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Before the days of compact electronics, there were all sorts of handy pocket computers about, even for those less everyday events.
Before the days of compact electronics, there were all sorts of handy pocket computers about, even for those less everyday events.
They were quite low over the base, I'd actually forgotten they were flying over & had just gone out to get the washing in, so no photos here sorry.couldn't see them from Forebridge area. shame...
Anyone get any pictures at all?
Saw them fly over Creswell.Just saw the 10 helicopters fly over Stafford base.
Normal convention is for a tail-borne flag to appear 'as flown' - as seen here on Johnson's vanity cruiser.the 50th anniversary livery looks good too!
Things are a lot better now than they used to be.I remember my few weeks at Tern Hill when I joined the Met Office straight from school. My boss jokingly informed me that helicopters liked to do their own thing, especially unanticipated heavy landings ... (his words for crash landings.) I never saw one crash while I was there (at that time it was a helicopter training station) but I saw a few landings that would have cured any tendency toward constipation.
Not quite helicopter heavy landing but ... Two Royal Navy aircraft carriers, Bulwark and Albion were converted to helicopter/commando carriers and they needed vehicles that could be carried ashore by helicopters, the RN Westland Whirlwinds. Only two vehicles were light enough, BMC Mini pickups or Citroen 2CV pickups. The 2CVs won hands down, no vulnerable radiators, better ground clearance and more robust suspensions. So off they went to Malaya with the 2CVs being used for communication purposes or fitted with a 20mm gun and carrying ammunition. The locals were terrified of them - well the linkages on the Westlands weren't that robust and the effects of a 2CV loaded with ammunition being accidentally dropped from 300ft were rather spectacular
Aviation is a really stupid thing to get interested in, isn't it?
I mean, i know nothing about it, but enjoying something that you had no part in making is just dumb. My lack of interest in this subject marks me out as an exceptional individual, i trust you will all agree by the abundance of likes that will appear at the bottom of my smug post.
Being particularly interested in British aeronautics means you are, obviously, a terrible racist.