Chipmunk Flying - Air Experience Flying - Air Cadets
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- Air Training Corps Air Experience Flying in the de Havilland Chipmunk.
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I went up in a chipmunk several times 1976 1977 . great memories. thanks
I am somewhat disturbed that after all these years, I can still practically recite the script.
Jump john
I suffer the same illness... it is ingrained on my mind... and I'm now in my 50s lol
Snap!😅
Yep, and the Bulldog one.
Me too. Jumping now Sir 😂
I was wondering why I can’t remember ever seeing this film prior to my AEF’s then I finally noticed the date at the start, Oct. 79., which was the month I joined the RAF, I still remember my first AEF from RAF Turnhouse, now Edinburgh Airport, back in 1975, in those days our uniform was still the old “hairy Mary” battle dress and the shirt came with a detachable collar.
I hated those bloody collars!
@@Tim091 And trying to find a shop that still sold collar studs, that was fun, lol.
We had the battledress uniform but had moved onto normal shirts. Shortly after I left the uniform switched to the Wooly Pully and polyester trousers and were probably a darn sight more comfortable. However, I loved my issued Greatcoat, it kept me warm and dry throughout all the winters that I went through when I was a cadet.
Quite a watch this, I can remember when Paul( the cadet in the film) took the time off school to film this. We were all envious of him. Funny thing is he had hours of flying under his belt before this. His dad was a pilot for British Airways and used to take Paul up in the Cesna's at the local airfield (the was a BA flying club there).
Paul did eventually serve but couldn't fly fast jets as he didn't have 20/20 vision.
Died a few years ago. Still, at least he's immortilised on film.
Sorry to hear Paul has passed on. He was one of my best friends at Marlow ATC. His dad used to take me to Abingdon most weekends to act as staff cadet at the 6 AEF. Didn’t get paid but did get loads of flying. Mr Young used to give me proper lessons. Only just stumbled over this film but remember having to show it each time a unit visited.😂😂
Didn't realise that Paul had passed away. Like Julian, I was a Staff Cadet at 6 AEF. Always remember the embarrassment of the officer at RAF West Raynham, when he realised that Paul was in the audience
. @julianhill1146 I was at 447 Henley ATC just before this time. Remember Wing Parades at Abingdon! Also got a flight in the back of a Hercules there.
5 AEF here. Remember this so well, we all would chant JUMP JUMP JOHN! My name being Jon, I used to jump off my chair in non panicking fashion.... >.
Oh the memories - 1986 @ Cambridge whilst on a camp at RAF Wyton. The sheer "joy" of walking to the aircraft in the parachute, I was bent double rather than just with a slight stoop.
At last a complete version. Watched that film many a time flying out of Turnhouse, happy times from way back. On the minus side, man this makes me feel old.
Back in 2018 they couldn't find the proper video tape for us to watch, so ended up playing this. Glad I could find it
I watched this WAY more times that I actually flew.
You used to have to go through the rigmarole of getting to the squadron HQ first thing in the morning, catching the squadron minibus for the 40 minute drive to the airfield, then sit in the briefing room, and get shown the film and wait 30 minutes and THEN get told that they weren't flying today - which you knew full and well because the entire week beforehand had been foggy, or hailing, or blowing a gale, or snowing, or... but you had to turn up because that was the entire point of being an air cadet.
Literally, I've been shown this film twice as many times as I've been in a Chipmunk. Well - more now, because I just watched it.
@@hackdaniels7253 That was my experience exactly. Add in sitting in an unheated shed freezing and uncomfortable uniform.
@@captainvice69 We were lucky, I guess, because the briefing room at Cambridge Airport was fairly comfortable.
I forgot to mention that they always took the opportunity to open the tuck shop so we could consume a mars bar while we waited to be told we weren't flying.
I remember this video I was up in the chipmunk quite a few times what an experience those where the days flying in chipmunks gliders wessex helicopters
And lucky enough to get a flight 9 hrs spying on Russian fishing boats in a nimrod from Kinloss to France and back the days in the cadets in the 80s was spectacular for a 12 Yr old kid
That young cadet is my dad haha
Your dad is a legend.....John Andrews. Every cadet of the 1980s watched this video...I hope he did not go in to acting...
