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Forum: Military Aviation

5th Apr 2024, 15:12

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A Weather-Guesser's Memories with the RAF

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Posted By langleybaston

Topcliffe next stop RAF Topcliffe was very...

Topcliffe next stop

RAF Topcliffe was very near to home in Thirsk and I had served a few detachments there looking after the Air Electronics school and Northern Comms squadron aircraft, a mix of...

Forum: Military Aviation

5th Apr 2024, 11:16

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A Weather-Guesser's Memories with the RAF

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Posted By langleybaston

Meanwhile, what of the Ferranti Mercury [ours was...

Meanwhile, what of the Ferranti Mercury [ours was called Meteor] forecast outputs using a three atmospheric level model operating on Europe and the western Atlantic? Whereas the essential equations...

Forum: Military Aviation

4th Apr 2024, 16:41

Replies: 191

A Weather-Guesser's Memories with the RAF

Views: 33,022

Posted By langleybaston

In those days all junior forecasters were passed...

In those days all junior forecasters were passed as observers so the tradition was to allow the observer an hour sack time 0001 to 0100 Zulu when observations from all sources were staggering in. The...

Forum: Military Aviation

4th Apr 2024, 11:08

Replies: 191

A Weather-Guesser's Memories with the RAF

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Posted By langleybaston

Joyce and I and a very young army officer were...

Joyce and I and a very young army officer were ushered into one room, and everyone else into a larger. A smart RAF officer thrust a bag at me, said I was senior officer on board the RAF Britannia, so...

Forum: Military Aviation

3rd Apr 2024, 22:18

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A Weather-Guesser's Memories with the RAF

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Posted By langleybaston

The Initial Forecast Course was [inevitably in...

The Initial Forecast Course was [inevitably in those days] all male, eleven AXOs and one Chinese. Most of us wore grey flannels and dark blazers. Teaching was on a chalkboard. The senior instructor...

Forum: Military Aviation

3rd Apr 2024, 18:12

Replies: 191

A Weather-Guesser's Memories with the RAF

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Posted By langleybaston

we shall see .......................................

we shall see ....................................
As I was saying:.
Memory being dimmed by time, I may have told some of these tales before, and differently. All I can say is that I tell no...

Forum: Military Aviation

3rd Apr 2024, 16:06

Replies: 191

A Weather-Guesser's Memories with the RAF

Views: 33,022

Posted By langleybaston

A Weather-Guesser's Memories with the RAF

I offer these memories in the hope that they may entertain and inform. If not, please laugh and tear up.

The 41 years spanned an era of astonishing change, not least in the quality of weather...

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