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Forum: Military Aviation
7th Apr 2024, 19:14
Replies: 173
Views: 30,130
Posted By langleybaston

No, that was a hangar fire with a/c destroyed?...

No, that was a hangar fire with a/c destroyed? Not guilty as charged.
A vignette:
We lived in Bessacar, nice 5 bed det. funded by overseas tours.
From the kitchen my wife could see the Rossington...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Apr 2024, 14:03
Replies: 173
Views: 30,130
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: Military Aviation
6th Apr 2024, 17:45
Replies: 173
Views: 30,130
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: 173
Views: 30,130
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, 16:11
Replies: 173
Views: 30,130
Posted By langleybaston

I cannot leave Dinger Bell and the Finningley...

I cannot leave Dinger Bell and the Finningley homos to drift. I think I have told this before, if so, a recap,
Mid morning in the coffee room, Nav School. Staff and studes mixed, as we were...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Apr 2024, 16:02
Replies: 173
Views: 30,130
Posted By langleybaston

Nugget 90: Two days later we flew on Exercise...

Nugget 90:
Two days later we flew on Exercise Solinus II that involved some 30 Beverly, Argosy and Hastings aeroplanes flying in trail at night around most of the Cyprus coastline before depositing...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Apr 2024, 14:32
Replies: 173
Views: 30,130
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
6th Apr 2024, 09:08
Replies: 173
Views: 30,130
Posted By Chugalug2

Finningley? Never been there AFAIR, so much for...

Finningley? Never been there AFAIR, so much for my suggestion then! We'll have to wander rather more off-piste than that I'm afraid, LB. How about 5FTS, RAF Oakington October 1962? I and my fellow...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Apr 2024, 22:52
Replies: 173
Views: 30,130
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: 173
Views: 30,130
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: 173
Views: 30,130
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, 15:12
Replies: 173
Views: 30,130
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
Replies: 173
Views: 30,130
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: 173
Views: 30,130
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: 173
Views: 30,130
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, 09:14
Replies: 173
Views: 30,130
Posted By Chugalug2

I can but endorse the welcome to what promises to...

I can but endorse the welcome to what promises to be a fascinating and instructive experience as we peer behind the scenes of the personal met brief that was the luxury enjoyed by RAF Transport and...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Apr 2024, 22:18
Replies: 173
Views: 30,130
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, 19:49
Replies: 173
Views: 30,130
Posted By WB627

LB First I always read your posts, they are...

LB

First I always read your posts, they are amongst some of the most interesting on here.

Second I thank you for your service, as I am sure anyone who benefited from your forecasts did or...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Apr 2024, 18:12
Replies: 173
Views: 30,130
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: 173
Views: 30,130
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...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Jan 2024, 22:59
Replies: 12,908
Views: 4,833,215
Posted By Chugalug2

How poignant are these military cemeteries. As...

How poignant are these military cemeteries. As Sam Brooks points out, always laid out in parade like rows and groups, whether in the large CWGC cemeteries overseas or the more intimate village...
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