The wonderful Mail
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The wonderful Mail
Couldn't resist this from an excellent report by intrepid and expert Mail reporter Sadie Whitelock.
It even says it belongs to the Irish Coastguard in two languages on the side.
The whole report was actually about Flt Lt Wales getting his captaincy - congrats to him, of course.
Prince William qualifies to command search and rescue missions for Royal Air Force | Mail Online
airsound
edited to say that the article now contains a proper pic of RAF SAR SKs.
So maybe the thread won't last - but I hope worth making the point.
It even says it belongs to the Irish Coastguard in two languages on the side.
The whole report was actually about Flt Lt Wales getting his captaincy - congrats to him, of course.
Prince William qualifies to command search and rescue missions for Royal Air Force | Mail Online
airsound
edited to say that the article now contains a proper pic of RAF SAR SKs.
So maybe the thread won't last - but I hope worth making the point.
Last edited by airsound; 7th Jun 2012 at 13:32. Reason: they found out!
Sitting snug and warm here with a stiff Sou' Westerley gale blowing up outside and thinking that this is just the sort of weather these guys, including Flt Lt Wales, have to fly in. Maybe some of the royal family knockers will ponder on that before they moan about the privileged lifestyle they supposedly enjoy.
Well done anyway
Well done anyway
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To be fair, it is highly unlikely whoever wrote the report (from agency copy and the press release) even saw the photo, and certainly did not write the photo caption.
The writer would have been told to crunch out a few words (i.e. top and tail the press release), while the picture desk would have been told to find a pic of an air-sea rescue Sea King; a third person, the sub-editor, would have put the two together.
This is why sub-editors are anonymous!
The Mail has a great deal of previous for this sort of thing, including publishing a picture of one of the very young soldiers killed in the A10 v Warrior blue-on-blue in GW1, supposedly depicting another young soldier, very much alive, who had been had up in court on some serious matters.
The writer would have been told to crunch out a few words (i.e. top and tail the press release), while the picture desk would have been told to find a pic of an air-sea rescue Sea King; a third person, the sub-editor, would have put the two together.
This is why sub-editors are anonymous!
The Mail has a great deal of previous for this sort of thing, including publishing a picture of one of the very young soldiers killed in the A10 v Warrior blue-on-blue in GW1, supposedly depicting another young soldier, very much alive, who had been had up in court on some serious matters.
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Nothing to do with aviation - its a report re a deformed bird chick, but the last line made me chuckle. The Mail editors obviously have little understanding of biology
"It is not known what caused the deformity on the bird but a possible explanation is that the mother had a diet deficiency or underwent trauma while pregnant."
What's making that racket? Woman discovers small bird with TWO heads and THREE beaks making a commotion in her backyard | Mail Online
"It is not known what caused the deformity on the bird but a possible explanation is that the mother had a diet deficiency or underwent trauma while pregnant."
What's making that racket? Woman discovers small bird with TWO heads and THREE beaks making a commotion in her backyard | Mail Online
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To be fair,...
But... being 'fair' - to The Mail? Not sure I could go that far.
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The writer would have been told to crunch out a few words (i.e. top and tail the press release), while the picture desk would have been told to find a pic of an air-sea rescue Sea King; a third person, the sub-editor, would have put the two together.
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Looks like the S-61 has has a double engine failure also 
(frozen blades and props a pet hate)
I know the winchman on this particular flight .
So he joined the RAF !
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(frozen blades and props a pet hate)
I know the winchman on this particular flight .
So he joined the RAF !
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It even says it belongs to the Irish Coastguard in two languages on the side.
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These "new" Windsocks are illuminated from above (see lights in photo) so that our illustrious aviators can land in the dark, what will they think of next?
Illuminated windsocks are a relatively recent CAA (CAP 168) requirement.
These "new" Windsocks are illuminated from above (see lights in photo) so that our illustrious aviators can land in the dark, what will they think of next?
Illuminated windsocks are a relatively recent CAA (CAP 168) requirement.
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The requiement to illuminate of at least one wind direction indicator (wind sock, wind sleeve) on specified categories of aerodrome is not new. The recent change in CAP 168 removes the prescribed configuration for light source, i.e. it used to be the overhead four arms with a lamp on the end of each arm; the currnet requirement is much more flexible:
The requiement to illuminate of at least one wind direction indicator (wind sock, wind sleeve) on specified categories of aerodrome is not new. The recent change in CAP 168 removes the prescribed configuration for light source, i.e. it used to be the overhead four arms with a lamp on the end of each arm; the currnet requirement is much more flexible:
"The illuminated wind sleeve shall be lighted by methods so that it is fit for purpose..."
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Ah the Mail, referred to by the eminent historian R G Collingwood (1889-1943) as "the first English paper for which the word 'news' lost its old meaning of facts which the reader ought to know...and acquired the new meaning of facts,or fictions, which it might amuse him to read". It doesn't seem to have improved since his day.
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Daily Mail do das
Never really forgiven the Mail for printing a photo of my mate Laurie Davis's body on fire in a gutter after leaving a canberra rather too late but all the media do the same silly things
The Telegraph recently printed a photo of the Duke of Edinburgh who was said to be chatting to an officer. That person was holding a pace stick so no one with the smallest connection to any of the services had seen the article during production
The Telegraph recently printed a photo of the Duke of Edinburgh who was said to be chatting to an officer. That person was holding a pace stick so no one with the smallest connection to any of the services had seen the article during production
I didn't see the photograph in the Telegraph, but the person holding the pace stick was probably either a Warrant Officer or a Non-Commissioned Officer. Therefore the Telegraph was probably correct.
Wensleydale:
The DS solution was not a tunnel but a circular banked runway, whereby the touchdown point was the bit that was currently into wind. Admittedly approach lighting and instrument approaches create some challenges, but they are being addressed at this very moment, just as they have been for the last 80 years...
If you put the runway into a tunnel then you could light it and minimise crosswinds as well!
