What were you doing 45 years ago today ?
Living in a tent near Dinkleberg ,North Germany on Exercise Whirlygig to keep the Russian hordes away and flying 6.20 hrs that day in the ever faithful Wessex; after a few beers that night and curled up in my sleeping bag believe I was not even aware of this momentous event . Bit sad really......
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Watched it on a very modern black and white telly at RAF Halton, ( I think we were allowed to stay up), back to the mundane the following day, filing bits of metal and thinking that the moon was probably a more hospitable place than the 1 Wing Apprentice blocks.
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On holiday with some mates on the Italian Med' coast - trying to get laid - watching the launch on the hotel telly. I'm not sure when we left, but I remember sharing the driving in a Renault 4L, flogging the thing along to get home for the landing.
Got back to London just in time to hear that they were opening the LEM door....... Wow! It really was history, wasn't it?
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Got back to London just in time to hear that they were opening the LEM door....... Wow! It really was history, wasn't it?
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Clearing Coltishall on my last duty day of 9 years in the RAF. I still had 2 months to the nominal date, but accumulated terminal leave and release courses covered that.
Watched the moonwalk in the met office at Upavon where I went to spend the weekend gliding.
Watched the moonwalk in the met office at Upavon where I went to spend the weekend gliding.
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Can't remember today but I can the moon walk as was woken up by my parents and sat in front of the TV to watch it.
Not sure what time it would have been in the UK but it was night.
Buzz Aldrin came to my school and gave a great talk and got a signed photo from him which I still have.
Not sure what time it would have been in the UK but it was night.
Buzz Aldrin came to my school and gave a great talk and got a signed photo from him which I still have.
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Flying Combat Assaults along the Cambodian Border in Vietnam. No TV or Newspapers but heard about it over a Tactical Radio in response to someone listening to BBC on the HF Radio.
It was Years later before I got to see it on TV.
Amazing what Humans can do when they get stuck in on something.....talking about the Space flights.
Having had the great pleasure of meeting Jim Lovell and listening to his account of his Trip around the Moon was a chance of a Life Time.
It was Years later before I got to see it on TV.
Amazing what Humans can do when they get stuck in on something.....talking about the Space flights.
Having had the great pleasure of meeting Jim Lovell and listening to his account of his Trip around the Moon was a chance of a Life Time.
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Btw, in case you have never been, the National Space Centre at Cape Leicester is a good day out, especially if you have kids as they have a lot of activities for them to try.... Adults too.
National Space Centre - Homepage
National Space Centre - Homepage
Watched the mission on the new Colour TV we had 'bought' from Rediffusion. Looking forward with some trepidation towards January and the start of my RAF Career at Halton. (217th Entry)
I can't remember the exact day, but I would have been looking forward to the School summer holidays and my very first trip abroad shortly thereafter and my very first aeroplane ride to boot.
We were going to Basle, ultimately Badgastein in Austria, from Heathrow and it was a B.K.S. Britannia.
On the day of the flight we arrived in the Wallace Arnold coach in time under a puter sky. Once in departures it was one delay after another, we eventually got airborne in darkness then we had to weather abort to Geneva, that suited me fine arrivning there about midnight. My parents and other adult passengers I don't believe were too impressed but my Brother and I were making the most of being up all night running around the spacious virtually empty terminal building.
When dawn came, we were able to sit outside the front doors looking across the pan and I recall a Swissair Friendship or Herald screaming away as it taxied in followed by a VC-10, not much long after we were away in a perfect sunrise over the Alps on our way to Basle!
And you try telling the young folk today that, and they won't believe you!
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We were going to Basle, ultimately Badgastein in Austria, from Heathrow and it was a B.K.S. Britannia.
On the day of the flight we arrived in the Wallace Arnold coach in time under a puter sky. Once in departures it was one delay after another, we eventually got airborne in darkness then we had to weather abort to Geneva, that suited me fine arrivning there about midnight. My parents and other adult passengers I don't believe were too impressed but my Brother and I were making the most of being up all night running around the spacious virtually empty terminal building.
When dawn came, we were able to sit outside the front doors looking across the pan and I recall a Swissair Friendship or Herald screaming away as it taxied in followed by a VC-10, not much long after we were away in a perfect sunrise over the Alps on our way to Basle!
And you try telling the young folk today that, and they won't believe you!
FB
As a Craft Apprentice (214 Entry) at RAF Halton. I, like many of our entry enjoyed being given the "nod and wink" that we could break "lights out" and watch TV coverage of Apollo 11 in our TV room in Kestrel Flight, 2 Wing. On the night of the landing, I did my first "all nighter" and surprisingly, no beer, just a feeling that I was witnessing history, even through a TV set. Blimey Coff, was it really that long ago, how we have regressed since then, we can't even manage a supersonic airliner these days.
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