MK1
what will happen to the MK2/AEW at St mawgan now its no longer operational?There should be a MK 2 in the cold war exhibition at Cosford!!
Nice photo of Ben Twitch behind that MK1 Mo!!! The model is coming my way shortly!!
They may well have had strobes but I recall the B of B flotilla overhead in Cambridgeshire with a lot of “Rat a Tat “going on and very convincing it was!
Great escape remake
Rumour has it a british film company with a budget of $50,000 will do a remake!!Only one American actor will be in the new film which will be in B&W for added realism.The one American will play a medic ,I read somwhere that this at least is true.
Great escape remake
Rumour has it a british film company with a budget of $50,000 will do a remake!!Only one American actor will be in the new film which will be in B&W for added realism.The one American will play a medic ,I read somwhere that this at least is true.
Valient photo
this was taken at B of B day 1958 at St Athan.Taken with my trusty Brownie camera!!
Radome
We were looking for(and found lots)Russian subs before AEWs came along!! I know 745 was the first AEW but it was finding subs long before, so its still cold war!!!
fly again?
I really would ,and I promise if I win the lottery I will donate!Meanwhile heres some shack people photos!Yes its me smirking in the drivers seat,hairs a bit different now,I did about 400 hours as suppernumery with WL745 which met an inglorious end at Catterick,funny after 204 sqdn I ended up on 8 sqdn but much smaller airoplanes!!Lots of spares in Cyprus ,were those airframes time-expired or hours left on the spars etc?
Best /Worst
Best for me , DC 10 Very quiet.Worst was a (I think) a SEAT 25 seater(?)from Porto Rica to the Brit Virgin islands.Or if you want the really bad one the “Shackelton”unsurpassed for noise and seating!!Or possibly the AW Argosy which had an awful whistling whine!!
Inspections
Are their no post flight inspections done by groundcrew?IE airframe engineers?
EGPH
By the by ,are you a celtic supporter?
EGPH
By the by ,are you a celtic supporter?
Precision strikes
No more friendly fire kills then?!!!!
Nineties
Yes it was 194 and I had returned from overseas and was I suprised to see the dash 7 in BA livery.Shortly after the Heathrow slot was stopped and off we went to Gatwick!!Clever ploy by BA to get the heathrow slot!!
swearing
My thoughts are that if comedians have to resort to swearing and profanity then they are aiming at an audience of a certain intelligence level.I have not lived in the UK for some twelve years so cannot comment on todays comedians never having seen any of them. I do know that we had great comedians when I did live their so maybe I am just old fashioned.However as I occasionally venture onto “facebook”and see the kind of language used on their I should not be suprised at the everyday use of old anglo saxon words.
swearing
My thoughts are that if comedians have to resort to swearing and profanity then they are aiming at an audience of a certain intelligence level.I have not lived in the UK for some twelve years so cannot comment on todays comedians never having seen any of them. I do know that we had great comedians when I did live their so maybe I am just old fashioned.However as I occasionally venture onto “facebook”and see the kind of language used on their I should not be suprised at the everyday use of old anglo saxon words.