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Forum: Military Aviation

5th Apr 2024, 10:53

Replies: 69

Post drifts valet observatio

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Posted By Shackman

7 Sqn Motto - Per Diem, Per Noctum, Per Haps

7 Sqn Motto - Per Diem, Per Noctum, Per Haps

Forum: Military Aviation

4th Apr 2024, 09:16

Replies: 165

A Weather-Guesser's Memories with the RAF

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Posted By Shackman

Even now, some 12 years since I threw my flying...

Even now, some 12 years since I threw my flying kit in the corner, my wife still looks out the window in the morning and if the weather is c**p says "Ten o'clock clearance dear?"

Forum: Military Aviation

19th Jan 2024, 09:45

Replies: 20

Want to buy a windsceeen?

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Posted By Shackman

Not just B-2s or even Vulcans. In the early...

Not just B-2s or even Vulcans. In the early 1970's one of the 'new' AEW Shackletons on 8 Sqn developed a leak from the de-icing fluid tank (used to spread fluid from the leading edge of the wings in...

Forum: Military Aviation

31st Jan 2023, 13:48

Replies: 50

Early NVG and FLIR in UK?

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Posted By Shackman

Like many of the others here, my introduction to...

Like many of the others here, my introduction to NVG was in Northern Ireland in 1980/81, when the first generation PNG arrived for us to use (AN-PVS 5?). This wonderful device was worn (I use the...

Forum: Military Aviation

10th Oct 2003, 04:11

Replies: 66

lightning supercruise

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Posted By Shackman

A bit off the subject I know, but my most...

A bit off the subject I know, but my most memorable meeting with a Lightning (apart from the one that tried to bounce us in the Med when we were v-e-r-y low and slow) was at Acklington (sadly now...

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