Eggbeater finale

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With a few thousand hours flown on most of these Wessex, I’ll be sad to see them go. She was as strong as they come and saved many a pilot’s bacon with her forgiving handling. Most airframes have around 12-14 thousand hours on them, not bad considernig they have operated down to 1 km visibility and 100′ cloudbase for much of their lives, with landings and take offs every 10 minutes or so.

I’m mainly interested in warbirds, but I guess when you have flown on a particular type you do have a certain loyalty…..

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Yeuch!

Totally disgusting.

My mother warned me that the WWW was a hotbed of disgusting pictures.

I’m going to sign up for AOL right now and that nice lady in the fancy frock will protect me from such filth.

Moggy

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So have I old bean and love it! Nap of the earth in a Chook is almost as exciting as low level in a Jag!

Having said that, I suppose my leaning is more to fixed wing.

>I’ve tried it. Trust me, it’s rubbish.
>
>Moggy
>
>
>With the sincerest apologies to John Gillespie Magee Jr., I
>proudly offer the rotary version of his famous poem High
>Flight.
>
>
>Oh! I have lurched up from the surly bonds of earth
>And clattered through the skies on loosely attached rotors;
>Sunward I’ve staggered, and tried to join the tumbling mirth
>Of sun-split clouds and done two or three things
>You would not want to – rattled and shook and swung
>Low in what had been sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
>I’ve drowned-out the shouting wind, and heaved
>My ungainly craft through footless halls of air.
>Up, up, up the long, delirious burning blue
>I’ve seen the wind-swept heights from a distance
>Where never Lark, or even Eagle flew –
>And while with noise-numbed mind, I’ve trod
>The low, much trespassed sanctity of ground effect,
>Put out my hand and cursed the life of Igor Sikorsky.

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Moggy,

Brilliant, just brilliant!!

I’m sure John Gillespie Magee would have approved.

One small point in favour of the helicopter. A friend of mine once had a horrendous accident in a transit van where she had to be cut from the wreckage. There was some concern that she may have suffered a serious back injury. To transport her to the nearest hospital (where I was working at the time), at a speed of 5-10 MPH to avoid any further trauma would have taken an hour at least. The air ambulance did the journey in 4 minutes. Having said that she hated every moment she was in the air. Fortunately she was ok but it just goes to show even ‘whirlybird cr*p’ has its place.

Regards

kev35

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>Hey Moggy, don’t knock it til youve tried it!!!
>
>80))

I’ve tried it. Trust me, it’s rubbish.

Moggy

With the sincerest apologies to John Gillespie Magee Jr., I proudly offer the rotary version of his famous poem High Flight.

Oh! I have lurched up from the surly bonds of earth
And clattered through the skies on loosely attached rotors;
Sunward I’ve staggered, and tried to join the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds and done two or three things
You would not want to – rattled and shook and swung
Low in what had been sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve drowned-out the shouting wind, and heaved
My ungainly craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve seen the wind-swept heights from a distance
Where never Lark, or even Eagle flew –
And while with noise-numbed mind, I’ve trod
The low, much trespassed sanctity of ground effect,
Put out my hand and cursed the life of Igor Sikorsky.

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Hey Moggy, don’t knock it til youve tried it!!!

80))

>I’m a fixed-wing man myself. Can’t be doing with all that
>whirlybird cr*p. Helicopter flying displays bore me to
>distraction
>
>However I suppose we should note that there is currently a
>formation of ten Wessex things clattering their smelly route
>round the UK prior to heading for the smelter (with a bit of
>luck)
>
>If we are unlucky, we’ll be tripping over them rusting to
>pieces on unkempt grass in outdoor ‘preservation’ at
>’museums’.
>
>Anyway, shed a tear if you must
>
>Moggy
>
>I subscribe to the theory that helicopters do not fly. It is
>merely that they are so ugly the ground repels them.

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Tell me about it Moggy…the trials and tribulations of life 😉

J…practically ~l~

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DRIVING the M25. Would this be with the hand brake on??

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Hmm,

Driving round the M25 and seeing a load of whirlybirds?

Truly an awful day.

Console yourself Ashley … Things can only get better.

Moggy 😉

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Hey I saw those as I was driving round the M25 on Wednesday…wondered what was going on…now I know!

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Yes Philo

That was them.

Moggy

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i have a spare one if its going if you jsut fly it to where want it.

rabie :9

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Thats intersting, because when i got home tonight my 6 year old daughter was telling me that i should have been home earlier to see the 10 big helicopters flying over.
Nothing unusual i thought as we live close to Abingdon, Brize etc and often see groups of choppers, however she did say that they were “funny army ones”, could these have been the Wessex you talk of ?. If so, i am slightly annoyed at missing them now having flown in Wessex’s more than a few times. Ugly- yes, smelly- yes, uncomfortable -yes very much so, but has done stirling service arcoss the forces.