Chinook filling in the dam breach
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Chinook filling in the dam breach
That's a heck of a lot of strops they have dropped, I pity the poor sod that has to try and recover them eventually. Nice work guys..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-49201467
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan...shire-49201467
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Well, it took the Germans about 4 months to repair the Mohne Dam, so allowing the UK PLC to hold an inquiry then repair the dam, what are we looking at, 2024 at the earliest? 
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We can break 'em, we can make 'em...
Picking up strops? Gives the Puma something to do next week........;-)
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Question for Wokka types...
Being ex-MAOT, I have spent rather a lot of time hooking loads etc under Wokkas, but it was 25 years ago. I *think* I recall that the Wokka had a special strop that released at the far end, rather than just the hook. Am I imagining that? Or was it just the center hook? Or a figment of my imagination?
First thing I noticed with this was that they were dropping 3 strops per lift, which is going to get expensive real quick. In my day, we'd have just sent the junior siggie to recover them, but in the duty of care age, if the dam breached and the lad went for a swim, that's a no-no. Of course I am jesting, we had a duty of care back then. But we'd still have recovered the strops
Being ex-MAOT, I have spent rather a lot of time hooking loads etc under Wokkas, but it was 25 years ago. I *think* I recall that the Wokka had a special strop that released at the far end, rather than just the hook. Am I imagining that? Or was it just the center hook? Or a figment of my imagination?
First thing I noticed with this was that they were dropping 3 strops per lift, which is going to get expensive real quick. In my day, we'd have just sent the junior siggie to recover them, but in the duty of care age, if the dam breached and the lad went for a swim, that's a no-no. Of course I am jesting, we had a duty of care back then. But we'd still have recovered the strops
. Did wonder why one load seemed to drop off target . Just curious .
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Question for Wokka types...
First thing I noticed with this was that they were dropping 3 strops per lift, which is going to get expensive real quick. In my day, we'd have just sent the junior siggie to recover them, but in the duty of care age, if the dam breached and the lad went for a swim, that's a no-no. Of course I am jesting, we had a duty of care back then. But we'd still have recovered the strops
First thing I noticed with this was that they were dropping 3 strops per lift, which is going to get expensive real quick. In my day, we'd have just sent the junior siggie to recover them, but in the duty of care age, if the dam breached and the lad went for a swim, that's a no-no. Of course I am jesting, we had a duty of care back then. But we'd still have recovered the strops
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also a discussion over at Rotorheads
RAF go from Dambusters to Dam builders
RAF go from Dambusters to Dam builders