Gray haired old aviators

[acepilotmurdock]

When you can't rememer which way your longjohns go on........ until your wife remindes you " Yellow at the front and brown at the back dear"

[Airborne Aircrew]

Jock:

Don't panic... I remember Trubshaw... But I was a kid when he was flying the Concorde out of Fairford. I remember one of it's first flights. It flew out over Wantage, (my home town). I remember running home to ask my dad what that strange aircraft was...

[Master Live]

for me a couple of weeks ago sitting in the wardroom on deployment watching Sailor from 1977 on DVD and recognising Sea King airframe numbers.

[Wader2]

Originally Posted by Wensleydale

When you find that you first flew your current aircraft before your latest crew member was born...

Our AEO quit when he discovered that our captain's dad had been his tail gunner on Lancs.

[asiaseen]

Back in the 1970s S/L Arthur Vine was an F4 QFI on the OCU at Coningsby while his son was flying Shacklebombers.

[PPRuNe Pop]

I got three as well Dan. But, they are vastly different to yours.

The Camel replica at the FAA museum, in the same place, the Albatross and in the RAF museum the Sopwith 1 & 1/2 Strutter.

Viv Bellamy has his name on the last one, and a DR1, and a Clerget Camel, and a Hart complete with a Kestrel engine. That man was a living legend!

I've got the grey hair alright but it was a bit hard when some thought I flew them in WW1 Let's see that would make me - oh a good few years younger than Harry Patch and Henry Allingham.

Most of them were built by Viv and operated by Leisure Sport. We started flying them in 1976 and went on through 77/80.

[rogerk]

Can't remember which way your longjohns go on...

Never mind the longjohns.
Do you remember when you used to jump into your flying suit both feet first and zip it up in one swift and precise action ??
.. and now you stand on one leg to get your y-fronts on and if you are not very careful you get your left little toe caught in the elastic and go a5r5e over head !!

[Double Zero]

I'm not a pilot, but find it rather disconcerting that my old 'chums' G-VTOL, ZA195, XZ439, GR5's ZD 318 & 9, Hunter XL602, Dove G-ASMG etc are all in museums or private hands / retired...

As for underwear problems, isn't that why ladies knickers are labelled ' C & A ' ?

Sorry, I'll get my coat.

[fltlt]

When the square in which you first arrived is now an official "Historic site".

[Wensleydale]

I thought all squares are now signed as "Station Car Park"?

[The Adjutant]

I was one of the fighter controllers at Patrington who used to control the Concorde prototype on its supersonic runs around the North Sea. All because none of the air tragic control people had the experience of working high and very fast aircraft. Trubshaw sent us one (!!) Concorde tie for Christmas 1971 to say thanks to the Concorde Controller. We drew lots for it if I remember rightly.

Who remembers Black Jim Walton and Jack Webb, or perhaps Lofty Wetherall or Jim White. or even RAF Patrington for goodness sake.

[Wwyvern]

When you are sitting in a group in a pub last night, and the RAF exchange officer with the US Navy says, " That's when I was born" when you say, " I left the RAF in 75".

I can't remember being that young, but I must have been, mustn't I?