The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[OFSO]

My FIL, many years ago, had a very very old Ford estate which used a wooden prop to keep the rear hatch open. Only sometimes, it wood ent. And we all had similar injuries, but on the back of the head.

[ian16th]

I do believe that because I cut my head, and it bled quite profusely, that I avoided a nasty bruise.

[ricardian]

Didn't know Aunty Betty's Flying Circus had BN2A's. Although it wouldn't surprise me. There were few aircraft that could handle the Kiunga/Ningerum mud fully loaded. I believe TPNG had the highest rain fall globally, with most it falling in the headlands of the Strickland River, where it flowed into the Fly. When Kennecott were doing the surveying for the Ok Tedi gold/copper mine, we were contracted to fly in the supplies. The kind of place where white shirt and shorts were worn for a few days and then thrown away and replaced.

Loganair use Islanders for inter-island flights in the North Isles of Orkney. Nowadays they sport quite elaborate paint jobs but when first moved up here they sported a very plain paint job because the airfields on islands like ours were grass and populated by cattle and geese. The combination of cattle & goose poop made an excellent aerosol when the Islanders were taking off so the aircraft soon acquired a brown hue. These days most runways are no longer grass nor do cattle roam quite so freely

[Boac]

Didn't know Aunty Betty's Flying Circus had BN2A's

I don't think she did. The one I flew at Bad Lippspringe for the Parachute Club was, I think, 'owned' by the Rhine Army para club - not sure how it was 'funded'.....

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I suspect ex-A was flying at Weston?

Bit of a laugh there - the 'Mad Major' - a Lynx driver - who checked me out on the beast (I did not have a twin rating) turned out to be unqualified to so do. Still, no gerbils were harmed in the making........... I have not, therefore, logged my Islander hours

[izod tester]

I thought you flew Lightnings in the past, don't you get a twin rating for that?

[Boac]

er...no. She was just a single-engined fighter with two engines, anyway.

(PS Supersonic on one, of course...)

[ian16th]

er...no. She was just a single-engined fighter with two engines, anyway.

(PS Supersonic on one, of course...)

No asymmetry considerations when a donk stopped.

[G-CPTN]

Was it possible to shut-down one engine?

I presume so - in the event of problems with an engine (and to save juice).

[Boac]

No asymmetry considerations when a donk stopped.

Actually potentially damaging ones as the USAF Exchange instructor found out - a story I told elsewhere, although to be fair it wasn't a stopped engine but a reheat issue on take-off.

Was it possible to shut-down one engine?

Indeed, and 'SOP' in some situations. On extended CAP and on emergency diversion if very short of fuel (and airtest, obviously). Basically any time when running one engine (and when needed) at a higher RPM gave a better sfc. A bit like I understand the Nimrod did on patrol sometimes.

[om15]

boac, was this event you referred to above the over rotation on take off at Binbrook in 1975 by any chance? If so I carried out the subsequent repair to the 6 damaged rear frames. Wasn't the pilot called Captain Crump or something like that?

[Boac]

No, this was Coltishall around 71/72, Ed Crump (?USAF/USM?) I knew (before '75) but I didn't know about that!
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[om15]

If memory serves it was a Mk 6, over rotated and wiped out the lower section of the last six frames and damaged attaching components, I was on a small repair team sent up from Bicester to carry out the structural repairs, it was glorious weather and I saw Binbrook at its best.

[Magnus]

Disgraceful level of interesting aviation content in these here parts. Wouldn't get away with it in TOP.

As I have a solar panel for a sex machine (i.e., I'm bald), I've had two bloody scalp wounds. One was on exiting my shed when it was starting to decay slowly and the door clearance was less than I allowed for. The other was when I was halfway up an elder tree clearing out a vine, when my cat ran up the tree, got a bit stuck, and decided to use my scalp as an intermediate landing platform on her descent. White t-shirt, I was sweating like a paedophile on a bouncy castle, and didn't realise I was leaking red stuff until SWMBO saw me and let out a yell. Red t-shirt.

[Rwy in Sight]

RiS's dad who is bald too imposed a "hat must be worn near trees" SOP. It has helped tremendously.

[OFSO]

Great news from London - cold and raining. Three months of near-drought ended.

[admin]

I have not, therefore, logged my Islander hours

Really. I would have thought any time on an Islander would have been the peak of your career. Was mine.

[ricardian]

I have not, therefore, logged my Islander hours

Really. I would have thought any time on an Islander would have been the peak of your career. Was mine.

Islander leaving Kirkwall

Same pilot - shortest scheduled flight in the world

Similar video

[OFSO]

Correction to my London weather report above - clouds gone and brilliant sun again. Not needed.

[Ibbie]

Good Morning. It's FRIDAY.

Usual clear blue sky and already 20c.

Possible trip into town this morning, depends on madam.

[Boac]

Really. I would have thought any time on an Islander would have been the peak of your career. Was mine.

Indeed it was, Alison, but I felt entering multiple illegal passenger carrying flights in a log book would not be a good move?