During my time servicing Lightnings in the UK, many accidents were found to be the result of incorrect servicing. Unfortunately, the lost of the African pilot was also due to poor servicing, or to be more exact, the lack of it. He would be alive today IF the seat and canopy ejectors had been serviced on their due date. Rules are rules and must be adhered to. I hope you guys know NEVER to attempt a wheels up landing, with or without a ventral tank. Your wing tip are so far back that once the aircraft roll to one side(on the ground) the tip will dig in and the aircraft will cartwheel. Better to be sure YOUR seat and canopy work when or if they’re needed.

I do wish you the very best to get this, the best interceptor ever, back into the air where she belongs.

A wall clock with a difference.

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You mean this one:

““It’s safe to say someone falling out of an airplane without a parachute is going to be deceased,” Jenkins told the Miami Herald.”

Not necessarily. There been a few who survived by landing in fir trees and or snow banks.

Seeing those images it’s remarkable that the aircraft is still as complete as it is when it came to rest. I’ve no idea as to what went wrong but I wonder if the pilot had collapsed and the woman was trying to land it. What ever, a sad day indeed and I sent my condolences to their families.

I went out to Seletar at the same time. 30MU where we serviced the airbourne radars. The only thing I can help you with though is that not all aircraft flew out there. Some went by sea, cocooned on the deck. The W.O. in charge of them for the trip, later got in hot water as some airframes were salt damaged due to his negligence. Story goes that he was drunk the whole way there.

If you don’t smile, let alone laugh, at this, you’re brain dead. Enjoy.

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First email opened this morning. Had to laugh, let alone smile.

Make a noise like a frog.

This Ought to Make All Grandpas Feel All Warm and Fuzzy

A six-year-old goes to the hospital with her mother to visit her Grandpa. When they get to the hospital, she runs

ahead of her mother and bursts into her Grandpa’s room. “Grandpa, Grandpa,” she says excitedly, “as soon as

my mother comes into the room, make a noise like a frog!”

“What?” said her Grandpa.

“Make a noise like a frog, because my mom said that as soon as you croak, we’re all going to Disney World!