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Forum: Military Aviation
28th Jul 2021, 17:37
Replies: 15
Views: 4,224
Posted By essdee

Many thanks. Didn't get the PM, but no matter.

Many thanks. Didn't get the PM, but no matter.
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Jul 2021, 21:53
Replies: 15
Views: 4,224
Posted By essdee

Buzz's funeral

Does anyone on here have details of the funeral?
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Jul 2021, 13:03
Replies: 15
Views: 4,224
Posted By essdee

Can someone please PM me with Buzz's home address?

Can someone please PM me with Buzz's home address?
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Jul 2021, 10:31
Replies: 15
Views: 4,224
Posted By essdee

Buzz

Very sad news indeed. Buzz lived next door to me on the patch at Wattisham. He was a keen and irrepressible first-tourist then. One of the good guys.
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Apr 2021, 11:50
Replies: 757
Views: 513,409
Posted By essdee

43 Sqn Hybrid

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/583x527/43_sqn_f4f_52d29cca14ca9e4779a6a28e9077ac6caca77312.jpeg
43 Sqn Reunion June 1976
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Feb 2019, 16:41
Replies: 757
Views: 513,409
Posted By essdee

'Q' was at Gaydon for the 'Farewell to Gaydon'...

'Q' was at Gaydon for the 'Farewell to Gaydon' Air Show on 17 August 1975. As Saintsman rightly says, the aircraft was lost just a month later on 18 September. The photograph was taken just after the...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Mar 2018, 13:14
Replies: 372
Views: 314,730
Posted By essdee

Cool BV

Dook probably means that once you have established air supremacy you can deploy that asset.
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Mar 2017, 12:13
Replies: 1,029
Views: 473,693
Posted By essdee

The root cause of this incident was the pilot...

The root cause of this incident was the pilot motoring his seat forward. I hope that one of the lessons learned is that the handling pilot should always be seated correctly such that he can assume...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Oct 2016, 21:40
Replies: 6
Views: 4,247
Posted By essdee

Gerry's last tour in the RAF was on 43 Sqn at...

Gerry's last tour in the RAF was on 43 Sqn at Leuchars ca. 1976. He then flew as an instructor with Airwork Services at Perth Airport for a number of years.
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Oct 2016, 22:04
Replies: 6
Views: 4,247
Posted By essdee

Gerry Shipley

SHIPLEY Gerald Victor Died peacefully, with dignity at St Andrews Community Hospital, after a short illness on Tuesday, 27th September, 2016, Gerry, 80 years old, (a retired RAF and civil pilot), a...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Mar 2016, 09:31
Replies: 39
Views: 11,282
Posted By essdee

For those of you who missed the entry in...

For those of you who missed the entry in Wikipedia (link from Beagle, post #13), Adam Makos' book, A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Feb 2016, 09:44
Replies: 1,757
Views: 987,914
Posted By essdee

tucumseh I'd like to see the evidence you...

tucumseh

I'd like to see the evidence you have that leads you to make such disparaging remarks about the engineering member of a BoI or SI. In my experience, admittedly at least 20 years out of...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Feb 2016, 15:15
Replies: 39
Views: 9,937
Posted By essdee

What on earth is a 'Command QFI'?

What on earth is a 'Command QFI'?
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Dec 2015, 07:37
Replies: 319
Views: 47,895
Posted By essdee

Listen up, Dave!

Cameron is wrong to accuse those MPs thinking of voting 'No' as being 'terrorist sympathisers'. He is also wrong to ignore the figures in the latest YouGov poll showing that there is a clear majority...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Sep 2015, 11:41
Replies: 20
Views: 8,079
Posted By essdee

Thanks, Haraka. I was puzzling that point about...

Thanks, Haraka. I was puzzling that point about an external degree while at Cranwell. You are also correct to say that Pete went to Durham. what is less well known, as he was a little coy about this,...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Sep 2015, 22:46
Replies: 1,757
Views: 987,914
Posted By essdee

Never assume, check ... I stand corrected. I...

