Sorry, not ’25 hour day’. But ‘There is a way!’ – a must watch!
Finally twigged a while back that Ed is the same chap in ’25 hour day’ on you tube. A fabulous film about the 105 force in SEA. With along with Ed, the likes of Karl Richter. And for those of you who wondered whose voice spoke so hauntingly of how dark and scary it was up there in the opening titles to ‘flight of the intruder’ you’ll find that gentleman there to. Thud drivers rock!!!
I can see them on the buss to work! What happened to the Devonair chippy????
PC-21 is a super machine! – just saying. I really don’t think that the RAFAT provides any service or value for money anymore. An entire RAF station, 9+ aircraft 9+ pilots. I’d rather they were doing something useful like fending off the nasty *******s like the rest of us. But I do have a suggestion, Ascent should be allowed with the RAF to have a voluntary team of 7 or such on the new hawk at Valley – which is where all these teams started in the first place- as volunteers!
Thanks, everyone, for the input both on and off forum.
Any leads on the Norman Tebbit story? I’ve emailed him at his House of Lords address, currently to no avail.
Don’t e-mail him- write to him – in person! His PA, assistant; secretary will have 101’d your e mail – so ‘t be able to do that to a letter. Also, you could always ask your MP to ask.
Try the Sea Harrier force – there’s some funny stories there!!
We’ve sailed, Pacific, we’ve walked, Band of Brothers, we’ve done bombers, – Memphis Bell; – time for the fighters and it should be Tumult in the Clouds, – Goodson’s epic! It covers everything!!!
But whether you like it or not its still a great helicopter!! …. Nobody mention op emperor!! 😉
Andy Marden
Gosh I remember Andy! Always a pleasure!! Surely you should be CAS by now old chap?!! 20 years!! None of us needed that reminder!!!
The guy smoking is Sergey Tresvyatsky I believe.
I was standing right next to him when he lit up, having been the first person to reach him, closely followed by a TV crew (I can be seen standing next to him [RAF uniform] in the video that they took).
I was in my car close to the nose of the Belgian C-130 when the collision occured. I didn’t see it, just heard it. The next thing I recall was a fireball going over the top of the open sunroof. Having seen the pilot coming down in his parachute I drove over to him. He actually landed just the other side of a small fence, which he climbed over to re-enter the airfield.
After unsuccessfully trying to flag down one of the hordes of ambulances that drove straight past us in their rush to get to the crash scene, I put him in my car and took him to the IAT medical centre, where he met up with the other pilot.
I am not aware of them coming to blows at all. If they did, it must have been after I left the scene.
Andy Marden