Dmussen ...

Call out lines to caption boxes as per Pilot Notes :confused:

WHEN IN MELBOURNE -



XJET Jet Fighter Adventure Flights

Well, a lot of posts during the Rugby - some even during the anthems. Ten demerits for all involved.

However, I'd really love to hear more about the little Gnat.

Genetics.
 

Given my still being on this planet i do believe I have learnt from some mistakes.
I also love and nurture other mistakes which I live by.
If you have flown you may well know what it is to look at rock 30 ft. away when moving swiftly. This is a mistake I both learnt from and still nurture.
Glad to here you flicked the Milligan a 20. One of the funniest persons on this little globe.
I can imagine his reaction could well have been expected.
I note that you do not mention Joyce. A very complex chap me thinks

Rgds.,
D

Per Ardua Ad Everything

1. Should be 'up-stuffs'.

2. Have no experience of his genetix, I only know he had a very sad few years at the end.

You have the advantage of me, Sir/Madam.

Pilots Notes.
 

Bugger,
We didn't have lines in our notes. Just grubby finger prints.
These days it is called recycling.
Davey.
Up and Away.

The Game.
 

Damn. I missed it. What was the score?

ENG 12 IRE 6.

And what a hard match. A great game.

The reason that fuse 13 existed was to prevent roll/yaw divergence. The reds' twinkle rolls never went beyond 360 degrees. In the late 60s (not sure which one) the solo aeros ace also had it removed. One day, in front of a senior audience, he tried a 720 at warp factor 10 and about 50 ft. He got roll/yaw and the aircraft was, effectivelt, confetti before reaching the ground. RIP and fuse13 went back into the reds' machines.

One Friday lunch time - me (a 6' 3" Sgt rigger) called into the WO's office, where he is in conflab with our EngO. Said WO announces I am to go get flying apparel and go henceforth in the back seat of a Gnat to Macrahanish, there to sort out a faux pas by a stude on landaway. The stude had managed to mix his OM15 and OX38 up and had liberally topped up the Hyd system with engine oil. Death to any and all normal hyd seals and 'O' rings, so vital to drain the system forthwith. Whilst having a vigorous discussion about the wisdom of trying to stuff my long legs into a rear cockpit, a Gnat taxied past the window. Er, what was the number of the affected kite, Sir? Xwhatever came the reply. One problem solved then, Sir - it has just taxied in...

The Fuse 13 Thingy.
 

Never more than 360 even with the fuse in. We had that one drummed into us big time. Divergence was to be avoided like the Black Death.

Macrahanish
 

Lynham Lad,
Once was diverted there and we were briefed to pick up two boxes from a Landie with a flashing light. These boxes were collected by a chap in an 1800 Austin on the deck at Marham. This was at about 02.30. Some weeks later we were served up salmon and partridge.
Alas I fear there is no more fun to be had.

Davey.

Keep 'em lit.

It wasn't unknown for many types of aircraft to visit Machrihanish on 'fish runs'.

A significant number of freshly-frozen dublin bay prawns and lobsters could be stuffed into Hunter sabrinas in poly bags....then transferred to a freezer back at home.

Except, that is, for the d***head who flew back in the summer of 1976...

...at low level. On removing the sabrina access panel, he found a warm and rather soggy poly bag full of partly cooked sea monsters....:uhoh:

A fish run I heard about was in the early 1950s when a MOTU Lancaster flew down from Kinloss to Merryfield. The resident Vampire pilots watched interestedly as the mighty beast hopped and bounced its way down the runway, before taxying back to stop by the tower. The crew door opened and a sack was handed over, then the Lanc took off and flew back to Kinloss.

The sack contained fresh (ish) Speyside salmon for the Officers' Mess Summer Ball!

Just a thought on the first two pages of a seeming soliloquy.

There are two different blue buttons on this forum for "submit reply" function:

one is below the whole thread, the other is within the post itself. On a lot of forums, using the latter will tuck your reply under the post you are replying to, regardless of time tag. This leads to nested conversations.

This forum software does not seem to do that faithfully, hence I suspect that Dave replied to a number of posts with the belief that his reply to a given post would link to said posts.

I may be wrong, but I've seen different forum software handle post-reply visual presentation differently.

As to the conversation, sounds like some fun flying. :ok:

As to quotables, I like this bit from Dave:

Per Ardua Ad Everything

That's a keeper