So What are you supposed to do with it?
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So What are you supposed to do with it?
While Cpl Robertson is no doubt to be commended for his winning photograph 'Walking on Air', I have a simple question as an old helo mate who understands little of this Fast Jet/GR4 business: are you supposed to tuck it in or do you just let it swing?
Incidentally, nice advert for shades!
Incidentally, nice advert for shades!
The lady needs to go and see the squippers to get her g-pants tightened ASAP. Tucking it in stops it banging on your knee so that's got the be the way to go.
There's also a suspicious lack of sweat patches on their coveralls... or was it just me that used to get out of the cockpit looking like a used shammy?
Edit: Just noticed the depths of the cutbacks. Seems we can't afford steps anymore either!
There's also a suspicious lack of sweat patches on their coveralls... or was it just me that used to get out of the cockpit looking like a used shammy?
Edit: Just noticed the depths of the cutbacks. Seems we can't afford steps anymore either!
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Are 'modern' pilots all wearing the suits outside? We were told the effectiveness was reduced that way.
PS I think girls like it to swing, but I think her g -err- suit has slipped a tad.
PS I think girls like it to swing, but I think her g -err- suit has slipped a tad.
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No goon bags required in these climes so yep, g suits on the outside is the only option. The newer bags out there are very thin though so outside g-suits are likely to be the norm.
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For the GR boys the 'innie' doesn't exist as standard issue anymore, even when wearing a goon suit. Besides, its not like you really need one anyway (other than to carry your books etc!) on the good old g-restricted Tonka
For the GR boys the 'innie' doesn't exist as standard issue anymore, even when wearing a goon suit. Besides, its not like you really need one anyway (other than to carry your books etc!) on the good old g-restricted Tonka
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Well if the advertising world ever needs models for male pattern baldness or Breitling's new "big watches for women" this is definitely the picture.
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Thanks for the update, guys, and the re-assurance on the Tonka
Do you actually even bother to plug them in?
I reckon they'd have 'slipped off' though a few steps later, don't you think?
Do you actually even bother to plug them in?I reckon they'd have 'slipped off' though a few steps later, don't you think?
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Quite honestly I can't see anything about that picture that says "Winner". Quite dull really.
Some of the other entries, including other work by Cpl Robertson, are much better.
I suppose its in the eye of the beholder?
Some of the other entries, including other work by Cpl Robertson, are much better.
I suppose its in the eye of the beholder?
(but probably been practising for weeks)
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Probably a daft question.....
...and there is probably a daft answer, but......
The jet is in grey cam.
The flying suits are desert sand.
The boots are desert sand.
Everything else is olive drab.
Pourquoi?
Was it sales at T.K. Mill?
Asda price at George?
Nav at primark?
The jet is in grey cam.
The flying suits are desert sand.
The boots are desert sand.
Everything else is olive drab.
Pourquoi?
Was it sales at T.K. Mill?
Asda price at George?
Nav at primark?
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Maybe she just likes to let it swing 
In days of old I thought it was a fopar to carry your 'elmut by it's straps
In days of old I thought it was a fopar to carry your 'elmut by it's straps
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Where?
Slim has a point. No dust on the pan, no RUBB/RES over the aircraft, no ground equipment and no maintainers. I wondered about Al Udeid?
I know this is not the caption thread but I did like the alternative headline suggested by my care home:
I know this is not the caption thread but I did like the alternative headline suggested by my care home:
Dan and Doris strut back to the hotel for tea.
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Picture !
Not exactly the "steely eyed killers" we are used to seeing after a mission more like a poor copy trying to replicate a scene from Top Gun, can I suggest a caption as well:
"Ooh Captain my G suit hose has gone all hard, lets go & debrief "
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"Ooh Captain my G suit hose has gone all hard, lets go & debrief "
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ROG. Those with better eyes than I suggest her name tab is visible with half a 'moth' AND only drivers remove the plastic sheet from the right knee pocket.
I am told that this is FJ routine to stop them absent-mindedly writing on the sheet and then getting warm chinagraph on their suit cuff as they rest an elegant gloved hand on the leg, controlling the aircraft only through gently flexed fingers.
I am told that this is FJ routine to stop them absent-mindedly writing on the sheet and then getting warm chinagraph on their suit cuff as they rest an elegant gloved hand on the leg, controlling the aircraft only through gently flexed fingers.
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Good answer Dee-ell. I assume then, that the poor back seat underclass still can't reach superhero status. Notwithstanding that, she's much better looking than any nav I know or trained with, except perhaps me