and another thing.......


AEO (plugging into wrong box)

"Phhtttt, phhttttt - check, check I cant hear me, I can't hear me Phhhhtttttt."

NAV

" believe me , you're the luck one"

;)

And another thing...

"special sauce sandwich" for the obnoxious newbie co-pilot:E:E:E:E

Dimmer Switch
As I remember it you had a big smile on your face:E
Being only a MR2 and MR2P young-un, skipper a little tense and not happy with the CRATT breakthrough firmly states "Radio paddle switch" Mr F in his best calming voice "go ahead paddle switch" still makes me larf!
The BSE time, not forgetting the boss coming in to the duty crew "gents one of our AEOs is missing and we have to get him back".
All the young-uns and some oldies who fell for HMS Unseen!
Happy days except for the slight period of Bundy/TFO/Terry Fwit.
Charlie sends

Nimrod Cedit
 

Just found the tankard given to my father when he
retired from Nimrod Cedit. He was on that from 1969-1975.
I don't quite know what Cedit did, but I remember him
talking about a lot of checking that deliverables were new,
and not old Comet spares. He is long dead, but anyone about
who could fill the details ?

CEDIT - having to rake up memories long ago, but IIRC it stood for Command Engineering Development and Investigation Team. I think they developed possible modifications and servicing procedures for approval.

CEDIT morphed into NAEDIT and I worked very closely with them. Marvellous and highly professional set of engineers who were instrumental in the success of many Nimrod Flight Trials.

Without NAEDIT support much of the capability development, particularly in the last 10 years of the MR2's life, would have been far more difficult to achieve.

esa-aardvark - Nimrod CEDIT
 

esa, if you send me a pm with your e-mail address I will send you a scanned article from an old copy of Air Clues about the Nimrod CEDIT.

The the call I remember by one John Maurice: "Port beam, snort right 3 o'clock."

"Port beam you mean left 9 o'clock."

"No I am looking out the starboard beam window."

Give the pilots their due, we were established in a right hand turn as this was sorted out.

Nimrod Accidents
 

I note that in the book Tony Blackman states, with regards to the XV235 accident, that;

"Significantly there was fuel in the bomb bay which suggests that, as before, there had been a large blow-off of fuel from No.1 tank"

Of course that was not the case, as the crew had seen the fuel spraying from a AAR fuel line coupling within the bomb bay onto the Bomb Bay heating mixing chamber. Having said that, what happened to XV235 could have happened to XV230, as I understand that a fuel coupling was changed during the EQ servicing prior to the accident. This line of investigation, along with a couple of others mentioned in the book, was never explored. Interestingly enough, bomb bay heating was isolated immediately after the XV230 accident and never switched back on again.

DV

Look forward to the chapter where they fly round and round keeping a young man awake off nights.

Definitely pre '75 heard it in '62, definitely 206 (are we allowed to mention Shacks?)

XV244 Beautiful Lady at RAF Kinloss Today
 

Was passing Kinloss this afternoon and caught sight of the last of the mighty hunters XV244 being towed by an artic lorry tractor unit as no tugs left at Kinloss. Aircraft has been purchased and is being preserved at Kinloss. Took some great photos of her as she was in pristine condition and in glorious sunshine. What a sight being towed from the maintenance hangar to her new location on the camp nearly brought a tear to my eye. Have placed photos on flickr if anyone is interested.