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Forum: Military Aviation
13th Apr 2024, 15:56
Replies: 7
Views: 1,593
Posted By DeanoP

Reference Post No:3. Equiniti Phone Number :...

Reference Post No:3. Equiniti Phone Number : 0345 121 2514
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Mar 2024, 12:17
Replies: 54
Views: 14,526
Posted By DeanoP

Smuj's Last activity on this site was 15th Nov...

Smuj's Last activity on this site was 15th Nov 2019. I fear the worst.
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Dec 2023, 10:21
Replies: 224
Views: 45,506
Posted By DeanoP

Very easy application process, took about 20...

Very easy application process, took about 20 mins. Hopefully, it will give those of us whose passports and driving licenses have expired, some form of valid photo ID. Better than producing a pathetic...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Dec 2023, 12:48
Replies: 10,531
Views: 4,688,369
Posted By DeanoP

Post No 7217 From the lines on the back of...

Post No 7217

From the lines on the back of his jacket it looks as if Putin is wearing body armour.
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Nov 2023, 13:07
Replies: 20
Views: 4,233
Posted By DeanoP

242 Transport: Hastings Valetta Beverley Andover...

242 Transport: Hastings Valetta Beverley Andover Argosy Hercules
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Sep 2023, 11:27
Replies: 4,774
Views: 1,567,009
Posted By DeanoP

Memorial Bench for crew of XV 198. Dedicated on 10th Sept

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/640x480/img_3470_2dc9036865f73df5a008efa801e5b46409845dde.jpeg
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Sep 2023, 22:31
Replies: 49
Views: 32,401
Posted By DeanoP

A Service of Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the crash of Hercules XV198

About 70 people attended, many of them relatives and ex 48 Sqn members, the very moving Service of Commemoration yesterday at Lyneham Church.

Act of Remembrance
Let us remember before God,
and...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Jul 2023, 16:05
Replies: 4,774
Views: 1,567,009
Posted By DeanoP

Memorial Service for crew of Hercules XV198

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/164x200/image001_94cdec40c7b8cd21980ad041f395a09d399ada47.jpg


The 48

Squadron Association

50th Memorial Service
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
4th Apr 2023, 10:05
Replies: 49
Views: 9,483
Posted By DeanoP

Climb to Safety Altitude and the contact ATC

Climb to Safety Altitude and the contact ATC
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Nov 2022, 10:05
Replies: 76
Views: 14,152
Posted By DeanoP

Ref Post No 74. Regret poor photo which shows,...

Ref Post No 74.
Regret poor photo which shows, in part, the HDU control unit (top left) and the ECM pod control unit (below E290 radar). All situated at the Nav station. Photo taken on Fishery...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Oct 2022, 22:44
Replies: 112
Views: 17,805
Posted By DeanoP

RAF Khormaksar Officers' Club pool at Tarshyne...

RAF Khormaksar Officers' Club pool at Tarshyne beach gave safe haven from the sharks. Feel the heat!

(Photo from the RAF Khormaksar thread. Not mine)


...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Sep 2021, 13:14
Replies: 13
Views: 8,896
Posted By DeanoP

Ref Post No 5: I was serving with 24 Sqn at...

Ref Post No 5:

I was serving with 24 Sqn at Colerne when this accident happened to a 36 Sqn a/c from the same base.

I do not recall hearing of a PJI throwing jumpers out of the door all the way...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Dec 2020, 10:54
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

Reference Post No 840 which refers to Post No749 ...

Reference Post No 840 which refers to Post No749

Thank you abyanboard (https://www.pprune.org/members/507180-abyanboard) for pointing out the error. My memory has failed me over the passage of 57...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Dec 2020, 13:59
Replies: 4,774
Views: 1,567,009
Posted By DeanoP

A Night to Remember

Spent the last lockdown, whiling away the time, reinserting photos kindly deleted by Photobox, a long process ,finding the photos and putting them, hopefully, in the right place. (thinks of Morecambe...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Nov 2020, 13:59
Replies: 38
Views: 10,480
Posted By DeanoP

May 1990. Near Bertha's beach. Mine clearing...

May 1990. Near Bertha's beach. Mine clearing party on right. (but I believe Penguins were too light to set them off)

...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Nov 2020, 23:02
Replies: 15
Views: 7,670
Posted By DeanoP

sycamore...

sycamore (https://www.pprune.org/members/53623-sycamore)

No Jetplan in those days.
Latterly, even when using Jetplan, the diversion fuel was never calculated on an Undercarriage down and...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Nov 2020, 13:10
Replies: 15
Views: 7,670
Posted By DeanoP

Hope you are well AA62. Hope that this is not too...

Hope you are well AA62. Hope that this is not too much of a thread drift. Ref your post above.

