Army Dauphins at Halfpenny Green
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Army Dauphins at Halfpenny Green
New Army Dauphins at Halfpenny Green this week carrying out training.Have images but can't work out how to upload them
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Dauphins? There were definitely NO Dauphins anywhere, right? 
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Surely they should have to post the S/N's larger than that? O wait, no, so where's the reg's then? Or being the army are they/ have they just slapped on some random number at the back where no one can see it??!
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Whozzat then?
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Really?
Sid,
Not sure if you're looking for a bite/bored/devoid of logical reasoning but your list is a bit silly.
Starter for 10: As SAR a/c they won't need a winch presumably?
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Not sure if you're looking for a bite/bored/devoid of logical reasoning but your list is a bit silly.
Starter for 10: As SAR a/c they won't need a winch presumably?
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Back in the mid sixties when the Army rapidly expanded it's helicopter fleets complaints of noise and/or low flying were coming in from all over southern England, often with the white lettering and numbers on green background registration being quoted. The white was painted out and the registration was painted on in black! Complaints stopped almost overnight!
Tyre pressures?????????
Last time I saw a SAS A109 it landed at the old Doncaster airport circa 1993.
It was painted in Alan Manns house colours (yellow black white).
They couldn't have made it more conspicious if they wanted to. It had lots of curious people wandering over to have a look.
Reason being that it had NO Registration.
On extremely close inspection the military serial was visible painted on in a virtually non contrasting colour.
Bit like a sniper wearing a ghillie suit with a strobe light on his head.
Covert it certainly was not.
Even less so when it was common knowledge that the only military A109's belonged to the SAS.
Further more dumping it right outside a busy flying club with a load of trainee helicopter pilots in residense suggests they weren't overly concerned about secrecy.
Last time I saw a SAS A109 it landed at the old Doncaster airport circa 1993.
It was painted in Alan Manns house colours (yellow black white).
They couldn't have made it more conspicious if they wanted to. It had lots of curious people wandering over to have a look.
Reason being that it had NO Registration.
On extremely close inspection the military serial was visible painted on in a virtually non contrasting colour.
Bit like a sniper wearing a ghillie suit with a strobe light on his head.
Covert it certainly was not.
Even less so when it was common knowledge that the only military A109's belonged to the SAS.
Further more dumping it right outside a busy flying club with a load of trainee helicopter pilots in residense suggests they weren't overly concerned about secrecy.
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Eric, if the last time you saw one was 1993, they must have made them less conspicuous. 
P.S. I was within twenty five metres of one only last week.
P.S. I was within twenty five metres of one only last week.
Security rule commonsense....if you put it into the public view....it ain't classified! Suggesting posting photographs of an aircraft operating at a public airfield might in some way "out" some secretive group is plain silly.
If these "camera shy" folks as we call them lads and lasses....were all that camera shy they would not have been doing what they did where they did it in the daylight.
If these "camera shy" folks as we call them lads and lasses....were all that camera shy they would not have been doing what they did where they did it in the daylight.
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Camera Shy
Who said the helicopters are camera shy, what a load of rubbish. Everybody meaning you lot would work it out in a second. If the A109s are being replaced it's because they are really old. Jesus even I was in the military when they were around and that's over 19 years ago.
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Last time I saw a SAS A109 it landed at the old Doncaster airport circa 1993.
