Dave Hunt

Not sure about being up myself but several times people have said, "Up yours," to me. Was that a fraternal greeting then?

Dave

12 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

Meanwhile, on the East Coast route (sorry), Thing 2 has gone off to visit Thing 1 in Durham for a taste of the student life, it being the last few post-exam weeks of Thing 1's final undergraduate term; he's had a wretched time with most of the year spent here, working remotely. Thing 2 is off to university come October, so we're having a taste of Life after Children!

Our version of Thing 1 went to Durham university at St. Aidan's college and it was through visiting him there that Jill and I discovered the attraction of the city as well as the North East coast. Another benefit of Durham was that it was far enough away to discourage casual visits home from a poor student so the weekly arrival of bags of dirty washing that some of our friends suffered when their kids were at other universities were largely absent. When Thing 2 went to Nottingham, though........

Dave

4 hours ago, polybear said:

 

And your mate owned up??

Bit difficult not to when half his squadron as well as some other aircrew mates were visiting and, being aircrew, found the situation uproariously funny.

Dave

When I did my first tour in Germany a friend from Gutersloh jumped out of a Lightning and ended up in hospital with a broken collar bone and a few other injuries. In the same ward were two Army types and when he asked what had happened to them one said, "We were out preparing for an exercise when some clown parked a bl**dy aeroplane in the same field, what about you?" It took a while, apparently, before they spoke to him again.

Dave

37 minutes ago, Stubby47 said:

Stow Maries, as close as you can get on Google Street View, has these signs...

 

 

Which is it, public, or private ? 
 

I suppose that there can be a private road with a public footpath alongside it or even as part of it. After all, most public footpaths cross private land.

Dave

1 hour ago, Happy Hippo said:

George Aird, the test pilot of the plane in the photo took off in a Lightning and landed in a greenhouse!

 

But seriously, knowing parachutes quite well, and looking at the deployment sequence, he was almost certainly under an only partially inflated canopy when he hit the greenhouse.  He was very lucky to walk away end up with a few broken bones and scratches.

When George ejected he was actually well below the escape envelope of the seat and was more than just lucky to get away with it ( the standard formula for minimum escape altitude with the seats then in use was 10% of the rate of descent). There was a similar narrow escape by an RN Phantom pilot at Leuchars when he landed in a ditch and his feet were actually below the top of the ditch when the main chute opened.

Dave

11 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

..........so no real chance of our resident Flug Kapitain getting in there in a Hunter, Lightning, Phantom or Tornado

 

Dave proves me wrong!!

 

Doesn't count - you said in a Lightning etc.

Dave

It's probably an old story, but I am reminded of the man whose wife asked him to go to the shop for a bag of potatoes then added, "And if they've got any eggs, get six." When he got home and put six bags of potatoes on the table she asked why he'd bought so many. "Well," he said, "They did have eggs so I did as you told me."   

Dave

14 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

I have (again) misinterpreted instructions.

 

'Sweep around the conservatory'.

 

I took the old Venetian blinds out and put them in the workshop, did all the window sills, brushed the floor, vacuumed it up:  satisfied smile.

 

'Why have you not swept around the conservatory?'

 

'I have.... Look!'

 

'I meant outside, not inside.  You need to shift all the pots and get the leaves that are stuck in behind them'.

 

Guess what I'm doing this afternoon?

Schoolboy error I'm afraid Richard. You should know by now that SWMBO speak is carefully designed to include traps for the incautious male who believes that everyone has his idea of communication, I.e., they state plainly what they mean. Not that I'm any better than you are at SWMBO speak interpretation, I'm sad to say, merely well used to being a victim.

Dave, AKA Why haven't you.......?

If your DiL comes from Kitchener, Chris, does that mean she points her finger at her pupils saying, "Your country needs you."

I'll just get my coat......

Dave

And it's good morning from me. I'm still in happy bunny mode as Jill and a friend are off to Dorothy Clive gardens this afternoon leaving me to my own devices. Hence this morning will be spent on chores and niffnaff and trivia then after they depart the whooshing noise will be me heading for the workshop. 

More than a little confusion over Dad's returning home as on Friday a lady came to assess his house for things that need installing and yesterday another called to say he was coming home on Tuesday. Eventually I managed to convince her that the alterations identified as necessary hadn't actually been carried out so she's going to call back tomorrow.

Have a good day people.

Dave

In the RAF we used to call them TAPS - Thick As Pig Sh!t.

Dave

For once the optimist won. After the Zoom meetings I managed to get the few domestic chores allocated to me finished early enough to get down to the workshop for a while. Not only that, but the modelling problem I failed to solve yesterday was successfully dealt with so I am currently in happy bunny mode. 

I don't like it. Something bad is bound to happen 

G'night folks

Dave

An exciting day for me too. I'm just about to go online to chair a meeting of the Midland Railway Society committee then, providing that has finished, at 1.30 attend the AGM of the S7 Group - both via Zoom. No doubt by the time that is finished there will be essential domestic duties to be under taken as Jill is visiting Dad this afternoon so I will be sole occupant of Hunt Towers for a while. The optimist in me says that I may be able to get down to the workshop for a spell but the realist is dubious about that.

Have a good weekend all.

