG (Graduates Against Non Graduates) and refers to a brief but bitter spate of inter-rank warfare on 72 Sqn in Northern Ireland in the early 90s.
Fortunately, the literati won, the evil SPONI (Senior Pilot Officer Northern Ireland) was promoted to Kinder Command (hence the state of the training system), and GANG organized the peace, although Bill Clinton took the credit.
Death to FOLA! GANG and FLANGE (Flt Lts Against Non GraduatEs) Rule OK!
Does anyone remember 'Unload For Control' - about Phantom spinning and why it was not such a great idea? There was some excellent footage of wepaons of all sorts being fired and dropped.