Im John Andrews!....and was an air cadet....lol, but thats not me!
@@56WoolwichSquadron It's a made up name though, his name was not John andrews. I just found that out today when I asked John Andrews if he was the John Andrews and he posted the link. It's been about 27 years since I watched this video! Used to fly Chippies from Bournemouth (Hurn) when 2 AEF were based there. (1216 squadron)
@@AstrogeoJay It was Paul Young....,why not use his real name!
Have we a picture of him now?
Brings back happy memories of CCF Chipmunk flying at Filton in early 1970's
I flew many times from Filton in the mid 70s also.
3 AEF! Many flights from Filton, especially remember waiting for an inbound Concorde to land before we could take off and a pilot dropping full flaps heading into the wind over the Severn Bridge and watching the bridge just sitting in line with the wing and hardly moving!
I have just three words... “John Andrews, sir!”...
I remember this film, and was in the air cadets at the same time, with 2427 Biggin Hill ATC.
Biggin Hill ATC was extremely well connected to due to its history and we used to get invited to all sort’s of places and get flying. We also had access to the aircraft when the air fair was on and grit to clamber inside all the old birds. We also used to get a lot of gliding in at West Malling, another old aerodrome steeped in history. Great times.
Many years of happy flying in the 80s at No1 AEF Manston and this film is etched into my subconscious forever! The music was legendary too! I found out only a couple of years ago that one the Chippies I flew in is still flying and owned by a commercial pilot in California! I dropped him a line and he has the original logbooks with all my flights, and even said if I'm ever in California (not likely though) to look him up.
I flew in Chipmunks from Manston too, and I remember this film vividly. Happy memories.
I also flew at 1AEF - I have the sticker to prove it! Memories came rushing back .. “jump jump sir!” Having the life jacket on as well, always trying to remember the bumpy one was the LJ and telling myself which one to pull first!
I was at Abingdon and stood in as Staff Cadet whilst this was being filmed. Paul was actually already on his way as a pilot and his father was one of the instructors here - he often flew in the front cockpit with the instructor in the back as it was in the ‘real’ RAF aircrew training. He was a nice guy, found me a flying suit from stores and I still have the 6 AEF patch and a photo of me on the wing of a Chippy, looking like I know what I’m doing! I’m very sad to read that he’s passed away.
I did a lot of flights from 6AEF and still have my white horse patch. 1981-1990. Ex 66sqn ATC Surrey Wing. On a summer camp in Wales (St Athan) we used to get up to 4 sorties a day from early morning right through to last light! Now the laughingly named RAF Air Cadets are considering charging cadets for AEF flights. Sad.
😮AWESOME cool 🤘🤠🇬🇧🙏
66 sqn down at Mitcham Road, I was your nextdoor neighbour at 714 sqn Selhurst. Great times at Abingdon with the old sick bags and mouth full of vege soup to impress the newer guys. @PORRRIDGE_GUN
@@PORRRIDGE_GUNfunny you should say that as I’m an air cadet and thankfully the AEF I’m going on is free of charge
I was at 66 when it was at Selsdon. Has 97 gone?@@kevinnicol8037
What a beautiful old film. I can imagine watching this as an Air Cadet and feeling very excited.
Watched it 30 plus times, on vhs was well worn tracking had to be used
I remember sitting in the briefing room many times watching this before we went up. Great times.
I flew twice in the chippy raf finingley 1975 time. 1466 squadron holmfirth, happy time
I flew many times in the chipmunks, mainly from Shawbury ,I was in Marmion Squadron 1122 air cadets based in Tamworth (Midlands ) ,around 1984 to 1987
Wow! I remember this so well, watched so many times at 8 AEF I was always astounded how calm John was before he jumped! :-)
As a cadet in the 50s, I had exactly this 'first flight experience' in a Chippy but not a fraction of training / advice shown in this A1 video.
The WAAF pilot at RAF Shawbury, took the aircraft through various aerobatics, enough to terrify a 17 year old kid but she was such a good looker that I wasn't going be afraid with such a handsome 'older' woman. She must have been about 24!
