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WIWOL...
Probably been seen before but....
Public Information Films | 1951 to 1964 | Film index | Streaked Lightning
...and a whole host of other long forgotten public info films!
Public Information Films | 1951 to 1964 | Film index | Streaked Lightning
...and a whole host of other long forgotten public info films!
Yes, has been here before, but if the BBC can do repeats so can PPRuNe I reckon. Thanks anyway.
Love the music, and those voices!
I went to OASC Biggin Hill in 1964 in the firm belief I was going to be a Lightning pilot - ended up in the back of a Victor.
Ah well
Love the music, and those voices!
I went to OASC Biggin Hill in 1964 in the firm belief I was going to be a Lightning pilot - ended up in the back of a Victor.
Ah well
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I'm sorry, but the thread is entitled "WIWOL". That American triumph of thrust over aerodynamics in naval uniform has no place here - however fast it could go carrying no stores whatsoever!
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I'm sorry, but the thread is entitled "WIWOL". That American triumph of thrust over aerodynamics in naval uniform has no place here - however fast it could go carrying no stores whatsoever!
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I used to fly one of those RN jobs.
I learnt the basics in the living room, progressed onto the stairs then graduated outside to the garden with about a 75 metre final approach.
Super Flight Deck
http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/movies/FDECK7.MPG
Then one day an RN Gazelle visited our school and that looked so much more fun !
I learnt the basics in the living room, progressed onto the stairs then graduated outside to the garden with about a 75 metre final approach.
Super Flight Deck
http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/movies/FDECK7.MPG
Then one day an RN Gazelle visited our school and that looked so much more fun !
CI to chopped pilot on our nav course
"And what do you hope to get posted onto Bloggs?"
"Lightnings sir"
CI - with patronising smile - "Ah but the Lightning is a single seat aircraft Bloggs".
Bloggs - "That's right sir"
Cant imagine why anyone has dragged the Phantom into this - good aircraft, but a mile behind the Lightning in the looks department.
"And what do you hope to get posted onto Bloggs?"
"Lightnings sir"
CI - with patronising smile - "Ah but the Lightning is a single seat aircraft Bloggs".
Bloggs - "That's right sir"
Cant imagine why anyone has dragged the Phantom into this - good aircraft, but a mile behind the Lightning in the looks department.
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SiloeSid - thanks for reminding of a toy that I had. Only problem with it was that our house had rooms that were too small to give the game full justice.
Was it really almost 40 years ago....
Was it really almost 40 years ago....
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Not too sure which model I had, it just came back that I had something like that when I saw the picture.
Spent many a happy hour making Airfix models of planes with the Grandparents.
(One was RFC, one Navy)
And then of course you had the Battleships Game and Scalextric Cars and Trains.
Spent many a happy hour making Airfix models of planes with the Grandparents.
(One was RFC, one Navy)
And then of course you had the Battleships Game and Scalextric Cars and Trains.
