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Sometimes you just can't win.....
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CharlieOneSix » Sat Mar 16, 2019 4:13 pm
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On the ET accident thread Alison said about Sully that you can't be a hero if by your actions you are saving your own life - and I agree with that...
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Brilliant photographs. And you are still here. Good.
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Last post by OFSO
Wed Mar 20, 2019 3:18 pm
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If I Hadn't Seen It With My Own Eyes........
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Planepsycho » Wed Mar 06, 2019 4:04 pm
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On April 18, 2015, about 1452 central daylight time, a Mooney M20C, impacted terrain shortly after takeoff from runway 18, xxxxxxxxxx, Tennessee. The...
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Gravity even!
Caco
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Last post by Cacophonix
Wed Mar 06, 2019 6:18 pm
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How did you become a pilot?
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boing » Sat Apr 02, 2016 4:31 am
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In another thread somewhere someone asked for stories about how you got into aviation. In my case the summary of the whole adventure would be that it...
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Always more interested in what made the things work, but also enjoyed flying. Thus the perfect job would have been......F/E.
First flight was in a...
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Last post by Krystal n Chips
Tue Feb 05, 2019 11:56 am
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Airstrips; Interesting, Scary or otherwise
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Pinky the pilot » Sat Oct 15, 2016 11:34 am
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Somewhere on this site there are a number of posts re various 'interesting' airports/airstrips that members have flown into on a regular or one time...
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Dear God! As SLF, I thought Aspen was a bit exciting. Hats off to all you chaps and chapesses who routinely land on something about the length of my...
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Last post by Magnus
Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:14 pm
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Destination? ummm
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reddo » Mon Dec 31, 2018 6:48 pm
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The other day we departed not knowing exactly where we were going to land, other than it was Switzerland.
No, not as irresponsible as it sounds.
Our...
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There used to road signs in Kenya that said :
Slow down. Better late in this world than early in the next.
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Last post by Capetonian
Tue Jan 01, 2019 12:06 pm
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Pilot afraid of flying
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ricardian » Tue Nov 13, 2018 8:34 am
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A pilot who developed a fear of flying
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Thread running here Ricardian. :-bd
Caco
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Last post by Cacophonix
Tue Nov 13, 2018 1:28 pm
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Flying the Kokoda Gap in PNG
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Alisoncc » Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:30 am
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In the Aviation Incidents board made mention of flying in PNG, with a reference to the Kokoda Gap. The Gap was a valley betwen two bloody great...
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Malaysian prawns raised in water warmed by waste heat from the Wairakei geothermal power station.
They were well advertised as grown in geothermal...
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Last post by ian16th
Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:04 am
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The Dreaded Black Hole Approach
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CharlieOneSix » Sun Apr 15, 2018 1:24 pm
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Three videos - the first of a S76 helicopter night landing on a rig off Brazil. The video starts very close to the rig so you don't get anything like...
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The rig landing brings back a few memories CharlieOneSix! There were some tiny gas platforms in the Southern North Sea which were a real challenge at...
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Last post by FD2
Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:13 am
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Con Air
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flynverted » Fri Aug 03, 2018 12:56 am
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Interesting story, pre 9-11...
Was working at KRIC & got a call on the wireless from me boss to meet him on the cargo ramp. I rocked up in my fuel...
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Con pilot was a gem.
He migrated here under a different nom-de-plume but was fading rapidly so didn't post a lot.
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Last post by wings folded
Fri Aug 03, 2018 4:10 pm
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Eric 'Winkle' Brown RIP
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Boac » Sun Feb 21, 2016 7:12 pm
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Difficult to know where to place this post, to reflect on one of the greatest aviators of our time. Captain Eric Melrose Brown CBE DSC AFC has died...
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Watching a programme about the SR53/177 and how Lockheed bribed the German Luftwaffe to buy the F-104, Winkle appeared briefly saying that the F-104...
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Last post by Woody
Wed Jan 03, 2018 5:02 pm
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B52s GTE-GOV-GTE
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Slasher » Sat Feb 18, 2017 8:15 am
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Pinky will appreciate this. :D
During my NT years millions of yonks ago out of DRW I'd usually end up flogging the PA31 (Navajo) around the Top End....
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It was a last-minute night charter to Maningrida and back. Clear wx but darker than the inside of a black billygoat's arse in a coal mine. On...
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Last post by Stoneboat
Sun Apr 02, 2017 12:34 am
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never trust bloody pilots....
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dubbleyew eight » Sat Apr 02, 2016 5:10 pm
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once upon a time I was deputy head poobah of one of australia's interminable alphabet aviation groups.
each year we arranged a flyin get together....
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Instead of making a forced landing in some pasture he decided to just inch his way along the wing and get the chart from the rear before returning to...
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Last post by Cacophonix
Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:35 am
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Are you really going to fly this aircraft Sir?