Great memories, Great Youth Training.
I went on in career not into flying but into electronics, and not with the RAF.
My ATC Squadron was 292 Eccles. Their A1 HQ and Parade ground were sold off for housing.
I am trying to find where they are now and to make contact with them but scant info. can be found on Internet.
If anybody has any gen. please let me know!
Thank you.
The same thing happened to my unit 54 Eastbourne, I believe it was something to do with WW2 possibly but they found some asbestos when they were doing some work and it would have cost a lot to put right so they sold it, it now houses 2 bungalows, shame because it was vastly superior space than they have now, luckily I had left a little before this happened.
In The Fifties as an Air Cadet at Hooton , we had many Sunday mornings flying Chipmunks out of Woodvale Southport, Great days, my high light was Summer Camp at RAF Coltishall, amazing flying in Piston Provests
My father had a Chipmunk. G-APPM. Kept it at Biggin Hill. Dennis Pritchard. His father, Reginald, was in the RFC, my father was in the RAF, 601 squadron, for a few years. My father thought highly of the Chipmunk, although he said it was rather noisy, and leaked oil! Thanks for the video.
Love the "fly you back so he can prevent you being ill!" line! 😂
As if that ever happened? It was *always* the sick bag. I still remember the look on my mate's face as he flew by me in air cadets, green faces, mouth in a sick bag, waving and happy! 😂 Haha. Eyes lit up even though he was basically Martian green.
Excellent bit of nostalgia. Remember watching this prior to my first AEF from Finningley in 1980. Must have given me the bug as I'm still flying in the military to this day 😀
I was in the R.C.A.C.353 squadron. in the 70s
a great experience! First time flying was in gliders, ruined poẁerd flight for me after that!
Still became an
Civilian ame, and taught at our local aerospace center for several years before retirement.
The cadets taught you to be a good citizen as well as an officer and gentleman. 🇨🇦
Lovely film ..took me back to the summer of 76 and going up in a chipmunk as a 14 year old cadet at marham we flew over Newmarkets racing complex ..incredible for a 14 year old boy not something you ever forget
Blimey, this takes me back! The time I spent in the ATC was the happiest in my life. I'm still in touch with a few friends from my days in 2364 Squadron.
Hello from 1163 colne Valley sqn (retired)
Fabulous stuff. My first flight in anything, ever, was an AEF in a Chippy out of Woodvale in roughly 1974. My happiness was greatly enhanced by the sight of my pal Mick, who flew before me, climbing out ashen-faced carrying a bulging sick-bag, his dream of becoming an RAF pilot now abandoned. How incredibly cool all the RT chatter sounded as we taxied. "What would you like to do?" I was asked as we took off. "As many aerobatics as possible, please, Sir". "That's what I want to hear" he said and duly obliged. Bloody lovely. It was another twenty years before I pulled my first solo aerobatic manoeuvre (a loop, naturally) in the blazing sunshine over the Pacific, just off the coast at Long Beach, with a whale and her calf making their way north up the coastline 5000 feet below me. Had to be done. Loved every minute.
Also Woodvale for me 20 years later!
This brings back some memories. I remember my first summer camp (RAF Manston), we were on finals when the instructor gave way to a landing Phantom, incredible feeling seeing that Phantom on the starboard wing - Happy days.
Woah, Johnny and his Chipmunk, I remember watching this sat in Hullavington as a little 13 year old
Actually the pilot says "Jump, Jump, Jump" but you only hear the first two because he's already gone.
So glad i found this, brought back so many memories, i was myself in 56 Woolwich Squadron from 1988 to 92
This brings back so many memories from my trips to 5aef at Cambridge with 2492 squadron in Luton those parachutes 😳 could barely stand up and had to clamber onto the wing bent double and climb in. The Crown Jewels were never the same again 😂
yup I remember, it had to be that way if you could stand up the parachute is to loose
A nice memory, I had hours of this in the 60s with our school ATC, I loved flying and the Chippy remained my favourite aircraft, in the 60s it was a lot less regimented we still had the safety procedures to learn but there was no cumbersome bone dome we used the old leather flying helmets with the throat mike. I never needed the sick bag in a chippy but later when we were flying in Hastings and I think Britanias and Vikings, I did once or twice when we were doing that over-the-hump manoeuvre for zero gravity experience, I soon learned to leave the pies alone before a flight. I loved the ATC it was the perfect induction into RAF life.
