Nimrod MRA.4

[ExAscoteer]

42 is alive and well, and currently based at ISK..........!

So it's really 38 Sqn

[Biggus]

TOFO,

A single malt is a Scottish drink......

Shouldn't F84 be drinking scrumpy, or some such cornish beverage....

[betty swallox]

Berzerker.
If you don't know, then you really ought not to know! The end.

[ExAscoteer]

I would have thought that 'Scrumpy' is a Somerset thing.

From memory Cornwall had 'Newquay Steam' - bloody execreble stuff!

I think that's why I got addicted to Laphroig!

[Biggus]

I know scrumpy isn't Cornish - Somerset more readily springs to mind, but it was the closest to a Cornish drink I could come up with!

Anyway, I knew someone would correct me!

[The Old Fat One]

Single Malt is what the jocks export...

The national drink of Scotland is Buckfast.

[zedder]

40kt submersibles - it could have been some co-pilots moment of glory, but I bet they wouldn't have thought of it

[Pontius Navigator]

Talk about thread drift.

[Jetex_Jim]

Thank goodness the thread got back on track.

Normal service has been resumed. - 20 posts of inane BS

Well done everyone.

[fincastle84]

Most difficult surface surveillance task was Tapestry (fishery protection) in a mark one in Area 3

That was before the EU stole all of the fish stocks!

Yes, you are old!

Right about now F84 is choking on his single malt,

You're quite correct. The one good thing to come out of my loooooong 3 years at EGQK, apart from the A9 south, was my taste for Glenmorangie. This has served to help me through many crises ever since & is sometimes aided & abetted by a pint of London Pride.

Is 42(R) a real Sqn? Discuss.

[Neptunus Rex]

Most difficult surface surveillance task was Tapestry (fishery protection) in a mark one in Area 3

Which was once enlivened by a MR1 being bounced by an F4, pulling a scissors, forcing the fly-through and getting on the Phantoms tail! 42 Sqn and 111 Sqn respectively, mid '83 post Sidewinder fit.

[shack]

I see your Tapestry and raise you-------The Cod Wars off Iceland. I know before your time!!!

[Neptunus Rex]

If you mean the Second Cod War in 1972, yes, I missed it - because I was on an exchange tour flying Neptunes in tropical North Queensland.

I was still at school during the first Cod War in the '50s.

[fincastle84]

The Cod Wars off Iceland

They didn't have the contact density of Tap Area 3.

I once had to do a Cod War sortie as the maritime 'expert' on a Brit. That was really boring, circa '74?

[Neptunus Rex]

That must have been boring. Were they flying Transport Rules, or Coastal Rules; how low could they go?

[Pontius Navigator]

Cod War

Acknowledging severe thread drift, but I flew Operation Heliotrope sorties between Feb and May 1976.

[Neptunus Rex]

PN
In '76, the nearest I got to Maritime Patrol was flying aeros in a JP off Whitby.
Mind you, we had the best ever cod from our local chippie in Easingwold, so you must have been winning the war for us!

[fincastle84]

Were they flying Transport Rules, or Coastal Rules; how low could they go?

Truckie rules with no radalt so we didn't get below 1000 ft. The allowances were good though!

[fincastle84]

Pontius Navigator

severe thread drift

Is 'thread drift' in anyway related to 'three drift' wind?

[Neptunus Rex]

Don't tell me, another overnight in an hotel, with a "Spock Was Here" sticker left as a memento.