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Old 2nd March 2024, 08:34
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Always attach your 5 point safety harness to the top rung of the ladder.
Just a little H&S advice.
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Old 2nd March 2024, 10:32
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Well quite so, particularly if it is listing…
Or does that deserve a bullet?
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Old 7th March 2024, 00:09
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Somebody mentioned Boaty Macboatface.
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Old 7th March 2024, 00:44
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Be careful Malcolm - That was devised by a design committee headed by Tom Vart and seconded by FG86!!!!!!

I am now donning my tin helmet and dropping into a shell crater!

Rgds.
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Old 7th March 2024, 02:48
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It's obviously an RAF IBTWL-GA-SM
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Old 7th March 2024, 07:23
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It's obviously an RAF IBTWL-GA-SM
It might very well be YM but how do you know?
Is it smooth bore or rifled? Gotcha!
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Old 7th March 2024, 07:52
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Neither.
It is grease lubricated.

Perhaps my second name is Schmidt but, on reflection, it is more likely to be Schultz.
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Old 7th March 2024, 09:37
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Their real, not so much fun, names are:
ZP801 – Pride of Moray
ZP802 – City of Elgin
ZP803 – Terence Bulloch DSO DFC
ZP804 – Spirit of Reykjavík
ZP805 – Fulmar
ZP806 – Guernsey's Reply
ZP807 – William Barker VC
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Old 7th March 2024, 12:53
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RAF humour can be somewhat unconventional. A Shackleton based at Changi in 1970/1971and the subject of an Airfix kit, was decorated so that to any interested observer it was flying on behalf of "White Knuckle Airlines."

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Pa (RN for the war) was fond of telling us that the RAF always had the best nicknames. His favourite was for army types, "Brown jobs". Another I heard from a AAIB presentation "Mechanical palm trees" - helicopters.
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After leaving the Sea I worked as an HGV driver.
One day I had a delivery note with just [Evans - Caerphilly] on it, so phoned the Transport Office from a phone box (remember those?) for a proper address.

"Have you tried looking them up in the phone directory?" said the wise traffic clerk!

Remembering I had once been at sea I replied:
"**** OFF - have you seen how many pages of Evans there are in the Caerphilly Directory?"

On another occasion, I was in the said Office when an agency driver phoned in about 2 hours after he should have completed his delivery.

"I'm in Wales" he said "I can't find this Tunbridge place anywhere."
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Old 13th March 2024, 20:44
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Ah the '60s

Were you really there?
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