Been there done that 👍..flew it over the sever bridge...614 Squadron.. flies very similar to a spitfire
Many thanks. Born in Woolwich and later joined 1359 Beeston ATC, Flew from Newton and Gliders from Hemswell. Totally loved it and wouldn't change a day. Later did 22 years in the RAF. Keep up the good work.
I was at Market Rasen ATC...did Hemswell gliding and Newton in Chipmunks too,happy days,..never joined the RAF though.
Happy days! I served in the RAF for 12 years and flew in the old Chippy. Over the years I got flights in a few 2 seaters and had a hands on. The last was in the mighty Harrier! I went on to do my PPL.
Brilliant to see this and the waddle to the Chipmunk with the parachute strapped up tight brought back memories. Never saw the film at the time, it must have come into use later than my ATC flights with 10th AEF at Woodvale in 1973-ish and at summer camp at RAF Wyton. Still have my flying logbook somewhere, 723 (Wigan) Squadron ATC.
Strangely I was only today talking to an apprentice in work about flying in a chipmunk in the ATC in the 80s, then this video pops up without me even searching for it on you tube. Brings back many great memories from RAF Woodvale. Our squadron 1908 Bootle was only down the road.
Wow ex 2203 Hatfield Dehaviland sqn . Early 1990s .I felt proud that it was built in our town ..the factory,then BAe systems, closed at the end of the decade .😥 Thanks for the trip down memory lane ..and good luck
This has bought back memories from 1070 squadron, flying from Cambridge, I remember flying right over the top of a spitfire taking off at Duxford. What great days these were absolutely loved it.
I had to watch this every time I went on an AEF.. great nostalgia !!
This brings back some happy memories!
Blast from the past! I was one of the last cadets to fly in the chipmunks in the early to mid90's, this video looked old to me then 😂 that music...but yes we still wore the same parachutes and helmets and as we flew over the sea from Hurn we had to wear the Mae West life jacket too. Great to see this as I have NO photos of the experience!!
Same, kind of when I think the Bulldog was being used more? I was up in the NW though.. Woodvale maybe?
@@HydroxiaSparklebutt I never experienced the bulldog easier to see out of no doubt but possibly not as much fun. I always used to imagine being a spitfire pilot getting into the chippy.
@@loonymoon1 I'm now playing MSFS, with a bit of luck someone will release a few older planes for it soon :D Woodvale included, massive wait and old video not included
@@HydroxiaSparklebutt that would be hyper realistic 😂😂😂 we used to play blackjack while waiting.
@@loonymoon1 We used to take a bunch of videos with us, after the safety one they were not bothered what we had on 😀
Many happy memories from this video. As a 15-year-old who had never been more than 100ft off the ground. It was such an exciting experience to be in a Chipmunk and fly. The flight that made me very proud was the one with my at the time Geography Master. Our head of CCF at Magdalen College School Oxford. His name was Mr Barrett. I found out many years later that he had seen active service as a pilot of De Havilland Vampires in Korea. He made my flight memorable to say the least! God bless you "Freddie" Barrett. Sleep well.
Watched this many times at 8AEF RAF Shawbury. Happy times in the ATC 😊
Those were the days I flew in the chipmunk when I was in the air cadets had a horrible instructor good days I never forget 😮!!!!
Happy days in 1979, looping, rolling and tail sliding over Kent, flying out of Manston :O)
Nice I went to Manston also - 5AEF, I was from 54 Eastbourne, my friend did a flying scholarship there.
You boys think you flew chipmunks in the early days.
My first flight was in a civilian ex RAF. Chipmunk out of Morrabbin Airport Victoria Australia with a former Hungarian Fighter Pilot when I was just 17. back in September 1957.
