Military aviation quotes...
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"If they wanted the ball in the middle, Why is the tube so long!!!" - Murph
"This is just the place to refresh your snow landing skills!!" - Ol BenKenobi
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"This is just the place to refresh your snow landing skills!!" - Ol BenKenobi
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in a similar theme to Wiley, the instructors comments to my son, on his first flight in a Macchi, were:
"If we have to eject I will call 'eject, eject, eject'. If you aren't gone by the 3rd call you will be logging command time."
"If we have to eject I will call 'eject, eject, eject'. If you aren't gone by the 3rd call you will be logging command time."
"Jim, could you reduce the g a little so that I can write". Me to my pilot during Hawk sortie (simulated missile breaks), ETPS 1996.
"In the event that we have not recovered by 4000 ft, I will eject. You will then see if the effect of my ejection helps you to recover, if this doesn't work by 3000ft, you are to eject". Me, to my pilot, briefing Tucano spinning trials, BDN 199?.
"This runway is too *(*&(ing short", last words on ADR, Tornado pilot with wings stuck fully swept who elected to try and land, date and airfield uncertain.
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"In the event that we have not recovered by 4000 ft, I will eject. You will then see if the effect of my ejection helps you to recover, if this doesn't work by 3000ft, you are to eject". Me, to my pilot, briefing Tucano spinning trials, BDN 199?.
"This runway is too *(*&(ing short", last words on ADR, Tornado pilot with wings stuck fully swept who elected to try and land, date and airfield uncertain.
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It is even more emotional to recall that Churchill's famous line about "the few" was first muttered almost to himself, with tears running down his face, in the back of a staff car with his ADC following a visit to a squadron during the Battle of Britain.
Only later was it heard in a formal speech!
Only later was it heard in a formal speech!
"...come with me, and I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow."
-GFS SAMA, prior to what can only be termed as a complete riot of a day. (Aug '97).
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-GFS SAMA, prior to what can only be termed as a complete riot of a day. (Aug '97).
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Hows this one top get the juices flowing.
"Airpower is the supreme expression of military might, and fleets and armour no matter how vital must accept a subordinate role" Winston Churchill
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"Airpower is the supreme expression of military might, and fleets and armour no matter how vital must accept a subordinate role" Winston Churchill
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Can you passengers in the back hear me? Yes? Good, the last time I said BRACE!BRACE!BRACE!, no one heard me! I find it tends to attract their attention for the safety brief.
One reported by (I think) 'Winkle' Brown - transmission from RN chap having done an underpowered 'cat' shot and disappeared over the ship's bows, staggered along in ground (Water) effect for some time then gradually started to fly again ... "Thank you God, I have control"
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"Though I Fly Through The Valley Of Death I Shall Fear No Evil, For I Am At 80,000ft And Climbing." sign over the entrance to the SR-71 operating location on Kadena AB, Okinawa
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One for those that remember back that far. Very senior officer taxis out in Jet Provost at Rissington, bumbles down runway and aborts, taxis round again, aborts again, transmits "Rissie Tower, am I in a JP3 or a 4"
RAFG some years ago.
Pair of Swifts making Sqn Christmas card photo. This involves flying past famous schloss inverted while wingman takes piccy.
Inverted Swift catches fire, wingman notifies leader of this condition who replies "I know, take the ****ing photograph".
Good card!
Nothing matters very much, most things don't matter at all.
Pair of Swifts making Sqn Christmas card photo. This involves flying past famous schloss inverted while wingman takes piccy.
Inverted Swift catches fire, wingman notifies leader of this condition who replies "I know, take the ****ing photograph".
Good card!
Nothing matters very much, most things don't matter at all.
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Favourite phrase of Gp Capt Pickard (Amiens Prison job)
"There's always a bloody SOMETHING!"
And he didn't have HSW, PC and lawyers breathing down his neck.
"There's always a bloody SOMETHING!"
And he didn't have HSW, PC and lawyers breathing down his neck.
Do a Hover - it avoids G
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The following few moments of Busta’s story above are worth recalling as well. One Flt Lt P (this initial - not his real one - will be appreciated by those who knew him) Rimmington ejected. Sadly his parachute did not have the anti inertia mod to its QRB so it came undone and on parachute deployment he fell out of his harness. So P is clearly going to die. But as befits all of P’s adventures (and he had plenty) his harness tangled round an ankle and he came down head first. Clearly going to break his neck on landing. Not P. He came down in the only river for miles. Clearly going to drown. Again no, the BAOR were on both banks doing an amphibious type bit of CT. So seconds later P is on dry land and shortly after in a helicopter en route to the bar at Jever. I could go on but this is not the official history channel.
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hunters middle east. four ship mock strike.
lead hits the top of a waddi on the pull-out.
3 says: 'No 1 you lost your tanks'.
someone else says: 'that WAS No 1'.
3 says 'roger, renumber'.
208 Sqn linebook and authenticated. <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
lead hits the top of a waddi on the pull-out.
3 says: 'No 1 you lost your tanks'.
someone else says: 'that WAS No 1'.
3 says 'roger, renumber'.
208 Sqn linebook and authenticated. <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
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As a very young siggie on my third or fourth flight on the OCU one of the trainee pilots not so much landed the plane as was shot down. The pilot instructor said "ok bloggs when i say flare what i actually mean is PULL BACK ON THE FU*KING STICK ALRIGHT, tut fu*kwit!!" Oh how we chuckled