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Forum: Interviews, jobs & sponsorship
16th Jan 2024, 07:43
Replies: 4
Views: 810
Posted By oldpax

Mental arithmetic

Easy way to improve,go down the pub and mark at darts!You will be suprisedhoq quick youll pick it up.And for the more adventurous,try a ladies match!!
It helped me.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Jan 2024, 10:41
Replies: 4,958
Views: 731,806
Posted By oldpax

Interesting.

Other than the engine exhausts could be a Varsity!!
Forum: PPRuNe Problems or Queries
3rd Jan 2024, 02:40
Replies: 6
Views: 638
Posted By oldpax

Forum failure

Couple of forums where you go "first unread" and it does not!Example " what cockpit".Very frustrating!!!!
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
29th Aug 2023, 05:43
Replies: 21
Views: 2,819
Posted By oldpax

Fails

From memory!British united airlines,Cunard Eagle, Aden airways(?)Brymon,Pan Am,Varig and there was another that flew from Bournemouth in the late nineties.
I believe the RAF is still going!
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Jul 2023, 02:28
Replies: 26
Views: 19,361
Posted By oldpax

Victor at RAAF Butterworth

Posted to transit flight Butterworth in 1964, there was a Victor parked there that had an engine shed some blades perforating the fuselage etc.After repairs a crew arrived and flew it out,its...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
16th Jul 2023, 09:23
Replies: 16
Views: 1,673
Posted By oldpax

Buried. Spares

This I can vouch for!About 1965/6 a Valleta fuselage turned up on a Queen Mary and deposited on the fire dump area at the west end of the main runway.It was full(fuselage floor removed first)of...
Forum: Cabin Crew
13th Jul 2023, 00:14
Replies: 2
Views: 909
Posted By oldpax

Number of flight attendents needed per passengers

Recently had a short 1 hour flight(BKK to Udon thani) ,the aircraft was an Airbus 320.I will not mention the airline but there were only one male and one female flight attendant.Is this usual?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th May 2023, 08:38
Replies: 4,958
Views: 731,806
Posted By oldpax

Big aeroplane!

It was on fb a few days ago!Same photo! I have no replacement so will keep quite!It had a large nosewheel!
Forum: Biz Jets, Ag Flying, GA etc.
10th Apr 2023, 02:45
Replies: 17
Views: 3,656
Posted By oldpax

Ageism

I am a non aviation pensioner.I was cast out from job in 2013 after a heart problem,I was passed medically fit for work.No work came my way after this!So the bit about " no age discrimination" is a...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Apr 2023, 04:40
Replies: 18
Views: 1,175
Posted By oldpax

Link

There will be a fewex aircrew who will remember the "Link" at RAF Oakington.Also the Varsity Cockpit trainer in the next room!
I spent about 14 months looking after them and servicing,my boss was...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Mar 2023, 10:20
Replies: 206
Views: 53,376
Posted By oldpax

Ancestral homes

What happened to the ancestral homes of those heroes that went on the Nuremberg raid and never returned?Or indeed hardly get a mention.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Mar 2023, 06:21
Replies: 4,077
Views: 313,079
Posted By oldpax

Maybe?

Looks like a Lincoln(tailwheel) so Topcliff?
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
21st Feb 2023, 07:54
Replies: 23
Views: 2,336
Posted By oldpax

Passport

I once sent my passport from guantanamo bay(bysecure mail) to the US goverment to try and get some document that would enable me to get a US credit card from my US bank.It disappeared!With a vacation...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
30th Jan 2023, 06:32
Replies: 32
Views: 3,549
Posted By oldpax

Landing

My first flight in a Brymon DH 7 was Plymouth to Heathrow,nice aircraft I thought.So on approach we came lower and started flying down the runway getting lower and lower but no wheels down!Then (it...
Forum: Medical & Health
27th Jan 2023, 01:53
Replies: 12
Views: 1,990
Posted By oldpax

Uric acid

If you get Gout you will hardly be able to walk to your aeroplane!Most times I get it is has been my big toe joint,sometimes its been both knees!
I take Indomethacin capsules for it and its a magic...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Jan 2023, 07:01
Replies: 32
Views: 3,549
Posted By oldpax

Regular

I was a regular customer from 1978 until it closed but cannot remember using London City for Brymon ?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
16th Dec 2022, 06:52
Replies: 19
Views: 2,920
Posted By oldpax

Fuselage

I know where theirs a C-46 fuselage near to me if that would be off use?!!
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Dec 2022, 05:50
Replies: 4,077
Views: 313,079
Posted By oldpax

Gate guardian

Think it had a Gannet at the entrance on a roundabout?
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
23rd Nov 2022, 01:27
Replies: 50
Views: 4,482
Posted By oldpax

Solutions

Perhaps a ticket discount for passengers with no hand luggage other than a specified handbag/manbag .
I could never understand why airlines allowed so much hand luggage and wondered what on earth...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Nov 2022, 02:41
Replies: 96
Views: 12,059
Posted By oldpax

Carbon zero?

