Odd Memorabilia
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I have a 30mm Aden ball, a 27mm Mauser one of the first from the Typhoon, and a 30mm A10 round. It is far heavier than the Aden and is an odd shape after coming to a sudden stop.
In an another thread I mentioned the difficulty in closing the back ( Annie ) hatch on a Victor B2/K2, I still have the essential implements.
Somewhere in the loft I also have the sheared refuelling probe from XM597, recovered from the K2 drogue following the Black Buck 6 Brazil diversion.
Somewhere in the loft I also have the sheared refuelling probe from XM597, recovered from the K2 drogue following the Black Buck 6 Brazil diversion.
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Cor, how do you plug that box of saws in to the mains?, I can't see a lead on them .
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A museum with fewer exhibits might be better.
As 597 is at East Fortune I am sure they would snap your hand off.
Among my findings in a long career on RAF stations and HQs are a 1 Group Bawtry shield/badge/plaque with King's Crown, brass key labels entitled A o C, SASO and Ops, and one very junior one called 3 Hangar Airmen's Ablutions [RAF Finningley].
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All abandoned by their lawful owners and tidied up, as one does.
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I have visions of desperate airmen running around looking for the toilets at Finningley.
I cannot remember the exact circumstances, but there was a lot of reallocation of accommodation at FY c. 1972, part of which included Met migrating from the hangar across the airfield to the Air Electronics block [better view, better loo]. Perhaps Met. had its own karzi key which travelled with me? [But who would lock the door anyway?]
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
And then you hung them round your neck on a piece of string which was neither !
Whomsoever recoveries your body just puts them inside the same body bag.....
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I know many aircrew tied the tags to their flying suits whereas handbrake house said they should keep the tags with our docs. I had 3_sets in the end. The 2nd had blood group added and the third as HBH couldn't find my second set in my first 😊
Carry my trusty dzus key on my key ring wherever I go. It opened God knows how many Vulcan refuelling panels often in blind panic as the blasted rotating relay thingamabob (uni-selector) bypassed a couple of tanks! Nowadays it opens the cowls on my trusty Venture at a far more sedate rate. Marvellous tool!
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Dear old Dad had been a fireman in London in the blitz. As kids we played with his belt with axe pouch, tin hat and a German incendiary bomb which he said had been de activated. However, the thing he showed me that I found Mother had ditched after his death was the carbon copy of a report my Uncle, Ernest Cartwright (Dad's brother-in-law) had written to Gen Allenby in about 1917, about the activities of one Col. Lawrence. What I would not give to have that back
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I have a 30mm Aden ball, a 27mm Mauser one of the first from the Typhoon, and a 30mm A10 round. It is far heavier than the Aden and is an odd shape after coming to a sudden stop.
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Anti collision, (Grimes), beacon and a stopwatch from an Omani Strikemaster, after it was withdrawn from service and put on a stick. Still got the minefield situation map issued on the 7th Dec 83, the day I arrived at Stanley. A set of 4 maps of the Falklands that were being dumped after the Herc det moved out of their tented area to their new portakabin at the tower, (loads of them there, wish I'd kept a few more now), and of course the obligatory Argie helmet. A lovely Sleeping bag I got from the Falklands det, and handed back a grubby gratis one that I got on Ascension months earlier.