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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:10 pm
by CharlieOneSix
TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 11:07 am
How am I meant to work out wind velocity and direction in flight, based upon observed drift in a helicopter, using a CRP 5 analogue computer (whizz wheel) in an R44 which requires hands on cyclic and collective 99.999% of the time, for me anyway, given my modest talent...
Shirley you have worked out how to lock the collective and clamp your knees around the cyclic? Then you can use your hands to work the whiz wheel, all the time shiftily looking outside and inputting small cyclic corrections with your knees. Aah - just remembered - the R44 has one of those funny tilting cyclics so the knee trick won't work!
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:17 pm
by tango15
Undried Plum wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:45 pm
TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:53 am
What was the deal with RAF East Fortune with 3 concrete runways, two of which could still be resurrected? It is, as you know, the home to the Scottish National Museum of Flight, but the only flights possible from there are from an ultralight club that still uses part of an old taxiway, I think.
When I was a youngster, going off to boarding school in the Green Belt of Londonshire, while Turnhouse's Rwy 13/31 was being re-surfaced and the place was shut down for a few months, to my great excitement the coach from the BEA terminal in Edinburgh's George Street turned Eastward instead of Westward and took us to East Fortune to board a Viscount there for the flight to Thiefrow.
The wee strip that the microlighters use is the extension, on the other side of a minor road, which was built to enable a fully laden Viscount to use the main runway for commercial ops while Turnhouse was inop.
The Vulcan in your picture is the one which snapped off its refueling probe on one of the Blackbuck jollies and had to divert to Brazil. The crew, the poor dears, had to sit out the war on Copacabana beach. Oh! The humanity!
It landed, unlike the the Concorde which they now have on display in a hangar, which I believe may have had the ignominy of having to travel by road.
It so happened that I was in Rio when the Vulcan landed. All the TV stations stopped their transmissions and rushed their cameras to what was then called Galeão Airport, which is the major civil airport for Rio. The roads around the airport was jammed with sightseers. It so happened that I was working with the Brazilian Air Force at the time, and as you say UP, the crew were very well treated. I didn't meet the crew, but I understood that they enjoyed their visit to the
cidade marvilhosa very much!
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:30 pm
by Undried Plum
tango15 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:17 pm
It so happened that I was in Rio when the Vulcan landed. All the TV stations stopped their transmissions and rushed their cameras to what was then called Galeão Airport, which is the major civil airport for Rio. The roads around the airport was jammed with sightseers. It so happened that I was working with the Brazilian Air Force at the time, and as you say UP, the crew were very well treated. I didn't meet the crew, but I understood that they enjoyed their visit to the
cidade marvilhosa very much!
This is such a small flying club here, but rather nice.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:48 pm
by om15
Lot of doom and gloom about in the news, however it is possible to enjoy the simple pleasures in life, despite the old kung flu, here is Danny Malin enjoying his breakfast.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:52 pm
by Undried Plum
CharlieOneSix wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:10 pm
Shirley you have worked out how to lock the collective and clamp your knees around the cyclic? Then you can use your hands to work the whiz wheel, all the time shiftily looking outside and inputting small cyclic corrections with your knees.
Nowadays it's called twirking.
Not becoming of old-fashioned men in the days when men were men and sheep were nervous, though no doubt qualifying for whatever is the nowadays equivalent of Biggin Hill.
Swivel those hips, Sub Lieutenant.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:57 pm
by TheGreenGoblin
Undried Plum wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:52 pm
CharlieOneSix wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:10 pm
Shirley you have worked out how to lock the collective and clamp your knees around the cyclic? Then you can use your hands to work the whiz wheel, all the time shiftily looking outside and inputting small cyclic corrections with your knees.
Nowadays it's called twirking.
Not becoming of old-fashioned men in the days when men were men, though no doubt qualifying for whatever is the nowadays equivalent of Biggin Hill.
Swivel those hips, Sub Lieutenant.
I don't have to twirk to make an arse of myself in a helicopter, believe me...
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:00 pm
by Undried Plum
TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:57 pm
I don't have to twirk to make an arse of myself in a helicopter, believe me...
The navy will still have you. In so many ways.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:03 pm
by ribrash
om15 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:48 pm
Lot of doom and gloom about in the news, however it is possible to enjoy the simple pleasures in life, despite the old kung flu, here is Danny Malin enjoying his breakfast.
Screenshot 2021-07-30 184535.png
I'm sure I read the other day that he get enough hits on his page to earn approx £300 K. Mind I wouldn't bet on him reaching pension age.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:05 pm
by TheGreenGoblin
Undried Plum wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:00 pm
TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:57 pm
I don't have to twirk to make an arse of myself in a helicopter, believe me...
The navy will still have you. In so many ways.
So they have reached rock bottom, in a manner of speaking...
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:59 pm
by Undried Plum
TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:57 pm
I don't have to twirk to make an arse of myself in a helicopter, believe me...
But Vaseline helps, in a navy kinda way. It's that one-per-rev wot does it, y'know.
Any navy man will admit it. Privately.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:09 pm
by TheGreenGoblin
Undried Plum wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:59 pm
TheGreenGoblin wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 5:57 pm
I don't have to twirk to make an arse of myself in a helicopter, believe me...
But Vaseline helps, in a navy kinda way. It's that one-per-rev wot does it, y'know.
Any navy man will admit it. Privately.
What those nautical coves get up to is best left at sea methinks!
I am pretty much a strait-laced landlubber when it comes to it (ask any of the girls at the Karl Lagerfeld Bondage dungeons in Bremerhaven).
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:25 pm
by larsssnowpharter
Personally, one has always found the Karl Lagerfeld places rather more about fashion than proper BDSM. A bit like that 50 Shades of Vanilla.book.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:28 pm
by TheGreenGoblin
larsssnowpharter wrote: ↑Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:25 pm
Personally, one has always found the Karl Lagerfeld places rather more about fashion than proper BDSM. A bit like that 50 Shades of Vanilla.book.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 7:36 pm
by 1DC
Wriggle your arse boy and show some enthusiasm said the sailor..
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 9:28 pm
by ribrash
After 18 months we are able to restart our series of fishing matches around the Mersey and North Wales.The first match is on Sunday,and the series will take in 14 matches that we are calling the Summer/Winter league..I have spent all this week sorting bait and rigs out,and making leads for those who need them.I am all a quiver.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2021 5:51 am
by OFSO
Morning all, bit stormy-looking outside. Could there be a hint of H2O around? Desperately needed. Our local reservoir level is falling rapidly, even though most tourists here are French.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2021 6:03 am
by EA01
A fishing match? ... I've never heard of such a thing?
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2021 6:26 am
by Pontius Navigator
I once wrote up one of my men for Sportsman of the Year award: he won. No athlete but a maggot strangler.
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2021 6:28 am
by EA01
One who strangles maggots?....for what purpose?
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2021 6:35 am
by 4mastacker
EA01 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 31, 2021 6:03 am
A fishing match? ... I've never heard of such a thing?
Big time activity in the UK, with lots of participants and the possibility of a lot of cash to be won in the major matches. I don't go for the maggot drowning side of the business, much prefer slinging 4ozs of lead at the sea in the (vain) hope of catching something that can form part of one's dinner. Could never get the knack of fly-fishing though I'm sure UP is a master of that particular craft.