Never assume, check ... I stand corrected. I thought the nomenclature of GA11 would have put it later than the FR10 in development terms. I would be even less inclined to loop one at low level like...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Sep 2015, 22:18
Replies: 1,757
Views: 987,914
Posted By essdee

Good grief!

Sailor, I have no doubt that what you say about looping a naval single seat Hunter is quite correct. I am equally positive that no RAF supervisor would have authorised you to do that! You need to be...
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Sep 2015, 22:37
Replies: 20
Views: 8,079
Posted By essdee

Goodbye, old chum

Shocked and saddened to hear this news, though Pete will doubtless be pleased to have gone out on a high. Lynda will be devastated, but will have strong family support.
I was privileged to serve as...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Sep 2015, 09:59
Replies: 1,757
Views: 987,914
Posted By essdee

Lightning Loops

Let me preface my comments to the above quote (Post #596) by saying that, in my view, this is irrelevant to the Hunter display at Shoreham.
This may well be how bigglesbrother displayed the...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Nov 2013, 12:05
Replies: 66
Views: 11,748
Posted By essdee

Thank you Fox3 and Courtney for adding to the...

Thank you Fox3 and Courtney for adding to the corporate memory about a tragic accident. I thought that was probably the one Courtney was thinking about in his original post, and agree with Fox3 that...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Nov 2013, 16:16
Replies: 66
Views: 11,748
Posted By essdee

Seems a pretty sweeping statement, Courtney (no...

Seems a pretty sweeping statement, Courtney (no pun intended). What were the circumstances?
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Mar 2011, 22:11
Replies: 1,209
Views: 303,539
Posted By essdee

OPSEC?

I don't normally get involved in fatuous arguments on Pprune, but I have had a bellyful of people complaining about giving information to the enemy - or phrases to the same effect - by saying we...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Dec 2010, 18:09
Replies: 752
Views: 348,710
Posted By essdee

Gulf War One - Hugh McManners

This is the third time that Hugh McManners gets a mention in this thread, although on this occasion it is to recommend a book of his to avoid. While browsing in Waterstone's today I came across his...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Dec 2010, 09:47
Replies: 100
Views: 22,531
Posted By essdee

Point to Point Record

No banana for you on that occasion, Fox3, as the Wattisham-Coningsby record had already been set at a logged 10 minutes on 10 May 1979 in Phantom FG2 XT908 - and that included a PAR! The return...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Dec 2010, 18:21
Replies: 100
Views: 22,531
Posted By essdee

Shortest Flight(s)

After reading previous posts I wouldn't claim the shortest. However, I did 3 seasons of display flying (1 on Lightning F1A & 2 on the Phantom) and have quite a number of 10 minute sorties logged, and...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Aug 2010, 13:47
Replies: 39
Views: 14,577
Posted By essdee

NB

Had a 'phone call from NB just the other week. PM me and I'll let you have his number.
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Aug 2010, 10:13
Replies: 39
Views: 14,577
Posted By essdee

XM172

I flew XM172 on a number of occasions between 1966 and 1973. She features 7 times on the trot between 8 & 13 May 1970 - for a mere total of 2h 15m, as 6 of them were display practices. The seventh...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Jun 2010, 06:05
Replies: 49
Views: 22,428
Posted By essdee

Stanley

Stanley is still there of course, though no longer with cables, iirc. Mind you, does Typhoon have a hook? The F3s did practice approaches to Stanley on a regular basis, though I am not aware of...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Mar 2010, 22:51
Replies: 70
Views: 18,734
Posted By essdee

Unauthorised LL aeros?

Beagle says: "during one trip in LFA17 with another QFI we saw him trying an undercarriage-down barrel roll at low level...."

... and presumably on landing your QFI helped the cause of flight...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Aug 2009, 09:14
Replies: 45
Views: 8,982
Posted By essdee

As one (of many) who has flown both Spey and J79...

As one (of many) who has flown both Spey and J79 F4s, I can say that both were capable of reaching their limiting IAS at low level. However, I couldn't tell you which would get there first from a...
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