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Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Mar 2018, 13:11
Replies: 794
Views: 486,203
Posted By engoal

Wally was still there, and Paul had just returned...

Wally was still there, and Paul had just returned from HK, when I rocked up as a first tour JEngO in 1997, and they were both legends in every way.
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Aug 2015, 09:10
Replies: 2
Views: 1,767
Posted By engoal

Try CXI (F) Squadron - Home...

Try CXI (F) Squadron - Home (http://www.111sqn.com/)
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Jun 2014, 19:06
Replies: 157
Views: 30,719
Posted By engoal

Victor

Two to choose from:


Removing the No3 tank in the port wing, having climbed up the undercarriage, crawled through one 18" wide oval aperture in the centre spar, then through the second 18" wide...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th May 2013, 19:08
Replies: 71
Views: 17,466
Posted By engoal

Cue old gag: SWO - "Scroggins, there a little...

Cue old gag:
SWO - "Scroggins, there a little sh*t at the end of my stick!"
Scroggins - "Not at my end, Sir!";)
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Jan 2013, 11:53
Replies: 34
Views: 12,912
Posted By engoal

KAF's Ice Cream Van

Not as daft as you might imagine Kandahar's very own Mr Whippy 26.07.11 - YouTube :)
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Aug 2011, 17:04
Replies: 29
Views: 9,640
Posted By engoal

"He's fallen in the water!"

"He's fallen in the water!"
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Sep 2010, 18:50
Replies: 25
Views: 6,149
Posted By engoal

I sat in it today! :ok: Took me back 25 years to...

I sat in it today! :ok: Took me back 25 years to the HP V-Bomber!
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Aug 2010, 12:39
Replies: 39
Views: 14,569
Posted By engoal

Some of the chaps from AMF helped out, in a...

Some of the chaps from AMF helped out, in a strictly private sense, to get her off the stick - one of them (J*** We**on) had been part of the team that had put her there in the first place! IIRC, the...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Feb 2010, 23:37
Replies: 794
Views: 486,203
Posted By engoal

Change of Tack

This reminds me of ambling back from JK's to the Mess..... http://www.wagenschenke.ch/HomeRun.swf:ok:
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Jan 2010, 22:17
Replies: 794
Views: 486,203
Posted By engoal

Spoof 'Forum' Poster

Anyone remember seeing multiple copies of this appearing around SHFNI Ops/72 Sqn/The Swift in late 98?:

HUMAN FACTORS OPEN REPORTS

forum

for unofficial use only


THURSDAY 31...
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Dec 2009, 08:43
Replies: 794
Views: 486,203
Posted By engoal

Swift Reminiscences

Arriving for the first time in Feb and not actually seeing the sun for 3 whole weeks.

Picking R** M*****'s Walter out of a field outside Derry after he and C***s had sawn their way through the...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Oct 2009, 11:52
Replies: 51
Views: 9,984
Posted By engoal

Abiding memory of an Op WARDEN mass briefing...

Abiding memory of an Op WARDEN mass briefing callsign check - a succession of American voices uttering callsigns like 'Mugger', 'Switchblade' and 'Viper', followed by a taciturn Brit piping up with...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Nov 2008, 17:59
Replies: 73
Views: 21,545
Posted By engoal

I think the last pilot to get launched from the...

I think the last pilot to get launched from the Ark in a Bucc is still about, albeit a reservist in a ground job.
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Sep 2008, 14:28
Replies: 16
Views: 2,283
Posted By engoal

No zero hrs but a few lower than average - ETPS,...

No zero hrs but a few lower than average - ETPS, QinetiQ, RSAF, BAE Systems?
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Jul 2008, 11:50
Replies: 24
Views: 3,564
Posted By engoal

Character, Knowledge and Motivation

If you can square away your character, your knowledge and your motivation, you are most of the way there. I did it 13 years ago after 12 years in the job and haven't fared too badly since.
...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th May 2008, 22:11
Replies: 10
Views: 2,496
Posted By engoal

Briefly, yes, and the amount of fuel in the tank...

Briefly, yes, and the amount of fuel in the tank is irrelevant; if you need to lose the weight/drag that they provide, either for emergency lift or combat manoueverability (sp?), you ditch them.
Forum: Military Aviation
13th May 2008, 12:43
Replies: 26
Views: 4,355
Posted By engoal

I spent 2 very interesting years in the Province,...

I spent 2 very interesting years in the Province, on the Swift side of the fence, and tried really hard to understand what it was all about. A decade later, I finally found out at...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Apr 2008, 06:25
Replies: 19
Views: 2,910
Posted By engoal

230 Sqn On The Move?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7365586.stm

Have I missed something here?
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Apr 2008, 06:18
Replies: 47
Views: 7,911
Posted By engoal

I think he may have been one jumper out of date...

