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Forum: Military Aviation
28th Sep 2015, 16:23
Replies: 794
Views: 487,099
Posted By The Helpful Stacker

Are they going to include a 1/32 scale Wing Mong...

Are they going to include a 1/32 scale Wing Mong struggling to pull an open line nozzle and semi-rigid hose through the Nitesun bracket for total authenticity?;)
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Oct 2014, 16:27
Replies: 794
Views: 487,099
Posted By The Helpful Stacker

TSW? = Tactical Supply Wing. The adonis-like...

TSW? = Tactical Supply Wing. The adonis-like elite of the RAF supply trade without whom helicopter operations in NI would have ground to a halt.

TWA? = Teeny Weenie Airways. A nickname for the...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Dec 2013, 18:58
Replies: 794
Views: 487,099
Posted By The Helpful Stacker

Only if you are the same one who has seen a few...

Only if you are the same one who has seen a few thousand pairs of boots (and a similar volume of Avtur in litres) all over it.
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Dec 2013, 15:48
Replies: 794
Views: 487,099
Posted By The Helpful Stacker

A Wessex on Spot 4, those were the days! My...

A Wessex on Spot 4, those were the days!

My favourite aircraft to work with on a cold, winter's night, what with the handy heater next to the front open line point. The Nightsun brackets made it...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Dec 2012, 13:43
Replies: 794
Views: 487,099
Posted By The Helpful Stacker

http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/335_...

http://sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/335_28828042115_6369_n.jpg

Everyone's favourite task, the bin run to R850. Was a busy day by the looks of it too.
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Dec 2011, 11:22
Replies: 794
Views: 487,099
Posted By The Helpful Stacker

As Floppy Link says, its the angle. When the...

As Floppy Link says, its the angle.

When the TFC fuel tanks were removed and replaced by the metal tanks with hydrant piping it was all fitted along the back edge behind XR529's tail, with a line...
Forum: Military Aviation
16th Feb 2011, 12:47
Replies: 794
Views: 487,099
Posted By The Helpful Stacker

If there was a Night Sun dangling off the side...

If there was a Night Sun dangling off the side too it got even more 'interesting'.

Still, it kept us Tiswas lads warm on cold nights. Every cloud and all that....:ok:

By the way, does anyone...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Feb 2011, 00:03
Replies: 794
Views: 487,099
Posted By The Helpful Stacker

Wasn't '518' the Wessex kept by 60 Sqn after the...

Wasn't '518' the Wessex kept by 60 Sqn after the types retirement from Shawbury for ground instructional duties?
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Feb 2011, 22:07
Replies: 794
Views: 487,099
Posted By The Helpful Stacker

Many were sold to Uruguay and I believe are still...

Many were sold to Uruguay and I believe are still being operated.
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Dec 2009, 14:42
Replies: 794
Views: 487,099
Posted By The Helpful Stacker

I would go into detail about the night two of us...

I would go into detail about the night two of us wing mongs and a squaddie ended up covered in some of the contents of one of the sh*t tanks whilst doing USL ops on G40 but its almost tea time and I...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Dec 2009, 11:40
Replies: 794
Views: 487,099
Posted By The Helpful Stacker

PP - With reference to your 'Last Day Of The...

PP - With reference to your 'Last Day Of The 1990s' photo, I was one of the two TSW lads up at G40 that day.

I wasn't even supposed to be in NI on that det but, counter to advice I'd always been...
Forum: Military Aviation
18th Dec 2009, 12:06
Replies: 794
Views: 487,099
Posted By The Helpful Stacker

They were cracking and she loved to show them...

They were cracking and she loved to show them off, paid for by the RAF too.

Some remarked that she was a bit BOBFOC though.
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Dec 2009, 14:01
Replies: 794
Views: 487,099
Posted By The Helpful Stacker

(Once upon a time at R850 in the middle of the...

(Once upon a time at R850 in the middle of the night).

Ding Dong 1 - "Aren't (name removed to spare blushes) helicopters normally a bit taller when they land on for fuel?":eek:

Ding Dong 2 -...
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