PPRuNe Forums - Search Results

Search: Posts Made By: Lancman

Showing results 1 to 7 of 7
Search took 0.00 seconds.

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

22nd Dec 2015, 16:55

Replies: 362

Handley Page Hastings

Views: 138,971

Posted By Lancman

Welcome to the haze, it's nice and warm in here.

Welcome to the haze, it's nice and warm in here.

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

22nd Dec 2015, 16:23

Replies: 362

Handley Page Hastings

Views: 138,971

Posted By Lancman

I think that we're talking at cross purposes...

I think that we're talking at cross purposes here, the SPIN selection refers to the Mark 4 autopilot used on Lancasters which ran off an Arrow air compressor on number 2 engine at 45 p.s.i. The...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

1st Feb 2015, 17:06

Replies: 362

Handley Page Hastings

Views: 138,971

Posted By Lancman

No! No! No! “add 32” is for Centigrade to...

No! No! No! “add 32” is for Centigrade to Fahrenheit! :). End of grumpy voice.

One of the reasons for longer sector times was that the Hastings had to be flown around mountains instead of...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

1st Feb 2015, 14:22

Replies: 362

Handley Page Hastings

Views: 138,971

Posted By Lancman

What's all this nonsense about inches of boost?...

What's all this nonsense about inches of boost? In my day on Hastings “boost” was measured in good 16 ounce pounds per sensible square inch and there were two types, plus or minus. Your namby-pamby...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

25th Jan 2011, 16:33

Replies: 362

Handley Page Hastings

Views: 138,971

Posted By Lancman

A photograph of a Hastings with a paratechnicon...

A photograph of a Hastings with a paratechnicon can be found at Air-drop jeeps in 1945? - Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums (http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=101083) . Looks awful.

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

25th Jan 2011, 09:17

Replies: 362

Handley Page Hastings

Views: 138,971

Posted By Lancman

Thanks for those John, I spotted some old...

Thanks for those John, I spotted some old friends. The fuel levers that I mentioned can be seen clearly in photos 70 and 78, the 14 gauges in the centre of the pictures were the fuel tank contents....

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

25th Jan 2011, 07:37

Replies: 362

Handley Page Hastings

Views: 138,971

Posted By Lancman

One of the best things about flying the Hastings,...

One of the best things about flying the Hastings, on which I was a Flight Engineer from 1958 -60, was the variety of tasks; despatching paratroops in the early morning at Weston-on-the Green, very...

Showing results 1 to 7 of 7