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Forum: Military Aviation
25th Jan 2012, 16:16
Replies: 40
Views: 11,279
Posted By Jig Peter

Angel Lingering smells

From ages back I can still remember the smell of the Prentice - mainly what we then didn't call Avgas, probably leaking from the fuel cock below the instrument panel (if that's where it was). That...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Dec 2011, 13:52
Replies: 15
Views: 3,799
Posted By Jig Peter

Devil @ Roadster 280

Seems you don't know about the Olympus (Concorde, if you really don't know about what Bristol did ...) and the rest (Pegasus etc).
I'm sure they'd never have gone along the "Super-duper, frightfully...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Nov 2011, 15:45
Replies: 15
Views: 3,361
Posted By Jig Peter

Rules change

The A340 was designed for the "long thin" routes of the time, when the ETOPS rules were diffent from now, while the A330 was for the "shorter and thicker" legs (Freud, where art thou?) and by skilful...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Nov 2011, 09:37
Replies: 18
Views: 2,684
Posted By Jig Peter

Confrontation/VietNam comparison

As far as "where it was at" goes, I meant that reporting and protesting were concentrated on VietNam rather than the events in Borneo and the Straits of Malacca which were "low key" and a much more...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Nov 2011, 16:36
Replies: 18
Views: 2,684
Posted By Jig Peter

@ Melchet 01 Is there a possible comparison...

@ Melchet 01

Is there a possible comparison with "the Afghan business" in the "confrontation" with Indonesia from 1962- 66 ? Coming after (and sometimes considered as) an extension of the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Oct 2011, 17:14
Replies: 71
Views: 24,174
Posted By Jig Peter

@ teetering head (post 52)

Early generation jets on both sides of the Channel had their engines at about half span, like the Meteor, Me 262 and the Arado bomber whose type number slips my memory. Probably due to good...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Oct 2011, 17:04
Replies: 71
Views: 24,174
Posted By Jig Peter

Devil @ Pr00ne during my time in FEAF, our task was...

@ Pr00ne
during my time in FEAF, our task was confronting the Indonesians in Sumatra and North Borneo and also secondarily being sufficiently nuke-proficient if the Big Northern Power needed a spot...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Oct 2011, 15:47
Replies: 71
Views: 24,174
Posted By Jig Peter

@ Pr00ne Canberra radar - The first...

@ Pr00ne

Canberra radar - The first Canberra version, the B.1, was supposed to have a version of H2S radar which never materialised (shades of things to come !). I think that only the first...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
26th Oct 2011, 16:35
Replies: 71
Views: 24,174
Posted By Jig Peter

@ Pr00ne I sympathise with your feelings...

@ Pr00ne

I sympathise with your feelings about your choices for postings after training - by that time it had clearly been "relegated"after a much longer career than anyone could have thought of...
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Oct 2011, 14:20
Replies: 13
Views: 2,922
Posted By Jig Peter

Just add a hyphen, and then there's little doubt...

Just add a hyphen, and then there's little doubt that there's no suggestion that the re-formed Squadron is (already ?) in need of reform.
Forum: Tech Log
15th Oct 2011, 13:58
Replies: 1,412
Views: 469,774
Posted By Jig Peter

With all the learned (and others) discuisions...

With all the learned (and others) discuisions about stalls, deep or otherwise, the point has been missed that when the airspeed became unreliable, the PF seems to have started at once to hold the...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Oct 2011, 14:12
Replies: 244
Views: 55,442
Posted By Jig Peter

Not "In" any more

The Boss of the first (and quite small) firm for which I worked after leaving the Air Force was a recently retired Air Vice Marshal. far above my (former) status. Knowing his exalted position, I...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
13th Oct 2011, 16:05
Replies: 71
Views: 24,174
Posted By Jig Peter

According to Spec ...

With its development history going back to gliders carrying troops and vehicles (Hamilcar ?) later given two Bristol Mercuries to enable it to reach the DZ it was aimed at), the "wizard idea" the...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Oct 2011, 15:41
Replies: 244
Views: 55,442
Posted By Jig Peter

Class Consciousness +

"Way back when" my brother-in-law, a young industrial chemist on his way to fame and fortune accepted a middle management post with a brewery in Norfolk. This was a new thing for the company, as they...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Oct 2011, 15:20
Replies: 71
Views: 24,174
Posted By Jig Peter

Angel Eulogy

Considering that the first (weren't there others?) Canberra Spec dates from 1945, the aircraft is quite amazing - and so elegantly simple ... The sleek fuselage, with the wings joining it on the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Oct 2011, 15:43
Replies: 39
Views: 8,811
Posted By Jig Peter

Trouble at 't back end

Long before I was sent to a Shropshire field to learn to fly on the Prentice, I had felt a bit sorry for it - pictures in the aeronautical Press showed that the first prototype had a neat fin and...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Oct 2011, 15:23
Replies: 25
Views: 3,689
Posted By Jig Peter

Angel Venom 1 start

When the Venom FB1 came into service (the ones after other units bent theirs through pulling too much 'g' and the aircraft had to have red lines painted on) on every start an asbestos blanket was put...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
8th Oct 2011, 15:52
Replies: 39
Views: 8,811
Posted By Jig Peter

A variable pitch propeller on an "Initial...

