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2nd Mar 2024, 10:52
Replies: 108
Views: 34,586
Posted By Chugalug2

An Inspiration to Us All!

A clear indication that the desire here to uncover the cover up is shared with those who lost loved ones at Mull as we approach the 30th anniversary this year. Herewith yesterday's story from the...
27th Feb 2024, 18:01
Replies: 108
Views: 34,586
Posted By Chugalug2

Well said, dervish. The BoI was compromised from...

Well said, dervish. The BoI was compromised from the start. Denied witnesses, eg the Odiham Test Pilot (who knew more about the 'idiosyncrasies' of the Mk2 than most, having suffered them all on...
25th Feb 2024, 07:52
Replies: 295
Views: 60,017
Posted By henra

It's sad to see how Trust and Relationships built...

It's sad to see how Trust and Relationships built up over decades are destroyed within one or two Years of internal political skirmishes. The damage done to the Trustworthiness of the US by this...
11th Feb 2024, 15:51
Replies: 50
Views: 10,861
Posted By Lordflasheart

Command Eject

Dear Beagle
...


Does it matter ? I read the book ... ***



Proper pax brief didn't save Corporal Bayliss - except the SI revealed his familiarisation training was short-changed. Front to...
11th Feb 2024, 15:03
Replies: 50
Views: 10,861
Posted By Bob Viking

BEagle

I apologise in advance if you think I pick on you but, if it makes you feel any better, I only disagree with you when I think you’re wrong about something.

The attitudes to risk in the post war...
10th Feb 2024, 20:11
Replies: 50
Views: 10,861
Posted By Lordflasheart

What's more damning ...

...
What's more damning is that they seem to be still carrying pax in the back seat without command eject (front ejects back) and they seem to be still using the out of date scissors shackle ejector...
3rd Feb 2024, 09:05
Replies: 108
Views: 34,586
Posted By tucumseh

Controller Aircraft is a 3-Star civilian or...

Controller Aircraft is a 3-Star civilian or Service appointment in (at the time) MoD(PE), in charge of the Air Systems Controllerate. As distinct from Land and Sea.

He received his airworthiness...
2nd Feb 2024, 11:47
Replies: 108
Views: 34,586
Posted By ShyTorque

Possibly if it were upheld because it might have...

Possibly if it were upheld because it might have helped to scrape egg off the faces of some who should have kept it on the peaks of their SD hats.

Pilots didn’t trust the Mk2. Additionally, this...
2nd Feb 2024, 10:18
Replies: 108
Views: 34,586
Posted By tucumseh

The biggest cock-up was the FADEC procurement...

The biggest cock-up was the FADEC procurement strategy in the late 80s. Breached every known rule going. When the RAF's Training Development Team ('train the trainers') visited Boeing in 1992/3...
20th Jan 2024, 05:27
Replies: 1,144
Views: 612,424
Posted By tucumseh

No, it is not I who is 'giving a compelling...

No, it is not I who is 'giving a compelling basis...' It is a combination of:

a. Martin-Baker (correctly) withdrawing support for old seat designs in legacy aircraft, negating the Safety Cases and...
19th Jan 2024, 08:31
Replies: 1,144
Views: 612,424
Posted By Chugalug2

It is rather depressing that after all the...

It is rather depressing that after all the airworthiness related fatal accident threads to be found in this forum, people can still refer to airworthiness (or more appropriately the lack of it) in...
19th Jan 2024, 02:58
Replies: 1,144
Views: 612,424
Posted By tucumseh

Idle B (and Diff) It's not that I 'may very...

Idle B (and Diff)

It's not that I 'may very well be right', it's that I'm simply repeating the conclusions of he AAIB, which I agree with. And where they did not comment or explain, I'm relaying...
18th Jan 2024, 09:31
Replies: 28
Views: 9,679
Posted By Flipster130

My copy is sitting on the coffee table, waiting...

My copy is sitting on the coffee table, waiting for me to finish a pile of other books......that said, Citadel is actually, now, on top of that pile waiting for me to finish my current tome (which I...
17th Jan 2024, 14:23
Replies: 1,144
Views: 612,424
Posted By tucumseh

Regarding the AAIB report, while it was certainly...

Regarding the AAIB report, while it was certainly poor in some areas, it was infinitely better than any MoD report, which tend to look only at the final act.

What interested me most was that it...
10th Jan 2024, 13:46
Replies: 28
Views: 9,679
Posted By Chugalug2

True enough, MTM, so what to do? I would first...

True enough, MTM, so what to do? I would first challenge the presumption that the only thing that stirred people over the Horizon Scandal is that we all use the PO. Rather it was the needless cost in...
5th Jan 2024, 09:00
Replies: 28
Views: 9,679
Posted By Chugalug2

That's the nub of it! He has somehow performed...

That's the nub of it! He has somehow performed the impossible and informed us not only of the arcane world of airworthiness, of how it should be and unfortunately isn't, but of how the MOD...
28th Dec 2023, 20:23
Replies: 256
Views: 97,763
Posted By Chugalug2

Terrible though the claims of sexual predation...

