Vulcan Data - Myths or Reality?
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A social event for anyone with wings within 1 hour (max cruise) of the IGB (both sides, inc the Swedes and the Swiss!) the day the wall came down would be one hell of a do! 
Might be more Sanatogen than Stella
but I'd love to be a fly on that bar wall! Need a bloody big bar, mind.
Might be more Sanatogen than Stella but I'd love to be a fly on that bar wall! Need a bloody big bar, mind.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
GF,
A friend of mine had such a conversation with a Swedish airman.
He also hosted a WPC Classic crew, Romanian or some such.
Come 4pm Friday he looked at his watch and suggested happy hour. The visitors looked distinctly uncomfortable. When he explained what was to happen they repaired to the Brize bar. "Was this something new now the wall had come down?" No, we do this every Friday.
"You do? We always stood to on Friday afternoons. We were told that this was when you would attack."
A friend of mine had such a conversation with a Swedish airman.
He also hosted a WPC Classic crew, Romanian or some such.
Come 4pm Friday he looked at his watch and suggested happy hour. The visitors looked distinctly uncomfortable. When he explained what was to happen they repaired to the Brize bar. "Was this something new now the wall had come down?" No, we do this every Friday.
"You do? We always stood to on Friday afternoons. We were told that this was when you would attack."
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Correct! Attack the bar. Didn't we allways? If only we could have had a NATO v WP drinking competion. Mass casualties for sure, but the only collateral damage would be the plumbing.
Which reminds me; a visit by the Ruskies to an RAF exercise based at Stornoway (F3's closing the Back Door). Monday, Ivan rocks up bright and early. They are accomodated at the RA mess at Benbecula and are helo'd up to EGPO every day. That evening, a, ahem, 'reception'
is held at Benb (hosted by battle hardened, hand picked, RAF, Army and local artistes.) On Tuesday Red Air is a little late. Weds, ditto, but later. Thursday, no one seen until just before lunch. Friday, no one. The Water of Death! is doing it's stuff in the Mess. Saturday the remains of WP's finest are effectivley medivac'd back to London!
Which reminds me; a visit by the Ruskies to an RAF exercise based at Stornoway (F3's closing the Back Door). Monday, Ivan rocks up bright and early. They are accomodated at the RA mess at Benbecula and are helo'd up to EGPO every day. That evening, a, ahem, 'reception'
is held at Benb (hosted by battle hardened, hand picked, RAF, Army and local artistes.) On Tuesday Red Air is a little late. Weds, ditto, but later. Thursday, no one seen until just before lunch. Friday, no one. The Water of Death! is doing it's stuff in the Mess. Saturday the remains of WP's finest are effectivley medivac'd back to London!
Thread creep but FWIW the 1948 Berlin crisis was the catalyst to the creation of an effective U.S. nuclear strategy. A fascinating article can be found here:
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/a...g/borowski.htm
Until the arrival of Blue Danube, Red Beard et-al in the 1950's, the UK could only act as the USAF's unsinkable aircraft carrier and the article above shows the limitations to the late 1940's nuclear strategy, despite the despatch of 90 USAF B-29's to the UK as a sort of deterrence.
Even better from the same source is an article about "Anglo-American Strategic Air Power Co-operation in the Cold War and Beyond" which can be found here:
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/a...in04/finn.html
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/a...g/borowski.htm
Until the arrival of Blue Danube, Red Beard et-al in the 1950's, the UK could only act as the USAF's unsinkable aircraft carrier and the article above shows the limitations to the late 1940's nuclear strategy, despite the despatch of 90 USAF B-29's to the UK as a sort of deterrence.
Even better from the same source is an article about "Anglo-American Strategic Air Power Co-operation in the Cold War and Beyond" which can be found here:
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/a...in04/finn.html
"By the end of 1945, there were 740 military airfields and dispersed operating sites in the United Kingdom, of which 159 were at some time occupied by USAAF units."
And nowadays....
And nowadays....
"PS his name was Mr Siviter if he or anyone out there who remembers him is reading this. I think I've still got somewhere the navigation / bombing protractors he gave me.
I think I remember him, Bob?"
To Pontius Navigator.
I don't know his first name, I didn't go to the kind of school where teachers had first names!
Anyway, if it is the chap you knew, he was teaching biology at Armthorpe (a few miles from Finningley) in the early eighties and was also my form teacher for a while. A very sound chap and very encouraging in my, subsequently failed, attempt to join the RAF.
Thanks.
I think I remember him, Bob?"
To Pontius Navigator.
I don't know his first name, I didn't go to the kind of school where teachers had first names!
Anyway, if it is the chap you knew, he was teaching biology at Armthorpe (a few miles from Finningley) in the early eighties and was also my form teacher for a while. A very sound chap and very encouraging in my, subsequently failed, attempt to join the RAF.
Thanks.
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Not many! http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov...s/stations.txt About 159 ICAO's all in, inc ranges, heliports etc
Not many! http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov...s/stations.txt About 159 ICAO's all in, inc ranges, heliports etc
