Explain?Moggy

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In my office I’m the oldest by a margin.
Most of the time I get the feeling I’m living in a parallel universe.

I think this is another case of the same syndrome.

F-18 what are you on about?????

I stuck up some pics of the Rearwin’s first flight.

(All photoshop fakes of course . . .)

Melvyn

So we’re not good enough for you now???
Now we’re a bl**dy pilot again we’ll go off to GA will we?
Tart.

Oh, and in 1970 my Dad took me to the official opening of Norwich Airport.
There was Lightning display that took place there that day which was the best Lightning display I ever saw.
I think he must have left Coltishall on full tanks, flew across the three fields that separate Horsham St Faiths from Colt and then carried out the whole display on reheat and arrived back home 10 minutes later empty.
It’s the only time I’ve felt my teeth rattle.

Truly wonderful.
That day was also the first time I ever saw the Red Arrows–Gnats then of course.

I also got to look in a Tiger Moth, saw the Vulcan which had been on static take off and managed to get on ‘Look East’ on the Monday night.
(standing on wing-root walkway) of aforementioned Tiger Moth.

Memorable day.
Cheers
Andy

heh heh, heard a similar story about a main wheel dropping off one and chasing a bunch of ‘erks across the airfield.
Pity you have lost touch with him, theres going to be quite a reunion at Hunsdon on the 22nd of May for the memorial dedication ceremony.
Basil Cheverton of 1451 flight Hunsdon (1941 1942) lives in Ashcroft road Luton, dont suppose you know him too do you?.

No I don’t know Basil Cheverton.
At this distance in time I wouldn’t really know where to find Mo.
He might still live in Stevenage I suppose.
Cheers
Andy

Andy,
I believe thats right about the tricycle U/C, another snippet I have heard was the Havoc turbinlite was a handful to land due to the full Bomb bay of Batteries 😮

Hi Denis
Mo spent a lot of time at Hunsdon.
Later he was there with a Mosquito squadron.
The bit about T/L Havocs being difficult to put down might well be true.
Mo also used to tell a little story about how the flight commander (a Squadron Leader I think) folded the nosewheel on landing at night and had to leave the aircraft at the end of the runway and have a long walk back to dispersal.
Mo reckoned that on his arrival back he said to this bloke ‘everything alright Sir’ to be answered with ‘No, it f*cking well isn’t!’

Sadly I lost touch him about 15 years ago.
I reckon if he’s still with us, he must be about 85 by now.
Cheers
Andy

Man, that had to screw up the pilot’s night vision, did’nt it? Did this system make it very far? I know the P-70 Nightfighter version saw action, but not a lot of it…

M

Mark
years ago I used to work with a bloke who’d been an instrument fitter on the Turbinlight flight.

First time I ever met him he said ‘You reckon you know about planes, I bet you’ve never heard of a Turbinlight’.

Smart-*rse Jones responded with ‘I have, it’s a Havoc with a searchlight in the nose’

‘B*gger me’ came the response, ‘I’ve been posing that for 35 years and you’re the first to say yes’

After that we were firm friends.

His name was Ron Mosley–Mo to his friends.
I learned a lot from him–mostly about how absurd life really is.
(Oh, and a bit about engineering).

He also used to say that the Boston/Havoc was the first aircraft to serve with the RAF to have Tricycle undercarriage.
Does anyone agree that this is the case?
Cheers
Andy

I used to work for the Railway and I’ve never seen so much money wasted by mis-management.

dme

Government or contractor mis-management??

While I have little real sympathy for the directors of Rail track (Hatfield) or Jervis (Potters Bar) both groups existed in an environment of cheap is best.
This was engendered by politicians (Tory ones) who insisted on privatisation.
More politicians (Labour ones) didn’t have the guts to change that policy.
It was into that environment that those directors were forced to operate.
Remember they are actually employees too.

Now, if we could pass the responsibility for accidents onto share-holders, that might actually change things.

Share holders demand dividends.
If directors don’t deliver them, new directors appear.
So surely the responsibilty really lays with greedy share-holders.
Discuss
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