Terrible though the claims of sexual predation within RAFAT are, these weren't the only concerns raised about the Reds last night. Air Safety, or the lack of it, was also mentioned and the threat of...
2nd Dec 2023, 09:22
Replies: 9,385
Views: 4,203,946
Posted By Spunky Monkey

If you have the time, grab a coffee and something...

If you have the time, grab a coffee and something to squeeze.
This is an emotional video, where you can see the bravery and the fear of a small team, no more than 12 men and women, not a platoon,...
21st Nov 2023, 11:09
Replies: 1,392
Views: 459,656
Posted By Lyneham Lad

British complacency over defence has to end

Article by William Hague in The Times. (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2dcbe0e9-f5e5-4bcc-838f-6f952f4e4801?shareToken=09faa2a01facea5b06740b765e2e7a8e)
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9th Nov 2023, 13:21
Replies: 9,385
Views: 4,203,946
Posted By RedToo

Sad but true. Media focus moves away from...

Sad but true. Media focus moves away from Ukraine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UluV9n2LtL4&t=9s
Forum: Rotorheads
17th Oct 2023, 21:26
Replies: 344
Views: 169,175
Posted By mickjoebill

We were in the public gallery on Monday and if...

We were in the public gallery on Monday and if you wish, consider that we represented Ppruners when the entire house
​​stood for a moments silence.
Lest we forget
16th Oct 2023, 14:13
Replies: 157
Views: 67,025
Posted By ORAC

Reference the above. The Fighter Engine...

Reference the above.

The Fighter Engine Debate – More is not Better
Billie Flynn | 8 Sep 2021
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fighter-engine-debate-more-better-billie-flynn
22nd Sep 2023, 18:33
Replies: 287
Views: 160,335
Posted By charliegolf

1. Wing Commander 2. Squadron Commander. 3...

1. Wing Commander
2. Squadron Commander.
3 Fighter Controller.

Problem?

CG
10th Sep 2023, 22:01
Replies: 20
Views: 4,697
Posted By Professor Plum

It was a deliberate move to incite pprune...

It was a deliberate move to incite pprune outrage.

Seems like the mission was a complete success.
30th Aug 2023, 18:36
Replies: 9,385
Views: 4,203,946
Posted By RedToo

The pic of the IL-76 with burned out cockpit is...

The pic of the IL-76 with burned out cockpit is from 2009. Can't post URLs yet so:

en dot wikipedia dot org slash wiki slash 2009 underscore Makhachkala underscoreIl-76 underscore collision
26th Aug 2023, 05:46
Replies: 454
Views: 218,128
Posted By tucumseh

I think one has to place the FAA's inability to...

I think one has to place the FAA's inability to support SHAR in context.

The policy whereby all Air Systems support funding was transferred to the RAF (AMSO at the time) meant the FAA lost control...
8th Aug 2023, 09:11
Replies: 7,427
Views: 2,379,593
Posted By Mogwi

I believe that I was the first person ever to...

I believe that I was the first person ever to carry out a SRVL, on 1st May 1982. It was not because I was too heavy to hover - more that I was too light due to a part of my tail having been blown...
29th Jul 2023, 10:56
Replies: 592
Views: 191,388
Posted By Nil_Drift

New TLA needed

GEM was a scheme introduced back in 1996 for Engineering suggestions. There is evidently now a need to invent a new TLA (Three Letter Abbreviation) for the engineers to use, lots of paperwork...
28th Jun 2023, 14:58
Replies: 453
Views: 137,368
Posted By chopper2004

Final final pair to EGSC today

All done now, I waited at EGSC to see the final final pair come home for storage earlier today so here are my photos.
...
14th Jun 2023, 16:27
Replies: 453
Views: 137,368
Posted By bspatz

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/...

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1527/_mg_7193v2_a81101a375f8ed5e201bc2fc7930c44ff2ccc489.jpg
Herc final flypast over Lyneham today.
9th Jun 2023, 07:37
Replies: 592
Views: 191,388
Posted By cliver029

I trust EASY STREETS final comment about “ being...

I trust EASY STREETS final comment about “ being in the services best interests” were ironic in the context of what’s just gone down?

my grandson, just about to graduate from uni was lined up for...
2nd Jun 2023, 08:32
Replies: 592
Views: 191,388
Posted By Chugalug2

You have expressed these sentiments before, atg,...

You have expressed these sentiments before, atg, so I suspect we shall simply go on navigating around the same old buoy to little or no effect. Let's just agree that to win wars you have to train...
17th May 2023, 17:17
Replies: 221
Views: 84,621
Posted By POBJOY

Why is everyone getting excited, everything is...

Why is everyone getting excited, everything is now VIRTUAL so you only have to train to react to a virtual threat. As for our 'ex pat' pilots training the Chinese to be able to cope with 'western'...
17th Mar 2023, 08:28
Replies: 280
Views: 108,602
Posted By ORAC

Geolocated position of the drone. ...

Geolocated position of the drone.


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1071x612/image_d9d764bc28952715c015eca9c149ad2aa727b3ef.jpeg
...
11th Feb 2023, 16:28
Replies: 1,144
Views: 612,424
Posted By tucumseh

"An open conclusion will be reached where there...

"An open conclusion will be reached where there is not enough evidence to reach any other conclusion".

That might be thought appropriate, especially given the evidence the Coroner was restricted...
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