Plymouth
 

Waiting around for a lecture at plymouth uni earlier there were 3 sea kings knocking around for a fair while over the sound. looked like they were in junglie colours.

Any idea what they were doing? assume their attached to a ship, probs ocean.

Matt

About 90kts?

Mostly straight and level, a few turns, perhaps even the odd landing? Sounds most odd, I do agree :E

On another note, look out your window again in a few minutes as they are going back to Plymouth now for a troop pickup. Just came overhead my house enroute. Then going back to Yeovilton again.

Looks like they are just ferrying troops from Plymouth to Yeovilton all day

Don't they know there's a war on? In my day we'd have banged and rattled down to Guz in a four-tonner, and been grateful for the time to sleep. In my Dad's day they'd have gone by train, and half would have been shunted into a siding for the winter and left behind until the points de-frosted in March.

The youth of today...

SU - how on earth are they getting the Still and West down to Guz without spilling anything, or is there something more important in the pic that I've missed? :E

"Any idea what they were doing?"

It's Thursday - isn't there a war on every Thursday out in the channel just off Plymouth?

That's Portsmouth....

Neat outside overseas (sort of) dunny on stilts there.
Hmm, sure that's the right town?

Mackay

It is Jungly................:ok:

I no cos I are wun

C-bert - the RN thinks FOST is in Plymouth, and while I know that navigation and positioning is not my old employer's strongest suit, I'm inclined to believe them this time. In the good old days it was in Portland (Dorset, not Oregon), but that was when we had a navy, not a coastal defence force.

And yes, I know that the shot is of Portsmouth. My old Dad lived literally round the corner from that boozer.

A_A

I think c-bert was stating that the photo is Portsmouth, not the Thursday Wars. (His post was written at same time as the one above).

To do with the fact that Skip Undo thought that Jungly's flying over Plymouth today (Thursday) might have been greeting the arrival of a ship in Pompey yesterday.

Mind you, Mackay is a student - maybe he was p!!$$ed and woke up in Pompey to the sound of Jungly's, thinking he was still in Plymouth and having lost a day to the 'beer monster' :E

Thats an awesome picture.

Shh, don't let on. My head still hurts.

Is it me, or does the Daring Class look like a block of floating Council Flats? :confused:

It's to make it easier to sneak up on the Taliban. Imagine how it'd look if, instead of The Still and West, it was parked up behind the North Stand at Villa Park.

Thats an awesome picture......

..... but not half as "awesome" as it must have been in 1960 when VANGUARD, 46000 tons and 815 feet v a Type 45's 7200 tons and 500 feet, nearly demolished the Still & West whilst under tow on the way to the breakers!

Is it me, or does the Daring Class look like a block of floating Council Flats?

That's far too complimentary - even ABDIEL had a better looking funnel .......:ok:
Jack




Jack

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And another thing!

The plural of Jungly is Junglies...................

Let us not start the Thursday apostrophe wars.......................

Incoming..................:ok:

Did anyone else spot our latest stealth ship hiding round the back of that pub?

It may be invisible to radar but it certainly is visible to the naked eye - d'you think they overlooked this during the design phase?

Sure it's not a Thicket?:)