Remember the good old days late 70s and 80s on phantoms
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The brake chute
guess you can all remember land away crew training on how to stow that brake chute back in , the old square peg round hole thing , and to finish the struggle ram the door shut whilst pulling the handle down, easy , unless you where not strong enough to shut the door and got caterpulted of the ladder onto the hangar floor in front of a group of Flms sniggering who carried out the task at least 10 times a day
Had a boom dropped on me once during a lul in the exercise "can we do a flypast?" "no problems" came the reply.
Blip disappears into radar overhead....3000 tons of Warship rocks VIOLENTLY! All thoughts turn to him hitting the mast...Captain is WHITE with shock.....I spy the blip coming out the other side going like hot snot...
"Sonic Boom" shouts I, relief all round.
F4 goes back on CAP..(If that was an F3 he would have been "chicken" after that).
Magnificent aircraft, remember the all black one that came into Yeovilton in about 1990. Lovely!!!!!
Blip disappears into radar overhead....3000 tons of Warship rocks VIOLENTLY! All thoughts turn to him hitting the mast...Captain is WHITE with shock.....I spy the blip coming out the other side going like hot snot...
"Sonic Boom" shouts I, relief all round.
F4 goes back on CAP..(If that was an F3 he would have been "chicken" after that).
Magnificent aircraft, remember the all black one that came into Yeovilton in about 1990. Lovely!!!!!
"guess you can all remember land away crew training on how to stow that brake chute back in"
I always felt like James Herriott with his arm half-way up a cow's ar$e!
I always felt like James Herriott with his arm half-way up a cow's ar$e!
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I always felt like James Herriott with his arm half-way up a cow's ar$e!
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Dolphinops has it right, tho' I surmise from his handle that he was something to do with that bunch of poofters at t'other end of runway. The real outfit was our end. People that spring to mind - Bear, Yoda, Leggy, Dom, Baggers, Gladys, KC. Things that spring to mind - LLAD in a clean wing F4, rorting over JHQ - Reken, Peheim, Gerolstein - the Clutch Beer call - Battle Flight(Educational movies, crap coffee and that god-awful fat frau that used to harangue us from the nearby fence). Better stop now, before I get carried away....
taxy back past our HAS and both of us noticed that a Sidewinder was missing. Little did we know at that point.....
As I speak German, I had to deal initially with the farmer on whose land the larger pieces of the wreckage came down on and also with the owner of the adjoining woodland. The farmer was not perturbed at the crash and told me that previously a Harrier and a Belgique Mirage had also come down on his land, so he knew how to make sure he obtained maximum compensation. (Zis field I vill not be able to harvest as there could be debris, and zat field I will not be able to graze my cattle due to contamination from fire extinguishant etc). Interestingly, the crash area was the only open land between the largest petro-chemical refinery in the Rhein-Ruhr area and the power station complex supplying electricity to the same area. It took a little while to recover the second engine as we had to get RE divers etc to find it in the river - rather them than me.
The 431MU crash team stayed in a hotel in Wesel and we caused some consternation in the hotel bar by decimating their supply of 'Wobbly' (aka Warsteiner). It was a glorious May weather-wise (but a Public Holiday long weekend was snookered). At the end of the recovery, the farmer laid on a huge BBQ for the Laarbruch crash guard (who been accommodated under canvas on the farm) and the MU team. A special request from the farmer was could I persuade the crash guard to form up in ranks of three and let his foreman (an ex-Wermacht Feldwebel) march them about. This was duly arranged and amongst much jollity and shouts of "links, rechts" etc, the foreman thoroughly enjoyed himself. And then the beer flowed.......
Ah, great times........
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On Q 29sqn one sunday washing the car for the 10 th time ovev the week end to pass time away when yes somthing different scrammble time to run out across the pan only to be stopped by the raf copper stop or ill let the dog of .......its a scrammble.. lets see your 1250s anyway when he heard the rh engine start and the crew waving there arms in the air we passed to dispatch the aircraft in 6 mins ............ the incident was reported to ops and funnily enough we never saw the copper again....shame:
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27mm,
Clearly wrong! Twas us at the right end of the runway! Image is of the AOC's jet borrowed to pay us a visit during APC in CYP. The boys didn't like a cobra set amoungst our Dolphs..and got creative! AOC not best pleased next morning when he couldn't find his steed! Funny though when we got back to Wilders the crewroom looked like a orange and red chessboard!
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Clearly wrong! Twas us at the right end of the runway! Image is of the AOC's jet borrowed to pay us a visit during APC in CYP. The boys didn't like a cobra set amoungst our Dolphs..and got creative! AOC not best pleased next morning when he couldn't find his steed! Funny though when we got back to Wilders the crewroom looked like a orange and red chessboard!
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