16/17 January 1991-What were you doing?
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16/17 January 1991-What were you doing?
Is it really the 16th anniversary of that momentus day already? Me and my "rectangular" mate were soon to depart eastern Saudi Arabia on the roller coaster sortie of a lifetime. Are there any (exciting or otherwise) "first night" moments that PPrUNers would be willing to share with us, that haven't already been mentioned in the numerous books already written on the subject?
I took my clubs with me!
I took my clubs with me!
Leading 3 x VC10Ks plus 8 x Tornados on the first attack mission against (I think) Talil.
Whilst avoiding inbound Scud embuggeration!
Whilst avoiding inbound Scud embuggeration!
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Sat with the SH Force in Al Jubail, I think. I am sure it was the next day I drove my first ever 4 tonner (no HGV licence to this day!) for 23 hrs up the MSR.
Still better than getting in a twin tub though.....!!! (JOKE!)
Still better than getting in a twin tub though.....!!! (JOKE!)
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No 2 of a 4-ball carrying JP 233 into Al Taqaddum. Waste of time as the sodding thing failed to work and we ended up ditching it 2-3 miles off target!! Very interesting 200ft egress with no nav-kit and manual e-scoping from the pilot. If he's reading this, bloody well done mate
As Alanm, allthough I thought we had allready deployed the Chinooks to the site between KMC and the Iraqi border by the time war was officially declared.
I know the kite I was supposed to fly on had an aft transmission change before a few of us could join the rest in the desert. SENGO accused us of being cowards and not wanting to leave Al Jubail, but when EFDC had analysed the bits of bearing on the chip plugs they informed him that the gearbox would have failed aproximately 15 - 30 minutes into flight.
I know the kite I was supposed to fly on had an aft transmission change before a few of us could join the rest in the desert. SENGO accused us of being cowards and not wanting to leave Al Jubail, but when EFDC had analysed the bits of bearing on the chip plugs they informed him that the gearbox would have failed aproximately 15 - 30 minutes into flight.
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Just finished a night sortie in NI, the execs were having a dinner night in the mess. I walked in and told them what was showing on Sky News and the dinner night ended there and then...
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Watching it on the telly in the Mess at Finnigley thinking I'd missed my chance by a matter of weeks........oh how that thought has come back to haunt me!