Rescue from Wells cathedral roof
My thoughts exactly Tourist. Still we all know the RAF has the biggest PR machine ..... just look at how they would have us believe they won the Falklands war ..... I deliberately said "No RAF vs RN rubbish" in my first post .... but Crab has to make a big thing of it to get online praise (4007 posts I see, empty vessels etc?). Grow up (you may also not need silly smilies then) and be satisfied that you did a good job whether the world knows about it or not.
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Come on Girls. There's banter & then there's bitchiness . . . and in this case (although I'm never one to big-up the Crabs) the yellow cab was the more appropriate asset for this task, from a time, briefed, kit & crew point of view. And yes, they did just as good a job as the RN SAR would have done from Culdrose . . . had this been in Truro. Calling in Junglies, whilst it may have been theoretically closer, would likely have taken longer, for all the reasons already mentioned.
As to the comment about smart looking cabs - ALL Seakings are covered in oil all the time, as anyone who's flown them knows. If it isn't dripping oil, it's empty! The reason the Crab ones look dirtier than the Senior Service machines is that they're yellow - the blue & green ones are in the business of camouflage, rather than rescue and, when you're at sea, the first thing you'd do (if you had time to clean one) was wipe the whole cab with oil to protect against corrosion. If I was really sad, I'd remember the number or name of the oil, but it's 30 years ago, I'm afraid!
As to the comment about smart looking cabs - ALL Seakings are covered in oil all the time, as anyone who's flown them knows. If it isn't dripping oil, it's empty! The reason the Crab ones look dirtier than the Senior Service machines is that they're yellow - the blue & green ones are in the business of camouflage, rather than rescue and, when you're at sea, the first thing you'd do (if you had time to clean one) was wipe the whole cab with oil to protect against corrosion. If I was really sad, I'd remember the number or name of the oil, but it's 30 years ago, I'm afraid!
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Al-bert - thanks, "px" certainly rings a bell, and the number's there or thereabouts!
k-j - concur, although the grey is not far off oil colour, certainly the bits of it that are aft of engines & MGB where most of the oil comes from.
k-j - concur, although the grey is not far off oil colour, certainly the bits of it that are aft of engines & MGB where most of the oil comes from.
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Oh dear the crab haters/baiters are out today.
76fan - I didn't start the thread about this rescue and I don't need to big myself up about it - I was doing hoist to crew in the LHS , the rest of the crew did the tricky stuff.
Note that the mythical RAF PR machine had nothing to do with the news coverage, it was a local photographer earning his crust selling pictures to the papers and most video footage came from the ubiquitous phone cameras that everyone has nowadays.
Tourist - I'm sure there must be some part of your aviation career that you can be proud of.......
76fan - I didn't start the thread about this rescue and I don't need to big myself up about it - I was doing hoist to crew in the LHS , the rest of the crew did the tricky stuff.
Note that the mythical RAF PR machine had nothing to do with the news coverage, it was a local photographer earning his crust selling pictures to the papers and most video footage came from the ubiquitous phone cameras that everyone has nowadays.
Tourist - I'm sure there must be some part of your aviation career that you can be proud of.......
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Proud of all of it, thanks!
...even my time on exchange with the Crabs.
Thankfully, most Crabs are pleasant, personable and when given a chance to come across as self deprecating and professional allowing others rather than themselves to blow smoke up their @rse grab it with both hands.
....most Crabs.
...even my time on exchange with the Crabs.
Thankfully, most Crabs are pleasant, personable and when given a chance to come across as self deprecating and professional allowing others rather than themselves to blow smoke up their @rse grab it with both hands.
....most Crabs.
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In a couple of years time, all of this, us and them c**p will stop! You will all be Mr/Mrs/Ms. Or will you still be willy waving and saying Newquay could have done it better/quicker than Lee or wherever!??? Get ready for the real world!!
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Al-bert. I seem to remember what I think we used to call Rocket was px24. We used it on the old brown green camo paint on the scout if I remember correctly. It also did everything else that moved including the gloss green landies and Bedford RLs
even my time on exchange with the Crabs.
Having worked with the Fleet Air Arm over a couple of decades Tourist's attitude reminds me why I had a nice warm feeling when it was announced that the Navy would lose the carriers and Harriers.
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"I had a nice warm feeling when it was announced that the Navy would lose the carriers and Harriers."
That says a lot about you.
Crab
If I told you that might rather give away who I was, and I prefer to be incognito whilst knowing who you are.
"I had a nice warm feeling when it was announced that the Navy would lose the carriers and Harriers."
That says a lot about you.
Crab
If I told you that might rather give away who I was, and I prefer to be incognito whilst knowing who you are.
If I told you that might rather give away who I was, and I prefer to be incognito whilst knowing who you are.
