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Forum: Military Aviation

19th Nov 2012, 14:27

Replies: 283

Any Phantom stories out there?

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Posted By Upside Down

27 feet

From a hazy memory I think it was "officially" logged at 27 feet, not 30.
Believe it was also in the times of the Death Star (Mt.Pleasant), not Stanley.....
no names though......

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

8th Oct 2012, 09:24

Replies: 45

Great shot

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Posted By Upside Down

howie, why do you thinks it's 29 ? I ask...

howie, why do you thinks it's 29 ?

I ask because the author says it's 19 and also refers to the use of "H" as the photoship. "D" is also a valid 19 sqn tail-letter, so I tend to trust the authors...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

4th Oct 2012, 20:31

Replies: 45

Great shot

Views: 12,104

Posted By Upside Down

if i were to guess I'd say "real" simply because...

if i were to guess I'd say "real" simply because I find the shadow detail of the fletchers, the pylons, the LAU's, AUX's to be just too good. I also did some pixel peeping at the 1024 image, and the...

Forum: Military Aviation

2nd Oct 2012, 17:58

Replies: 283

Any Phantom stories out there?

Views: 131,574

Posted By Upside Down

Copper Flag was (is?) a predominantly EW oriented...

Copper Flag was (is?) a predominantly EW oriented exercise held in the Gulf just off Florida pan handle. The Google search info looks correct and saves me a trip upstairs to dig out my logbook...

Forum: Military Aviation

1st Oct 2012, 17:43

Replies: 22

Ex Phantoms?

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Posted By Upside Down

good job DG ! See you there shortly...

good job DG ! See you there shortly...

Forum: Military Aviation

1st Oct 2012, 17:41

Replies: 283

Any Phantom stories out there?

Views: 131,574

Posted By Upside Down

oops, under scrutiny !

I don't know anything about how much fuel a VC10 carries, I can just tell you that outbound the 3 tankers left Brize 'some time' before we left Wildenrath; my recollection is that they flew together...

Forum: Military Aviation

27th Sep 2012, 12:59

Replies: 283

Any Phantom stories out there?

Views: 131,574

Posted By Upside Down

Goose Bay homeward bound from some Flag exercise....

Goose Bay homeward bound from some Flag exercise. 4x rhino's with 3x VC-10s. Briefing after the night before, tanker mates give us all the outbound tracks to fly so that we catch up with them after...

Forum: Biz Jets, Ag Flying, GA etc.

9th Mar 2011, 15:37

Replies: 6

Finding a Pilot ?

Views: 2,254

Posted By Upside Down

thank you both, @Taff: by Agency I mean that...

thank you both,

@Taff: by Agency I mean that the Agency would do the job of finding a pilot of "appropriate skills etc" as an initial filtering, which would then be followed up by an interview...

Forum: Biz Jets, Ag Flying, GA etc.

9th Mar 2011, 11:57

Replies: 6

Finding a Pilot ?

Views: 2,254

Posted By Upside Down

Finding a Pilot ?

odd question I know, as there may be many interested pilots who read these pages.....

I have not been active in the industry for a long time, but have been asked to help find a pilot to setup and...

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