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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2012 6:36:40 GMT
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Post by mossie on Aug 30, 2012 8:22:23 GMT
Tod2's remark about old cockpits had me trawling through my old shots. Here is a Mosquito pilot at work, sorry some is out of focus but there was very little room. The max external width was 4ft 10 ins and we sat side by side, now go and measure your car ;D ;D Ergonomics as not in the dictionary.  And here is a self portrait in a Meteor, behind me are twin tanks carrying 320 galls and there is a belly tank under us with another 180 galls.  |
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Post by onlymark on Aug 30, 2012 9:09:48 GMT
mossie, did you catch that programme recently about the first jet fighters in the UK? Featured the Meteor quite a lot.
Did you serve out your time on them or anything later?
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Post by mossie on Aug 30, 2012 10:46:56 GMT
Yes Mark, you mean the one on BBC4, with a second one last night on the airliners.
I finished my time as a gash, sorry staff, navigator on the Air Electronics School, trying not to lose trainees on the old Anson. A nice easy job, fly when I felt like it and pick what pilot and flew with. I wanted to get onto something supersonic, but had absolutely no ambition to sit on anything as dangerous as a bang seat. In any event as an NCO we were not wanted on the posh jobs any more.
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Post by htmb on Jul 7, 2013 2:19:34 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 7, 2013 2:33:29 GMT
I see you cropped out the part that said "Surrender, Dorothy".  That's a wonderful picture. Yours too, Mossie, which I missed seeing back when they were posted. |
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Post by htmb on Sept 2, 2013 21:04:27 GMT
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Post by questa on Sept 3, 2013 1:00:07 GMT
htmb...that photo just blew me away. You can just feel the freedom of flight and the colours are amazing.
mossie...your B&W photos are so precious for generations to come. I like the self portrait, did you ever feel claustrophobic?
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Post by mossie on Sept 3, 2013 15:10:33 GMT
A very atmospheric shot htmb. A sky like that means it could be bumpy down a cloud level.
Questa, I never felt claustrophobic, there was generally too much going on to think about that, plus the fact that the cockpits had plenty of glazing to allow us a good view. I have boasted somewhere of lying back at high altitude in the Meteor at night trying to spot proper meteors. And succeeding ;D
If you plough through my thread in Ports of Call headed "My old Aeroplanes" it is all in there.
In the first post I give a link to a website giving the story of the first 4 years of my service in the RAF
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 4, 2013 4:31:46 GMT
Ohhhhh, Htmb ~~ oh oh oh!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2013 9:54:01 GMT
That is more like how people imagined the sensation of flying to be before they starting sticking us in those big metal tubes with wings.
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Post by rikita on Sept 7, 2013 20:37:34 GMT
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Post by htmb on Sept 28, 2014 3:31:46 GMT
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Post by htmb on Mar 23, 2015 21:51:14 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 24, 2015 5:37:01 GMT
Doesn't get any better than that! Wow!
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Post by mossie on Mar 24, 2015 19:39:25 GMT
The buttock clenching moment is near
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Post by htmb on Jul 14, 2015 11:53:14 GMT
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Post by htmb on Jul 20, 2015 13:45:06 GMT
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Post by amboseli on Feb 16, 2016 21:39:31 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2016 18:33:23 GMT
My ride home this morning.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2016 15:32:46 GMT
That's even smaller than a Twin Otter, isn't it? I took a Twin Otter for the second time of my life on an Air BC flight from Vancouver to Seattle in bygone times. (The first time was on Red Sea Airlines from Djibouti to Aden.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 26, 2016 15:45:30 GMT
Great photo, Lizzy -- the various stances of the passengers, the glimpse of skyline, & the superb framing.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2016 17:01:54 GMT
It's a turbo Otter, not sure how it relates in size to the twin Otter. Everyone's just waiting for their bag to be handed to them. Can't even keep your purse at your feet!. 25 lb limit.
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Post by mossie on Feb 28, 2016 15:01:13 GMT
I think that is the single engine version, the original Otter had a big old radial engine up front. The newer turboprop engine will give more power and hence a better performance, and, more importantly, a greater marging of safety with a shorter take off and quicker climb out.
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Post by lugg on Feb 28, 2016 18:45:35 GMT
Got to love a sea plane - great photo
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 15, 2018 13:51:18 GMT
I took this whilst watching cricket a few weeks back. The expanse of sky in front of me was enormous and I could see as many as 9 planes at any one time and usually no less than 4.  |
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