Originally posted on "Global Aviation 60 years of the Hercules" and copied below:


Hydraulic...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Nov 2020, 11:06
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

The Cisterns of Tawila, Crater, Aden

Photos taken in 1962 of these ancient cisterns. Wikipedia gives a lot of information, some of which is copied below:

“Regarding the original construction of which nothing is accurately known…”...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Oct 2020, 23:43
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/...

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Aden Protectorate Levies. Photos taken near the threshold of Rwy 26 Khormaksar
...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Oct 2020, 10:39
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

Photos by F/L Keith Webster 233 Sqn pilot. ...

Photos by F/L Keith Webster 233 Sqn pilot.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/720x480/ali_233_sqn_runner_ksar_1962_kw_9f4e9313999ef9efec308a81a70293a3b89d5d24.jpeg
Ali Mohsan...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Oct 2020, 23:37
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

'Without Glory In Arabia: The British Retreat...

'Without Glory In Arabia: The British Retreat from Aden' by Peter Hinchcliffe, John Ducker and Maria Holt
Reference Etudiant's observation: ' Images of a striking disconnect between the locals and...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Oct 2020, 12:36
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

'Cornish Jack' - Whilst researching John Nash found this article

The Queen in Aden: a Jubilee RetrospectiveIn the year of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, the following article recalls highlights of her visit to Aden in 1954. We are indebted to Dr...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Oct 2020, 23:55
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

Photos taken en route to Lahej 1962

These photos were taken North of Khormaksar in 1962, when you could wander freely and safely on the road to Lahej.
...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Oct 2020, 23:37
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

Around Khormaksar in quieter times -1962/3

A few more photos of the area:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1333/pict0026_2__2bd6a255cc8e55177cdc8b82d127012371947b21.jpeg
Windmills on salt pans to the North

...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Oct 2020, 23:14
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

Officers' Mess Khormaksar

Geriaviator (https://www.pprune.org/members/401808-geriaviator)
IIRC the Mess is a little to the South of your mark. In the centre in front of the buildings (south) you can make out the ruins of the...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Oct 2020, 12:56
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

Just as well the smells cannot be encapsulated. ...

Just as well the smells cannot be encapsulated. They were extreme and probably quite a disease ridden place as well. Who knows what was growing there!
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Oct 2020, 11:53
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

Scenes from Beihan 130nm N of Khormaksar

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Approaching Beihan from the North

...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Oct 2020, 21:33
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

Found this piece on the internet from 'WW2...

Found this piece on the internet from 'WW2 Peoples War'. Blenheim aircraft were certainly used there

'To assess the possibility of a staging post aircraft landing site on the island of Socotra,...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Oct 2020, 16:56
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

Mail Drop Socotra Island

We were tasked to fly to Riyan, collect a letter and a W/T Operator and take them to Socotra Island. The letter, addressed to the Sultan, was dropped in a weighted mail sack with parachute, on what...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Oct 2020, 22:01
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

spitfirek5054...

spitfirek5054 (https://www.pprune.org/members/353110-spitfirek5054). You are quite correct- Thanks

Silly boy, I got stuck in Herc mode. Correct number from my log book is 'VW200'. Post amended.
Forum: Private Flying
18th Oct 2020, 17:01
Replies: 33
Views: 8,564
Posted By DeanoP

In the old days at Nav school, we were taught: ...

In the old days at Nav school, we were taught:

Radio Range Line of sight formula. = 1.22 X Sq. Root of Aerial Height + 1.22 X Sq.Root of A/C height.

Thus assuming you are looking at the sea...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Oct 2020, 11:28
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

Ferry Flight:Khormaksar -Little Staughton, Bedfordshire

In July 1962 we ferried Valetta VW 200 ( Captained by F/L Keith Webster) from Khormaksar to Wadi Halfa and then on to, El Adem, Luqa, Orange, Lyneham ( Cliffe Pypard 4 star transit accommodation) and...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Oct 2020, 10:41
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

Around Khormaksar in quieter times -1962/3

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1333/pict0024_2__8c3e9e4f496566c597d187324f1820af3ae59b3b.jpeg
Fisherman's Bay - 1962/3

Once acclimatised, I thoroughly enjoyed my tour...
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Oct 2020, 11:14
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

SLXOwft Thank you for your reply to the RAFA...

SLXOwft

Thank you for your reply to the RAFA Air Mail magazine question.
I have passed on your information to the Editor.
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Oct 2020, 22:07
Replies: 843
Views: 353,107
Posted By DeanoP

Geriaviator, Lovely old pictures of Khormaksar...

Geriaviator,
Lovely old pictures of Khormaksar and Aden.
Totally agree with you and MPN11 about Photobucket.

I am spending a lot of time reinstating the photos that were blocked (get a life I...
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