WIWOL...
 

Probably been seen before but....

Public Information Films | 1951 to 1964 | Film index | Streaked Lightning

...and a whole host of other long forgotten public info films!

Yes, has been here before, but if the BBC can do repeats so can PPRuNe I reckon. Thanks anyway.

Love the music, and those voices!

I went to OASC Biggin Hill in 1964 in the firm belief I was going to be a Lightning pilot - ended up in the back of a Victor.

Ah well :(

Here's one from my lot then...

http://www.aviationancestry.com/Recr...rew-1967-1.jpg

One more!

http://www.aviationancestry.com/Recr...rew-1967-2.jpg

Somehow flying one of these is somewhat less attractive and it wouldn't get recruits through the door, sometimes reality is a sad thing.

http://www.office-desk.co.uk/img/jet...-beam-desk.jpg

I used to go beagling with the Britannia Beagles with Admiral Sir Jim Eberle. I was a snotty at the time, and out of uniform he was rank-blind ;)

I'm sorry, but the thread is entitled "WIWOL". That American triumph of thrust over aerodynamics in naval uniform has no place here - however fast it could go carrying no stores whatsoever!

Best line from the film is 'the worlds best fighter' and in its' day it was.

Still sex on a stick though, and the RN paintjob is a winner:

http://honda-tech.com/attachment.php...1&d=1280418909

Yes, but twice as many seats as necessary!

They had to put in a seat for the lookers to make up for all the trips they did in the coal-hole on Sea Vixens.

I used to fly one of those RN jobs.

I learnt the basics in the living room, progressed onto the stairs then graduated outside to the garden with about a 75 metre final approach. :cool:

Super Flight Deck


http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/images/superfd1.jpg

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/images/sfdgarden.jpg

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/images/superfd3.jpg

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/movies/FDECK7.MPG


Then one day an RN Gazelle visited our school and that looked so much more fun ! :ok:

CI to chopped pilot on our nav course

"And what do you hope to get posted onto Bloggs?"

"Lightnings sir"

CI - with patronising smile - "Ah but the Lightning is a single seat aircraft Bloggs".

Bloggs - "That's right sir"

Cant imagine why anyone has dragged the Phantom into this - good aircraft, but a mile behind the Lightning in the looks department.

The best looking and more fun to fly!:ok::ok::ok:

SiloeSid - thanks for reminding of a toy that I had. Only problem with it was that our house had rooms that were too small to give the game full justice.

Was it really almost 40 years ago....

November4

That's makes two of us.

Almost three - my parents could only afford the earlier manual-launch model.

Not too sure which model I had, it just came back that I had something like that when I saw the picture.

Spent many a happy hour making Airfix models of planes with the Grandparents.
(One was RFC, one Navy)

And then of course you had the Battleships Game and Scalextric Cars and Trains.:O

Snap! Around 21st October, been back from Aden two weeks and still had two weeks leave left.