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Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Jun 2017, 02:06
Replies: 18
Views: 7,822
Posted By walter kennedy

atakacs good point - Hollywood syndrome? BTW...

atakacs
good point - Hollywood syndrome?
BTW is that an arrester hook? - who's carrier would they be using?
I think those bulges are for the pilots balls.
Forum: Military Aviation
14th May 2017, 15:27
Replies: 99
Views: 37,850
Posted By walter kennedy

wondering You wrote <<Without oil both...

wondering
You wrote <<Without oil both countries would fall back into oblivion. Nations of sheep and camel herders living in a middle age society. And that would be the end of their story. Who in...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th May 2017, 15:16
Replies: 51
Views: 30,067
Posted By walter kennedy

sandiego89 a very good point - the first ever...

sandiego89
a very good point - the first ever test (in USA) had a greater effect than predicted - imagine if it had been a couple of orders bigger - would we have done a first test of such a device...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th May 2017, 15:13
Replies: 51
Views: 30,067
Posted By walter kennedy

Yeh, there was JOC Grapple, Thresher, Cauldron? -...

Yeh, there was JOC Grapple, Thresher, Cauldron? - memory fading
Forum: Military Aviation
9th May 2017, 16:01
Replies: 74
Views: 22,233
Posted By walter kennedy

TQ as part of training or selection, rightly, was...

TQ as part of training or selection, rightly, was not made public.
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Apr 2017, 23:34
Replies: 575
Views: 213,492
Posted By walter kennedy

Last bit first as this is a valid point -...

Last bit first as this is a valid point - how/where from did/do they get the basic raw material for their nuclear weapons? - they obviously have some - I did not mean to imply that the Soviets had...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Apr 2017, 15:06
Replies: 575
Views: 213,492
Posted By walter kennedy

Just a possibility - the Soviets had them decades...

Just a possibility - the Soviets had them decades ago and the North Koreans got some of their sub know how from them.
A possibility to consider.
One on one their subs may be obsolete but they have...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Apr 2017, 02:36
Replies: 575
Views: 213,492
Posted By walter kennedy

the worry is that they don't need ICBMs to get to...

the worry is that they don't need ICBMs to get to us - they have a lot of submarines - they have Soviet era technology that includes probably nuclear tipped torpedoes that can be launched at quite a...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Apr 2017, 16:22
Replies: 4
Views: 2,451
Posted By walter kennedy

Aldergrove "Parking"

Back in the early '90s, which apron did RAF helos operate from? Was it the one next to the radar (designated "DA1" now)?
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Apr 2017, 01:22
Replies: 2,582
Views: 648,131
Posted By walter kennedy

Posted by ORAC: <<There is a fine line between...

Posted by ORAC:
<<There is a fine line between attempting to have Assad be removed and destroying the armed forces and the organs of state. Look what happened when they disbanded the armed forces...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Dec 2016, 23:19
Replies: 18
Views: 3,568
Posted By walter kennedy

PN Agreed, but it was their intent (and only...

PN
Agreed, but it was their intent (and only option with fuel and icing limitations to achieve the whole trip) to do it at LL; it is apparent from their nav setting that, once they had "touched...
Forum: Military Aviation
4th Dec 2016, 04:43
Replies: 18
Views: 3,568
Posted By walter kennedy

BEggles you are pathetic - proof of the fit of...

BEggles you are pathetic - proof of the fit of that kit came after I had suggested its use - QED for the analysis effort. But that's off topic - was just trying to clear up an issue with some...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Dec 2016, 14:15
Replies: 18
Views: 3,568
Posted By walter kennedy

You get the cigar: top box "A" was waypoint at...

You get the cigar:
top box "A" was waypoint at end of the leg;
2nd box "027" was (mag) hdg/track to A from start of leg;
3rd box "21:00" 21 minutes leg time;
4th box "42" naut miles length of...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Dec 2016, 14:23
Replies: 18
Views: 3,568
Posted By walter kennedy

Thank you all - much appreciated

Thank you all - much appreciated
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Dec 2016, 10:27
Replies: 18
Views: 3,568
Posted By walter kennedy

Thank you all - but there is a division on FUEL...

Thank you all - but there is a division on FUEL or SAFETY ALTITUDE
Who gets the cigar? Seriously, it would help me with a little point.
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Dec 2016, 07:04
Replies: 25
Views: 16,126
Posted By walter kennedy

Biscuit74 I think it was at a time when the...

Biscuit74
I think it was at a time when the idea was to intercept massed bomber formations - I think I have seen an American a/c of the time with "V" shaped forward looking canopy - presumably to...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Dec 2016, 06:18
Replies: 18
Views: 3,568
Posted By walter kennedy

Chartwork notation

Hi,
Goimg back a bit, would anyone like to explain what goes in the boxes in this type of symbol?
In particular, is the lowest box the intended altitude for the leg?
...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Jul 2016, 15:41
Replies: 57
Views: 13,888
Posted By walter kennedy

Did the Dr David Kelly business get a mention? ...

