When I see adverts for the Big C on tv or in the hospital, it always makes me laugh and think of Belize. My female friends are not amused when I explain.
I was taken here by my father around 1990, I remember at the bottom of the runway we had to wait at traffic lights to cross the runway!We were posted here BFPO and I was educated at Kings Schools, Manserh Barracks the worst school I have ever attended. RAF Gutersloh however did have great open air swimming pool!
That map is propoganda Why don't you keep your stuff and we'll keep ours. I swear if Guatemala lays one finger on the country I am going to start making a resistance to fight back
A fantastic video on making sausage rolls ready roll pastry. My 1st attempt last week was with block pastry and I had to roll it out. They came out really well actually. 😁👍
The Ferranti Internal navigation system was very advanced for the time (that said the US Navy in the Viking had similar capabilities in the late 1960s!). The system took a bit of time to warm up (as it was 1970's electronics). The rule, however, was if the system showed the pilot they were within a few miles of where the pilot thought they should be then it was correct, but if it was miles out, then the pilot was correct. Who knows with the threat to GPS spoofing etc we may end back up at internal navigation systems.
The moving map display on the Tornado GR1 and early GR4s were a roll of microfiche film with a lightbulb shining through it. As the jet flew along the roll of film would spool. Like a cinema projector. Part of the jets route was flying over an obvious landmark like a lake or reservoir, so that the aircrew could do a “planned fix” where they would readjust the moving map for any drift or error, by manually slewing it back to the correct location.
I flew them in 1975-79 on 20(AC) Sqn and 3(F) Sqn. We had a few Kiwi pilots who came to join the RAF and who were on Harrier - Arthur Gatland, Harry Karl and Ross Boyens were the ones I knew. I don't know where Arthur and Harry went but I think Ross is still here in the UK. I wonder if your GR3 is in my logbook. What's the airframe number?
