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18 September 2002, 10:59 PM
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You can tell your Dad that it's a C130J I fly. Bit more swept-up than the old knackered ones we've also got - it's all computers and head-up displays and machines that go "ping".
Dunno about the F117 although I'm fairly sure that when they're transiting they have add on bits that increase their radar cross section so that civvy air traffic and other aircraft can track them
You can tell your Dad that it's a C130J I fly. Bit more swept-up than the old knackered ones we've also got - it's all computers and head-up displays and machines that go "ping".
Dunno about the F117 although I'm fairly sure that when they're transiting they have add on bits that increase their radar cross section so that civvy air traffic and other aircraft can track them
18 September 2002, 11:08 PM
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Cool, any artwork or owt? At the risk of sounding dull, a number perhaps? For the record I'd like to point out neither I or my dad record the numbers on planes
18 September 2002, 11:40 PM
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"For the record I'd like to point out neither I or my dad record the numbers on planes..."
but you've got 30,000 piccies in shoe boxes
next it'll be choo choos
SimonH - Browning 9mm? great for making big holes in the back of things if you've got enough strength to fire two guick rounds through the same area without the recoil cracking you in the forehead
used to be a cadet armourer in the good old days of Mk.4 (?) 303s and Brens (mid / late eighties b4 anybody suggests 1950s). you knew where you were with those. slr was "too powerful" for cadets unless you had .22 conversion
. had one go with SA80 after training - ok for running with but a lot to go wrong with it and we only had single shot / iron sights (no SUSAT for the little boys )
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but you've got 30,000 piccies in shoe boxes
next it'll be choo choos
SimonH - Browning 9mm? great for making big holes in the back of things if you've got enough strength to fire two guick rounds through the same area without the recoil cracking you in the forehead
used to be a cadet armourer in the good old days of Mk.4 (?) 303s and Brens (mid / late eighties b4 anybody suggests 1950s). you knew where you were with those. slr was "too powerful" for cadets unless you had .22 conversion
. had one go with SA80 after training - ok for running with but a lot to go wrong with it and we only had single shot / iron sights (no SUSAT for the little boys )Apple
19 September 2002, 08:17 AM
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Apple - if it was single shot then probably the Cadet GP Version. Always used to be good telling the new cadets that the GP was more powerful and swap it for their standard SA80's which they were given as easier to fire with no cocking after every shot!
19 September 2002, 10:25 AM
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hey Simon, you ever up for helping set skydiving records?
My dad is a european and UK skydiving record holder, he just set a new European formation record at langer (notts) a couple of weeks ago.
the problem he always has in organising this stuff is getting enough aircraft to lift the jumpers, if they could have access to a herc that would solve most of his problems.
He has jumped with the red devils out of brize norton in hercs before now.
Taxi.........
My dad is a european and UK skydiving record holder, he just set a new European formation record at langer (notts) a couple of weeks ago.
the problem he always has in organising this stuff is getting enough aircraft to lift the jumpers, if they could have access to a herc that would solve most of his problems.
He has jumped with the red devils out of brize norton in hercs before now.
Taxi.........
19 September 2002, 08:56 PM
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yep, it would be the GP version
sounds like you were you one of the ones who'd tell cadets the declaration at the end of a range session was "I have no live rounds, miscarriages, or empty cases in my posession, Sir!" They all thought it was funny until they got a bollocking from some Range officer and then didn't know what they should have said worked best on camp as you could blame NCOs from other schools...
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yep, it would be the GP version
sounds like you were you one of the ones who'd tell cadets the declaration at the end of a range session was "I have no live rounds, miscarriages
, or empty cases in my posession, Sir!" They all thought it was funny until they got a bollocking from some Range officer and then didn't know what they should have said worked best on camp as you could blame NCOs from other schools... Apple