Did the Dr David Kelly business get a mention?
Let's not forget that he had made the point that the case was intentionally exagerated ("sexed up") - who wanted it so and why, should have been...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Jun 2016, 13:24
Replies: 39
Views: 8,283
Posted By walter kennedy

AAIB - One case tells you how it has been - MOK. ...

AAIB - One case tells you how it has been - MOK.
22 years on and indepemdent analysis has arrived at what should have been the starting point of the investigation.
Directives from the top and a...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th May 2016, 02:52
Replies: 27
Views: 8,143
Posted By walter kennedy

What a great dive wreck and fish haven she would...

What a great dive wreck and fish haven she would make in tge right lication - over the decades she would be worth well more than the salvage price in terms of recreatiinal diving and fishing - and...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Mar 2016, 14:49
Replies: 36
Views: 12,689
Posted By walter kennedy

Whatever it was called, what enemy aircraft could...

Whatever it was called, what enemy aircraft could have looked like a Liberator and been flying at the time?
Less has been called an act of war when it has suited.
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Mar 2016, 13:14
Replies: 23
Views: 5,462
Posted By walter kennedy

The question was put out to aircrew familiar with...

The question was put out to aircrew familiar with HC2 Chinooks.
It is a simple seating question - not how something works or what it is used for. So it is not a great secret concerning operational...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Mar 2016, 15:17
Replies: 23
Views: 5,462
Posted By walter kennedy

I appologise for perhaps “fishing” too subtly – I...

I appologise for perhaps “fishing” too subtly – I am not wanting any operational secrets to be revealed, just where someone would be sitting so as to view the CDU or even the RDU (where fitted) such...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Feb 2016, 10:20
Replies: 23
Views: 5,462
Posted By walter kennedy

Honestly Beaggles, you are like one of those...

Honestly Beaggles, you are like one of those Japanese soldiers that kept on running around the jungle not wanting to acknowledge that the war was over.
After 21 years is this equipment so taboo that...
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Feb 2016, 06:20
Replies: 23
Views: 5,462
Posted By walter kennedy

HC2 gadget query

The link is for a picture of a card holder - did one flip it up or remove card to view RDU?
ch2cockpit-2.jpg Photo by grauniad | Photobucket...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Feb 2016, 13:48
Replies: 82
Views: 10,872
Posted By walter kennedy

Way back in 1977 there was a fine young man (Mike...

Way back in 1977 there was a fine young man (Mike P.), who looked "black", on 31 PTC in the old Rhodesian Air Force - he got through as a pilot (and of course as an officer) - that country worked on...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Dec 2015, 02:17
Replies: 11
Views: 3,197
Posted By walter kennedy

The guidance system was trialed successfully...

The guidance system was trialed successfully years ago - a large aircraft flew, with the Global Hawk system, unmanned from USA to Australia back in early 2001 as I recall.
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Oct 2015, 15:05
Replies: 16
Views: 4,050
Posted By walter kennedy

mmmmm I have been suspended from making any...

mmmmm
I have been suspended from making any more posts on a thread I just started recently (Bliar Revelations).
I thought a post I put there was entirely reasonable but ....
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Oct 2015, 11:40
Replies: 74
Views: 14,783
Posted By walter kennedy

Latest Bliar Revelations

Thanks to the release of Hillary Clinton's stuff it is now abundantly clear that Bliar took this country to war for the benefit of another state without proper process and arguably deceived his...
Forum: Military Aviation
3rd Jun 2015, 14:35
Replies: 7
Views: 2,610
Posted By walter kennedy

21 YEARS AGO

21 years ago RAF Chinook ZD576 crashed on the Mull of Kintyre:
Despite a clear political motive for that team (the passengers) to be incapacitated, sabotage was ruled out immediately;
In airmanship...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th May 2015, 12:56
Replies: 41
Views: 11,480
Posted By walter kennedy

Hi Tec, good point to raise - especially poignant...

Hi Tec, good point to raise - especially poignant to me as Graydon was the first person I wrote to (in 1994) voicing my concerns as to what they may have been doing close to the Mull and what steps I...
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Mar 2015, 15:47
Replies: 52
Views: 12,471
Posted By walter kennedy

41,000 hrs on operations! How was the...

41,000 hrs on operations!
How was the airworthiness?
Was the MOK Chinook just bad luck or was airworthiness just a smokescreen to blanket other aspects, one wonders?
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Mar 2015, 15:16
Replies: 78
Views: 15,697
Posted By walter kennedy

proone!!! <<... my life is as free as one could...

proone!!!
<<... my life is as free as one could possibly expect in a society that protects the weak and vulnerable and prevents mob rule and war lord rule.>>
er, the Taliban got the warlords under...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Mar 2015, 03:21
Replies: 15
Views: 3,505
Posted By walter kennedy

Looks like he was caught out by a quiff of...

Looks like he was caught out by a quiff of another kind ...
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Feb 2015, 15:13
Replies: 114
Views: 17,482
Posted By walter kennedy

Hardly surprising given the PM's pedigree -...

Hardly surprising given the PM's pedigree - Milliband would be the same.
I don't think it was Stalin that Churchill was trying to impress with this "spectacular" given that the first bombs fell on...
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