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Forum: Military Aviation
8th Jul 2021, 10:06
Replies: 18
Views: 3,884
Posted By Kluseau

Many thanks to all who replied!

Many thanks to all who replied!
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Jul 2021, 14:52
Replies: 18
Views: 3,884
Posted By Kluseau

RAF Master Navigator rank abbreviation

I've been trying to establish the correct abbreviation for the (now obsolete?) RAF rank of Master Navigator. Contenders seem to include MNav M.Nav and M/Nav. A wander through the logbooks and other...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Aug 2017, 07:16
Replies: 21
Views: 6,078
Posted By Kluseau

"In the continuing battle between aeroplanes and the Earth..."

I'm trying to find the origin and correct form of an aviation quote or cliché I'm sure I saw in the Military Aviation area of PPRuNe, but which I apparently can't remember closely enough to allow the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
31st Oct 2016, 08:57
Replies: 14
Views: 3,183
Posted By Kluseau

Thank you Judd, that's extremely helpful.

Thank you Judd, that's extremely helpful.
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Oct 2016, 17:57
Replies: 58,121
Views: 10,995,632
Posted By Kluseau

Just act normally. No-one will notice.

Just act normally. No-one will notice.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
30th Oct 2016, 08:45
Replies: 6
Views: 2,281
Posted By Kluseau

Thanks Dave, I've ordered a copy of Airfield...

Thanks Dave, I've ordered a copy of Airfield Focus 11: Lossiemouth by Jim Hughes, which as you say seems to be the best way of resolving this.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
30th Oct 2016, 08:41
Replies: 14
Views: 3,183
Posted By Kluseau

Navigation in WW2

I'm aware that some radio aids were beginning to put in an appearance during the war, especially for bombers, but how would a typical single seat fighter pilot have found their way around the UK, a...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Oct 2016, 10:56
Replies: 6
Views: 2,281
Posted By Kluseau

Paved runways at RAF Lossiemouth

Various online sources talk of the first paved runways first being built at Lossiemouth (along with a control tower) in late 1942, apparently by USAAF engineers. Is anyone able to tie that down more...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Apr 2015, 09:42
Replies: 68
Views: 16,216
Posted By Kluseau

A slight diversion, but within the spirit of the...

A slight diversion, but within the spirit of the thread title: what was the rational behind some Vulcans (notably XH558) carrying the grey/green camouflage across the whole of the underside as well...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Apr 2015, 15:25
Replies: 17
Views: 5,087
Posted By Kluseau

Still, as privatisations go, this raises much...

Still, as privatisations go, this raises much deeper strategic concerns than simply flogging off the family silver.
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Jan 2015, 08:51
Replies: 63
Views: 42,622
Posted By Kluseau

There is a photo on display in the Oban War &...

There is a photo on display in the Oban War & Peace Museum (in, obviously, Oban) which acknowledges being a mockup using two separate images, but which claims to recreate an event during WW2 when a...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Nov 2014, 08:32
Replies: 40
Views: 7,397
Posted By Kluseau

Hm... I was, according to family folklore, nearly...

Hm... I was, according to family folklore, nearly dropped by the midwife in the nursing home at Coltishall when a Javelin, with, allegedly, my late father in the back seat, flew over low. Spent much...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Nov 2014, 17:40
Replies: 18
Views: 2,780
Posted By Kluseau

There are areas of Scotland where if your boat...

There are areas of Scotland where if your boat runs aground or you fall off a mountain you take pot luck on whether the rescue helicopter that arrives to assist is yellow from Lossiemouth, grey and...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Oct 2014, 15:20
Replies: 9
Views: 2,462
Posted By Kluseau

Apparently the twentieth "submarine incident" in...

Apparently the twentieth "submarine incident" in Swedish waters since the 1960s:
Swedish submarine incidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Oct 2014, 15:15
Replies: 21
Views: 7,914
Posted By Kluseau

Seems in remarkably good condition for an...

Seems in remarkably good condition for an aircraft that landed "20kms short" of the runway with no-one on board.
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Oct 2014, 14:50
Replies: 23
Views: 8,126
Posted By Kluseau

Interesting, if a little left field. Google...

Interesting, if a little left field.

Google is usually your friend, and curiosity led to this exchange of correspondence under Freedom of Information Act from 2011. Not very enlightening, though:...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Sep 2014, 14:13
Replies: 11
Views: 3,808
Posted By Kluseau

Curiosity and Google came up with this brief...

Curiosity and Google came up with this brief history of the "Air Sea Warfare Development Unit":
http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/units/3972/air-sea-warfare-development-unit-(aswdu)/

I'd have...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Sep 2014, 13:07
Replies: 411
Views: 75,295
Posted By Kluseau

The "milk and honey" is nothing but words, and if...

