British Aviation in Belize??
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Hi Jayteeto
If memory serves (and sometimes it fails) you were on the A shift, same as me (hut 64), natasha was the cleaner who kept pinching the food out of the fridge and got a Greg-Special sandwich as a deterrent, didnt come back to work for 2 weeks after that.
Was the burst fuel tank down to venting, if so it should never have happened as we had a similar issue coming in to Mexico (just before the Columbia trip) when the ferry tank started to crumple like a Shlitz can (remember shlitz )
Ziggy
If memory serves (and sometimes it fails) you were on the A shift, same as me (hut 64), natasha was the cleaner who kept pinching the food out of the fridge and got a Greg-Special sandwich as a deterrent, didnt come back to work for 2 weeks after that.
Was the burst fuel tank down to venting, if so it should never have happened as we had a similar issue coming in to Mexico (just before the Columbia trip) when the ferry tank started to crumple like a Shlitz can (remember shlitz )
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Turning the VC10
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Didn't we have one do a little bit of ploughing once? It wasn't you was it Sharpend?
Can't remember the ploughing. Some things were best left where they happened, as long as they didn't affect the price of tea.
Dagama
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Didn't we have one do a little bit of ploughing once? It wasn't you was it Sharpend?
Can't remember the ploughing. Some things were best left where they happened, as long as they didn't affect the price of tea.
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"flew into Belize many times as VC10 Captain. Always a problem turning on the narrow runway that was a few feet narrower than the turning circle of the VC10".
I spent many a trip as a GE on VC10 hanging out the front door counting down the gap from the LH outer main wheels to the white edge line.
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I spent many a trip as a GE on VC10 hanging out the front door counting down the gap from the LH outer main wheels to the white edge line.
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Oh yes, the vent was not vented!! Poor old Natasha, she was a good living girl...... she told us often enough. Her friend 'Mellie' was not such a good girl. I went back to Belize as a pilot 8 years later and Mellie was a nasty piece of work. She was the 'pimp' in Belize City and was one to avoid. Thanks for the PM of the photo in Paradise Bar. I remember the weekend very very very well!! And the weekend after that when we hired the Cessna to take us back to the islands. We stayed in George's hotel, he was a perv, but the hotel was cheap. I found a $50 on the street, rolled up with elastic and 'powdered'. It bought pina coladas all weekend. The disco across the road with a sand dancefloor, Third world was the only music they owned. Man, when people say they are going to the sandpit these days, they have got it all so wrong.
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Landing the VC10
Who was it that used to hold up the score cards on landing? Was it ATC or the ground crew? B@stards
The Harrier escort was impressive. On one occasion they asked to change sides - don't recall the 'fighter speak' for this. One slid underneath and the other rolled over the top. Don't know how legal this was but it sure made me spill my tea
The Harrier escort was impressive. On one occasion they asked to change sides - don't recall the 'fighter speak' for this. One slid underneath and the other rolled over the top. Don't know how legal this was but it sure made me spill my tea
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Score Cards
T'was the chaps from Butcher Radar
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Who was it that used to hold up the score cards on landing? Was it ATC or the ground crew? B@stards
Arrival of HM the Queen's Tristar seen from 25 Flt location, Butcher Radar I believe were located to the right of the road passing between the gates..
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I was at Butcher Radar 1977-78 and we scored all VC10 arrivals (some were Landings!!!). On one occasion the arriving aircraft bounced heavily and we scored it with 0.1 and 1.0. The pilot immediately queried the marks to which I replied "Wait till you see the marks for your second landing" !! I was invited to meet with the senior officer pilot soon after the aircraft had shut down.
34 years ago and still great memories....
34 years ago and still great memories....
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Normally when the weekly VC10 arrived the REs would hold up placards marking the landing out of ten.
34 years ago and still great memories....
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Normally when the weekly VC10 arrived the REs would hold up placards marking the landing out of ten.
MAGIC
or...
CRAP.
I think one VC10 Captain formally complained (probably because he only ever received the latter score).
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Pictures of HRM on the PAN
Securiity looks good with Tom Dick and Pedro just wandering about.
http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/...986/Slide1.jpg
http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/...986/Slide2.jpg
http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/...986/Slide3.jpg
Securiity looks good with Tom Dick and Pedro just wandering about.
http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/...986/Slide1.jpg
http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/...986/Slide2.jpg
http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/...986/Slide3.jpg
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HMQ
When she waved her hand I thought she was beckoning me forwards, I thought "Hello -its my claim to fame time", then I realised she was wafting away the smell of the sweet water from the belikan factory, either that or my coconut aftershave..... needless to say NO GONG in the offing.