Being an animal lover.
Is there any evidence that this happened ?
A very curios Duggy.
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“Following the Falklands War in 1982, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government decided to station RAF Phantoms there in defense of the islands. However, the RAF’s Phantoms were fully tasked in support of NATO and couldn’t be spared, and so in 1983 Britain ordered 15 ex-US Navy F-4J Phantoms to augment RAF stocks, allowing a Phantom squadron to be sent to the Falklands. The “new” aircraft received the designation “F-4J(UK)”. They were originally provided essentially “as-was”, but they were gradually refitted with more and more British kit, including some gear scavenged from surplus Phantom FG.1s.
At first, RAF pilots regarded the isolated Falklands as a hardship duty post, but they were provided with a “coastel”, a floating hotel, with comfortable accommodations, and also found that the isolation meant that they could fly with very few restrictions in largely empty airspace. The stories of British pilots flying back, forth, and then over flocks of penguins to make them fall over backwards appear to be a tall tale, however.” ??
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By: sticky847 - 1st May 2015 at 10:26
Not penguin tipping but penguin tumbling, as part of HMS ENDURANCE flight much of our tasking when at s Georgia or other islands was lifting in/out survey teams, quite often when the cabs shut down on board the aircrew would tell us that the landing point was on a plateau/ hill and as they flared to the hover they would see the Penguins blown down the track they had just spent ages waddling up!
By: Arabella-Cox - 1st May 2015 at 09:03
Notwithstanding penguin tipping, that’s a nice shot of F-4J(UK) ZE352 in formation with a USN F-4S. Coded “G” on its delivery to the UK this jet went to 74 Sqn at Wattisham. It had originally flown with test squadron VX-4 as 3783, the famous “Black Bunny” all-black Phantom from Pt. Mugu, California.
Anon.
By: richw_82 - 1st May 2015 at 08:46
‘Penguin Patrol.’
Low flying aircraft causes the penguins to look up suddenly and fall over on their back. As they have silly little wings, they can’t get back up again, so your job is to go down there and make sure that they’re all okay and none of them are struggling to stand up again. It still happens. At least, it did when my lot last went out there last year! 🙂
I’d be more interested to know if the story of the stowaway penguin in a C-130 back to the UK has any truth in it?
Regards,
Rich
By: sat2 - 1st May 2015 at 01:32
I served two tours there and it would be one of he new guy wind- ups to have them sit in a Landrover at the end of the runway to stand the penguins up after the planes had passed over their heads and landed……..
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