As the man on the other thread said, 8 posts in and bitchin betty strikes again.

IAN16th,
Sorry, I don't have a better quality copy, as I said, I found it on the Sea Vixen website, perhaps they could organise one for you? (Actually I was looking for a pic of the Valiant's somewhat weird control column).

Art, yep, a fast shutter speed can cover a host of evils!

Talking of wacky plugging, anybody got a vid of the RNZAF A-4s doing a barrel roll while plugged in? Can't remember the aero team's name.

Something like this?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ead/refuel.jpg

IMHO, The VC10 was the best: the ability to tank two at a time from a stable platform, with a great flexible crew was worth its weight in AVTUR. i always used to chuckle when arriving at a KC-10 after the US Navy had been there - the drogue always looked rather well used! Brings to mind...... nuf said! :}

I have seen a photo of a Tristar plugged into a Bucc !!! Bet that was fully illegal but fun

Not illegal...apparently a Boscombe flight trial....compatability and all that.

I have a copy somewhere, but bu99ered if I know how to upload it!!

Beagle, the Staish wants you on the phone.....

Who do we bribe to watch this video?

I gave my word that I wouldn't let it out of my sight.

Sorry, but I keep my word.

Doh !! And a British Thief's word is his bond. Careful, they'll send you to Australia... :ok:

BUgle.

If you aren't willing to show it, why mention you had it?

To be smug?
So we know how clever/important you were?

Anwering the query. So do one!

Top tip for the rum, bum and lash folk - don't let your grown ups drive your little grey boats down to the antipodes, in case they drive those cocktail party machines into the only rocks for hundreds of miles in any direction...:hmm:

Big fan of Rum, and not averse to giving a little bit of lash a try. Never fancied the bum though.
I find it interesting, however, that you obviously consider them an unsplittable group.
A quick search of your previous posts makes it very clear that they are something of an obsession with you.

You have used the phrase "rum, bum and the lash" or varients thereof (rum bum and baccy etc) 36 times in the last 3 years alone.

methinks he doth protest too much............?

With my, admittedly totally untrained at profiling, Freudian head on, I have to surmise that one of your early fumbles was with a sailor who got a bit rough with you after drinking his tot?

Looping in the Basket
 

Did the A-4 do his little looping number?, I'm sure the VC-10 would have got most of the way up before falling out.....



...and yes (I mean NO to the KC-135 BDA).....

My second go at that ballet dance (I mean Rumba!) was with the Staish on my wing doing his first!! - I was considered 'experienced', having done it on the day prior!

Tanking Video
 

All this talk about tanking and videos reminds me that I have a video, taken professionally from a Dominie at that euphoric time after the Falklands, of a Vulcan (50 Sqn) inflight refuelling a variety of aircraft including another Vulcan (not me). I have always been meaning to have it transcribed (?) to DVD but have just been too lazy. If anybody's interested, let me know and I'll get my thumb out and have it sorted.

Although there is a soundtrack, mostly just air rushing through the aircraft, there's no speech until after Vulcan rather c*cks up a contact and moves back about a foot or two and rushes in regardless. A voice is heard in the background "He's not pi**ing about, is he?"

Nice dusk tanking sortie down south, bit of a bust HDU too.

Vc 10/a4k
 

I think I have that pic, I was in the Tristar at the time. Will look for it!!

A4 Barrel Roll
 

Think I have one of that too....

Best tanker? Easy really, he's the fellow who comes to get you when you've pushed the fuel to stay on task for that extra couple (or so, gusting 20) minutes to get the job done....it's very humbling indeed to hear that there's no more gas in theatre but 'random callsign 12 is hauling the mail up the boulevard to try to get to you'.

Let's not forget the C2 fellows who give you the snap to the tex when your BPM is in the low two hundreds. Absolute gentlemen.

Worst tanker? No such thing. From Transall to Extender, they're all, genuinely, my heroes.

Around '83 or so a Vulcan tanker arrived in RAFG for us F4 mates to play with I recall closing up to stabilised pos, when both my Nav and I realised that the HDU housing scabbed on the lower rear fuselage was what looked like half a garden shed! Tanking from her was straightforward, but the affil at LL afterward was anything but - enormous fun!

It was known as the 'MFI wardrobe', I understand.

You're right about LL affil in RAFG! Did that once (in a bomber, not a tanker) and thought how skilled the F4 crews must be working in that awful 'Ruhr clag'. We had a target to reach, they had to stop us. We 'bombed' the target, then went back to Wilders only to find that they'd pulled out of low level due to the vis!

Good times!