Madbob,

Standby for Flack inbound! You have just told one of our most infamous :} Bucc QFIs (schpitt!) how to suck eggs!

Anyway, for a non-Bucc man (you not me) I am impressed by your research!

By the way, I will get your DVD to you by the end of the week, hopefully.

There you will be able to view him (Jinda) in a much younger disguise!

Foldie:ok:

Madbob,

Well done. Tomorrow I'm off to Gib, and as I stroll across the runway, both you and foldie will be uppermost in my mind!:p. Penelope's has gone, as has the Wig 'n Gown (now a manicure parlour:E). Otherwise, it's still an evocative place - full of Cold War memories, but then that is seemingly not something to dwell upon in the eyes of younger PPRuNe members.

Ah ferchrisesakes!

Now be a good lad and pop along to 17 Town Ranges := just for old time's sake!!!!!!!!!

Foldie:ouch:

Should I take the wife along? etc etc

Seriously, the low cost airlines do good deals, the pound (not the euro) makes it perhaps the best deal in Europe as things stand, the Eliott hotel in Governor's Parade is splendid, and there are oodles of the old bars that remain (with their marvellously unhealthy breakfasts), sitting easily with the excellent new restaurants ranged alongside their new waterfronts. Bril. And Spain is still nearby. Sadly, my attempts to have a drink in the Front Mess have been thwarted by officialdom - but one has to accept that old-fartysm prevails these days!

Foldie - just caught up with your post #100. I well remember the RHAG incident. That week I was on Duty Crew and as we looked out of the windows of our remote dispersal near the end of the runway we marvelled as your mighty mount ground to a halt whilst at full chat.

During another stint on Duty Crew I remember someone who insisted on being obeyed making a night landing with, shall we say, symptoms of the parking brake being applied. You know the sort of thing - lots of smoke, the stench of burnt rubber and showers of sparks as first the locked wheels and then the brake packs were ground away by the runway friction course. That was another exciting recovery and I seem to recall a lot of time being spent before a defect in the braking system could be found.

Just enjoyed DVD1 - many memories - thanks.

Lower Hangar

Foldie

DVDs landed safely on my door mat on Saturday.

Many thanks.

MB

Hi Foldie,

Mine arrived on saturday too. Many thanks. Just wait til I'm off shift to put the 8 beer theory to the test!

Cheers

Iain

Hi Foldie

Received mine this morning; thanks very much.

Regards

STH

Foldie,

DVDs have just arrived in the afternoon post. So, 8 tigers in the fridge cooling nicely, should be ready for viewing/imbibing in a couple of hours.

Great!! Many thanks.:ok::ok:

I was kindly sent the DVD set recently and made a suitable donation to charity as a result.

Very good DVDs indeed; congratulations to the Buccaneer Aircrew Association for this work.

Re. the BDT, it was stated in one of the documentaries that the jet could still be pitched to rub the tailskid on landing, even with the BDT fitted. The reason the BDT wasn't fitted to the RN's Buccs was stated as being because the tank wasn't baffled, so wouldn't take the accleration involved with a catapult launch without rupturing.

How I wish that I'd been a lot better and that 237 had had a bit more patience when I was struggling to learn to fly the beast. Interesting to hear my old RAF scholarship and ULAS mucker Nige Huck describing how demanding the jet was to fly below 300 KIAS - I'm sure anyone who'd ever flown it would concur.

"Fifteen-Ten-Ten...moving together, stop together.......:ok:"

And Jinda', didn't you look young!

Now, Jinda'.... was that an engine fire... or where you really dumping fuel....?

See you in t'Bridge with Colonel Comb-Over, Old Boy!!!!
:ok:

Why thank you BEagle, unbecoming as I usually am, on this occasion I will take all the credit as it was my personal project last year to produce the work and present it to all of our 500 members to celebrate the 50th Anniversary!

As I know where every one of them went, would you mind telling me how you came by a copy? A PM will do but I would just like to know if they are now being copied and on the 'black market'.

Ta

Foldie
237 OCU QWI 1981 -1983:}

PM sent, foldie.

Legit copy, not a pirate.

Charity has benefitted as a result. Blond genug?

"Ta

Foldie
237 OCU QWI 1981 -1983http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...s/badteeth.gif "

Foldie, am sure I saw you lurking around 16 over 1982-83. Is your memory failing? Or, oops, is it mine?? :8

Boris

Beags, that phrase struck a chord with me, "blond genug" = Fair enough in Sausageside Lingo.

I seem to recall reading about a POW in WWII who spent his time translating common or garden English phrases into German and then being totally surprised that the guards did not recognise their meaning.

Anyone help with that, or is Beags in retro-mode??

Ah Borrocks! I did so many drunken and enjoyable tours (4) on the Bucc they all now must be fading into one!

Foldie:}
XV Sqn - 1972-74
12 Sqn QWI - 1974-78
237 OCU QWI - 1978-81
16 Sqn QWI/Wpns Ldr - 1981-83

and whilst we are at it:
17 Sqn - 1986-87
Staneval (W) Bruggen - 1987-90

Achtung Foldie,

So Englander (incls Scots!!), Laarbruch and Bruggen, Specken sie Deutch?? And Gott in Himmel, nein tours in Colditz? :bored:

BAA Donation to H4H
 

To all those who donated,

This needs broadcasting louder than on a thread that is slipping beyond the first page of PPRuNe.

New Thread inbound.

Foldie

Vangelis is dead
 

The Greek composer and musician Vangelis has just died, aged 79.
Be honest now, how many of you immediately think of Buccaneers when you hear To The Unknown Man? And just how good was Hugh Hudson's film of Open Gate 78 as a recruiting tool for the service?