Global Aviation Magazine : 60 Years of the Hercules
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Your story rekindled horrible memories of a similar katastroff in Ethiopia. The poor engineer had a negligent discharge of the brown kind on the first sector of a long, multi sector day. He was ejected from the flight deck to go and clean up with much derision and banter by the rest of us.....
One by one we all succumbed until we were all in spare shorts/blue roll nappies.
The look from the local unloading teams said it all about the malodorous state of the flight deck.
Repeated again on the famous Turkey Detachment when the locals flogged us 'bottled' water from the cracked mains pipe that ran in with the sewerage .......
Your story rekindled horrible memories of a similar katastroff in Ethiopia. The poor engineer had a negligent discharge of the brown kind on the first sector of a long, multi sector day. He was ejected from the flight deck to go and clean up with much derision and banter by the rest of us.....
One by one we all succumbed until we were all in spare shorts/blue roll nappies.
The look from the local unloading teams said it all about the malodorous state of the flight deck.
Repeated again on the famous Turkey Detachment when the locals flogged us 'bottled' water from the cracked mains pipe that ran in with the sewerage .......
chickenlover,
your tale backs up what I said to the lady doc. We were used to catching the 'squits' on these type of ops AND getting on with the job. To be fair to her it was her first overseas detachment , and a very steep learning curve.
your tale backs up what I said to the lady doc. We were used to catching the 'squits' on these type of ops AND getting on with the job. To be fair to her it was her first overseas detachment , and a very steep learning curve.
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Nov4,
Any chance of a link to the last one there, it's a cracker. YouTube by any chance ? I found this one which offers a glimpse at Albert in early days also.
Hercules For RAF (1967) - YouTube
Smudge
Any chance of a link to the last one there, it's a cracker. YouTube by any chance ? I found this one which offers a glimpse at Albert in early days also.
Hercules For RAF (1967) - YouTube
Smudge
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Great viewing nov 4 , evokes memories of the video produced by one of the Lyn Sqns years ago. Issued to all who had paid for it's making one day and recalled and destroyed the next. What a hoot 
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Ah yes, Ethiopia. The only time I have been force-fed Immodium!
Happiness most certainly WAS a dry fart.
I remember travelling down in the Hilton lift with an obese white man with an attitude . . . the GE and myself were in flying suits (I didn't have my name, just the brevet).
In 'conversation' (strained) with him, I ended up remarking 'Only the Daily Mirror would send a big fat f***er to cover a famine' . . . Fortunately, we heard no more of it - could have been worse as we had an ITN crew with us, Geoffrey Archer (not the ex-crim).
That would be the trip when I observed to the British Ambassador's daughter that she had a better moustache than our navigator (thank you Brandy Sours).
Nostalgia eh?
Happiness most certainly WAS a dry fart.
I remember travelling down in the Hilton lift with an obese white man with an attitude . . . the GE and myself were in flying suits (I didn't have my name, just the brevet).
In 'conversation' (strained) with him, I ended up remarking 'Only the Daily Mirror would send a big fat f***er to cover a famine' . . . Fortunately, we heard no more of it - could have been worse as we had an ITN crew with us, Geoffrey Archer (not the ex-crim).
That would be the trip when I observed to the British Ambassador's daughter that she had a better moustache than our navigator (thank you Brandy Sours).
Nostalgia eh?
Those were the days - when we could afford to detach two Brits for a fortnight to cart 2 entries of Towers cadets to America, round Washington, Denver (For C Springs), New York and back; and the NY part was pure "jolly"!
Noember4, thanks very much for that. Now I can watch it on the big screen
Right Lads, we need to hear from what was once the Royal Air Forces largest formation display team (well, surely so on combined wingspans), yes, the Green Barrows are surely worthy of some study. Their origin, work up and experiences. So come on lads, you once dazzled with your precision and awesomeness, don't be shy, check in.
C-130 Hercules 4-Ship Formation - YouTube
Could this be them in action ?
Smudge
Right Lads, we need to hear from what was once the Royal Air Forces largest formation display team (well, surely so on combined wingspans), yes, the Green Barrows are surely worthy of some study. Their origin, work up and experiences. So come on lads, you once dazzled with your precision and awesomeness, don't be shy, check in.
C-130 Hercules 4-Ship Formation - YouTube
Could this be them in action ?
Smudge
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Further to my post regarding Ethiopia, I've posted a link to the video sent to me by the ITN cameraman.
Some of it has no sound, and some is what was transmitted. You may well recognise one or two folks . . .
I invited him to a 47 Sqn do after we got back and he thoroughly enjoyed it!
http://youtu.be/1-sH7Z-N1Qo
Part 2 http://youtu.be/G8mEMjtwDmg
Hopefully, the above link will work, if it doesn't, give it a bit of time as the file is quite large.
Some of it has no sound, and some is what was transmitted. You may well recognise one or two folks . . .
I invited him to a 47 Sqn do after we got back and he thoroughly enjoyed it!
http://youtu.be/1-sH7Z-N1Qo
Part 2 http://youtu.be/G8mEMjtwDmg
Hopefully, the above link will work, if it doesn't, give it a bit of time as the file is quite large.
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Ksimboy-not all destroyed old chap 
Recently digitised too.
The guy that produced it used to work at VASF- 'Oz' I believe, has probably got the masters still.
Still debating whether to give it an airing or not....
Recently digitised too.
The guy that produced it used to work at VASF- 'Oz' I believe, has probably got the masters still.
Still debating whether to give it an airing or not....
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My pleasure Coff, we really did have Feed the World playing . . . Nav's Walkman bodge-taped to the mike. Note his moustache. Sadly can't remember his or the GE's name. The rest were Bob Rowley, Steve Evans and Davy (GEE) Whiting, plus of course the great lads on 47 AD, who were unsung heroes.
Several repeats of that run on Gondu Meskel as we ended up RTB with fluctuating reduction gearbox oil pressure on #4.
I also have a sort of Engineering 'prequel' if there's any appetite for it. Had to chop it up to post. Dropbox took a dim view, hence YouTube.
Several repeats of that run on Gondu Meskel as we ended up RTB with fluctuating reduction gearbox oil pressure on #4.
I also have a sort of Engineering 'prequel' if there's any appetite for it. Had to chop it up to post. Dropbox took a dim view, hence YouTube.
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