Blue Parrot

[hammy21]

Hi In my long and now distant past as a Bucc maintainer, early 70's seem to recall a traffic light indicator on the pilots right hand windscreen which I seem to recall as a "Terrain following indicator"? Did anyone on this forum ever dare use it? OK at sea I suppose?

[Dave Wilson]

I remember Blue Parrot, thought it was just a sea radar jobby. What was the 'Green' thing? I remember the other radar fit was a green something or other. No Blackadder allusions thank you.

[hammy21]

Blue Jacket was the Doppler navigator, violet picture was the UHF homing. heard of Green Satin, not Bucc fit though?

[Dave Wilson]

Yeah I think it was although I'm casting back 30 odd years. Did the Bucc avionics Q course and I'm sure green satin was in there somewhere. Can't remember the violet job though.

Edit: Whoa, just googled it, take a look at this list!

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...ry/Ke5PWf4tK2c

Click on the 'Phillip Morten' link.

[cuefaye]

Cue Fg Off Blogs

[BBadanov]

hi Cuefaye,

Merry Christmas to you - I didn't get the annual post-Blitz call this month!!

For the Bucc:
Blue Parrot - radar (I am sure foldie has a good song about it)
Blue Jacket - Doppler nav

For the Canberra:
Green Satin - Doppler nav
replaced by Blue Silk in the B(I)
Orange Putter - rear-looking defensive gear (we never had)

Violet Picture - UHF homing? I don't know that one

Traffic light indicator on the pilots right hand windscreen for TA? Don't remember that...wasn't it an AOA indicator?

[Dave Wilson]

Blue Jacket, that sounds familiar. Getting my blues and greens mixed up.

[smujsmith]

What about MAROC on the C130 ? I was led to believe the acronym stood for MARshalls Orange Crop. It was the pod on the wingtip of the 47SF operated Hercs. Is it the same as the Orange crop reported for the Lynx in the links above ?

Smudge

[longer ron]

And not forgetting the most important ' Blue Circle' ; )

[ORAC]

Blue Parrot being a follow on to the AI23; whilst Blue Circle was the AI24.

[The Oberon]

These colour codes were known as Rainbow Codes and are all listed here:-

http://www.skomer.u-net.com/projects/start.htm

Just click Colour Codes in the left hand column.

[Darvan]

The light that hammy21 refers to was the RADALT warning light that could be set to warn the crew if they descended below a set limit. The lights were monitored like a hawk by the Nav during a visual bomb run or OLF over the sea, particularly in a glassy sea state.

[ZH875]

I remember MAROC well. It required an extra crew member to operate it. It was replaced by Sky Guardian which was so simple they let the Nav operate it. Much to the disgust of MACr Colin W. Any excuse to return the SG fitted aircraft out of Ancona/Sarajevo was used.

[ZH875]

Originally Posted by Darvan:8232850

The light that hammy21 refers to was the RADALT warning light that could be set to warn the crew if they descended below a set limit. The lights were monitored like a hawk by the Nav during a visual bomb run or OLF over the sea, particularly in a glassy sea state.

Rad Alt 7C. Was a modified 7B for the Buccaneer to reduce cross talk so they could fly in formation with Rad Alt on.

[ExAscoteer]

Originally Posted by smujsmith

What about MAROC on the C130 ? I was led to believe the acronym stood for MARshalls Orange Crop. It was the pod on the wingtip of the 47SF operated Hercs. Is it the same as the Orange crop reported for the Lynx in the links above ?

Smudge

It wasn't just the SF birds, we had it on the Tankers too. In fact ISTR it was fitted to the Tankers first because of the Maritime Recce role 'down south'.

I was of the impression it was the ESM gear originally fitted to Sea king not Lynx?

[The Oberon]

Ex A.

Down South Victor tankers had ARI 18228 fit, same as the Vulcan, forerunner of Rewarder. I thought Orange Harvest was Merlin and Sea King, Lynx had Prophet.

[ksimboy]

Not only on the tankers, was also fitted to one flatbed in the Falklands, which also had the "special" aerial fit for the monitoring kit fitted every so often. Lost one pod in the oggin after Sea King incident.

[ExAscoteer]

Oberon, I meant the Herc tankers!

Orange Harvest was the 'spark plug' fitted to the roof of the Shackleton.

[dragartist]

Oberon,
18228/1 was fitted to Victors and Vulcans long before Falklands. The Original Victor SRIM was 3992 (original design was 1979). I designed a Mod to it in 1984. Not sure if the Mod was fleet embodied by time it went out of service.It was certainly fitted to the one on the fire dump at Brize I used to walk around every lunchtime circa 1995).


Took the kit off the Vulcan to fit to Chinook (SRIM 4052) for Falklands, as we know most went down with the Conveyor. Same kit also Puma (4069) and SeaKing (SRIM4073) in the aftermath.


Ksimboy,
What happened to the special kit from the Flatbed? I would be interested to know. Shame we stopped using the rainbow codes. I can't even remember the Mod Numbers. Some of these jobs were know simply by their Task Directives. the one you refer to may have been TD 525 ? (memory fading) Marshall used a different number for the fixed fittings element.

[The Oberon]

Ex A,

Sorry, got the colour correct but confused my "Harvest" with my "Reapers". Must be the effects of age and the Xmas Atmos.

Dragartist,

I was aware that 18228 was fitted pre corporate, presumably it replaced the original Blue Saga?