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They got Europas last flying F104 in Bod酶 Norway.
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路I had to look up what "sidereal time" meant and it's doing my head in a bit 馃槃
I'm assuming this watch has some use in astral navigation, although I'm having trouble figuring out what role the rotating dial plays.
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路It looks like British Royal Navy F-35 B pilots wear the large legible 42.5 mm CITIZEN Eco-Drive WR100 wrist watch...
At least senior US Air Force & F-35 Lightning II Chief Test Pilot Alan Norman wore an Omega Speedmaster, but a Tachym猫tre remains useless!
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At least senior US Air Force & F-35 Lightning II Chief Test Pilot Alan Norman wore an Omega Speedmaster, but a Tachym猫tre remains useless!
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SpeedyPhill
路1964 - 2024 saw the 60th anniversary for the FAS of the French Air Force...
Remember in 1966, President Charles Andr茅 de Gaulle decided to leave NATO, France becoming an independent nuclear strike force. Besides a constant sixtet of submarines with remarkable names (e.g. Redoutable, Terrible and Inflexible) between 1964 and 2005, the French Army used the Dassault Mirage IV, a huge but sleek delta winged supersonic strategic bomber... for many the most beautiful aircraft ever built !
Photo shows General Charles "Chuck" Yeager visiting Dassault in 1969... Between 1955 and 2020 Yeager solely wore Rolex pilot watches !
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Remember in 1966, President Charles Andr茅 de Gaulle decided to leave NATO, France becoming an independent nuclear strike force. Besides a constant sixtet of submarines with remarkable names (e.g. Redoutable, Terrible and Inflexible) between 1964 and 2005, the French Army used the Dassault Mirage IV, a huge but sleek delta winged supersonic strategic bomber... for many the most beautiful aircraft ever built !
Photo shows General Charles "Chuck" Yeager visiting Dassault in 1969... Between 1955 and 2020 Yeager solely wore Rolex pilot watches !
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路Happy Holidays!
Image courtesy of Avgeekery.com via Facebook
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路Feliz Navidad from 馃嚜馃嚫
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US navy forever.
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路路Never Used A KodakI visited a man who has ordered one of my straps for his old Rolex Air-King Date. He always has some interesting stuff.
Have a look at this hand drawing. I wish I knew the story behind it.
Have a look at this hand drawing. I wish I knew the story behind it.
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路I visited a man who has ordered one of my straps for his old Rolex Air-King Date. He always has some interesting stuff.
Have a look at this hand drawing. I wish I knew the story behind it.
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路路Melbourne AustraliaAh......gremlins! Well done!
I could only think of pixies.
The plane appears to be an RAF or RCAF Harvard, so the gremlins could have been a global phenomenon 馃榿.
I could only think of pixies.
The plane appears to be an RAF or RCAF Harvard, so the gremlins could have been a global phenomenon 馃榿.
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路Indeed the well-known " Gremlins " of WW II RAF pilot turned author Roald Dahl !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl
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Turpinrr
路My missus got a message on her Facebook page this week off the son of a former crewmate of my dad's.
The man was the Navigator and was the one who'd taken individual crew photos.
The son said he knew next to nothing about his dad's career in the RAF and could I help.
He then sent these pics of their time at Barford St. John where they were training on Wellingtons.Uptil yesterday I'd never seen them before
I'm hoping he may have some pics from when they trained on Stirlings before converting to the mighty Lancaster
The man was the Navigator and was the one who'd taken individual crew photos.
The son said he knew next to nothing about his dad's career in the RAF and could I help.
He then sent these pics of their time at Barford St. John where they were training on Wellingtons.Uptil yesterday I'd never seen them before
I'm hoping he may have some pics from when they trained on Stirlings before converting to the mighty Lancaster
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Turpinrr
路Isn't the second pic a Stirling?
Nose seems to be high enough off the ground for one.
I was that busy looking at my dad and wondering who the instructor was with them I hadn't spotted the height of the kite (it rhymes) and the turret is altogether different from the Wellington.
I owe you one, ta
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I don't think I'd be here if he'd flown in that 馃
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路First and third pictures shows a RAF Vickers Wellington (retired in 19653), second photo might be a Handley Page Harrow (retired 1946).
I always liked this Wellington-onboard photo of a RAF flight Sergeant with his wrist watch, note the Iron & wooden airframe:
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I always liked this Wellington-onboard photo of a RAF flight Sergeant with his wrist watch, note the Iron & wooden airframe:
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