DC... Largest? Probably one of the smallest. When the F4's were moving mud, I don't believe we were licensed to store more than 2or3 aircraft loads of 1000 lb HE.
Great place to work, though...
Used to live in Scrub Hill... Bomb Dump to NY, turn right, next 'cross road'.

Out of Trim and Helpful Stacker - thanks for the explanation :ok:

Thread drift away from aviation from a minute - we were once queueing outside St Paul's Cathedral for admittance to Good Friday evensong. I remarked to Mrs TTN that they would be letting us in in good time for the service, and an Australian tourist in front of us turned and asked "Is this a church then?" On receiving an affirmative reply he shouldered his backpack and ambled off!

"Neither can I successfully order a breakfast in Denny's without at least one question from the waitress."


Back in the days of the Sentry deployment to Aviano for 9 years at the end of the last century... there was an unofficial challenge to order a meal in the base Burger King without any questions from the serving staff, who obviously recognised that something was afoot. The closest that anyone got, after much rehearsal in the transport going to base, was when he asked for his choice - explaining that he was very well that morning, did not want to go large, did not want water or a desert, and the meal was to eat in the restaurant [sic] etc. He stood back triumphantly only to be asked "do you want to pay in dollars or lira?"

Not to toot the old horn, but I could have done that (although I'd have to rely on an entirely chance mention that an AGM-88 is a HARM and it being fairly clear what ARM stands for).

To drag the thread back to my original point, I'm quite astonished that this stuff wouldn't be drilled into everyone in the military.

P

"To drag the thread back to my original point, I'm quite astonished that this stuff wouldn't be drilled into everyone in the military."


I assume that the excellent magazine "Recognition Journal" is no longer produced and distributed to the armed forces - a victim of funding cuts no doubt?!

One recalls a trip from Edmonton to Elmendorf AFB a few years ago in a 'K. About an hour prior to top of drop Flight engineer looks out of the port window and asks me:

"what's the name of that big lake?"

A: "The Pacific Ocean"*

Or the RAF co-pilot flying over the Alps asking "Which one's Everest"

Or the RAF co-pilot on another fleet, after hearing the above story, whilst flying over same said mountain range, asking, once the laughter had died down "Yeah, but which one is Everest?"

Or the RAF aircrew (can't remember crew position - probably co-pilot) stating, after getting out of breath playing beach volleyball, "it must be the altitude."


*I deleted a few expletives present in the original answer.

RECCE JOURNAL
 

Wensleydale wrote: Many years ago, the Education Section at the Covert Oxonian Aerodrome was having a clear out of the library. Someone was about to throw away a large number of magazines, but the wife of one of our Flt Cdrs (who worked there), managed to save a box full, which her husband passed on to me.....

Including the first ever edition of the 'Inter-Services Aircraft Recognition Journal', dated September 1942:


Here's one from a few years later (January 1958), by which time it was the 'Joint Services Recognition Journal:


OK - it's obviously a Spitfire on the cover of the Sep '42 edition, but anyone care to guess the aeroplane and ship on the Jan '58 edition? Or the carrier from which the photo was taken?

No doubt Haraka will know?

HMS Eagle & Belfast?

Edit: Hmm, don't think it's Belfast actually.

Wyvern of course.
Not sure of the carrier.
Possibly the Albion (or Eagle)
The cruiser could be the Bermuda ( Gambia or Mauritius?)

OK, couldn't have done that.

Carrier Deck letter code 'J' is HMS Eagle before the angled deck was fitted. Code was changed to 'E' afterwards.

Yes, but it's a Vc.

230 OCU ( I had to look that bit up ;))

Yes, it's indeed a Westland Wyvern on H.M.S. Eagle...

But the cruiser is neither Belfast, Bermuda, Gambia nor Mauritius.

Well Beags I am pretty sure the Cruiser is of the" Mauritius" class.

Others of her class were Jamaica and Kenya, but at that time they were close to being paid off..........

Not a Mauritius Class cruiser......but close.

A ship with a very impressive history!

Is the vessel moored in the Smoke, Beags?

No.









.

We've drifted a long way off the origins of this thread!


Ceylon class? Although I think both these and Mauritius class were subsets of the Colony class.


If not any of the above, then Swiftsure class?

Looks like Sheff to me.

Shiny Sheff ? (C24)