meteor test set for October
Reminds me of the time they were testing Sea something-or-other (Sea Wolf?). It was tasked with intercepting a naval artillery round (sadly not one of those huge shells we had when we still had big ships)....
The gun went bang, then the Sea Thingy acquired, launched and zapped within half-a-heartbeat. Wherupon the driver of the artillery-carrying ship signalled to the captain of 'tother grey ship:
"It seems we've shot down your rocket!"
A pity this thread isn't about the dear old Meatbox - even I wangled 3 trips in the back of Clementine when I was at Brawdy!
The gun went bang, then the Sea Thingy acquired, launched and zapped within half-a-heartbeat. Wherupon the driver of the artillery-carrying ship signalled to the captain of 'tother grey ship:
"It seems we've shot down your rocket!"
A pity this thread isn't about the dear old Meatbox - even I wangled 3 trips in the back of Clementine when I was at Brawdy!
[/IMG]
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Over there, behind that tree.
Posts: 581
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Self portrait HenryC?
But the bloke looks sharp, ready to take on the world and typical of the Air Force of my day.
Of course he had a top squadron commander . . .
But the bloke looks sharp, ready to take on the world and typical of the Air Force of my day.
Of course he had a top squadron commander . . .
Suspicion breeds confidence
Thread Starter
Well, since I have been voluntarily hijacked, I'll take a punt at it; the countryside looks a bit kent like, so maybe Biggin, early 50's.
Expecting to be hopelessly wrong...
Expecting to be hopelessly wrong...
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 194
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Arrived, as everyone did, expecting lashings of discussion about the meatbox 
I'm going to stick my neck out for Tern Hill - judging by the fact that the T.7s are wearing codes (can't read 'em though) and it looks like a wooded hill right of the hangars...
I'm going to stick my neck out for Tern Hill - judging by the fact that the T.7s are wearing codes (can't read 'em though) and it looks like a wooded hill right of the hangars...
Little Rissington.
Check:
1. Shape of the water front hangars.
2. The obvious wooded area to the north of the easternmost hangar.
3. The N-S road running to the west of the aerodrome and the road leading off at 45 deg (in front of the lead Meteor) to the village of Little Rissington.
I think....
Check:
1. Shape of the water front hangars.
2. The obvious wooded area to the north of the easternmost hangar.
3. The N-S road running to the west of the aerodrome and the road leading off at 45 deg (in front of the lead Meteor) to the village of Little Rissington.
I think....
Yes, Him
Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: West Sussex, UK
Posts: 2,689
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I just tried to zoom in on the signal's square but it pixelated.
However the layout of the hangars correlates with the aerial pics of LR on multimap. Here's another from, I suppose, the same sortie, again no details but nice pic.
However the layout of the hangars correlates with the aerial pics of LR on multimap. Here's another from, I suppose, the same sortie, again no details but nice pic.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
I thought it was about a T7 or joy of joys an NF14. Can you imagine using clapped out F4s or F3s for that matter as nav trainers? Bloody brilliant.
14 hours in a meatbox.
MURROWSKI - OK, the exercise is over. It's hot. We climb, we cool off.
"Fuel, oxygen, balls in the air."
"Relax the exercise is over."
We are now down at nav school minimums in a rapid climb to 20K.
"We can't do loops with tanks o o o o nnnnn "
Errrr!
FOB
"Relax the exercise is over. Every done a barrel roll? We can't do barrel rolllllllllllllllllllllllllll s with tanks on."
And so it went on for bloody ages. Don't know we did for fuel.
Following week:
G-Homing exercise. Get it right, keep inside the curve and you got back in time.
KENT - OK the exercise is over. We can't do aerobatics with tanks on.
""............"" "".....................""
Then OK Nav, where's base. BASTARD.
"Down there off the port wing tip"
"Well done"
East Anglia in the 60s couldn't miss. Ground was full of bloody airfields.
14 hours in a meatbox.
MURROWSKI - OK, the exercise is over. It's hot. We climb, we cool off.
"Fuel, oxygen, balls in the air."
"Relax the exercise is over."
We are now down at nav school minimums in a rapid climb to 20K.
"We can't do loops with tanks o o o o nnnnn "
Errrr!
FOB
"Relax the exercise is over. Every done a barrel roll? We can't do barrel rolllllllllllllllllllllllllll s with tanks on."
And so it went on for bloody ages. Don't know we did for fuel.
Following week:
G-Homing exercise. Get it right, keep inside the curve and you got back in time.
KENT - OK the exercise is over. We can't do aerobatics with tanks on.
""............"" "".....................""
Then OK Nav, where's base. BASTARD.
"Down there off the port wing tip"
"Well done"
East Anglia in the 60s couldn't miss. Ground was full of bloody airfields.
And soon, perhaps, after the beancounters have killed Coltishall, there'll only be Marham left as the sole remaining military aerodrome in East Anglia....
Out of the 120 or so at the end of WW2 with hard runways.
Out of the 120 or so at the end of WW2 with hard runways.