The "milk and honey" is nothing but words, and if the outcome is NO, the Scottish issue will be quickly ignored. As for being "shown to be a liar" he's a politician: it goes with the job. What's he...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Sep 2014, 06:49
Replies: 28
Views: 5,874
Posted By Kluseau

Oh dear! That was what I meant, but my fingers...

Oh dear! That was what I meant, but my fingers apparently thought otherwise! :O
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Sep 2014, 23:22
Replies: 28
Views: 5,874
Posted By Kluseau

They are presumably not suggesting the aircraft...

They are presumably not suggesting the aircraft spotted over Llanelli was an all blue 19 Squadron Phantom time-warped several decades into the future?
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Sep 2014, 08:28
Replies: 287
Views: 157,086
Posted By Kluseau

Forsini, I was wondering if you had in mind a...

Forsini, I was wondering if you had in mind a theoretical possibility of adding the two Mk6 ventral tank Adens to the four F2/F2A Adens newt refers to? As another long term consumer of Lightning...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Sep 2014, 14:09
Replies: 46
Views: 11,941
Posted By Kluseau

You'd have thought that even our friends in the...

You'd have thought that even our friends in the east would have worked out that annoying all your neighbours at the same time was not necessarily a great idea.

Unless the aim is to drive Finland...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Sep 2014, 12:13
Replies: 46
Views: 11,941
Posted By Kluseau

There's more here: The Aviationist » Finland...

There's more here:

The Aviationist » Finland steps up air defense following airspace incursions by Russian planes...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Aug 2014, 12:41
Replies: 411
Views: 75,295
Posted By Kluseau

Aye, or possibly folk who felt the lesser of the...

Aye, or possibly folk who felt the lesser of the available evils was not with a family who left Scotland for London in 1603 with barely a backward glance: and who had repeatedly shown since that they...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Aug 2014, 12:29
Replies: 411
Views: 75,295
Posted By Kluseau

A bit unfair on Northumberland, don't you think? ...

A bit unfair on Northumberland, don't you think?



If you think that Culloden was a battle between the English and the Scots, you couldn't be more wrong. It was the end of an uprising (during...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Aug 2014, 12:21
Replies: 145
Views: 32,503
Posted By Kluseau

Was that the one that opened to the sound track...

Was that the one that opened to the sound track of Pink Floyd's "Echoes"? Or was the one I'm thinking of an even earlier documentary about the Reds? I have a sense it featured the Gnat, which would...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Aug 2014, 16:40
Replies: 10
Views: 3,268
Posted By Kluseau

The best objective study seems to have been...

The best objective study seems to have been during "Operation Bongo II" (apparently) when 1,253 sonic booms were generated over Oklahoma City during the first half of 1964.

The Wikipedia article...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Jul 2014, 14:11
Replies: 3
Views: 1,273
Posted By Kluseau

Or this? BBC News - Armed Forces Day: In...

Or this?

BBC News - Armed Forces Day: In pictures (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-28070431)
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Apr 2014, 15:56
Replies: 47
Views: 18,179
Posted By Kluseau

USAF article on the U2 flight suits here: ...

USAF article on the U2 flight suits here:
http://www.afcent.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123310891
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Feb 2014, 11:37
Replies: 156
Views: 60,792
Posted By Kluseau

The 16 Hunter display that follows the Lightnings...

The 16 Hunter display that follows the Lightnings is even more impressive in some ways, though perhaps it wouldn't have been to those who had seen 22 Hunters loop there four years earlier. The odd...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Jan 2014, 16:02
Replies: 156
Views: 60,792
Posted By Kluseau

It's been said before, but the Lightning must be...

It's been said before, but the Lightning must be a strong contender. Do I really recall formation aerobatics by nine of them at the RAF Gutersloh airshow in 1975, or maybe it was only(!) five...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Jan 2014, 14:08
Replies: 10
Views: 4,671
Posted By Kluseau

Dennis, this is fairly well covered on a (very)...

Dennis, this is fairly well covered on a (very) old thread on the forum: http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/70987-meteor-accident-statistics.html

Which is not, of course, to say that there's...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Jan 2014, 11:48
Replies: 39
Views: 7,921
Posted By Kluseau

Four Scottish aviation museums that are well...

Four Scottish aviation museums that are well worth a visit, all with seasonal opening times:

Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum, a little north east of Dumfries:
Dumfries & Galloway Aviation...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Dec 2013, 09:13
Replies: 46
Views: 6,998
Posted By Kluseau

Indeed, otherwise we'd probably already know...

Indeed, otherwise we'd probably already know about: "General Mattis Crosses Potomac With 100,000 Troops; President, Senate Flee City"
Forum: Rotorheads
12th Dec 2013, 16:47
Replies: 90
Views: 23,913
Posted By Kluseau

BBC News are reporting that "Emergency...

BBC News are reporting that "Emergency helicopters run by Bond Air Services back in air after being grounded"

BBC News - Emergency helicopters run by Bond Air Services back in air after being...
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