A variable pitch propeller on an "Initial trainer" ? What must their Airships have been thinking of (or their experts at the Cotswold School of Aeroplane Driving who were rumoured to have thought up...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
8th Oct 2011, 15:41
Replies: 25
Views: 3,689
Posted By Jig Peter

@ Brakedwell

Thought you might have been doing a "have-on" - I think I did have one on a Vamp 5, but it was "in a far-off land, a long time ago" ...
Regards,
JP
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
8th Oct 2011, 15:18
Replies: 25
Views: 3,689
Posted By Jig Peter

Over-priming ?

Whoever primed a Goblin before start-up? Or a Ghost for that matter - "LP and HP cocks on, throttle closed, press button" and off yer goes (or not if it don't light or if the Ghost starter cartridge...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
8th Oct 2011, 15:03
Replies: 71
Views: 24,174
Posted By Jig Peter

Angel T4 bang-seats

:8

Having converted onto the Canberra at Bassingbourn in 1957 and then flown them for 2 Squadron tours (with a ground tour in between) I can't remember a T4 without bang-seats, but the "little...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Oct 2011, 14:35
Replies: 71
Views: 24,174
Posted By Jig Peter

A very pleasant way to earn one's crust - perhaps...

A very pleasant way to earn one's crust - perhaps you should have lowered the seat you sat in. All controls and switches easily accessible without loosening the seat harness ...
With Mae West,...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Oct 2011, 16:35
Replies: 9
Views: 1,327
Posted By Jig Peter

Nice one, skwinty !!!

Nice one, skwinty !!!
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Oct 2011, 16:18
Replies: 23
Views: 5,297
Posted By Jig Peter

146 engines

ISTR that there was, at the time, no suitable engine for a "twin" 146, which was why deH went for the four converted helicopter engines (but I wasn't there then, and probably missed amny other things...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Oct 2011, 16:12
Replies: 9
Views: 1,327
Posted By Jig Peter

Odd that the "French" Hunters pictured on the...

Odd that the "French" Hunters pictured on the link are registered in Canada ...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Oct 2011, 14:40
Replies: 268
Views: 137,366
Posted By Jig Peter

Measurement

Berlin, early '60s

Works & Bricks were told to mark out the aircraft parking areas to cope with new transport aircraft brought into service since the original airlift, at a time when the...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Sep 2011, 14:21
Replies: 39
Views: 6,752
Posted By Jig Peter

"Irreplaceable ..."

When told that one of his staff was irreplaceable, a US Army Colonel remarked that if you stuck your finger into an open jar of syrup, what happened to the resultant hole would show you what...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
22nd Sep 2011, 14:29
Replies: 16
Views: 3,863
Posted By Jig Peter

Angel Northern memory

Back in the early '40s our family lived in an old vicarage overlooking Lake Windermere, from which the young JP could hear and sometimes see the Sunderlands built at the factory at the northern end...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Sep 2011, 14:39
Replies: 399
Views: 402,365
Posted By Jig Peter

Smile SFFP Understood - though wondering on a...

SFFP

Understood - though wondering on a Sunday if there has been more activity since Friday ... !!!:eek::eek:
I believe they're making good enough progress for "Stakhonovitis" not to be...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Sep 2011, 14:19
Replies: 399
Views: 402,365
Posted By Jig Peter

Thumbs down Rising to the bait

OK, so I rise to SFFP's bait again, but his post on a Sunday saying "so nothing since last week" rather flabbers my gasts - perhaps I should have made it clear that I meant "7 - 9 September".
This...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Sep 2011, 09:28
Replies: 399
Views: 402,365
Posted By Jig Peter

Angel @ SFFP (again !!)

Sorry, Sir - too busy trimming roses and suchlike, but I can assure you that A400 airborne sightings occurred (and one probable, but only heard) at least twice in the Toulouse area during the second...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Sep 2011, 08:22
Replies: 399
Views: 402,365
Posted By Jig Peter

Devil Re: SFFP Post 79

What might satisfy SFFP (and give Their Airships yet more vapours) on the day the A400M enters RAF service would be to arrange a tagger to add a "t" at the end of the name* their 'Ships have given it...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Sep 2011, 15:39
Replies: 399
Views: 402,365
Posted By Jig Peter

Nice sight near Toulouse

It's encouraging to see A400s regularly flying over the small village where I live "between the river and the mountains" - their "grizzly growl" sounds quite different from anything else, and at what...
Forum: Tech Log
7th Sep 2011, 16:44
Replies: 1,688
Views: 406,141
Posted By Jig Peter

Not just engineers

The team(s) "doing" the Airbus FBW system did not include "just engineers" but also pilots, some of whom also had high engineering qualifications.
Also, Airbus FBW wasn't a "one-off" programme, but...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Aug 2011, 14:34
Replies: 36
Views: 14,554
Posted By Jig Peter

Precedent

At the Valiant/Victor OCU at Gaydon in the late '50s, one John Crampton, on the Valiant side, was also well known for his exploits racing Jaguars (4 wheels, piston engines) internationally, as well...
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