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Forum: Rotorheads
14th Apr 2024, 20:53
Replies: 18
Views: 3,062
Posted By TUPE

SAR Sby @ Buck House? Nice work if you can get it...

SAR Sby @ Buck House? Nice work if you can get it 😉
Forum: Rotorheads
14th Apr 2024, 12:17
Replies: 18
Views: 3,062
Posted By [email protected]

Some Sea Kings wot I have flown:) ...

Some Sea Kings wot I have flown:)
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1280x2000/dpr_06_05_out_unc_0018_46b8ac4b154ae1d4a0c33f50f30a03beac39bc8d.jpg...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Apr 2024, 17:18
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By langleybaston

One of my pleasant duties when I was doing...

One of my pleasant duties when I was doing penance in Civil was to run the Met. Office marquee and presentations at the Yorkshire Show and the Welsh Show and at big events such as RAF Open Days. Our...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Apr 2024, 18:35
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By langleybaston

The Falklands, the miners and the closure. ...

The Falklands, the miners and the closure.

Arriving at work 0830 I was greeted with “C Met O Strike [my Lord and Master for most military matters] has been ringing for you every ten minutes!”

I...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Apr 2024, 22:29
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By langleybaston

Close encounters of the wing commander ops kind. ...

Close encounters of the wing commander ops kind.

1. Gutersloh. Weather vile, stacked exceot for battle flight c. 1968. All jobs jobbed. Office cricket time, played with a miniature bat, waste...
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Apr 2024, 14:33
Replies: 18
Views: 3,062
Posted By albatross

RCN Sea King. ...

RCN Sea King.
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1227x960/img_7535_6c465f2aa9175bbe4c40473323f9fc5848958aaf.jpeg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Assiniboine_(DDH_234)
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Apr 2024, 19:21
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By langleybaston

The Long Hot Summer. I pass lightly over...

The Long Hot Summer.

I pass lightly over teaching at our college, an ex-RAF wartime HQ in beautiful grounds, with a club and a bar that served Breakspears ale, smelling of sewage and tasting...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Apr 2024, 19:13
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By langleybaston

Initials BF? A massive improvement on the two...

Initials BF?
A massive improvement on the two previous prats.
The second prat had zero sense of humour. A new young Greek lady cleaner arrived: little German sprach, no English.
She cleaned well...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Apr 2024, 14:03
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By Chugalug2

Here is a Form 2347, front and back, printed in...

Here is a Form 2347, front and back, printed in 1961. Later versions were redesigned and had more space for completing and less blurb, but for our purposes this is perhaps more explanatory. What on...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
7th Apr 2024, 09:42
Replies: 34
Views: 2,760
Posted By 42psi

The second and less well known relevant question...

The second and less well known relevant question is

"What is the recommended tyre pressures front and rear for the Honda Blackbird CBR 1100XX motorcycle"

42 psi :)
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Apr 2024, 09:23
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By teeteringhead

When first married, Milady Teeters and self had a...

When first married, Milady Teeters and self had a quarter at Gutersloh next to the S Met O. He had made a bar in his cellar (all the quarters had a cellar), and we went there for pre-drinks before a...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Apr 2024, 17:45
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By Chugalug2

Ah, this is what I had in mind! Well done...

Ah, this is what I had in mind! Well done Nugget90, you have reminded me of a mass briefing for Exercise Tense Caper (no other was so well named). This was the culmination of para and stores drop...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Apr 2024, 09:56
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By ex-fast-jets

1970 - RAF Valley. Usual start to the day -...

1970 - RAF Valley.

Usual start to the day - Met Brief.

We (most of us) freshly released from Fort Cranwell sitting attentively with our regulation short (very!!) back and sides.

Met Man -...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Apr 2024, 23:44
Replies: 69
Views: 6,280
Posted By dogle

Ninthace - was it not ‘Gallia omnia divisia est...

Ninthace - was it not ‘Gallia omnia divisia est in partes tres’ - much more difficult to translate grammatically under my very demanding Latin master [who was ex-RAF, “five horrid years” in India in...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Apr 2024, 22:52
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By Chugalug2

LB, your story is not only about you, or your...

LB, your story is not only about you, or your family, or the Met Office, or the various RAF Stations you were posted to. It is all of those things and much more; times, places, events, that were...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Apr 2024, 18:06
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By langleybaston

It was now 1970. The IBM 360/195 computer was...

It was now 1970. The IBM 360/195 computer was being installed at Bracknell, and all the war-dispersed HQ cells had come home to roost. The 10-level Bushby-Timpson model, was based on the scheme...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Apr 2024, 17:30
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By langleybaston

The Forum is replete with those who say that...

