Military Flight Safety Posters
 

Hello Chaps,

As a humble visitor to this hallowed forum, does anyone know if there is a way I can legitimately get hold of some of the RAF Flight Safety posters for use at the gliding club I belong to. I'm particularly thinking of the 'Are You Dressed To Survive' and 'Propellors Bite' sort of posters.

Thanks in anticipation.

'Anorak'

Posters aren't produced in the way they used to be, it's all down to self help:(
Do a Google on Defence Aviation Safety Centre and go to publicity, you can download and print your own from there.
http://192.5.30.131/dasc/publicity.htm

Thanks Roland thats exactly what I was looking for!

Back in the '80s (I think) DFS did a super poster. It was the rear view of a lady tennis player approaching the net. She had raised her skirt to scratch her bum and it was very evident she had no panties on. Very shapely, too!
The caption was "Never Assume, Always Check".

Soon after it was issued CAS was visiting a station where the poster was displayed in Ops or wherever. CAS was a bit of a prude and did his nut, ordering the immediate removal of the poster. On return to London he summoned DFS himself and gave him a king-size bollocking for trivialising Flight Safety, and ordered him to withdraw all the posters on issue. It is said that the Director's career never recovered.

Fast forward a few years until I was retired and working in the MOD as a civil servant. I managed to wangle one of these by now highly prized posters, which were secreted away in some dusty store. I put it up on the wall of my office in Metropole, well hidden from general view by filing cabinets etc. My lady boss, almost young enough to be my daughter and an ardent feminist, took umbrage and accused me of sexism and various other
terrible "isms". So I had to take it down. I wish I had kept it because it was certainly popular and had an impact, at least around MOD.

And as we speak Flatus (metaphorically), I'm looking at IFS Poster 1-84 on the back of my office door...

... captioned "When stretched .... don't forget the basics"

....rear view of a blonde fly-fishing in waders, Barbour ..... and no knickers...!

If it's that valuable an antique, maybe I should flog it on E-bay!! Not having an A2 scanner (sounds like something CFS might have ;)) I can't scan and post it.....

...are there any more ......??

What were the other 'isms' FV?

Flabby arsism? Spotty bottyism?

I've long wanted to find a copy of the poster (or even just to know the words, some of which are embedded in my brain) of the 'Here Lies Poor Complacent Fred' flight safety poster....

Which began:

'Here lies poor complacent Fred
I'll be alright he always said
**************** statistic
His attitude was not realistic
When contemplating how he'd fare,
if his aeroplane ran out of air
and crashed into a tall ***** tree,
or splashed into a cold dark sea

and which also included the immortal couplet:

"which wasn't how the hapless fool
Had practised in the swimming pool."

Remember the good days when the IFS calendar featured aircraft, shapely ladies [tastefully done] and a very significant flight safety message? So effective were they and so attractive to boot, that the SFSO was regularly courted, bought much beer and got many invites to the nicer dets just to be put on his calendar list.

Then along came some pratt PC female MP [not the prettiest fish in the barrel] who complained. Instead of telling her to wind her neck in, the gutless top echelon rolled over, tugged their forelocks and acquiesced. Whereupon the next calendar was so ignored that SFSOs were boxing them up to send back to IFS marked 'unwanted'.

And just what did the PC brigade achieve? The square root of sod all... [except to hold themselves up to ridicule]

Anybody remember "Fred the Wheeltapper"?

Changed 527 wheels before he found out his hammer was cracked.

Moral? Always check your test equipment!


You have to be old for this one.

S37

Flatus, you should have made that woman watch the 'Dr FOD and Miss Wayward-Body' video.

I'm always looking for EJECTION SEAT realted flight safety posters for my collection.
Old ones please as I have all the current ones.
The one I would like to get is a cartoon one about how ejection seats work and the last pic is of the pilot in a lake snagged by a fishing line.

Jackonicko

Dunno. Ageism, Old Fartism, Male Chauvinism... You name it! She was brilliant and probably reached the top, but some bloke must have got up her nose at some stage, rather than the appropriate orifice. I exited stage right soon afterwards....

Jim is this current? .....

http://www.ejectorseats.co.uk/lips.jpg

Those were excellent Flight Safety videos, I remember them well. Does anybody have any copies out there as, with the latest Anti FOD campaign starting on RAF bases they would be a good starting point. Would love to get a DVD of both vids.

At the time the "Don't assume, check" poster of the tennis player was more subtle.

It was rumoured to be a picture of a bloke!

Does anyone know the real truth behind it?

I met the bloke who took the picture at a wedding once (his surname was Elliott I believe) - he never confirmed it but he certainly hinted that all was not quite right in the photo. I read into it that it was probably a bloke.

Look at the picture carefully - square shoulders, a dodgy looking syrup and hairy legs in the sunlight...:yuk:

LJ

Ah, she may be the lady I met at a club in Shroesbury. EEK!

http://www.the-tennis-girl.co.uk/tenbum%20files/tg.jpg

I found it..:ok: ..the guy's name is Martin Elliott.

LJ

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Evnin' Jimgriff
In re fishermen and ejections.
Many moons ago a friend of mine who flew Super Etendards in the Fr Navy had to jump out at about 300 ft on the approach to Hyeres. It all worked but he landed in a big drainage ditch on the airfield boundary, still in the seat and the chute which had half deployed enveloped him in its folds and was well on the way to drowning him. Fortunately an off-duty fireman from the base who was fishing close by had the presence of mind to run along and cast his line to snag the chute and pull it off him before getting in and holding J-P until the crash crews arrived. When eventuallythey got him out and tranferred into a civvy ambulance the story took on farcical elements. The ambulance driver, having been urged to get matey to main hospital as fast as poss, got a tad enthousiastic and rolled the ambulance and so J-P had to be rescued again. He recovered completely but never flew on a bang seat again,converted to Bhuddism and divorced his wife. Is there a connection between that sequence of events?? I leave that to your imagination.
The Ancient Mariner

Thanks hobie, Ive got that one framed on my landing at home along with all the Dave Frewin ones drawn in style of Gerald Scarffe.. Its the older ones I'm after and the ones that show the "exploded" seats showing how they go together.

Anyone?

You've got that framed on your landing...........lovely :sad: