Spacewalk terminated due to golf ball sized amount of water in the suit of Tim Kopra.

Not at all - proud to have served with a force for which aviation was the entire rationale rather than an extra on the side!

Not bad then is it, to be up on the ISS after being in a force where aviation is, according to Kenny, just something on the side. :roll eyes:

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To be honest, I don't give a flying :mad: what "force" he once served in.

What he has achieved since is quite incredible. :D:D:D:D

If he was a dedicated AAC Pilot, he would have refused the to go as soon as he realized that despite a circa 4,320 hour sortie, he could only clock one landing, and therefore was not eligible for aircrew rations...

Agree with Glad Rag, who gives a flying F*** what service he joined up. He was selected over others on merit and his capability to do what he is doing. Great to see a Briton doing an EVA as a Briton with the union flag on his suit, never thought one would see that in my lifetime with the attitude HM Government had to manned spaceflight in the past.

I rather enjoyed the Radio 4 interview with Nick Patrick who has done 18hrs of spacewalking some 10 years ago. The Radio 4 presenter asked him what it would be like for Tim to do a spacewalk.

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 15/01/2016, An astronaut's guide to spacewalking

I probably need to remind the teeny-brained Teeny Weeny Airways chaps about Nick. He is British born, the RAF taught him to fly, he attended Harrow/Cambridge, carried a RAF Ensign into space for the Chief of the Air Staff and in the clip you can hear he has still got a fine English accent. He had to become a US citizen to get his way onto the NASA program and flew in a spacecraft with wings rather than a washing-machine tub with a heat shield.

Read it and weep Teeny Weeny boys, your ex AAC chap got there after the ex RAF chap...:E

LJ

http://www.halton96th.org.uk/wpimages/wpad57b76f.gif

I wonder if he found himself floating in a most peculiar way...
Lucky man, and seemed very humble from the doco we watched down here in Aus.

Why has aviating got anything at all to do with astronauting, except for historical antecedent from the moon launches?

Looked at rationally, the best modern-day space-station candidates would be submariners (trained to live in ****e conditions on rubbish food for months on end, respiring their own farts, drinking their own piss, and managing complex machines), with experience in scuba-diving (nearest simulation to space walking), and some parachuting experience (so re-entry is familiar). So look at SPAG blokes.

Ah. I spotted your subtle reference to a well known rock singer there, Tartare. Greg Lake.

Trained to do what LJ, because if it was to become a qualified RAF pilot he obviously didn't pass. Have a go at googling Dr Nick Patrick and show us all an image of him wearing a RAF brevet and a Union Flag because the only ones I see are of him wearing a US flying badge and his shoulder emblazoned with Old Glory.

Read it and laugh you mean, the only connection Nick Patrick had with the RAF is his two years in the Cambridge University Air Squadron :rolleyes:

I wish I was the Op, I'd make this disappear...

Oh, so easy...

http://www.toffeetalk.com/public/sty...lt/fishing.gif

...Pongo fishing...

How many Brits are in the secret space program with their anti-gravity craft and what not?

Some gwar going round the earth isn't very interesting, water in helmet or not.

Ah, poor dear.
After being torn apart, the old "I was only winding you up" routine.
:rolleyes:


Anyone care to read this thread again to see who was actually doing the fishing :ok:

Pongoes in Space :ok:

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Sadly for you Silsoe, I think Leon has flamed your argument and certainly hooked you on the last one http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/s...violent028.gif

Whilst this is a great personal achievement for Tim, and good for the Army Air Corps, he joins a precession of Brits that have done all of this before him. We can try and dress it up however we like but there is no great national milestone here. Sharman was the first and a bunch of Brits followed before Tim started. If he was still a serving officer then that would be a first for HMForces, but he is an ESA employee just like the other Brits before that were part of Project JUNO or had to take US citizenship to join the NASA Program.

'Nuff said :rolleyes:

CPL Clott

PS. Just looked at your picture and found a first. Is he the first Flight Engineer for the AAC? :p :p

Thanks for that Cpl Clott (RAF),
You couldn't be bothered to read the previous posts on this thread then I see!

If you had, you'll see that none of us here have claimed any firsts on this topic, you've simply been blinded by your own crabby envy.
Seems to me that if you and Leon entered a three legged race, the saving grace would be that your chips would balance the pair of you out. :ok:


I'm sure Helen Sharman wasn't an ESA employee, and as for the others :confused::confused::confused: