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  • in reply to: General Discussion #262716
    pistonrob
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    Not so much visual humour, more verbal wind-ups.

    Many young, wet behind the ears airmen were told to carry out the following.

    “Go to medical centre and collect a yard of fallopian tubing for an ejection seat”

    “Phone this number and ask for Sgt Barker”. (the number being the Police Dog Section)

    “Go to stores for a left-handed screwdriver”

    “Go to stores and ask for a long weight (wait!!!!!)”

    “Go to stores and collect item reference number 1D-10T”

    I’m sure there were many more, but these are the one’s I remember best.

    Regards, Cabbage

    go fetch some Tartan paint always worked

    in reply to: Military Humor thread #1851202
    pistonrob
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    Not so much visual humour, more verbal wind-ups.

    Many young, wet behind the ears airmen were told to carry out the following.

    “Go to medical centre and collect a yard of fallopian tubing for an ejection seat”

    “Phone this number and ask for Sgt Barker”. (the number being the Police Dog Section)

    “Go to stores for a left-handed screwdriver”

    “Go to stores and ask for a long weight (wait!!!!!)”

    “Go to stores and collect item reference number 1D-10T”

    I’m sure there were many more, but these are the one’s I remember best.

    Regards, Cabbage

    go fetch some Tartan paint always worked

    in reply to: General Discussion #262863
    pistonrob
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    I might have to grow my, sorry, some hair for that!:D

    i remember having some of that also. im more “aerodynamic” nowerdays lol

    in reply to: Hey Pagen, things are looking up #1851351
    pistonrob
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    I might have to grow my, sorry, some hair for that!:D

    i remember having some of that also. im more “aerodynamic” nowerdays lol

    in reply to: This popped up today… (P47 pilot) #1053657
    pistonrob
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    a nice bit of history there

    in reply to: Buccaneer Airborne!! #1053661
    pistonrob
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    and in the UK theres at least 3 that are live and airworthy but!!

    in reply to: Lancaster Identity #1054075
    pistonrob
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    a couple of examples to give the idea why some letters appear to be others. i think the little windows can be a nuisance sometimes

    in reply to: 5 ship Harvard WW2 picture, where n when?? #1054595
    pistonrob
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    Looks more like a 4-ship than a 5. Not WW2, but post war.
    Not only KF398, but also KF625 and FX265, here marked H-83 (was that a Southern Rhodesia code?), went to S Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) early 1950s. FX265 crashed at Eastleigh, Kenya, 7 April 1955. The one farthest from the camera might be KF348 … ?
    If so, it was with 1340 Flight in Kenya, and crashed in the Aberdare Mts 19 april 1954.
    KF625 was “Cymru Am Byth”, also with 1340 Flight, Kenya, in 1955.
    They appear to have bomb racks under the wings, so maybe they were involved in Mau Mau operations in Kenya at the time.
    Looking at the ground, it could well be in S Rhodesia or Kenya.

    Many thanks for that, didnt you see that “other one” way back behind the cloud lol. why i put 5 i dunno?

    in reply to: Bredasdorp AFB, Western Cape, South Africa #491219
    pistonrob
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    excellent shots, love the legs huddled from the rain under the Bucc

    in reply to: Lancaster Identity #1056000
    pistonrob
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    that ends that question then lol

    in reply to: Lancaster Identity #1056012
    pistonrob
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    Heavy Conversion Unit perhaps?

    in reply to: Once in a lifetime view out an airliner window #546343
    pistonrob
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    how cool is that, lucky sod

    in reply to: Flt Sgt Copping's P-40 From The Egyptian Desert #1056351
    pistonrob
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    personaly if i had a missing relative from any time period in life even the slightest hope of them being found would re`stoke my fire to search for them. if it isnt the chap mentioned then at least it highlights the situation for the relatives and good will probably come of it.

    i found the resting place of a crewman a few years ago and then contacted the relations, they knew nothing of how he and the rest of his crew died. it was only during the research of this crewman that we accidently discovered the whereabouts of his brother who had also died on a seperate occasion whilst flying with Bomber Command. incidently and just by chance they both had memorials made to them but hundreds of miles apart.

    It does not matter who is lost or who is found, as long as they are not forgotten.

    in reply to: Lancaster Identity #1057910
    pistonrob
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    i still see ZR which makes no sense at all. looks nothing like an N unless of course its had the odd scrape n bump in that area that makes it look like an R ??

    in reply to: Lancaster Identity #1057949
    pistonrob
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    looks like ZR-G to me

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