You know you're getting old when......
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When you remember that the French aircrew in-flight rations you picked up at Istres included a small caraffe of red wine
When I stepped out of the Beverley, I was an innocent 20 year old, who'd never drunk wine or set foot outside of the UK.
I changed
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You know you're getting old when, you'd love to make a contribution to this thread, but you can't remember anything!
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Originally Posted by Danny42C
You remember when you picked up the 'phone and the girl said "Number, please".
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When one of your studes is in the House of Lords
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When the musket you used had proper dropping power and they tried to convince you the Bren you were looking at isn't a Bren but an LMG.
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When Abingdon, Acklington, Bassingbourn, Binbrook, Brawdy, Chivenor, Coltishall, Cottesmore, Gaydon, Kemble, Kinloss, Lindholme, Little Rissington, Lyneham, Middleton St George, Manby, Strubby, Syerston, Ternhill, Thorney Island, Wattisham, Watton, White Waltham and West Raynham (and probably others my befuddled brain has forgotten) were all active flying stations.
They were when I joined. Sob!
They were when I joined. Sob!
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When airways had colours.
When bread, coal, vegetables and milk were delivered - as were clean sheets in Quarters.
When aircraft had Drift Sights and Sextants.
When your car ran on the same oil as your aircraft.
When you used OM15 as upper cylinder lubricant.
When your inflight calculator was made of disks of metal with 'Dalton' written on it.
When a HUD had an emu on the end of it.
When Fire Piquet meant a free night watching a film in the ASTRA.
When the co-pilots carried F6663 en route.
When aircrew wore newer flying kit than UKBAGS.
When en route, we carried SVC.
When part of your flying kit were goggles.
When Walkmans were cutting edge and worked on little green batteries from Stores.
When Stores was called Supply.
That'll do pig . . .
When bread, coal, vegetables and milk were delivered - as were clean sheets in Quarters.
When aircraft had Drift Sights and Sextants.
When your car ran on the same oil as your aircraft.
When you used OM15 as upper cylinder lubricant.
When your inflight calculator was made of disks of metal with 'Dalton' written on it.
When a HUD had an emu on the end of it.
When Fire Piquet meant a free night watching a film in the ASTRA.
When the co-pilots carried F6663 en route.
When aircrew wore newer flying kit than UKBAGS.
When en route, we carried SVC.
When part of your flying kit were goggles.
When Walkmans were cutting edge and worked on little green batteries from Stores.
When Stores was called Supply.
That'll do pig . . .
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Saturday nights. When a quid paid for a film at the Odeon for two, four pints and four gin 'n orange afterwards, a packet of fags, and the bus fare home. And whatever the film, it was two seats in the middle of the back row, white thighs, girdle and suspenders, and --------
Now I much prefer a good curry, but in all honesty there's not an option
Now I much prefer a good curry, but in all honesty there's not an option
And to add to 1.3V Stall:
Atkinson Field, Bruggen, Changi, El Adem, Gatow, Gutersloh, Khormaksar, Kai Tak, Kuching, Laarbruck, Labuan, Luqa, Muharraq, Seletar, Tengah and Wildenrath....
and that's just the ones I could have been posted to on completing flying training ....
let alone the others overseas I operated into:
Sharjah, Riyan, Masirah, Salahah, Gan....
all now closed....tempus fugit.j
Atkinson Field, Bruggen, Changi, El Adem, Gatow, Gutersloh, Khormaksar, Kai Tak, Kuching, Laarbruck, Labuan, Luqa, Muharraq, Seletar, Tengah and Wildenrath....
and that's just the ones I could have been posted to on completing flying training ....
let alone the others overseas I operated into:
Sharjah, Riyan, Masirah, Salahah, Gan....
all now closed....tempus fugit.j
When.....you do an airtest on a J-P 4, 50 yrs after you first flew it at FTS....