Remember those photos of loads of airmen riding bikes around?Why by electric scooters?Maybe officers only and erks pedal!
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Nov 2022, 01:09
Replies: 38
Views: 30,201
Posted By oldpax

Oh dea

!As a fare paying passenger I should not read anything on pprune !!
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Nov 2022, 04:31
Replies: 52
Views: 13,039
Posted By oldpax

The best

I was a teenage mech when I did something very silly passing through El Adem.I thought I had got away with it but later my captain(wingco) came and sat with me nd we commenced to talk about the...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Nov 2022, 01:32
Replies: 160
Views: 34,737
Posted By oldpax

Movie recall

Can anyone recall a movie (1960s?) In which a group of ex army soldiers return to the (Libyan ?)desert to retrieve some loot they hid there during WW2?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Oct 2022, 02:10
Replies: 4
Views: 1,183
Posted By oldpax

Not Lincoln but Pattaya.

Same thing here,there was an amazing junk/scrap yard that sold a lot of American parts including a pair of P&W engines (reconed) as well as ex thai fan trainers tec ,etc!
On passing in June this...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Oct 2022, 00:31
Replies: 10
Views: 4,494
Posted By oldpax

Engine noise

I would look up if I heard four Griffons!(plus eight props!)
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Sep 2022, 07:56
Replies: 234
Views: 36,730
Posted By oldpax

Types flown in!

Not many,Shacks 1 2 &3. Anson,lincoln,Argonaut,Argosy,Varsity Britannia ,Hastings.
After that 707,727,and all the usual wide bodies etc,oh and the 380! Small ones fro guantanamo to...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Sep 2022, 07:40
Replies: 220
Views: 67,451
Posted By oldpax

Uniform

I joined the RAF in 1958(boy entrant) during training we had a wooly jacket an trews,shirt was detached collar .After training we were issued with battle dress uniform.All the warm winter clothing...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
20th Sep 2022, 01:46
Replies: 4,237
Views: 653,947
Posted By oldpax

You can read it!

Operating crew of a Constellation!
Open house if I was first!
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Sep 2022, 01:57
Replies: 4,237
Views: 653,947
Posted By oldpax

Cockpit view

Looks a bit like a Beaufighter but perhaps too large so maybe a Brigand?
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Sep 2022, 01:03
Replies: 40
Views: 29,253
Posted By oldpax

Ill passengers from Dubai

"Stopped at Mecca",is that jeddah airport where the pilgrims terminal is?
I joined the Royal Air Force in 1958 and endured a series of injections alled(?) Schick tests?Followed by (after...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Aug 2022, 00:40
Replies: 27
Views: 7,431
Posted By oldpax

Harriers

Not sure if their still there but the Thai Navy used to have their ex Spanish Harriers at U Tapao along with lots of redundant trackers and a C-47!
I was lucky enough to have a tour of this area...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Aug 2022, 23:59
Replies: 4,958
Views: 731,806
Posted By oldpax

C of G!!!

Is it Italian?
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Aug 2022, 00:49
Replies: 79
Views: 17,289
Posted By oldpax

Erks mess

The worst,Bahrein 1962 in the summer.No air con long narrow room with murals of cool flowery gardens .Queing for your meal(of course!)you went through a set of batwing doors to the servery and out...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Aug 2022, 03:15
Replies: 79
Views: 17,289
Posted By oldpax

Anniversary dinner

8 squadron ,100th anniversary.Remember a group of us(from1960s 8 sqdn)all waiting in the entrance hall of Waddington officers mess all in penguin suits some with medals and getting curious glances...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
20th Aug 2022, 10:26
Replies: 18
Views: 2,596
Posted By oldpax

Remember?

There was a magazine ,well ,more of a newspaper about 8 pages in black &whitethat was very informative.But I cannot remember the name!Late 1960s?
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