Old ships - educate me please
wonky undercarriage
I presume that the wonky alignment of the undercarriage wheels on both the Lynx and Wasp is to prevent the aircraft rolling off a pitching deck, and to allow it to be rotated in its own length on the flight deck.
But how do you move the aircraft back into the hangar? Presumably the wheels can be released to allow free castering? If so how is this done? Is it simply a matter of pulling out a pin? Or is some other magic involved?
But how do you move the aircraft back into the hangar? Presumably the wheels can be released to allow free castering? If so how is this done? Is it simply a matter of pulling out a pin? Or is some other magic involved?
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Wasps wheels were set easily, with a yellow pole with angled locating stud, which fitted into the wheel, picture above is set for ships wheels. Shore wheels, are for and aft, same as for hangar stoarage The hangar had a metal rail on the stbd side, of the deck . For locating the wheels. The movement into the hangar was by manpower, with the grubber stearing it in, with pole.
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Bit of a long shot here but I will have a go. Looks like a Battle Class Destroyer to me. HMS Cadiz (D79) was transferred to the Pakistan Navy in 1956/7 as PNS Khaibar.If you check your original photo is it definitely a "5". If it is I am wrong. If it is a "9" then I presume this was before they got around to changing the pennant number, or I could still be wrong and await incoming......
Bit of a long shot here but I will have a go. Looks like a Battle Class Destroyer to me. HMS Cadiz (D79) was transferred to the Pakistan Navy in 1956/7 as PNS Khaibar.If you check your original photo is it definitely a "5". If it is I am wrong. If it is a "9" then I presume this was before they got around to changing the pennant number, or I could still be wrong and await incoming......
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I think you've solved the mystery. I enlarged and applied high contrast to my original photo and it now looks as though D-75 was a trick of the light and it is in fact D-79 and therefore the ship/boat in question is PNS Khaibar - dates, location and event seem to fit so thanks for this.
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Does your axiom apply to U-Boats?
I knew an ex-submariner once who when he applied for a job in civvy street gave his profession as "Underwater Firefighter"!
I think you've solved the mystery. I enlarged and applied high contrast to my original photo and it now looks as though D-75 was a trick of the light and it is in fact D-79 and therefore the ship/boat in question is PNS Khaibar - dates, location and event seem to fit so thanks for this.
skyfish2
If you can row it,it's a boat if you can't it's a ship
I knew an ex-submariner once who when he applied for a job in civvy street gave his profession as "Underwater Firefighter"!
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Super photo David. Delayed thanks are due to my appendix going u/s on the day the last Harrier took off from the Ark
Anyway here is another from the days of keeping an eye on the Russians
Anyway here is another from the days of keeping an eye on the Russians
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Draken, that is a clear example of the truth that the camera lies. Clearly the photo was taken with an extreme telephone lens that has forshortend the shot so that it appears the Helo is inside 200 feet, quarter mile
Reminds me of our ex-No 3 dry, one of the first batch to escape maritime for Sea King SAR. They made the standard 3 passes on the Kiev. They changed the film during each pass and took, IIRC, 56 shots.
Reminds me of our ex-No 3 dry, one of the first batch to escape maritime for Sea King SAR. They made the standard 3 passes on the Kiev. They changed the film during each pass and took, IIRC, 56 shots.
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PLEASE!!!!!! By all means put your pics on a thread but ALWAYS no larger than 850x850 - ideally 850x740.
For instance!!! The problem is that any bigger than 850x850 stretches the page laterally and blots words.
The pics causing it now should be adjusted - thanks.
For instance!!! The problem is that any bigger than 850x850 stretches the page laterally and blots words.
The pics causing it now should be adjusted - thanks.