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BobClay

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How to make flying easier ....... :eek::?::roll:

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Studio Tan

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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.

I’ve got one of those Nuclear Bomb Calculator thingys. It was given to me by an ‘American’ cousin - a nuclear physicist working for an outfit called General Atomics in San Diego. With an increasingly overbearing Russia and China it might be a handy thing to have for checking whether it’s safe to pop out to Lidl after a nuclear holocaust (I’m assuming the internet might be ‘down’ in such circumstances).
 

joshua

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https://www.military-airshows.co.uk/press21/maps/puma50ann-070721.htm
RAF Puma 50th Anniversary Flypast - 7 July 2021




Home Page | Airshow Calendar 2021 | RAF Benson Page
There will be an RAF Puma 50th anniversary flypast by up to ten Puma helicopters on Wednesday 7th July 2021. The first Puma helicopters were delivered into service in 1971. They will fly from RAF Benson to RAF Scampton from 10am to 11.49am, then RAF Scampton to Middle Wallop from 1.30pm to 3.34pm, and then Middle Wallop back to RAF Benson from 5pm to 6.31pm.

A new 50th anniversary paint scheme on one of the Puma helicopters was unveiled on 2nd July 2021. More information can be found here.
07 July 2021 - RAF Puma 50th Anniversary Flypast


NOTAMS (Times in BST):

RAF Puma helicopters Flypast - Wednesday 7th July 2021:
1. 513654N 0010545W BENSON AD - 10.00am
2. 514733N 0004416W HALTON - 10.20am
3. 514728N 0004114W TRING - 10.21am
4. 514042N 0004707W WALTERS ASH - 10.26am
5. 513310N 0002511W NORTHOLT AD - 10.35am
6. 513551N 0001419W HENDON - 10.40am
7. 520526N 0000753E DUXFORD AD - 10.58am
8. 522120N 0000706W WYTON - 11.08am
9. 522805N 0001503W CONINGTON AD - 11.12am
10. 523647N 0002833W WITTERING AD - 11.19am
11. 525754N 0003323W BARKSTON HEATH AD - 11.30am
12. 530147N 0002934W CRANWELL AD - 11.33am
13. 530958N 0003126W WADDINGTON AD - 11.45am
14. 531829N 0003303W SCAMPTON AD - 11.49am

1. 531829N 0003303W SCAMPTON AD - 1.30pm
2. 524345N 0014333W ALREWAS - 2.03pm
3. 524936N 0020538W STAFFORD - 2.11pm
4. 525227N 0020949W STONE - 2.13pm
5. 524805N 0024006W SHAWBURY AD - 2.24pm
6. 521430N 0025252W SHOBDON AD - 2.43pm
7. 520451N 0024756W CREDENHILL - 2.48pm
8. 513654N 0023904W CHEPSTOW - 3.04pm
9. 511223N 0020928W WARMINSTER - 3.21pm
10. 511049N 0020520W KNOOK - 3.22pm
11. 510912N 0014504W BOSCOMBE DOWN AD - 3.30pm
12. 510858N 0013413W MIDDLE WALLOP AD - 3.34pm
 

littleme

250,000th poster!
couldn't see them from Forebridge area. shame...

Anyone get any pictures at all?
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.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
the 50th anniversary livery looks good too!

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Normal convention is for a tail-borne flag to appear 'as flown' - as seen here on Johnson's vanity cruiser.

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If I'd been painting the Puma, I would have done it the other way up, unless some posh boy insisted.


The other side is right.

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Maybe the rule doesn't apply to helicopters, as they don't have to be going forwards?
 

BobClay

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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. :eek:
 

Gramaisc

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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. :eek:
Things are a lot better now than they used to be.

A helicopter was regarded as one small step up from a parachute.

In the 70s, when they were crashing about one aircraft a week, about half of them were helicopters.

Your feet control the anti-torque pedals, your right hand does the cyclic stick and your left hand does the collective lever. In the old days, your left hand would also have to control the throttle twist-grip. There's a good bit of automation now doing the rpm for you. In the days of piston engines, you had to gently get the rotor up to a matched speed with the engine, after you'd started it.

Having a tendency to sneeze was to be avoided.
 

Noah

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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
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
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
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Withnail

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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.
 

Entropy

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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.

**Shows you the door......
 
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