Perhaps a good follow up question is where you expect to be in 5 years from now at the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11?

The moon landing was one of my very earliest memories: my parents ordered me, aged 3, to sit in front of the black-and-white television to watch "history in the making". I remember that quite clearly, but I am afraid I don't remember a thing about what we saw.....

Mystic

It is probably the earlier clear memory I have as well.

Hey Goudie, My Dad was also seconded to the RMAF. I watched it all in PJ Jalan 11/14. probably not old enough to be allowed a whole tin of Tiger. That one event did have quite an impact on my life. Coff will tell you how emotional I get about space travel. I told my own kids that one day I will take them there [pointing to the moon] which I regularly observe through the telescope or binoculars. Unfortunately I now feel I let them down.
Its great to see the artefacts at the Smithsonian. I was disappointed last week at our Science Museum that the Lander was not real but one of the capsules was. I must have dreamed about having touched a piece of rock from the moon as the bit at Kensington is in a glass case filled with some inert gas.

16 July 69 1:25 with Douggie Barr doing I/F in Phantom XT 907 and then 1:35 in XV 416 carrying out a sim strike and night flying with Gay Horning on 6 Sqn.

Having a day off in Tachikawa on a North Pacific trainer - went downtown Tokyo on an underground train with the co-pilot, Ian Johnson RIP.

At RAF Valley, doing mountain rescue trail.....It worked.

Celebrating my first Birthday....nice of NASA to do that for me :)

Waiting to be born, then made my way into the world 4 days later, on the day they landed on the moon. Apparently was going to be named Neil after Neil Armstrong, but Mr & Mrs Tunnels decided on Two.

I'd have been about 9 months old. Probably wondering why all these grownups were walking about on 2 feet, and could I have a bit of that please?

I just about remember the later Saturn missions - Skylab, and particularly the Apollo-Soyuz mission, but nothing from 9 months!

I had started delivering papers (10 yrs old) and reading them (at least superficially) and was interested in this, so my parent got me up to watch launch and landing (live) as we were out in Hawaii (Z-10hrs)..... my 3 younger brothers expressed no interest at all....

I was on my Warrant Officer course at RAF Innsworth. Watched it live at O dark thirty and had to be on deck bright eyed and bushy tailed at 0800.

On board one of Her Majesty's flat tops in the Indian Ocean on a no scheduled flying day listening to the BBC World Service coverage via the ship's tannoy.

I was at RAF Tangmere and watched the launch in the mess TV room. Those Saturn V rockets were certainly something to see and hear. Sadly, we seem to have gone backwards since those days.

Bob C

Counting down the days- about 35, till I was due at OASC Biggin Hill, for my great adventure to start! Watched the landing coverage on the telly, then went out and looked at the moon- seemed a bit different.
As for 5 years from now- hope to be typing the same rubbish on Pprune, having forgotten I did it 5 years earlier.

Working for the U.S. Navy flying one of my 153 combat missions in the Vought F-8 Crusader based on the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga CVA-14 maneuvering off the coast of North Vietnam and having the time of my life.

I've done a lot of exciting things since then, but my personal "fun meter" has never been nearly as high as it was back then. Of course I was a youngster and perhaps I didn't know any better.

One trip, Lightning F3 XP 736, 90-180 Unknowns out of Wattisham. (one peep is worth a thousand sweeps!)

Also one trip, Hunter FGA9 XJ680, from Sharjah, firing 30mm and dropping 25 lb practice bombs on Rashid range. Unlike a previous reporter, I don't remember any TV in Bahrain at that time, nor any local radio station, though we could get about 3 channels of VHF FM, mostly music, from Aramco in Dhahran.

On the 16th July 1969 I was getting excited about becoming ten years old the next day.

In a bar in Malta having come ashore from HMS Bulwark. We were on a 4 month deployment around the Med.

Probably B&W radio then (BBC WS?) - I was definitely tuned into summat.

I don't remember seeing the event live. I was either on watch in ATC Approach at RAF Tengah, gazing at the AR-1 display but not picking up Apollo 11, or at home in our hiring in Bukit Timah where we didn't have a TV.

Was it 45 years ago? How time flies!

Sitting in the crew room on QRA 39 sqdn Malta

Preparing for this:

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New Forest summer picnic, following this:

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Somewhere between graduation from BRNC Darmouth and starting the Seafield Park survival course (immediately after the IoW pop festival).

Anyone else remember John Winton's books, "We Joined the Navy" and "We Saw the Sea", based on Dartmouth and subsequent sea training

Ten hours ten minutes, most of it night, in a Shackleton over the South China Sea, on Exercise Julex. Now there's an imaginative name for an exercise in July.

Yes

And the others:

Down the Hatch
Never Go to Sea
All the Nice Girls then a couple of serious novels
HMS Leviathan
The Fighting "Téméraire"

(real name - John Pratt - his, not mine:ok:)

Mister B

Saw it on the B&W tv in the 1OCU crewroom at RAAF Amberley.

I remember walking in from a bombing trip at Evans Head range. Logbook says: "Canberra A84-225, bombing EVD, 2.30".

Long trip - must have had lots of bombs!! But then again, I needed the practice.

Three hours in a Vanguard (BEA) LHR-PMI in the days when you flew through the Pyrennees, not over them!

Wings awarded 5 days previously and just turned 21.

NFI what I was doing, apart from being on leave before starting AFT (and doing a summer navex to Nuremburg in a Hiller 12E!) :cool:

In the back of a Canadian Armed Forces (they had stopped being RCAF ) Britannia (or whatever they called it, CC-106 Yukon maybe?) crossing the Atlantic on my way to Portage-la- Prairie near Winnipeg from LGW to do a quick familiarisation course on the CL41 Tutor, prior to joining a foreign air force on loan service to teach them to fly it! We night stopped in Toronto, I think it was, and I watched the actual landing on TV in the officers' mess there.

Had my last flight in a Hiller at Wallop before the Summer break and starting on the mighty Sioux!

On ATC camp at South Cerney with 29F Flight.

HTB - better memory than mine, but read them all

Flying a Hunter FR 10 on Exercise Whirligig

Gestating.

Flying from Lyneham to Akrotiri in Britannia XM 491 on the start of my first Changi Slip as a captain.

We arrived in Changi four hours before Apollo 11 landed on the moon and were enjoying a Tiger beer or two in the Changi Creek Transit Hotel crew bar, listening to a live radio report of the drama as it unfolded.

Watching it on a black and white tele as an 11 year old wondering why just about everything gave me an erection.

That's funny HTB, I was also at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth as a cadet (Blake Division).

Driving to RAF St Athan for an RAF swimming and Water Polo competition!
mcdhu