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I also remember a NASA DC6-so long ago it might have been NACA doing a whole series of flights out of LHR for some reason that was supposed to be to do with future ATC issues but that really was along time ago Douglas C-118A, N428NA, NASA I wonder if that's one of the Froggy Falcon 20 calibrators behind it. |
Originally Posted by El Bunto
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Chevvron is on the ball...
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El Bunto In the 70s we were using Doves and Avro 748s and I do not recall Falcons being used in those days.
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http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0r6yr8su.jpg
A blurred snap of a youthful me about to go for a jolly in the CAFU HS125 in 1983..... I did several trips in the 125's and the Navajo, but not the 748's, although I had a couple of flights in the RAF Andovers during my service career. DH |
El Bunto In the 70s we were using Doves and Avro 748s and I do not recall Falcons being used in those days.. |
The mob used to use the old Whistling Tit back in the 70's. I remember it doing the cal at Coningsby. 115 Sqdn from Cottesmore as I recall.
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NAV CANADA presently uses a Canadair Challenger for aerial navaid inspection and calibration.
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/...CHALLENGER.jpg |
Originally Posted by thing
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The mob used to use the old Whistling Tit back in the 70's. I remember it doing the cal at Coningsby. 115 Sqdn from Cottesmore as I recall.
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If the "Whistling Tit" is the Argosy, it was also used at Farnborough & sundry other RAF airfields.
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CAFU nostalgia
A very good book on the history of the Civil Aviation Flying Unit was recently published by Jim Fuller who worked for them for many years. I first met Jim at Stansted in 1962 when I was an ATCA in the tower. The Doves were principally used for pilot examinations, including IR tests. CAFu also had 3 Percival Princes and a President as well as 2 Chipmunks, in the sixties. I enjoyed many a ride in the right hand seat of the Doves from EGSS as a lookout pilot.
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Originally Posted by kcockayne
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If the "Whistling Tit" is the Argosy, it was also used at Farnborough & sundry other RAF airfields.
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