For all those who earnt a set of British Jump wings look closely at the tail of the new A400.
Not only has the Pegasus returned to PARA smocks but also the aircraft the lads jump from 75 years on:
The A400 Low level in the Mach Loop - YouTube
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For all those who earnt a set of British Jump wings look closely at the tail of the new A400.
Not only has the Pegasus returned to PARA smocks but also the aircraft the lads jump from 75 years on:
The A400 Low level in the Mach Loop - YouTube
Chinook drills at MERVILLE BARRACKS, Colchester by 2 PARA..............now thats what you call a Pegasus on the tail, thats what happens when you let the RAF loose with a paint brush:lol::lol:
I wonder who set that up on the tail of the A400. Airbus or the RAF
Peter,
75th Anniversary of The Regiments first battle honour Operation Biting..........Bruneval radar station, France 1942, and the theft of....................:lol:
Would have had to be approved by the manufacturers with all this Health and Safety etc etc
Funny thing is I have just finished a book on the German radar of WWII and the raid gets a mention it was more aligned with the defection of a decorated Austrian born night fighter pilot & crew handing the British the latest Lichtenstein radar equipped JU-88 night fighter intact. There is a fair bit of info in the book about how this helped 617's dam raid and the ultimate release of Window which Churchill was reluctant to use lest the Germans do the same to blind the English radar.
Book ~ The Great Coup By Robert Hill.
We always steal good ideas.:lol:
They were way ahead of us on radar and much more in 1942. No wonder there was a scrabble over Wernher von Braun for his rocket propulsion genius, who eventually settled in the U.S.
Probably one of the few who brought the wars to an early conclusion as well as the peace...."so far" into the 21st Century
I would recommend the book Gil as it had a plethora of information in it that I had not heard of and the subsequent struggles between the powers that be at the top for and against the use of WINDOW, that pilot virually handed them a gift beyond belief he also gave enough information about the German night fighter tactics to make Von Hubers much planned Nachtjagers pretty much useless.
It goes into MONICA, SERRATE the IFF and how the German night fighters used this to track the bombers, mossies with the radar installed so the night fighter would track them and suddenly find the tables turned rather badly against them.
Of all the planes the British had it was the Mosquito that the German pilots feared the most as they did not know if it was a bomber or a mossie by the time they realized their mistake the mossie had shot them out of the sky some even stopped going into the streams to shoot the bombers down due to possible Mosquito contact.
It was also rather hard to detect as being mainly wood there was not that much metal to bounce the radar off sort of gave a weird signature, but when fitted with a bombers radar it was like a light to a moth and the night fighter followed the beam right up to the point where the mossie turned from prey to predator
Don't get me wrong the night fighters still took a toll some of the attrition rates prior to this plane gifted were @6.7% + - on missions a rate that bomber command could not sustain such losses they may have had the planes but no trained crews to fly them it is a soft cover but do not let that get in the way of a great read.
36 Sqn RAAF has Pegasus as it's Unit emblem, they were painted on the tail of the C130 A and H models they flew, not sure what is on the Globemaster tails they now fly but assume it is still Pegasus
Dick
Nothing better than throwing yourself out of a fully serviceable aeroplane.:help:
Remember though, it's a perfectly serviceable parachute too..."Stand in the door!" Feet and knees together, diagonal line across the back...Quote:
Originally Posted by Gil Boyd
Up 6 and out 36!
I remember that you couldn't hear a thing the aircrew/PJI's said but you just knew what they were saying. And in a matter of what was probably seconds, it was all over. Just a crack, check canopy, round and sound and a few more moments to prepare and it was all over - as if by rote. Which I suppose it was really. I could easily do it without hesitation this afternoon. Maybe just a quick brief...... Me and Brian have chuckled about this over a few beers several times!
The balloon, I loved it. "Up 800, five men jumping" especially if you wanted to see your life flash before you ha ha!!
Are they still having teething problems with the A400's engines?
Bob
We the balloon tethered here at Abingdon for years. I seem to recall that someone took an upright piano up in it and started to play it on the way down. It fell away faster than the pianist descended and unfortunately broke as it hit the ground. Parachuting PJI parachutist was OK. I think that it's on you tube somewhere..........
Ha Ha................Bob the planes doing fine from all reports, just sorting out what else they can drop from it, before we kiss goodbye to the good old Herc.
That's a point Gil......... what was the matter with the Herc to make us get rid of it?
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Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
Afternoon Peter, I think the current plan is to retain 14 stretched J models and retire the nine short J's when the full compliment of 22 A400's has been delivered. To be fair the C130J's have been thrashed, 10 solid years of supporting Afghanistan operations has eaten up a lot of airframe life.
A mate of mine who works for Lockheed Martin UK, said the 14 retained J's will all need costly new wing centre boxes and other structural upgrades to stay in service before long though .... so don't be surprised if they just end up being put out to grass instead, it might well end up making more sense buying more A400's instead.