Snapper

Normally only the military salute each other and civvies dont but in this case….when I’ve finished typing…I salute you mate.

Absolutely wizard !!

There has to be two guys up there that’ll be keeping a few beers on the tab for when you eventually get up there and join ’em.

I too have a keen interest, like most others that contribute to this forum, in the aviation side of WW2, but feel a rank amatuer in comparison with what you have arranged.

Sorry I couldnt make it…after all your work on this project, the fact I couldnt get flights arranged back to UK to help or support seems a pretty poor show

Stand tall that man !

Oooeeerrr….I feel a bit emotional !

Not involved with ATC at the mo’ though used to belong to 2071 Stamford Sqn and then 1011 Amesbury Sqn (we had a sectioned Pegasus on a stand in the main room). 1011 had a HQ at Boscombe Down…not sure if its still there tho, been out of the country for nearly 3 years….when I was too old to be a cadet (Sergeant, staff Cadet) I went back as an instructor and a taught engine airframes, ran the Aircraft recce test’s, did flight training and a load of other stuff.
My local ATC out here is No 1 Overseas Sqn Akrotiri, but I put my hand up and havent been involved with them yet. My son wants to join them but he’s a year too young at the mo’ and we are due back in UK around October sometime.
Enjoyed the ATC, learnt a lot, got my marksman qualifications and was solo in a Kirby Cadet 3 on 26 Oct 1976 (aged 16 and a bit) flying from Old Sarum.
blimey…I feel old all of a sudden !

A geezer sees a sign in front of a house in Luton: “Talking Dog for Sale.” He rings the bell and the owner tells him the dog is in the back garden.
The bloke goes into the backyard and sees a black mutt just sitting there.
“You talk?” he asks.
“Sure do.” the dog replies.
“So, what’s your story?”
The dog looks up and says, “Well, I discovered my gift of talking
pretty young and I wanted to help the government, so I told MI5 about my gift, and in no time they had me jetting from country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world leaders, because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping. I was one of their most valuable spies eight years running.”
“The jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn’t getting any younger and I wanted to settle down. So I signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover security work, mostly wandering near suspicious characters and listening in.”
“I uncovered some incredible dealings there and was awarded loads of medals. Had a wife, a few puppies, and now I’m just retired.”
The geezer is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants for the dog.
The owner says, “Ten quid.”
The bloke says, “This dog is amazing. Why on earth are you selling him so cheap?”
“Cause he’s a F *** g liar. He’s never done any of that stuff”

I regularly get to fly in Tristars and VC10’s and I must say I prefer the forward facing seating of the Tristar.

Having said that, have you ever been flying and seen something on the ground that you just had to take a piccie of only by the time you’ve got the camera ready, you’ve flown past it ?.

Rearward facing seat’s tend to do away with this problem…unless you are sat nest to the wing window seat and you cant see diddly squat either backward or forwards!!

Gotta say tho’ the VC10 sounds a lot better than the Timmy when when Roger Ramjet firewalls the loud levers !!!…but I digress !.

Before I moved out here, I rarely drank…honest !
I’d have the occassional glass of medium sweet white wine with the occassional sunday roast and thats about it.

Moving on a bit….Dry, medium sweet, sweet, red, white …Tesco’s !…it all goes down the hatch (I have been known to have had at least one bottle of a very cheap …CY£1.20 !… red wine before doing battle with other Forum Frequent Flyers in Combat Flight Sim 2 on the World Wide Wait.

I normally have at least, 2 bottles of C*rlsb*rg or Keo a night when I’m on the net or game playing on the PC. Not cans by the way but BIG BOTTLES.

Take tonight… I’ve allready had 1 C*rlsb*rg and am on my 2 Keo ! (I should point out at this stage that the current temp here is 25 degrees, its just coming up to 23.45 local time and there aint a breath of wind anywere and I’m sat in nothing but a pair of shorts. Hey, the beers cold, tastes infinately better than the coldtap water (Which is room temperature by the way) and I dont drink tea or coffee this time of night.

So there !

Hic !

Cant get you outa my head…..give that camerman a raise !!!!

not really an airliner but its still an old ad…

Brilliant…

Poor little fluffy bear…been wandering all over the Ice cap looking for a tree to **** a leg against, getting desperate, then up pops this big black thing. Its got no leaves but what the h*ll !.

PS. wonder who got stitched to go and clean up the mess afterwards ?