I subsequently learned to fly in Chipmunks with ex ww2 pilots.
Today I still fly this beautiful aircraft and am fortunate to have owned one for many years and in which I’m now teaching my 14 year old grandson to fly and had previously taught my son to fly when he was 20
Briiliant I was a Cadet in 1980 this brings back memories. The chipmunk was the first plane I ever flew in. Thanks for sharing this.
Oh how this film brings back memories. The Chipmunk was such a brilliant little aircraft.
I always remember my final flight with the cadets and finishing off the flight with a run in and break. Awesome.
This brings back some memories when we used to go flying at Cambridge with the UAS.
I was then in 1476 Sqdn Rayleigh. Mostly back in the 60's ...We didn't wear helmets in those days.
Pure nostalgia! Saw a chippy last week & the film was straight in my head. 96 Sqn. & flew in them from Finningley, Coltishall & Turnhouse, sadly they've all gone now but not the memories! 👍
Keep it up boys n girls!
47 years have past and the instructions and vocal commands and responses came flooding back as if I was sitting in a Chipmunk on my first A.E.F out of Hamble Aerodrome, over The Solent to the flying area over the Isle Of Wight.
That was my first ever experience of flying and what an impact it had on me.
Every time the list asking for cadets who wanted to go down to Hamble was posted, my name was among the first to be written on it.
I managed to get four Chipmunk flights from Hamble and one from RAF Cosford, while at summer camp at nearby RAF Shawbury.
The Chipmunk was a delightful aircraft to fly in and was always very responsive when I was given the opportunity to take control of it for those all too short moments.
Thank you for putting this film up for people to see and remember.
From an ex ATC Leading Cadet, 225(no 1 Brighton) Squadron.
I was in 1579 squadron Atc at erith....many happy trips to Manston for air experience flights in chipmunks...and West malling for gliding ....Great days
Ah the memories! Had such a wonderful time in the ATC way back in the early 70's, loved flying the Chipmunk!
Did this at Duxford RAF base in 1986 with the ATC 1986 Squadron. so much fun.
This brings back so many great memories of flying in this wonderful aircraft.
Wow, this brings back some memories.. AEF days at RAF Benson in the mid 90s… (and waddling around with the parachute on!) Seriously good times! :)
Wow i remember my first flight in a Chipmunk as an Air Cadet down at RAF Benson.
Did exactly the same in the 1970s air cadet flew from RAF woodvale NR Formby I actually got my licence in 1975
Ha! Ex 1341 sqn here. This takes me back, we used to call this the jump John video.....Good times.
Brings back memories of raf shawbury shropshire 1982
Nice I went Shawbury one year for camp, that year they had some spare spaces so I went to Cosford for the first camp then there were 3 places spare for some reason and I was lucky enough to go a second time to Shawbury.
Love the ever faithful Chipmunk
I've had the opportunity to fly in the new Grob Tutor and the Viking that the cadets use, both brilliant aircraft. After I did gliding with cadets, I joined a small club and there they have a Chipmunk as one of the tugs, I've gone up in it and I have to say it is such a wonderful aircraft. (Callsign is G-BCCX)
Watching this before flying was always exciting. 128 sqn air Cadets. Flying out of Leeming
86 Squadron Hounslow East 1970/72 Air experience in Chipmunks , Hercules , Varsity and T21 gliders. Even jump balloons for para training. Great memories.
AEF at Marshalls :) training flights in VC10 Andover CC Mk2 and Jetstream T1 at Finningley(Camp).
This brings back so many memories. Can't think how many times I watched this video at Turnhouse in the 90s. Wonderful!
Wow, brings back great memories! I did this in the early 90s, i think it was at RAF Woodvale near Southport, i remember the little pre-flight hut.
I nearly passed bricks when the circuits took us over some greenhouses! A great experience though, one of many in the ATC.
Oh, those were the days........many hours in the Chipmunk.......
I got to fly in one at RAF Shawbury in 1983 as a cadet - best flight ever and I got to do a loop!!
I was with 156Sqdn Kidderminster 1969/73, flew in Chipmunks at 8 AEF Shawbury and never wore a bone dome...