I think he may have been one jumper out of date (barely a flicker on my personal 'give-a-f**kometer' (http://clickthex.tribe.net/photos/f2d6dead-a71e-493c-993a-5a3d43ce92b7)at this point), but there...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Mar 2008, 20:10
Replies: 20
Views: 21,714
Posted By engoal

Using the Nozzles as a tail skid

When I were but a lad, a well known CWI on a well known Wpns Conversion Unit at a secret airbase in Suffolk managed to do something similar at the opposite end of the flight cycle, whilst executing...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Feb 2008, 12:45
Replies: 23
Views: 5,229
Posted By engoal

617 Sqn

What merit should be given to the impact of the level of recognition of a particular Sqn in the public eye? Discuss.

For example, it is likely, but not certain, that Joe Public's answer to the...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Feb 2008, 08:24
Replies: 18
Views: 11,903
Posted By engoal

Help - Photos of Typhoon from C130 Ramp

A year or so ago, a series of pictures were published showing a Typhoon getting a bit familiar with the ramp of a C130 - they may even have been on Prune but I can't find them. They were taken from...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Nov 2007, 06:12
Replies: 49
Views: 14,327
Posted By engoal

Tatty Ton Canberra

One of the 'wedding guest' navigators was a flt cdr on 43(F) Sqn in the mid-90s - went by the initials of KC. I once spent 2 weeks stuck with him and 2 others in Crete on rates waiting for a...
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Oct 2007, 07:28
Replies: 75
Views: 16,238
Posted By engoal

Nuke-Related Sackings

Didn't a well known and, at the time, recently ex-Laarbruch sqn suffer a similar swathe of 'management turbulence' after a far less dangerous but equally unforgiveable documentation problem in the...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Sep 2007, 20:00
Replies: 35
Views: 8,227
Posted By engoal

The Supermarine Walrus? ...

The Supermarine Walrus?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Supermarine_Walrus.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Supermarine_Walrus.jpg)

Mind you, I'm biased...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Sep 2007, 07:01
Replies: 471
Views: 132,915
Posted By engoal

The NAAFI wagon. When 1250s were white the...

The NAAFI wagon.

When 1250s were white the first time round, before they went blue.

A SWO called Bernie who used to ride everywhere on his bike in his No1s.

A SWO called Bernie who,...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Jul 2007, 19:27
Replies: 25
Views: 6,108
Posted By engoal

Thumbs down Sure - ZA319! Oh no - sorry, I just pulled that...

Sure - ZA319! Oh no - sorry, I just pulled that number out of my a**e, just like the loser who suggested that they had reduced maintenance times on Tor by 37%
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Jul 2007, 18:00
Replies: 91
Views: 73,597
Posted By engoal

One of the C-130 community might like to answer...

One of the C-130 community might like to answer this, but it was a fatal accident involving a C-130 and a soldier on the ground.
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Jul 2007, 18:09
Replies: 32
Views: 5,086
Posted By engoal

The realist in me agrees that you are likely to...

The realist in me agrees that you are likely to hear plenty of that, while the ideallist in me thinks otherwise. If, however, the only person on the Unit with the authority to say 'stop' actually...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Jul 2007, 20:33
Replies: 41
Views: 7,374
Posted By engoal

Still Enjoying It?

I have been watching this thread for a couple of days now, and agree completely with the general view that it isn't all completely s##t/

To answer the question, damn straight I am! Having just...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Jul 2007, 14:03
Replies: 35
Views: 7,856
Posted By engoal

Rotary Crews and PTSD

Anyone who doubts the effects that such levels of exposure to death and carnage can have on hels crews should take time out to read Bob Mason's book, Chickenhawk. And he was 'only' exposed to it for...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Jun 2007, 20:22
Replies: 9
Views: 1,493
Posted By engoal

Try the Trenchard Hall Library at Cranwell,...

Try the Trenchard Hall Library at Cranwell, contact details via http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcranwell/contactus.cfm. It's probably better to write as the phone number may only get you as far as the MoD...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Jun 2007, 21:50
Replies: 86
Views: 17,785
Posted By engoal

I'm with JP on this one. The Jaguar works, or at...

I'm with JP on this one. The Jaguar works, or at least it did until last month. Pound for pound, there was nothing better and, in the last few years, it was the perfect answer for everything apart...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Jun 2007, 20:33
Replies: 209
Views: 83,063
Posted By engoal

Phil R, A perfectly reasonable question,...

Phil R,

A perfectly reasonable question, and one which someone with connections to the Jag SA or DCAE might like to answer fully. However, as a starter, some of the last batch, which were fully...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jun 2007, 11:15
Replies: 4
Views: 1,558
Posted By engoal

QF4 Display Team

Now that I can relate to!:D
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