RAF Bulldog XX546 ULAS
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Jackonicko,
That's for your response and the links. Looks like you guy's are having fun at Shoreham. If you have a close up of the ULAS ensignia it would be very much appreciated.
Were you guy's part of the formation we did at Shoreham to mark the 40th Anniversary of the first Beagle Pup flight?
All the best
Big Sand
That's for your response and the links. Looks like you guy's are having fun at Shoreham. If you have a close up of the ULAS ensignia it would be very much appreciated.
Were you guy's part of the formation we did at Shoreham to mark the 40th Anniversary of the first Beagle Pup flight?
All the best
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Big Sand,
Whilst I admire your concern for your aircraft, I cannot believe that you started a thread that allowed all sorts of 'war stories' from the second division of UAS'!
In utrumque paratus
Duncs
Whilst I admire your concern for your aircraft, I cannot believe that you started a thread that allowed all sorts of 'war stories' from the second division of UAS'!
In utrumque paratus
Duncs
>Whilst I admire your concern for your aircraft, I cannot believe that you started a thread that allowed all sorts of 'war stories' from the second division of UAS'!<
Absolutely. Who or what is or was ULAS?
There's only one UAS. Ar esgyll dysg.
Absolutely. Who or what is or was ULAS?
There's only one UAS. Ar esgyll dysg.
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Duncan D,
Good to hear from you mate. My sincere apologies for this thread. Pity, I simply couldn't find an old UGSAS Bulldog around although I did see XX611 at Shoreham last year and she was looking in good order.
Flying an ex ULAS aircraft I know that's definately a 'Gschneiderable offence' !!
All the best
Big Sand
Good to hear from you mate. My sincere apologies for this thread. Pity, I simply couldn't find an old UGSAS Bulldog around although I did see XX611 at Shoreham last year and she was looking in good order.
Flying an ex ULAS aircraft I know that's definately a 'Gschneiderable offence' !!
All the best
Big Sand
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ACW599,
Sounds like your also a veteran of 'Grumbles Den' ? Indeed there is only one proper UAS and the 'Gschneider is aparently alive and still operating to this day'.
All the very best
Big Sand
Sounds like your also a veteran of 'Grumbles Den' ? Indeed there is only one proper UAS and the 'Gschneider is aparently alive and still operating to this day'.
All the very best
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A quick glance through my photo collection
I've found an airframe 03. Is this the one yours?
Taken at RAF Abingdon, Easter camp '92. The aircraft in the background may jog a few memories as well.
Taken at RAF Abingdon, Easter camp '92. The aircraft in the background may jog a few memories as well.
Champagne anyone...?
It would seem that I last flew XX546 on 23 Feb 1990 under the mailed fist of one Flt Lt BEagle... Trip 52 - whatever that was; probably some appalling aerobatics nonsense 
Geniculate, that photo doesn't show - just a little red cross... But XX546 was definitely 'fleet 03' during Easter Camp 1992!
Given that 23 Feb 1990 was a Friday, doubtless you would have been as fresh as a daisy and all ready to commit aero-bation in my little aeroplane, Stoppers!
Actually, we flew twice that day. Formation SCT first thing (if I recall correctly, we had to knock it off after the-Rhodesian -who-went-to-the-AAC began to turn green in the other aircraft....
Trip 52 was a mere 0:45 of Nav Intro - I'm sure your straight and level skills coped admirably with that!
We did actually fly together in 546 again on Tuesday 13 Mar 1990; 'GH' which would indeed have included aerobation. Perhaps your gyros toppled and you forgot to log it? My only other trip that day was with Frankie-the-porn - again in 546.
Given that 23 Feb 1990 was a Friday, doubtless you would have been as fresh as a daisy and all ready to commit aero-bation in my little aeroplane, Stoppers!
Actually, we flew twice that day. Formation SCT first thing (if I recall correctly, we had to knock it off after the-Rhodesian -who-went-to-the-AAC began to turn green in the other aircraft....
Trip 52 was a mere 0:45 of Nav Intro - I'm sure your straight and level skills coped admirably with that!
We did actually fly together in 546 again on Tuesday 13 Mar 1990; 'GH' which would indeed have included aerobation. Perhaps your gyros toppled and you forgot to log it? My only other trip that day was with Frankie-the-porn - again in 546.
>Sounds like your also a veteran of 'Grumbles Den' ?
Oh yes. UWAS 1972-4. Happy memories of the Mumbles Run, the Splash of Merit and flying proper aeroplanes with tailwheels :-)
One shouldn't hijack other folks' threads but it would be interesting to have a comparison between Bulldog and Chipmunk handling from those who flew both. I can't imagine anything more delightful than the mighty 'Munk but was the Bulldog as good?
Oh yes. UWAS 1972-4. Happy memories of the Mumbles Run, the Splash of Merit and flying proper aeroplanes with tailwheels :-)
One shouldn't hijack other folks' threads but it would be interesting to have a comparison between Bulldog and Chipmunk handling from those who flew both. I can't imagine anything more delightful than the mighty 'Munk but was the Bulldog as good?
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Bulldog v. Chipmunk?
As a Bulldog QFI I once had to hold for ATC reasons on the ATZ boundary at a certain grass airfield. Became involved in a little competition with a very experienced Chippy pilot (Boss of 7 AEF) to see who could get on the tail of the other in the orbit.
