William borrows a company Vehicle.....
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: France
Age: 83
Posts: 194
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Anyone on here "not guilty" ??
Come one we have all done it to some degree at sometime ??
"Oh bugger, wife has just called I have the car and house keys in my pocket - anyone going out in the LFA next few minutes who could do a drop at my place - 30 second hover in the field next door would be appreciated ??"
"Oh bugger, wife has just called I have the car and house keys in my pocket - anyone going out in the LFA next few minutes who could do a drop at my place - 30 second hover in the field next door would be appreciated ??"
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Yorkshire
Age: 80
Posts: 429
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Are you seriously telling me that an RAF Officer (all of whom according to PPRuNe are renowned for being keen, dashing and resourceful not to say devastatingly good-looking) has not covered that eventuality by getting some spare sets?
Wills' Chopper
What made me laugh this morning was a headline in the Currant Bun saying:
"Wills puts his Chopper in Kate's garden"
How much would you like to bet it finds it's way on to 'Have I Got News For You' this Friday as:
"Wills puts his Chopper in Kate's _______"
I laughed anyway!
BV
"Wills puts his Chopper in Kate's garden"
How much would you like to bet it finds it's way on to 'Have I Got News For You' this Friday as:
"Wills puts his Chopper in Kate's _______"
I laughed anyway!
BV
The Snowdrops always seemed to have the pick of the ladies who dwelled therein.
What was that famous Court Martial line?
"I observed A/Cpl Knacker having sex with a German shepherd"
"And what did you say to him?"
"To whom, Sir?"
"The corporal, idiot, not the shepherd!"
"That's a nice dog, corporal! To which he replied "Actually it's a bitch, sir!" "
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Wiltshire
Age: 49
Posts: 34
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Headlines
Off topic I know but I strive to share my favourite Newspaper headline at any given opportunity, and this thread has stumbled into the ballpark.
The headline concerns a 4'8" tall clairvoyant who’d escaped from Broadmoor Prison and was on the run…
“Small Medium at Large”
Well, it always cheers me up!
Hat, coat, gloves…… I’m off.
The headline concerns a 4'8" tall clairvoyant who’d escaped from Broadmoor Prison and was on the run…
“Small Medium at Large”
Well, it always cheers me up!
Hat, coat, gloves…… I’m off.
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: ecosse
Posts: 714
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Quite impressed with Cranditz since my day
Bit of marching to get your dad to award wings by lunchtime
Complete hasty Chinook OCU by teatime
Touch down in girfriends paddock prior to supper and then off to the IOW for brothers piss up - Even Flashman would be jealous of this
Bit of marching to get your dad to award wings by lunchtime
Complete hasty Chinook OCU by teatime
Touch down in girfriends paddock prior to supper and then off to the IOW for brothers piss up - Even Flashman would be jealous of this
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Up North
Posts: 801
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I said:
I'm splitting the invoice between Clarence House and MoD, cheaper than Max Clifford. Next client, that Formula 1 chap with the interesting tastes.....
As an afterthought, why didn't the royal twosome drop in on Headley Court or Selly Oak for a morale visit, even a hospital, hospice or charity?
Today 19:55
Surely that next client should be Gordon Brown...if you can win him an election it will be a peerage at least for you.. arise Lord JesstheDog... or perhaps a billion pound tip after all the Bank of England is gving away money by the cargo load.
I'm splitting the invoice between Clarence House and MoD, cheaper than Max Clifford. Next client, that Formula 1 chap with the interesting tastes..... Today 19:55
Today 19:55
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Up North
Posts: 801
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Surely that next client should be Gordon Brown...if you can win him an election it will be a peerage at least for you.. arise Lord JesstheDog... or perhaps a billion pound tip after all the Bank of England is gving away money by the cargo load.
We do not know how lucky we are to have a Monarchy. You should try a country where they have, quote, a democratically elected president. In this case not he president but a bigwig.
He was going out to an oil platform for an inauguration ceremony. The helicopter was chartered at US$3,500 an hour, rotors running time. The wind offshore at 40 knots was too strong to shut down so it was suggested that the aircraft returned and flew out again when needed Not good enough, it had to available when he had finished.
The aircraft was rotors running on the helideck, being occasionally refuelled, for FIVE AND A HALF HOURS. at $3,500/hr. The taxpayers paid for that.
