Far East, Bloody kids....:)

Plastic, Bumped into you in ALD, though the last time I saw you across a crowded room, Nov 09, you had your head on upside down.

Still is! And even more hair appears to have slipped off it and onto my back/into my ears etc etc!

Hey! I absolutely INSIST on Pi**ing the lowest, after all I could stand up in the Puma cabin, helmet on !!

lsh
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Your name is "Spanky" T****r, and I claim my £5.

St Angelo / Lough Erne / Grosvenor
 

Ah, the Navar viewpoint. Now that brings back some memories!! I wonder how many courting couples were 'surprised' over the years?! :E

I suppose the great thing about taking pictures of the RAF cabs is you can guarantee the good weather. Must have to crack the aperture down a bit to counter all that sunshine though :}

Cor - 223 with a 230 door on... that ties it to a particular time.

If the dates above are to be believed it will be taken next year!

Fair-Weather Flyers?
 

Re the Angelo / Grosvenor dates; just testing, Shackman! 10/10 for observation. As for apertures/shutter speeds, nope; have flown in shabby weather with both RAF & TWA, but the photo results are rarely worth showing. Another one from that 2009 set for the navs – where’s this location?

http://i765.photobucket.com/albums/x...09PhPhotog.jpg

PS 1:200 @ f8 here with 1:200 / f11 for the Grosvenor one.

Far too easy - long finals for Belleek!

Location
 

More specific than that - you're not looking closely. Dundiggin?

Don't tell anyone but I think PP is referring to that little bitty HLS in the cab's 7 o'clock (not easy to see on gogs!)

PP - sorry mate - NAFC!! :confused:

it's here on G-maps. Flew just past Belleek only yesterday afternoon, but must check if the HLS is still there the next time out.

Green 205
 

The site is / was G205, the PVCP at Rosscor Viaduct. That’s Slavin Parish Church on the main EKN - Belleek road. Just west of it a roadside PVCP compound controlled the T junction leading to the viaduct and, apart from the helipad, the sole remaining reminder of the military presence is a single Bailey span at the north end of Rosscor.

Still in use and a tribute to the Royal Engineers who erected it to re-open the route in the early 1980s, I think they’d explosively demolished the pre-cast concrete original a few years earlier as it was regarded as a PIRA rat-run, but others can possibly confirm that? I did see a pair of 72 Sqn Wessex on the Angelo – Rosscor resupply tasking in July 1986. That's why I'd wondered if Dundiggin knew it?

Had a nice 4 hour wait on that little spot around 1999 with a sickly Puma that had a bit of blade missing. RUC/troops provided cordon and we had a visit from the occupants of the house by the church. They bought tea and biscuits which was very friendly!!
I think it was J***A D******Y and crew who arrived with the 'rescue party' unannounced at low level causing a few expletives and sarcastic comments from the troops!

Memories......:)

PP.............
 

Nah PP - I was in Hong Kong then - whooping it up in Red Lips!:E

Or times. The airframes were moved about a bit.

I flew XW223 in Belize in January 1980 and Jan 1981.

I also flew it in Germany in May 1981, now a 230 Sqn aircraft.

On 14th August 1981 I flew it on task with "lsh", again on the strength of 230. Lsh, where did we go? I only recorded the task number in my log book.

On 21st August I did my IRT in it with the late George Blackie as my IRE.

Nov 22nd 1983 I flew her again, still in Germany.

Next and last time for me was 22 Feb 1991, back at Odiham during a refresher course check ride. IIRC, back then 240 OCU were sharing airframes with 33 Sqn due to a severe shortage (GW1).

Green 205 Farewell.