Dave

One of the problems with reciting lists is that if you are interrupted it can have disastrous consequences. A well-known cause of air accidents is that if you are following a checklist and are interrupted, your brain can be convinced that you have just carried out the last action you came to on the list when in fact you hadn't got round to it. Hence in multi-crew aircraft checklists are always challenge and response with one crew member reading out the action required and the other, who is actually carrying out the action, responding WHEN IT HAS BEEN DONE and not before. There have, unfortunately, been occasions when even that procedure hasn't worked because the challenge and response has become so automatic but various other safeguards have been introduced over the years.

Luckily, my short term memory is very good so such things don't bother me.

Luckily, my short term memory is very good so such things don't bother me.

Luckily, my short term memory is .................

Dave

Forgot to mention in my last post that anyone who wants some 5mm foam board can currently pick up four large (A0?) sheets for a tenner in Hobbycraft.

Dave

4 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

If he's off to the workshop that quickly, he must have been into Hobbycraft and had a rush of blood to the head.

A rush of blood to the head certainly but not due to Hobbycraft. As I was being dragged round enjoying the shopping expedition my mind was elsewhere trying to solve a modelling problem and just as the end of the torture happy outing came I thought I had it sorted. Hence when the opportunity to try my idea arrived I couldn't wait to get into the workshop and put it in action. And when I did, guess what?...............

It didn't bl**dy work!

Ah, well, there's always tomorrow I guess.

5 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

Is that whilst he remembers  what he's gone to the worksop to do.

 

Jamie

Send me a reminder tomorrow Jamie.

Dave

Just got back from Bridgemere. Jill is popping round to see a friend. The workshop is but a few yards away. Byeeeeee.....

Dave

North Hipposhire has a cool and cloudy prospect this morning. I'm shortly about to meet a lady from the OT team at Dad's house so that she can assess what is required to enable him to be discharged from the care home. Once she has reported there will be a team meeting to review his progress and decide what sort of initial care package will be needed. After all the decisions are implemented he will be sent home so I expect that within a week or two that will happen. After I get back it has been democratically decided by a vote of two (Jill's entitlement) to one (mine) that we 'need' to go to the garden centre at Bridgemere for a shopping extravaganza. I can hardly wait.....

Have a good weekend everyone.

Dave

2 hours ago, The White Rabbit said:

I don't know what our medical members have observed but I have heard a theory which runs along the lines of the more macho and/or larger members of the population generally tend to be sensitive to the sight of blood, whereas the smaller, quieter members of society are less squeamish. 

 

And on that potentially controversial note, I'll bid you good night. 

I suppose that as a 6ft 3in ex-rugby player and fast jet pilot who has no problem with the sight of blood, even his own, and has watched with interest operations he was undergoing on a monitor whilst on 'local' anaesthetic, that I must be unusual then? Unless the theory is, shall we say, a load of cobblers?

Dave

2 hours ago, New Haven Neil said:

 

There are many more strang names, places and people on Fraggle Rock, Stu!  Of course only visitors call it by its full name, to us it is simply 'The Creg'.  

 

Dave, I have an LP with the Murray Walker commentary and soundtrack of that race!....Somewhere.....

All this talk of the TT and Creg-na-baa is making me come over all nostalgic-like. It would be great to sit on the balcony there and watch the bikes thunder past again after a gap of over sixty years. Maybe someday......

Dave

47 minutes ago, Northmoor said:

I left primary school in 1983 (I was the year above his daughter) but don't know if he was on the SAR squadron, just that they delivered him to school one day in the early 80s.  

A couple of years later he was running his own company (Welsh Airways?) giving pleasure flights and charters I think, I had a pleasure flight with him once in 1985 or '86, just a quick lap of Pembrokeshire. 

I think that the last time I met Scruff was at a friend's wedding in the late 70s when he was flying F4s out of, I think, Wattisham (but I'm not certain about that) and I don't recall hearing anything about him after that so I suppose it could be the same chap. It seems unlikely that two people would have the same nickname I suppose.

Dave

Richard, I think I've got a few made-up 1 in 7 crossing vees lying around somewhere. I'll have a look around if you think they would come in useful.

Dave 

3 minutes ago, Mike Bellamy said:

 

I was expecting to find Cranwell on that list . . . . ?

You are right that I should have added Sleaford Tech (as it is disparagingly known in the RAF) although the only time I darkened Cranwell's doors was three years before I retired when I did a course there on the little Tutor trainer that I instructed on at the University Air Squadron at Cosford (which I also missed off - old age strikes I think....). When I joined in 1966 there were two ways of entering as an aircrew officer; one was to do a three year course at Cranwell , during which you would do basic flying training, that got you what was called a General List commission to age 55 and supposedly gave you a better chance of getting promotion to  the higher ranks; the other was called Direct Entry that started with six months at South Cerney then a move to a basic flying training station (Leeming, Syerston or Acklington) for about a year, which gave a Supplementary List commission for either eight or twelve years with a possibility of extending to age 38. The latter, of course, meant that you got on to advanced flying training about eighteen months earlier than a Cranwellian. I started out with a Cranwell cadetship but then had a medical problem before actually joining and by the time it was resolved I'd missed the entry so was offered either a twelve month wait for the next entry or a DE starting the following week - I took the latter then after my first tour applied for, and got, transfer to the General List following my boss's recommendation. Hence, I effectively gained eighteen months of operational flying due to my medical issue.

Dave