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boing » Mon Jun 06, 2016 6:45 am
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The scene is the Central Flying School of the Royal Air Force, at this time based at Royal Air Force Little Rissington as it had been since 1946,...
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On a detachment to Wattisham (29F Lightnings) I was assigned a Mk 3 to 'put on state'. They were all parked in the 'Embry follies' and it was...
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Last post by Boac
Mon Jan 23, 2017 11:29 am
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SIN - HEL question...
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Fliegenmong » Fri Nov 11, 2016 1:04 pm
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Flew SIN-HEL recently...with FINNAIR, nice little airline been around forever, and in the jet age a safety record as good as QANTAS,,etc etc..
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Thanks Woderick...I might put it up over there...tks
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Last post by Fliegenmong
Tue Nov 15, 2016 1:58 am
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I Learnt About Flying From That
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Sisemen » Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:52 am
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The RAF flight safety magazine used to have a regular article entitled “I learnt about flying from that” where readers were invited to tell their...
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Heard of an RAF Meteor pilot reported by the Pier Master of one south coast town - Eastbourne ? ( sorry, it's about 60 years ago that I was told )...
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Last post by ExSp33db1rd
Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:16 am
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It was an interesting Flight
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Pinky the pilot » Sat Apr 02, 2016 3:09 am
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I wrote this story of a flight in PNG for the newsletter of an Antique and Historical Arms Association of which I am a member. This is why some of...
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Only visit to NG was Moorehead on the Fly River coastal plain after the compulsory stop at Daru. Never been back as I was terrified when the locals...
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Last post by Slasher
Fri Oct 07, 2016 11:36 am
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20 incredible vintage planes you can still fly in
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boing » Wed Aug 10, 2016 3:11 am
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20 incredible vintage planes you can still fly in
When the commercial airliner that you have most time in (the 727) becomes one of the "20...
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"I'm lead, brief will be on Guard (243 emergency frequency), last one to 30,000 feet is a sissy." not forgetting "last one in the bar...
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Last post by Boac
Wed Oct 05, 2016 6:07 pm
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My life as a Rear Gunner on Vulcans
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Alisoncc » Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:05 am
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I posted this to TOP in the days when it used to be fun there. Also remember discussions from back then re: The Grey Ghosts - The Shackleton...
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Wireless. A female airwomen took an aircraft wireless into the radio maintenance depot, and banged it down on the bench. Wot's wrong with that, asked...
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Last post by ExSp33db1rd
Wed Aug 03, 2016 1:11 am
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My first flight in a real B737.
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boing » Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:17 pm
Time for another pointless little story. I have to say that, of course, but the story is not pointless since it captures another time, another place...
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Last post by boing
Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:17 pm
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A beautiful September evening.
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boing » Sun May 22, 2016 12:47 am
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It was a beautiful September afternoon in Southern England. The sky was a cloudless deep blue, the wind was calm and, as the hour approached five...
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Great story :-bd
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Last post by limeygal
Tue May 31, 2016 2:31 pm
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The bloody thing must have stood up.
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boing » Fri Apr 29, 2016 4:35 pm
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The early morning "Met Briefing" at RAF Flying Training Schools was not a humorous occasion. First, the timing was so early that people did...
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Hit a bird on landing at Madras - now called something else that escapes me - and the co-pilot reported it to ATC immediately. On chocks was...
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Last post by ExSp33db1rd
Sun May 01, 2016 5:08 am
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Let's go get a beer.
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boing » Thu Apr 28, 2016 3:13 am
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Once upon a time, a long time ago and not too far away from Blighty, there was a nice little vacation resort which happened to be home to a...
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BOAC
There were some spots on the delivery list where you were actually quite close to a supposedly friendly border. If you could keep the aircraft...
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Last post by boing
Thu Apr 28, 2016 5:04 pm
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My life in Sounding Rockets
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OFSO » Sun Apr 17, 2016 3:05 pm
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Hey, don't complain, you light the touchpaper and they go upwards (mostly) so it must be an experience in aviation , right ?
Sounding rockets, for...
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Is there any reason ....
Yes. Staff Rules and Regulations 17 (1) Age Limits - Staff Members shall not remain in post past the age of 65 (which he...
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Last post by OFSO
Mon Apr 18, 2016 12:44 pm
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Forum name
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Heli » Sun Feb 21, 2016 9:23 pm
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Common error, but the correct term is derring-do . :-B
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Yeh its 'derring do'. I looked it up yonks ago when Pilate said the
same (dairwwing-do) in Life of Bwian as I'd never heard it before.
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Last post by Slasher
Mon Feb 22, 2016 12:44 pm
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'Blind' RAF pilot saved by wingman who talked him down
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Capetonian » Mon Feb 01, 2016 2:48 pm
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An impressive account of bravery and ingenuity :
An RAF pilot who lost his sight in the middle of a training flight was talked down through a safe...
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Maybe we can let him have president after all he's set the precedent.
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Last post by Sisemen
Fri Feb 12, 2016 7:53 am
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