After about five minutes neither of us had gained an advantage, even though the crafty old bu%%er used various combinations of flap and dived to almost ground level a couple of times (not to say that I didn't).
Impressive that he could stay in the turn with a 'Dog with less horsepower; but then the Chippy had a better wing loading ...and he was perhaps a better pilot than me
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As a Bulldog QFI I once had to hold for ATC reasons on the ATZ boundary at a certain grass airfield. Became involved in a little competition with a very experienced Chippy pilot (Boss of 7 AEF) to see who could get on the tail of the other in the orbit.
After about five minutes neither of us had gained an advantage, even though the crafty old bu%%er used various combinations of flap and dived to almost ground level a couple of times (not to say that I didn't).
Impressive that he could stay in the turn with a 'Dog with less horsepower; but then the Chippy had a better wing loading ...and he was perhaps a better pilot than me
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Unashamed thread stealer....
....but since, at last, someone mentioned Chipmunks, anyone have pictures or memories of WD390 which is now Wickenby based?
Still in 9AEF livery and coded 68.
Memory jog extracted from the movement cards:-
1951 April Delivered 2BFTS
1953 Jan Allocated 5RFS
Oct 10MU
1955 March Allocated 22 Group Comms Flt.
1957 March 10MU
June 22 Group Comms Flt.
1960 March Allocated Tech College Henlow
Sept Cat 3R RES/71MU (??)
Dec Tech College Henlow
1961 June 27MU
1964 Aug Allocated RAF South Cerney
Sept 27MU
1965 March Allocated Bristol UAS
May Allocated 2 AEF
June Allocated 1 AEF
Aug Allocated ITS South Cerney
1967 Jan name chge Aircrew Officer Training School
Jan name chge RFS (Church Fenton) AOTS
1969 Oct Allocated Manchester UAS
1970 July Disposal Ac RDS/60MU
Sept Manchester UAS
1974 July NEA 5MU
1979 Aug Allocated FSS Swinderby
1980 Oct 5MU
1981 Feb FSS Swinderby
1984 Nov Allocated 9 AEF Finningley
1986 June Marshalls
Dec 9 AEF Finningley
1987 June Marshalls
July 9 AEF Finningley
1988 July Marshalls
Aug 9 AEF Finningley
1992 approx Disposal Ac
Thanks in anticipation.
(apologies for the mangled tabulation which happens somewhere between draft and thread preview)
Still in 9AEF livery and coded 68.
Memory jog extracted from the movement cards:-
1951 April Delivered 2BFTS
1953 Jan Allocated 5RFS
Oct 10MU
1955 March Allocated 22 Group Comms Flt.
1957 March 10MU
June 22 Group Comms Flt.
1960 March Allocated Tech College Henlow
Sept Cat 3R RES/71MU (??)
Dec Tech College Henlow
1961 June 27MU
1964 Aug Allocated RAF South Cerney
Sept 27MU
1965 March Allocated Bristol UAS
May Allocated 2 AEF
June Allocated 1 AEF
Aug Allocated ITS South Cerney
1967 Jan name chge Aircrew Officer Training School
Jan name chge RFS (Church Fenton) AOTS
1969 Oct Allocated Manchester UAS
1970 July Disposal Ac RDS/60MU
Sept Manchester UAS
1974 July NEA 5MU
1979 Aug Allocated FSS Swinderby
1980 Oct 5MU
1981 Feb FSS Swinderby
1984 Nov Allocated 9 AEF Finningley
1986 June Marshalls
Dec 9 AEF Finningley
1987 June Marshalls
July 9 AEF Finningley
1988 July Marshalls
Aug 9 AEF Finningley
1992 approx Disposal Ac
Thanks in anticipation.
(apologies for the mangled tabulation which happens somewhere between draft and thread preview)
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Originally Posted by Big Sand
Jackonicko,
That's for your response and the links. Looks like you guy's are having fun at Shoreham. If you have a close up of the ULAS ensignia it would be very much appreciated.
Were you guy's part of the formation we did at Shoreham to mark the 40th Anniversary of the first Beagle Pup flight?
That's for your response and the links. Looks like you guy's are having fun at Shoreham. If you have a close up of the ULAS ensignia it would be very much appreciated.
Were you guy's part of the formation we did at Shoreham to mark the 40th Anniversary of the first Beagle Pup flight?
(I assume it was us you were referring to? (XX554).)
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NUAS those were the days.... think i might have flown that Bulldog on summer camp at Benson in 1996......When the old wessex were based there and that cockpit mock up in the hangar.
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Even I managed to squeeze a few hours out of XX 546 in 91/92. My penultimate flight in a Bulldog was in this airframe, just before I predictably failed my academic studies, joined the Army and flew Lynx for a few fantastic years!
Good luck with her, no doubt I will have given that nose wheel a bit of a touch up during my solo landings.
Good luck with her, no doubt I will have given that nose wheel a bit of a touch up during my solo landings.
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Andy R,
Thanks for the response. If you would be very kind and take a shot of the Squadron ensignia it will greatly assist.
XX546 is a lovely little aircraft and flies very nicely. She's in good hands and is very well looked after and maintained.
Many thanks for your help.
Big Sand
Thanks for the response. If you would be very kind and take a shot of the Squadron ensignia it will greatly assist.
XX546 is a lovely little aircraft and flies very nicely. She's in good hands and is very well looked after and maintained.
Many thanks for your help.
Big Sand