By: lukeylad - 29th July 2006 at 00:29
…and it’s not a SACRU, clever boy!
Miss the Wokka, have to contend with plank-wings now 🙂
( some of the plank-wings are quite fun….!!!)
BN still flying, serial No not important..is it!
no serial needed is the BN legand of a chopper!!
By: Arabella-Cox - 28th July 2006 at 22:16
Their hard cheese as far as i am concerned!!
I mean sooner or later there will be 25 years of the tornado (ohh what fun) so it will be hard to draw the line.
curlyboy
By: Papa Lima - 28th July 2006 at 21:47
Just a mild observation on my part – there are presumably no hard and fast rules on this kind of thing, but just think what the folks on Modern Military are missing!
By: Arabella-Cox - 28th July 2006 at 21:36
I dont know the chinook is 25 years in RAF service and first flew in 1961.
I know of a lot of newer aircraft being discussed in this forum, besides it only flew 9 years after the B-52 so must be old enough to qualify.
Technically we should not talk about the hurricane, spitfire or lancaster either as they are still in service (can feel the nits but still).
curlyboy
By: Papa Lima - 28th July 2006 at 19:34
Aren’t these Modern Military? They may be old, but are still in service (cf. B-52)
By: lukeylad - 28th July 2006 at 11:40
Where is old Bravo november at the moment last i heard she was in iraq??
By: Arabella-Cox - 28th July 2006 at 10:29
Apparently the Wokkas returning from the Falklands were all Banana shaped as they had been lifting containers of captured weapons on the centre-line SACRU (Semi-Automatic Cargo Release Unit) which has a weight limit of 10 tonnes.
It was discovered when the radios were removed from the racks, and the replacements wouldn’t fit…..
There was only one chinook flying in the falklands war all the rest went down with the atlantic conveyor and she (ZA718) flew the whole conflict as the only chinook.
That is why i think the RAF museum should preserve this aircraft, apparently she is in Afghanistan at the moment.
She has served in every theatre of operations since 1982, and was the 1st helicopter to land Royal Marines in Iraq.
curlyboy
By: wessex boy - 28th July 2006 at 09:42
Apparently the Wokkas returning from the Falklands were all Banana shaped as they had been lifting containers of captured weapons on the centre-line SACRU (Semi-Automatic Cargo Release Unit) which has a weight limit of 10 tonnes.
It was discovered when the radios were removed from the racks, and the replacements wouldn’t fit…..
By: Manston Airport - 27th July 2006 at 19:13
Happy Birthday 25th birthday RAF Chinooks 😀
James
By: Arabella-Cox - 27th July 2006 at 18:48
Looks good sounds great, i have chinooks fly over quite often and they have such a great sound.
To tie into the vulcan falklands thread does anyone know the current disposition of chinook serialled BN cant remember the X code for it ?
curlyboy
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