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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
7th Sep 2023, 01:21
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

A similar thread is running on "Where are they...

A similar thread is running on "Where are they now?"
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
31st Oct 2021, 13:02
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

Beamr What you should know is that many of us...

Beamr
What you should know is that many of us enjoyed it enormously.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
31st Oct 2021, 07:54
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

Megan I think there were two main reasons: all...

Megan
I think there were two main reasons: all the people that needed to know had been told; and out of respect for the family members of the dead.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
25th Aug 2020, 08:24
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

Bill Cooper was a very good O/C BNS, as was his...

Bill Cooper was a very good O/C BNS, as was his successor, Ian Topping, and his, Gordon MacLachlan, - you felt that they were on your side.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
25th Aug 2020, 00:30
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

PN Try as I may, I do not recall 6-monthly...

PN

Try as I may, I do not recall 6-monthly checks by wing staff (even yourself!) on specific targets.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
18th Apr 2019, 13:24
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

I seem to remember that, perhaps in part, it was...

I seem to remember that, perhaps in part, it was the cross-wind that did for them.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
18th Apr 2019, 11:22
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

Mac How did that "simple mod" work? It was...

Mac

How did that "simple mod" work? It was good to see you in HK some twenty-odd years ago. I can't believe that you are 85! RW.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Feb 2019, 12:08
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

PN Before my time on MBF, but i remember...

PN
Before my time on MBF, but i remember something similar at Nav School - along and across track?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Dec 2018, 06:05
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

I would have thought three or four days without a...

I would have thought three or four days without a 02 was quite rare.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Oct 2017, 09:58
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

You may find the following three books helpful in...

You may find the following three books helpful in your research: VULCAN Photo Album by Alan Todd ( a Control Column publication printed by Brayford Press Ltd., 56 Coulson Road , Lincoln); The Vulcan...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Oct 2017, 00:07
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

Wander 00 He was a captain on 44 at Waddo...

Wander 00

He was a captain on 44 at Waddo in, I think, the early 70s.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Aug 2017, 13:28
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

Magnificent! Cheered me up after a day indoors...

Magnificent! Cheered me up after a day indoors here courtesy of Typhoon Hato.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Nov 2016, 00:16
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

I think he was an instructor on Refresher Flight...

I think he was an instructor on Refresher Flight at BCBS in 1967.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
30th Aug 2012, 07:27
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

Happy Birthday

Happy 60th birthday, Queen of the skies!

In commemoration of the maiden flight of the first full-scale Avro Vulcan prototype Type 698, VX 770, piloted solo by Roly Falk on 30th August 1952.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
16th Apr 2012, 07:14
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

Alex Cassie/FJJP

Was anyone else struck by the extraordinary similarity between Alex Cassie ("Great Escape" forger, portrayed in the film by Donald Pleasence - and whose photograph appears in a recent Telegraph...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Jul 2011, 13:04
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

PN I think that at the time the QB flypast...

PN

I think that at the time the QB flypast photo was taken Ricky Crowder was CFI (note the Sqn Ldr rank braid). However, I'm fairly certain he was CI later. I can't remember who the CI was in...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Jul 2011, 09:01
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

VB I had the great pleasure of flying with...

VB

I had the great pleasure of flying with your father on my first tour and his second on 101 sqn from April 1968 to April 1970. The Bomb Comp you mention occurred just after we had arrived on...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Sep 2009, 07:10
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

Waddo Disco

Towlie06

Not much to add. Trevor ran the weekly mess disco in a cheerful manner until his posting to CFS (I think) in late 70/early 71 when it was taken over by Bob Waud.

S/W

Any news of...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
21st Aug 2009, 00:01
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

Trevor Jackson was a co-pilot on Viv W*rr***t*n's...

Trevor Jackson was a co-pilot on Viv W*rr***t*n's crew on 101 sqn c1968-70. I think he was then posted to CFS. He used to run the Waddo mess disco - The Gas Tomato.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
25th Jun 2009, 22:32
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

NRU74 Have sent you a PM Barksdale Boy

NRU74

Have sent you a PM
Barksdale Boy
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Jun 2009, 03:31
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

A fine nav plotter

Nick_Me

I well remember your father as an excellent plotter on a very good crew - one that would doubtless have shone on GV 1972 had it not been cancelled. I recall Gus Gillies (RIP) telling me...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Feb 2009, 11:33
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

Any objective analysis of bombing results at RAF...

Any objective analysis of bombing results at RAF Scampton for the two years before 35 Sqn's disbandment can lead only to the conclusion that the premier bombing squadron on that station, by a...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
9th Sep 2008, 01:29
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

SD hats

As a nav radar I used to zip my SD hat into the space behind the side-window to my left. This ensured a nice, cool hatband by the end of the sortie. My OCU air instructor, Terry Mooney, gave me this...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Aug 2008, 21:13
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

Barnes Wallis memorial flypast - Effingham

The flypast was on November 17th 1979. The a/c was 595. The crew was Pete Branthwaite's with me flying as guest nav radar.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Aug 2007, 06:53
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,392
Posted By Barksdale Boy

Trevor Jackson

Trevor Jackson was VW's co on 101sqn. As a footnote to Waddo history, he started up the Gas Tomato disco in the mess on Saturday evenings -- aaah, memories of Bende in the gilded cage with G**...
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