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51 Nimrod
Don't tell me that 51 use the op. birds for C/T
, back in the 60's 70's we had 671 or 697 for Comet training, it's not as if the backenders need circuits and bumps, they'd do anything to avoid that pleasure
Regards, Den.
, back in the 60's 70's we had 671 or 697 for Comet training, it's not as if the backenders need circuits and bumps, they'd do anything to avoid that pleasureRegards, Den.
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51 Sqn Hastings
Den
You may also remember the 2 Hastings (one with a bar in the back) we used for detachments? TG530 and TG507 (if failing mem is correct). Possibly the only sqn with 3 distinctly different ac types: Comets, Canberras and Hastings?
When the Hastings were retired the AQM, Eddie Queen, and I spent hours searching the sqn garages for the Transport Command food trays. We eventually found them, and they still had the remains of a Transport Command salad in some of them!
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You may also remember the 2 Hastings (one with a bar in the back) we used for detachments? TG530 and TG507 (if failing mem is correct). Possibly the only sqn with 3 distinctly different ac types: Comets, Canberras and Hastings?
When the Hastings were retired the AQM, Eddie Queen, and I spent hours searching the sqn garages for the Transport Command food trays. We eventually found them, and they still had the remains of a Transport Command salad in some of them!
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Nimrod
Can anyone confirm whether there was a Nimrod over Prestwick today? Not close enough / clear enough to be certain. Lived near Kinloss for 10 years so no trouble ID'ing the old one!
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I remember seeing a Hastings in one of the hangers at RA Watton c 1966 when there on a visit with my ATC unit. They also had Varsities around as well (115 sqn?). We were given an hour ploding around the Norfolk coast in one of these old ladies.
Happy days!
Happy days!
51Sqd Hastings
Wander00.
In the mid 60's Watton still housed the E/W school and Labs, also the fitting out hangar for 51, and 360/361, so as one of 51's Hastings had a 'peculiar' role as well as being a load lugger for det's. then it is not surprising that you probably came across it there
Regards, Den.
In the mid 60's Watton still housed the E/W school and Labs, also the fitting out hangar for 51, and 360/361, so as one of 51's Hastings had a 'peculiar' role as well as being a load lugger for det's. then it is not surprising that you probably came across it there
Regards, Den.
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Torque. 32 Sqn true, but 51 did have 3 totally different ac types in the Comet, Canberra and Hastings. 32 Sqn's 3 different types are a bit more modern and thus perhaps more similar than 51s. (Won't die in a ditch tho', you are quite right.)
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As far as I can remember from my time on the NMSU, a Nimrod major would take at least three months. That was for the standard issue MR2, a R1 would be at Kinloss for three months but would be non-op for a lot longer whilst "things" were taken out/put back in down at Wyton.
As far as I can remember from my time on the NMSU, a Nimrod major would take at least three months. That was for the standard issue MR2, a R1 would be at Kinloss for three months but would be non-op for a lot longer whilst "things" were taken out/put back in down at Wyton.