The Forum is replete with those who say that Gutersloh was their dream tour. Amen to that.
1967 found me, aged 30, briefly living in the famous Mess on this old Luftwaffe station, with a shiny new...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Apr 2024, 11:16
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
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: 135
Views: 24,712
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: 135
Views: 24,712
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
4th Apr 2024, 09:16
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
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
3rd Apr 2024, 20:11
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By BEagle

Your genuine reminiscences will be most welcome -...

Your genuine reminiscences will be most welcome - and a blessed relief from a lot of the doom and gloom posted by keyboard warriors these days on PPRuNe!

We had a MetO at RAFC Cranwell in 1975 who...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Apr 2024, 19:17
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By ShyTorque

I recall a certain Met O at Gutersloh who did our...

I recall a certain Met O at Gutersloh who did our squadron met brief one winter morning without mentioning the snow that was covering the back of his blazer as he walked in! Must have been a “good...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Apr 2024, 18:13
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
Posted By Robert Wyer

A grateful user

As a navigator plotter, on Canberras in Cyprus , 249 Gold Coast Sqn, and subsequently Vulcans, 44 Rhodesia Sqn at Waddington I was used , on a regular basis, to the very high professional quality of...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Apr 2024, 18:12
Replies: 135
Views: 24,712
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: Rotorheads
28th Mar 2024, 10:47
Replies: 14
Views: 4,295
Posted By peterperfect

I only met Graham a couple of times and sad to...

I only met Graham a couple of times and sad to hear of his passing. Here is a photo of his flying course at Culdrose back in the early 70s....
Forum: Rotorheads
10th Mar 2024, 16:07
Replies: 18
Views: 3,062
Posted By Phil Kemp

Sixty Fifth anniversary of the Sea King first flight

Sixty five years ago, on the 11th March 1959, the prototype Sikorsky YHSS-2 helicopter took to the air for the first time. This model became the SH-3A Sea King and also evolved into the legendary...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
29th Feb 2024, 09:45
Replies: 32
Views: 5,241
Posted By Ascend Charlie

Jordan 776, who is also new to the forum, uses...

Jordan 776, who is also new to the forum, uses the same poor grammar and wording that MJet does - perhaps M whipped up a new name to write a glowing appraisal?
Forum: Rotorheads
28th Feb 2024, 09:44
Replies: 18
Views: 2,933
Posted By [email protected]

CJ, sensors (gyro, accelerometers etc), AFCS...

CJ, sensors (gyro, accelerometers etc), AFCS computers, linear and parallel actuators - all electronic. The flying controls - rods, levers, wires etc to hydraulic servo jacks.

The AFCS computers...
Forum: Rotorheads
23rd Feb 2024, 08:03
Replies: 14
Views: 4,295
Posted By MichaelCollins

Sad news. Death of Graham Caven

Regret to say Graham Caven, previously Chief Pilot at Gulf Helicopters, Doha and other locations has died.
He helped a lot of people get started in/advance in their career - I know I was very...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Feb 2024, 22:12
Replies: 4
Views: 1,704
Posted By topgas

Larry Taylor, Vietnam helicopter pilot

Obituary for Larry Taylor, Cobra pilot who defied orders and landed under fire to rescue four soldiers, who had to cling to the skids and rocket pods. A brave man.

Larry Taylor Obituary, The Times...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Feb 2024, 14:04
Replies: 12
Views: 2,805
Posted By Mogwi

In 1967: WP801, WB671, WK634, WP904 and WK511. ...

In 1967: WP801, WB671, WK634, WP904 and WK511.

I went solo in WP 904 on 10th Feb 67 and flew my FHT with your father on 14th Feb in WK511. He unleashed me on an unsuspecting world of Service...
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Feb 2024, 06:32
Replies: 12
Views: 2,805
Posted By SpazSinbad

The story told by Andy Craig, one of the pilots...

The story told by Andy Craig, one of the pilots aboard the aircraft:

http://3j8lrq31uyjk1yo9b01c7jub.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/MysteryPhoto14.jpg &...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Feb 2024, 23:19
Replies: 2
Views: 821
Posted By havoc

Guys I used to fly with in Buffs are asking about...

Guys I used to fly with in Buffs are asking about alert and working from home on another site

had to laugh at one posting:
...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Feb 2024, 11:52
Replies: 22
Views: 3,157
Posted By Lonewolf_50

I remember doing the math on dropping a bucket of...

I remember doing the math on dropping a bucket of sunshine from a helicopter and trying to be out of the danger radius when it went off.
Our crew prep complete (for the exercise) we decided that...
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