He was going out to an oil platform for an inauguration ceremony. The helicopter was chartered at US$3,500 an hour, rotors running time. The wind offshore at 40 knots was too strong to shut down so it was suggested that the aircraft returned and flew out again when needed Not good enough, it had to available when he had finished.
The aircraft was rotors running on the helideck, being occasionally refuelled, for FIVE AND A HALF HOURS. at $3,500/hr. The taxpayers paid for that.
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: firmly on dry land
Age: 81
Posts: 1,541
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
The trips were authorised. The problem was the sqn didn't tell anyone. When the Scum ran the story the men in the ministry were blindsided. THAT is what p1ssed CAS off most.
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: inside the train looking onto the platform.
Posts: 195
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Bit of a self Hack
How could they not have thought about the negative PR angle, isnt the Stn Cdr the very same chap who was at MOD PR and involved in Abingdon and Scotland air show fiasco's.
Much adoo about nothing but ot nipping it in the bud has certainly left us abit embarrassed.
Much adoo about nothing but ot nipping it in the bud has certainly left us abit embarrassed.
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: firmly on dry land
Age: 81
Posts: 1,541
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
)? How they limited Wills exposure at Cranditz etc etc?But whether they hoped to keep the whole thing hidden or not they should have warned the centre.
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Over the rainbow
Posts: 310
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I seem to remember on 230 Sqn in the seventies there was a pilot who used to drop in to see his mum for a cup of coffee. What was his name ? ....
- A..x Br...n.
'We knew how to whinge but we kept it in the NAAFI bar.'
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: St Annes
Age: 68
Posts: 638
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
At the risk of losing an arm....
and with all due deference to those arguing that the trips were authorised therefore all non-pilots ought to be shot after a damn good flogging...
This still seems very much an own goal. Everything, these days, isn't seen in black and white for what it is, it's subject to spin and Joe Public isn't that difficult to influence. This just looks like the chap got to do what he felt like because he's royalty...now you may argue that that IS in fact all the justification needed, but to the casual observer the 'Daily Mash' take on it isn't far off the mark, and it could have been avoided had any other field in the UK been selected - please don't bother to point out the field shortage issue, there is no way that every other Chinook sortie is doing practise landings at the Middleton's little hacienda, and has been doing for the past decade.
Good luck to the lad, if that hasn't earned him a little extra 'consideration' then goodness knows what he'll have to try next - I don't blame him for getting away with it. It's still a very silly thing to allow somebody as high vis as HRH to do ANYTHING that looks like an abuse of position and privilege, because a great many people will jump on such and make a great deal of noise about them. The Sun, Mail etc couldn't run 'Prince uses chopper to fetch chip supper' stories if he didn't actually make the flight. This last couple of events have had zero potential for good PR, a 6 year old could work that out - somebody really ought to be trying to ensure that his time with the RAF avoids this sort of negative fallout.
Dave
(Puts helmet on...)
and with all due deference to those arguing that the trips were authorised therefore all non-pilots ought to be shot after a damn good flogging...
This still seems very much an own goal. Everything, these days, isn't seen in black and white for what it is, it's subject to spin and Joe Public isn't that difficult to influence. This just looks like the chap got to do what he felt like because he's royalty...now you may argue that that IS in fact all the justification needed, but to the casual observer the 'Daily Mash' take on it isn't far off the mark, and it could have been avoided had any other field in the UK been selected - please don't bother to point out the field shortage issue, there is no way that every other Chinook sortie is doing practise landings at the Middleton's little hacienda, and has been doing for the past decade.
Good luck to the lad, if that hasn't earned him a little extra 'consideration' then goodness knows what he'll have to try next - I don't blame him for getting away with it. It's still a very silly thing to allow somebody as high vis as HRH to do ANYTHING that looks like an abuse of position and privilege, because a great many people will jump on such and make a great deal of noise about them. The Sun, Mail etc couldn't run 'Prince uses chopper to fetch chip supper' stories if he didn't actually make the flight. This last couple of events have had zero potential for good PR, a 6 year old could work that out - somebody really ought to be trying to ensure that his time with the RAF avoids this sort of negative fallout.
Dave
(Puts helmet on...)