Things you find on YouTube
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Here is another one - the Cold War turning hot c1990. Made from news footage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yXTCEZkjQ4
Why can't I make it work? Editing help needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yXTCEZkjQ4
Why can't I make it work? Editing help needed.
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Great find and a classic bit of film.
In terms of up to date experience I would venture a sizeable chunk of the Iraq/Afg rotary fleet (minus the very latest additions) have had a form of BDR carried out due to IDF, SAFIRE or even hailstones! I would put a fiver on pretty much every chinook having had a repair since 2003. I'm sure I'll be proven wrong!
In terms of up to date experience I would venture a sizeable chunk of the Iraq/Afg rotary fleet (minus the very latest additions) have had a form of BDR carried out due to IDF, SAFIRE or even hailstones! I would put a fiver on pretty much every chinook having had a repair since 2003. I'm sure I'll be proven wrong!
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BDR - The Book
While doing a tour at 431MU, it was laid on myself and a guy called Wally Wareham to create the first BDR for Germany, later to be accepted by MOD and the foundation of ABDR.
Little did Wally and I know that we were to perform BDR on a Buccaneer after a mid-air collision with another Buccaneer up in Denmark. How the powers-that-be conned the pilot to fly the aircraft back to Wildenrath beats me but he did without incidence. Luckily the Buccaneer was the perfect aircraft to do the patch-ups on seeing how it was built like the proverbial brick s**t house.
Little did Wally and I know that we were to perform BDR on a Buccaneer after a mid-air collision with another Buccaneer up in Denmark. How the powers-that-be conned the pilot to fly the aircraft back to Wildenrath beats me but he did without incidence. Luckily the Buccaneer was the perfect aircraft to do the patch-ups on seeing how it was built like the proverbial brick s**t house.
A bit off topic but are old RAF publicity/training films archived anywhere? They filmed a security training one in my very early days on the squadron in which I was 'room meat' but I never got to see the finished article.
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Re The Nimrod in ASI 1996
The issue wasn't the repair itself which proved to be a bit of a pig, it was more the Fuel Tank that got dinged, it was a 4A Tank and the rule book said no leaks from them what so ever, after the MU lads came up with the fix (speed tape, foam etc etc) the Flight Eng noted a small seep and refused the jet, he also called home and got backing from the Station, in the end they robbed another 4a tank from a jet in Major at ISK, but that's another tail completely. If I recall the jet was stuck at ASI for a good couple of months.
The issue wasn't the repair itself which proved to be a bit of a pig, it was more the Fuel Tank that got dinged, it was a 4A Tank and the rule book said no leaks from them what so ever, after the MU lads came up with the fix (speed tape, foam etc etc) the Flight Eng noted a small seep and refused the jet, he also called home and got backing from the Station, in the end they robbed another 4a tank from a jet in Major at ISK, but that's another tail completely. If I recall the jet was stuck at ASI for a good couple of months.
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Question about the wing damage repair in the HAS in the first video.
Would an aircraft suffering what seems like minor damage like that be eventually sent to an MU to have the skin repaired to factory finish, or would the field skin repair be considered permanent-ish?
Would an aircraft suffering what seems like minor damage like that be eventually sent to an MU to have the skin repaired to factory finish, or would the field skin repair be considered permanent-ish?
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Kai Tak VC 10s
Summer '74, shiny 10 on the civvie side, P&SS guy sees hole in flap jack cover. Flight cancelled and crew straight back to the Park Hotel for several more days until new flap jack cover arrives.
December '74 shiny 10 on civvie side, P& SS guy (not the same one) spots hole in flap jack cover. Eng, covers hole with speed tape and shiny 10 leaves on time. It was the Xmas aircrew sweeper.
December '74 shiny 10 on civvie side, P& SS guy (not the same one) spots hole in flap jack cover. Eng, covers hole with speed tape and shiny 10 leaves on time. It was the Xmas aircrew sweeper.
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Roadster,
As listed in the current MAP entry, a temporary repair should be just that. The concept of Expedient Repair was supposed to allow a spectrum of different repairs, from ABDR to full repairs, with the idea being to do the best repair you can with the resources (incl time) available, and the temporary end of the spectrum certainly need to be reworked to a permanent repair standard.
In practice in recent years, the answer has been to call upon our internal repair organisations, 71(IR) Sqn and 1710NAS to carry out aircraft repairs, not to use sqn-level temporary techniques. This reflects current attitudes to risk.
As listed in the current MAP entry, a temporary repair should be just that. The concept of Expedient Repair was supposed to allow a spectrum of different repairs, from ABDR to full repairs, with the idea being to do the best repair you can with the resources (incl time) available, and the temporary end of the spectrum certainly need to be reworked to a permanent repair standard.
In practice in recent years, the answer has been to call upon our internal repair organisations, 71(IR) Sqn and 1710NAS to carry out aircraft repairs, not to use sqn-level temporary techniques. This reflects current attitudes to risk.
