What were you doing 45 years ago today ?
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I don't remember seeing the event live. I was either on watch in ATC Approach at RAF Tengah, gazing at the AR-1 display but not picking up Apollo 11, or at home in our hiring in Bukit Timah where we didn't have a TV.
Was it 45 years ago? How time flies!
Was it 45 years ago? How time flies!
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Preparing for this:
New Forest summer picnic, following this:
Somewhere between graduation from BRNC Darmouth and starting the Seafield Park survival course (immediately after the IoW pop festival).
New Forest summer picnic, following this:
Somewhere between graduation from BRNC Darmouth and starting the Seafield Park survival course (immediately after the IoW pop festival).
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Yes
And the others:
Down the Hatch
Never Go to Sea
All the Nice Girls then a couple of serious novels
HMS Leviathan
The Fighting "Téméraire"
(real name - John Pratt - his, not mine
)
Mister B
And the others:
Down the Hatch
Never Go to Sea
All the Nice Girls then a couple of serious novels
HMS Leviathan
The Fighting "Téméraire"
(real name - John Pratt - his, not mine
)Mister B
Saw it on the B&W tv in the 1OCU crewroom at RAAF Amberley.
I remember walking in from a bombing trip at Evans Head range. Logbook says: "Canberra A84-225, bombing EVD, 2.30".
Long trip - must have had lots of bombs!! But then again, I needed the practice.
I remember walking in from a bombing trip at Evans Head range. Logbook says: "Canberra A84-225, bombing EVD, 2.30".
Long trip - must have had lots of bombs!! But then again, I needed the practice.
Wings awarded 5 days previously and just turned 21.
NFI what I was doing, apart from being on leave before starting AFT (and doing a summer navex to Nuremburg in a Hiller 12E!)
NFI what I was doing, apart from being on leave before starting AFT (and doing a summer navex to Nuremburg in a Hiller 12E!)
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In the back of a Canadian Armed Forces (they had stopped being RCAF ) Britannia (or whatever they called it, CC-106 Yukon maybe?) crossing the Atlantic on my way to Portage-la- Prairie near Winnipeg from LGW to do a quick familiarisation course on the CL41 Tutor, prior to joining a foreign air force on loan service to teach them to fly it! We night stopped in Toronto, I think it was, and I watched the actual landing on TV in the officers' mess there.
Flying from Lyneham to Akrotiri in Britannia XM 491 on the start of my first Changi Slip as a captain.
We arrived in Changi four hours before Apollo 11 landed on the moon and were enjoying a Tiger beer or two in the Changi Creek Transit Hotel crew bar, listening to a live radio report of the drama as it unfolded.
We arrived in Changi four hours before Apollo 11 landed on the moon and were enjoying a Tiger beer or two in the Changi Creek Transit Hotel crew bar, listening to a live radio report of the drama as it unfolded.
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