Airshow Misbehaviour (ground)
Remember the missing boat well, and feeling disappointed that a) the RIAT Engineers didn't get it first despite a cunning plan and b) that the perpetrators gave it back!!
Would have served the owners right for leaving it unattended, shoulda' known better!!
Was it from Southsides' sea cadet troop?
Jobza
Would have served the owners right for leaving it unattended, shoulda' known better!!
Was it from Southsides' sea cadet troop?
Jobza
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Sorry! The cunning plan was usurped by pure bolshiness, but when something like that is left alone and unattended.........
KISS is all I can say.
As for the careless owners, I can only say that they were, and maybe still are, providers of fleet defence. Just now flying the Fairey Swordfish
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KISS is all I can say.
As for the careless owners, I can only say that they were, and maybe still are, providers of fleet defence. Just now flying the Fairey Swordfish
AA
Did you hear the one about a crew member putting a condom full of hot water in a sock and suspending it down the inside leg of his flying suit whilst a fellow crew member showed visiting dignitaries how the IR cameras worked on the SAR kit????
The women flocked around him like flies after that........ 
The women flocked around him like flies after that........
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I know of a certain coalition country who at "an airshow" managed to acquire the xxx Corporation (Major international aircraft manufacturer) display model aircraft. Left unattended in exibition hall - their lads walked up and walked off with ithe 5 foot long model with not a question asked!
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its amazing what you can get away with if you are blatant about it.
at IAT '89 there was a big birthday party for the red arrows, we asked one of our aircrew to see if he could scrounge us some tickets, but he failed us.
not to be put off, our fairy cpl. put on a posh voice, and walked up to the girl in charge of tickets, and said he needed tickets for the rest of his crew, she didn't bat an eye, and just dished the tickets out.
our crew looked a bit sheepish when we met them there, and a very good night was had by all!
at IAT '89 there was a big birthday party for the red arrows, we asked one of our aircrew to see if he could scrounge us some tickets, but he failed us.
not to be put off, our fairy cpl. put on a posh voice, and walked up to the girl in charge of tickets, and said he needed tickets for the rest of his crew, she didn't bat an eye, and just dished the tickets out.
our crew looked a bit sheepish when we met them there, and a very good night was had by all!
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RIAT 2002 I remember a certain mate of mine getting lucky at the after show party on the sunday. His accomplishment came with a kicker though. He had t to find a bed for her MALE friend. Unperturbed, he tapped up one of the lads to let said friend kip on his floor. Problem is, the skipper duely knocks everyone up in the morning for the return flight, to find one of us had had a lucky night and another's got a bloke half naked in his room!!
Of course, he tried to explain it away on the crew bus back to base, but by then the truth wasn't getting in the way of a good story.
Of course, he tried to explain it away on the crew bus back to base, but by then the truth wasn't getting in the way of a good story.
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"As for the careless owners, I can only say that they were, and maybe still are, providers of fleet defence. Just now flying the Fairey Swordfish"
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If that was the Manadon swordfish, it unfortunately suffered from spontaneous combustion post Taranto night.
regards
retard
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If that was the Manadon swordfish, it unfortunately suffered from spontaneous combustion post Taranto night.
regards
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At the Bicentenial Airshow at Richmond (Australia 1988), we took an old S2G Tracker from the RAN Historic Flight for the show complete with zoonie pods etc on the wings. Got a bit boring after a couple of days so we stuck RADHAZ stickers on the inert zoonies, pulled them out the tubes a bit so people could see them and waited. Within a couple of minutes of the show opening, we were already being asked if we had nuclear weapons in which we replied "we can neither confirm or deny that we have them". A few hours later, a very irate senior RAAF officer asked "please explain!!". We couldn't so we had to remove them. Those familar with Trackers would know that the open nose door was a very good place to be with a nice skirt in the cockpit and it was a very hot 8 days!
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An ex RAF guy told me this one, dont know if its true....
They'd taken one of their aircraft(a nimrod i believe) for display at a US airshow
Anyway, in a vacant static aircraft parking space, they set up some cones and some parking chocks roughly around the area an aircraft would be. One of the crew pretended to be leaning on the ''empty air''., whilst another member walked around ducking under the ''wings'' etc.
This got the attention of a lot of people who gathered, not to mention a gaggle of USAF aircrew. The RAF crew then proceeded to explain to the americans about the RAFs new StealthBomber..apparently they believed it was really there.
They'd taken one of their aircraft(a nimrod i believe) for display at a US airshow
Anyway, in a vacant static aircraft parking space, they set up some cones and some parking chocks roughly around the area an aircraft would be. One of the crew pretended to be leaning on the ''empty air''., whilst another member walked around ducking under the ''wings'' etc.
This got the attention of a lot of people who gathered, not to mention a gaggle of USAF aircrew. The RAF crew then proceeded to explain to the americans about the RAFs new StealthBomber..apparently they believed it was really there.
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Hardly rock and roll but it tickled me at the time:
Opposite the B2 static display at RIAT one (and presumably every) year, a little area coned off with nothing in it - apart from a small placard: "Stealth Mk 2"
I'm sure they didn't get it. But that's not really the point is it?!
Opposite the B2 static display at RIAT one (and presumably every) year, a little area coned off with nothing in it - apart from a small placard: "Stealth Mk 2"
I'm sure they didn't get it. But that's not really the point is it?!
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Originally Posted by Fanois
Hardly rock and roll but it tickled me at the time:
Opposite the B2 static display at RIAT one (and presumably every) year, a little area coned off with nothing in it - apart from a small placard: "Stealth Mk 2"
I'm sure they didn't get it. But that's not really the point is it?!
Opposite the B2 static display at RIAT one (and presumably every) year, a little area coned off with nothing in it - apart from a small placard: "Stealth Mk 2"
I'm sure they didn't get it. But that's not really the point is it?!
we put out 2 sets of chocks, a bonding lead, and even stencilled the sign saying 'no photographs'.
Blew down a newly-erected row of portable loos with a US Navy SH-3 at Middle Wallop. Tame, but amusing at the time, not that the users were best pleased.
Tried to swap a Gazelle for an M1 Abrams tank for a bit of drag racing on the runway at Giebelstadt.
Removed the steps to the trailer-mounted bogs for a laugh at the same venue, and topped the night off by trying to man-handle an electric wheelchair onto the dodgems, complete with occupant.
The things we do when young and stupid.
Tried to swap a Gazelle for an M1 Abrams tank for a bit of drag racing on the runway at Giebelstadt.
Removed the steps to the trailer-mounted bogs for a laugh at the same venue, and topped the night off by trying to man-handle an electric wheelchair onto the dodgems, complete with occupant.
The things we do when young and stupid.
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Cottesmore Carrier
Remember the missing ship well. So well, in fact, that I have phots of the perpetrators with ship in hand (oh err, missus!) Large sums of money gratefully accepted to keep identities secret. Chinook mates, what are they like!
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This wouldn't be the same model ship that was delivered to said Chinny with the aid of a Tac Med Wing 4-Tonner, made available in the same manner as the model itself, would it?
Just a numbered other
Not so much mis behaviour, but oh how we laughed!
Roanne, France Sep 92 we were displaying a Sea King 4 when an F3 arrived.
Guy taxied past waving crab cap and generally soaking up percieved adulation when:
Roanne, France Sep 92 we were displaying a Sea King 4 when an F3 arrived.
Guy taxied past waving crab cap and generally soaking up percieved adulation when: