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Then there was the apocryphal story of the national military contingent arriving in the Gulf to make their contribution to the war and wondering what all them mexicans were doing there.
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And then some people arrive at the correct location and still make an arse of themselves:
Dateline mid 80s. PIRA still active on mainland UK. A Puma tasked to exercise with elements of A Squadron 21 (aka the Chelsea Chindits) drops the chaps back to LHR at endex. The smart soldiers that they are don't step off the cab and stroll calmly to the door into arrivals - they drop to the ground in all round defence awaiting the departure of the paraffin pigeon.
Met Police not happy, BAA Security not happy, ATC pretty pissed off at the rumpus, Sqn Boss gets his ear chewed. Patrol commander has to buy barrel of beer.
At least there was a happy ending
Dateline mid 80s. PIRA still active on mainland UK. A Puma tasked to exercise with elements of A Squadron 21 (aka the Chelsea Chindits) drops the chaps back to LHR at endex. The smart soldiers that they are don't step off the cab and stroll calmly to the door into arrivals - they drop to the ground in all round defence awaiting the departure of the paraffin pigeon.
Met Police not happy, BAA Security not happy, ATC pretty pissed off at the rumpus, Sqn Boss gets his ear chewed. Patrol commander has to buy barrel of beer.
At least there was a happy ending
I believe there was a Luftwaffe transport pilot back in the early 1960s who was flying to St. Mawgan and lined up to land his (presumably) Noratlas on the runway at Portreath. St. Mawgan's ATCO realised what he was doing and told him to fly a little further along the coast. He asked the German if he had been to the UK before.
"Ja, ja," replied the German trucker. "But you vere shooting at me then!"
"Ja, ja," replied the German trucker. "But you vere shooting at me then!"
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I had finished all the required excercises and tests to get my wings at Syerston but was three hours short of the 160 hours required. My instructor said we could go on a cross country land away to anywhere I wanted provided it was St Mawgan. He went on about having been based there and he wanted to see his old muckers etc.
On a grotty day on 2 Jan 1964 we set off in our trusty JP4. I got him there in cloud and was letting down to St Mawgan when he grabbed the controls having got a glimpse of the ground with a cloudbase of 600 or 700 ft. He proceeded to waz about and called downwind to land when St Mawgan asked if there were any chicken sheds on the runway. There were!! He had set up a circuit at St Eval. He then transmitted an apology and said it was his student wot did it. Bl@@dy cheek.
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On a grotty day on 2 Jan 1964 we set off in our trusty JP4. I got him there in cloud and was letting down to St Mawgan when he grabbed the controls having got a glimpse of the ground with a cloudbase of 600 or 700 ft. He proceeded to waz about and called downwind to land when St Mawgan asked if there were any chicken sheds on the runway. There were!! He had set up a circuit at St Eval. He then transmitted an apology and said it was his student wot did it. Bl@@dy cheek.
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Or the civvy DC10 doing something very similar circa 2005. Not quite so easy to get airborne and hop over to the correct one in those days.
Or so I have been told.
Or so I have been told.
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Didn't the the crew of a B52 give the staff and public at Blackbushe Airport an impromptu display a few years back? While everybody over at Farnbourough (the correct location) had to watch with binos!
Wasn't there a case of some geographically incorrect Booties a few years back, clambered ashore in Spain rather than Gib? Apparently 'The Rock' isn't a significant enough point of reference......
There are persistant rumours from Op Granby of a HELARM team rushing off to engage enemy armour, arriving at a hastily-jotted Ptarmigan telephone number rather than a grid-ref.
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When I was a little boy my dad took me to the Daily Express Air Rally at a little grass airfield near Crawley called Gatwick. One of the highlights was a flypast by USAF B29 refuellers. Once again binoculars were needed as they did their stuff at Redhill. Bit of a thread drift I know, but at that air show there was an American girl doing things in a biplane called "Little Stinker". Her name was Betty Skelton and the aircraft had been designed and built for her by her boyfriend - a chap called Pitts. The aircraft hasn't changed much to this day!
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Soprano..... that's an old, old, story and you obviously don't know what happened!
US bomber misses target for flypast at air show - Telegraph
