First Solo's...when was yours and what in?
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SV - Mr Legat took me for my FHT on 20 Nov 78.
Did you see the Tactical Questioning film at Seafield Park? One of the Roborough QFIs was in it I recall.
Did you see the Tactical Questioning film at Seafield Park? One of the Roborough QFIs was in it I recall.
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3 memorable first solos:
C152 at Lydd on a RN Flying Scholarship August 1980 - first solo
Chipmunk T10 WK608 at Roborough August 1981 - first solo in tailwheel type(previous day I had been flying WD374, I see).
Pitts S-2C July 2005 - first in own aircraft
Btw - Do you remember Stan the Man at Roborough, and the low-level flight past the front door of his home in the low flying area? Also, "REAL 800 feet.." and the smack on the back of the helmet, in the circuit?
C152 at Lydd on a RN Flying Scholarship August 1980 - first solo
Chipmunk T10 WK608 at Roborough August 1981 - first solo in tailwheel type(previous day I had been flying WD374, I see).
Pitts S-2C July 2005 - first in own aircraft
Btw - Do you remember Stan the Man at Roborough, and the low-level flight past the front door of his home in the low flying area? Also, "REAL 800 feet.." and the smack on the back of the helmet, in the circuit?
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Originally Posted by airborne_artist
SV - Mr Legat took me for my FHT on 20 Nov 78.
Did you see the Tactical Questioning film at Seafield Park? One of the Roborough QFIs was in it I recall.
Did you see the Tactical Questioning film at Seafield Park? One of the Roborough QFIs was in it I recall.
Talking of Stan the Man - how about dummy approaches to Eagle and the instant reaction to being cleared by tower to 'downwind roll' ... !
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When was Eagle moored in the Sound? ISTR that whichever carrier it was in 78 had barbed wire across the flight deck to prevent such antics!
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Yup!!
Bruggen, 1980, Phoenix GC, Blanik..... great fun......good days
Flaps, your first solo is just that. No matter if it's power or gliding, it's the first time you're up there on your own
HH2
Bruggen, 1980, Phoenix GC, Blanik..... great fun......good days
Flaps, your first solo is just that. No matter if it's power or gliding, it's the first time you're up there on your own
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Warrior, PA28 G-BNRG, July 23 1999, RAF Brize Norton Flying Club, a great bunch of lads and lasses. My first steps in my second career; now I fly for a domestic airline in Canada
Thanks Guys!
Thanks Guys!
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Grob 115E...sometime in the next two weeks if the weather at Leeming holds *crosses fingers and prays* 
XL319....big up to the Free Northumbrian Air Force and the Mighty Tutor.
XL319....big up to the Free Northumbrian Air Force and the Mighty Tutor.
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Flaps.
Military Aircrew A forum for the professionals who fly the non-civilian hardware, and the backroom boys and girls without whom nothing would leave the ground. Army, Navy and Airforces of the World, all equally welcome here.
You sound a little Animal Farmish Mate........... all pilots are equal, however...
New thread?? First Solo for chaps who are now commissioned RAF front line mates.
Sounds a little pompous don't you think?
HH2
Military Aircrew A forum for the professionals who fly the non-civilian hardware, and the backroom boys and girls without whom nothing would leave the ground. Army, Navy and Airforces of the World, all equally welcome here.
You sound a little Animal Farmish Mate........... all pilots are equal, however...
New thread?? First Solo for chaps who are now commissioned RAF front line mates.
Sounds a little pompous don't you think?
HH2
HH2,
You are of course absolutely right. If I do not want to read about first flights in a pile of balsa wood and fibreglass, written by a bunch of people who usually spend most of their time in front of Flight Sim and a scanner, then I shouldn't read the thread.
You are of course absolutely right. If I do not want to read about first flights in a pile of balsa wood and fibreglass, written by a bunch of people who usually spend most of their time in front of Flight Sim and a scanner, then I shouldn't read the thread.
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As the Air Cadet organisation and the VGS's in particular have had a big impact on this thread I'll add my own.
1st Solo 3 mins Sept 24 1972 Sedburgh XN185 RAF Sealand
1st Civilain solo (and so far the only one) 54 mins Aug 18 1978 Blanik, Nympsfield.
1st passenger (Cdt Willard) 10 mins Aug 23 1980 Sedburgh VX275 (now part of RAF Museum collection) RAF Benson.
!st Powered solo Sept 10 1980. Venture RAF Syerston.
26 years and 2000 + hours later I'm still taking Air Cadets up in the Vigilant. (God I feel old)
1st Solo 3 mins Sept 24 1972 Sedburgh XN185 RAF Sealand
1st Civilain solo (and so far the only one) 54 mins Aug 18 1978 Blanik, Nympsfield.
1st passenger (Cdt Willard) 10 mins Aug 23 1980 Sedburgh VX275 (now part of RAF Museum collection) RAF Benson.
!st Powered solo Sept 10 1980. Venture RAF Syerston.
26 years and 2000 + hours later I'm still taking Air Cadets up in the Vigilant. (God I feel old)
First solo: LET Blanik L-13 R11, RAFGSA Bicester, aged 16, sent solo by Air Commodore Brownlow, IIRC.
First powered solo: Bulldog XX553, ULAS, RAF Abingdon, aged 18, sent solo by Geoff Baron. (Must have been broadly the same time as Onan, as I remember Dick King....)
First powered solo: Bulldog XX553, ULAS, RAF Abingdon, aged 18, sent solo by Geoff Baron. (Must have been broadly the same time as Onan, as I remember Dick King....)
