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Forum: Military Aviation
7th May 2024, 07:03
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By Chugalug2

LB, thank you for laying bare the ups and downs...

LB, thank you for laying bare the ups and downs of service with the RAF as a 'weather guesser'. The Met Office might only have been your second choice of career given the summary rejection on medical...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th May 2024, 18:27
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By langleybaston

Finally. The plods turned up without prior...

Finally.

The plods turned up without prior notification and found me at home and actually working.
They were cagey about the reason so I decamped to the dining room and asked Joyce to take notes....
Forum: Military Aviation
1st May 2024, 15:17
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By Nugget90

Met Instruments - Transmissometers Although...

Met Instruments - Transmissometers

Although several of the met instruments used in forecasting have been mentioned, another that might be recalled is the transmissometer, a device used to assist...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Apr 2024, 18:13
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By langleybaston

Brize, Southern England and BFG. Be careful...

Brize, Southern England and BFG.

Be careful what you wish for!

Living in Lincolnshire and stationed at Brize for a couple of years was not ideal but I was granted very good accommodation in the...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Apr 2024, 12:37
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By langleybaston

Balloons were either red, blue or white according...

Balloons were either red, blue or white according to a judgement on cloud amount, cirrus especially. Flights at night tracked a suspended candle lantern under the hydrogen balloon. Elfansafety had...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Apr 2024, 11:02
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By langleybaston

Yes, absolutely, what some might call balls of...

Yes, absolutely, what some might call balls of brass these days.

Interestingly the names spoken in reverent whispers were of CKM Douglas and Sverre Peterssen. Douglas retired just before I joined...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Apr 2024, 15:07
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By Chugalug2

And therein of course is the clue. It seems that...

And therein of course is the clue. It seems that the issue in 1940 was that he was tasked with working on the met aspects of the spraying of war gas. Given the imminent fear of invasion this was...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Apr 2024, 13:39
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By langleybaston

We interrupt this diatribe to bring any readers...

We interrupt this diatribe to bring any readers still awake the first contribution from the ex- Chief Met Officer Strike Command. More promised after his impending holiday.

THE MOBILE MET UNIT...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Apr 2024, 21:13
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By langleybaston

Inspections and anemometers There were no...

Inspections and anemometers

There were no “Instructions for Inspecting Officers”; an inspection had to be performed annually and report made to Defence branch. The geography of the Bawtry group...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Apr 2024, 16:12
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By langleybaston

Measuring performance: a little tiresome theory. ...

Measuring performance: a little tiresome theory.
Back in my early Bawtry days around 1982 I entered the unpopularity stakes and did very well indeed.

There were eleven stations, some were 24/7,...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Apr 2024, 18:40
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By langleybaston

The Night Manager. Gutersloh Met in the late...

The Night Manager.

Gutersloh Met in the late 60s through to about 1983 was under the guidance and supervision of the Main Met Office at JHQ, manned by elderly cautious and hesitant old gents...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Apr 2024, 08:12
Replies: 1,217
Views: 417,374
Posted By Bob Viking

Fortissimo

Maybe when you consider that the IDF has considerably more combat ready fighters than the RAF and it’s in their own backyard they should take care of what they started themselves. And escalation is...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Apr 2024, 18:35
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
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: 223
Views: 40,996
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: Military Aviation
10th Apr 2024, 14:33
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By langleybaston

Wildenrath denied. One major omission on...

Wildenrath denied.

One major omission on the CV was being a S Met O. Apart from running courses at the college, my managerial experience was limited to running a shift of four people. When the...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Apr 2024, 18:08
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By langleybaston

TACEVAL. My first was to learn the ropes...

TACEVAL.

My first was to learn the ropes with John D., the previous incumbent. We went to Liege, clutching the TACEVAL Olivetti portable and the relevant passes. Hotels were pre-booked for the...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Apr 2024, 19:13
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
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
6th Apr 2024, 17:45
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
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, 17:08
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By langleybaston

Nineteen weeks. HR believed that taking...

Nineteen weeks.

HR believed that taking newly-promoted [and presumably fairly proficient] outstation forecasters and swapping them with notionally forecaster-trained desk-jockeys was A GOOD IDEA....
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Apr 2024, 14:32
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
Posted By Nugget90

LB, your excellent story has awoken a few...

LB, your excellent story has awoken a few memories of events that occurred whilst flying Hastings aeroplanes from RAF Colerne alongside my friend and colleague Chugalug 2. I trust you will remember...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Apr 2024, 18:06
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
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: 223
Views: 40,996
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: 223
Views: 40,996
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: 223
Views: 40,996
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: 223
Views: 40,996
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
Replies: 223
Views: 40,996
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: 223
Views: 40,996
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
18th Mar 2024, 14:39
Replies: 10,578
Views: 4,718,896
Posted By ANOpax

Er, ORAC, I think you ARE one of the experts when...

Er, ORAC, I think you ARE one of the experts when it comes to the prosecution of this war.
It has been said before, but please keep up the excellent work.
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Mar 2024, 20:38
Replies: 144
Views: 41,129
Posted By langleybaston

Game on ........... the tall one with dark...

Game on ........... the tall one with dark sunnies fourth from right. The group are not all Rocks, several trades....
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Nov 2023, 16:51
Replies: 8
Views: 2,864
Posted By NorthSouth

Well said crab. As a well known (now no longer...

Well said crab. As a well known (now no longer with us) Jewish MP once said in the Commons, "the murder of my grandmother in Auschwitz does not justify the murder of Palestinian grandmothers in...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Nov 2023, 16:49
Replies: 8
Views: 2,864
Posted By Sallyann1234

Can be? They certainly are.

Can be? They certainly are.
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Nov 2023, 16:41
Replies: 8
Views: 2,864
Posted By [email protected]

It is their right to protest at something that is...

It is their right to protest at something that is approaching genocide in Gaza - hardly Hamas luvvies if you don't like seeing children butchered.

Hamas and Israel can both be wrong, it is not a...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Oct 2023, 05:34
Replies: 171
Views: 50,477
Posted By ORAC

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/16/no...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/16/northamptonshire-police-chief-suspended-over-falklands-war-medal-complaint

Northamptonshire police chief suspended over Falklands war medal...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Oct 2023, 10:38
Replies: 462
Views: 131,972
Posted By Bob Viking

Frank Gardner Report

I apologise for the Instagram link for the video. If anyone is able to find a better link please post it.

I find the video a really uncomfortable watch to be honest. The attacks of last week by...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Sep 2023, 12:36
Replies: 157
Views: 67,636
Posted By Mogwi

Warning, thread drift. “G-XXXX, Bournemouth...

Warning, thread drift.

“G-XXXX, Bournemouth Radar, what is your position?”

“G-XX is 8 miles north at 1500ft”

“G-XX, we can’t see you on radar.”

”That’s because I’m made of wood”
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