We need more

[Woody]

As , hopefully events become accessible this year, we should add them to this thread

Here’s my first contribution

https://mailchi.mp/lincsaviation/april- ... 876406a22e

[Undried Plum]

This movie makes me back so much to my time(s) as a catman with my battmen in Oman.

This sort of **** really did happen.

Always my fault, of course.






Oh! How I loved the Shed!

My memories are from Oman, but those piccies show what I mean to express.

[PHXPhlyer]

I love a story with a happy ending!

PP

[Alisoncc]

This sort of **** really did happen.


My memories are from Oman, but those piccies show what I mean to express.

Tell me about it UP. Experienced same from fixing up Twin Pins (152 Sdrn) around exciting places like Buraimi Oasis to BN2A's in PNG (Upper Sepik) through to various Piper and Cessna's around the edges of the Kalahari, just south of Ex-A's abode. They were truly good times. The Buraimi Oasis event was watched over by the Trucial Oman Scouts, who loaned us the camels.

[TheGreenGoblin]

[Karearea]

Long grass tidying and weed-cutting at this YT channel - something satisfying about seeing order come out of disarray:

Blade Mate Lawn Care

Watched this video recently -

Free yard cleanup for a person in need - Part 1. Video runs 25:14, a Part 2 came later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A434s2kAOnY

[Pontius Navigator]

UP, I guess you know of the Skyvan crash in Oman. They were flying a load of 40g fuel drums into an LZ. In order to speed up the drop off the local load master released the tie downs before touchdown.

As they touched down the LZ went hot, the pilot aborted the landing but as they climbed away the load shifted and the aircraft crashed all killed.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Another desert scenario where the load master/cargo airline company's lack of adherence to a standard safe procedure for special loads, lead to disaster...



https://aviation-safety.net/database/re ... 0equipment.

[Undried Plum]

I remember so well my days as a Catman working with the Battmen in Oman.

I was there, with G Sqn, after the following film was a subject, doing the H&M thing.

Here's Pete Warne telling the way one battle was:




Here's tae ye, Mike (of B Sqn). A very good friend.

I was a civilian, amongst clever warriors.

[Karearea]

A superb restoration of this piece of film:

[4k, 60fps, colorized] (1918) WWI, The Battle of the Lys and the Escaut. 11 November, Armistice Day.

Runs 5:36.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hKAQZIb-Ck

[Undried Plum]

Little power; and hold that attitude.

[G-CPTN]

Fascinating - what I wanted to do when I was a youngster.

[Undried Plum]

Angled figured decked: British invention.

Steam catapult: British invention.

Mirror landing guidance system: British invention system.

Ski jump ramp liftoff: British invention.

First jet landing/takeoff on carrier: Scotsman.

etc

[TheGreenGoblin]

Angled figured decked: British invention.

Steam catapult: British invention.

Mirror landing guidance system: British invention system.

So why was the steam catapult not built into the two Elizabeth Class Aircraft carriers?

[Undried Plum]

So why was the steam catapult not built into the two Elizabeth Class Aircraft carriers?

Oh!, but it was. And then it wasn't. And then it was. And then it wasn't. And then it cost a billion or so each time the poxy navy ran out of money for changing its mind.

Large amounts of gold on a few old sleeves costs a lot of money. y'know.

[Pontius Navigator]

TGG I believe to save money with providing a steam generator so we could buy the sexy vertical take off and landing aircraft and to hell with range and payload

[Pontius Navigator]

UP, a bit like the Typhoon without a gun but ballast on stead. The best and cheapest ballast was a gun, so it became with a gun but not for use. Then it was decided they would.

I have a 27mm shell from an early, possibly first trial, as a paperweight.

[Undried Plum]

I hope it it doesnae make a measuring machine go "brrrr".

There's kids in Iraq who do, y'know. And then they die. Dunno why.

[TheGreenGoblin]

TGG I believe to save money with providing a steam generator so we could buy the sexy

vertical take off and landing aircraft

and to hell with range and payload

An aircraft that carries the dead weight of two vertical lift engines that are effectively useless in normal flight mode. A step backwards from the Harrier's thrust vectoring!

[Undried Plum]

UP, a bit like the Typhoon without a gun but ballast on stead. The best and cheapest ballast was a gun, so it became with a gun but not for use. Then it was decided they would.

I have a 27mm shell from an early, possibly first trial, as a paperweight.

I hope it it doesnae make a measuring machine go "brrrr".

There's kids in Iraq who do, y'know. And then they die. Dunno why.