Used to fly these out of RAF Filton. We took controls during the barrel-role & loop the loop.
Brings back a lot of memories as an air cadet with 2216 Pontypool Squadron flying out of St Athan, Filton and Aberporth (on camp). Never got to fly a glider, though a pal did and managed to crash it into a hedge on a too steep approach flying solo! Those were the days!
It's quite something when you watch a clip out of the blue and all the memories consigned to the back of your mind are instantly triggered. 1189 Portsmouth ATC squadron in the late sixties and early seventies. We flew Chippies at RAF Hamble and Sedbergh gliders at Tangmere.
The more aerobatics the better!
I remember watching this at Air Cadets and then we went on to fly in the Chipmonk. Happy days.
182 Sqn Flixton, Mcr, flying from RAF Woodvale, magical memories. 1980-1985.
Jump Jump John.
I will never forget the flights I had in Chipmunks. Flew out of both RAF Finningley and RAF Shawbury in the 80s. My first flight and the first plane I ever went in, didn't go great. We had been told, just as the film states, that we should talk to the pilots. We were told they were doing this in their own time and it gets boring for them otherwise. I spent the entire flight saying only "Yes sir. No sir" because I was too nervous to do otherwise. Poor pilot. On a later flight, from Finningley we flew over some striking miners picketing a coal mine. My pilot pealed into a dive and started making machine gun noises! It tickled me. It still does. Thanks for reminding me.
1137 Sqn East Belfast, flew as a Staff Cadet with 13 AEF, Bulldogs, mid to late 80’s. The troubles in Northern Ireland were in full swing but slew were able to blag lots of AEF hours each weekend with the local operational helicopter squadrons in Gazelle, Wessex, Lynx and occasionally Chinook. Range time was often with 3 Sqn RAF Regiment with SLR, LMG and Sterling and then L85a1 ( not the cadet version). Most of us ended up signing up. I did 26 years in the Army. I should’ve stayed light blue!
Getting in a Chipmunk was very different experience and I felt like I was in the Battle of Britain! Wonderful memories! Thanks for the upload and taking me back!
Happy Times. Great to see this again. I was with 2184 squadron Upton. Flew in Chipmunks at Woodvale many times and other bases on summer camps. How lucky we were as cadets to do things other people would have to pay a fortune to experience.
1.33..we were having air experience flights in the ATC from 1953.
Loved all my air experiences in the Air Cadets. This video brings it all back
I am in scouts at the moment. When I start year 8 I want to join air cadets. If I don’t make it as an astronaut then I’ll be in the RAF
Good man. Keep it up.
BRILLIANT DECISION
Crikey!..That bought back so many memories...used to do my AEF at RAF Leeming & Linton on Ouse during the mid/late 70's as part of 473 (Hartlepool) Sqn...a real mixture of pleasure & terror...good times though!
Thankyou for bringing back many great memories. Thankyou 2301 (Heywood) Squadron for being part of my childhood. Wishing you all the best........
I did this with the 8F Coventry ATC , at RAF Cosford ! 77 now and still flying a Aeroprakt Ultralight😇
1971 did a couple of air experience flights in Cambridge with the ATC. Classic aircraft.
This brings back memories, I first did some Chipmonk flying just after very basic flightsim had started coming out. So prior to my first flight I'd spent hours on Vic-20 instrument only flightsim so had no problems flying straight and level just from the instruments. The staff must have caught on to this because when I went flying again a few months later they had put masking tape over the instruments to stop cadets using them instead of flying by eye.
My first flight was in a Chipmunk out of RAF Binbrook. Went there in 1963 with 342 Squadron ATC in Hanwell Middx. Had a great time for a week away from home. I was 13 and quite short for my age, had to wear a regular parachute under my arse. I do recall the pilot explaining to me how to exit the aircraft if we needed to. Most importantly he said " If I tell you to bail out, you better do that, because you will be on your own if you don't." We flew out over the North Sea and then circled back. I prayed that we didn't have to jump out of the aircraft over the water, as I didn't know how to swim. Wonderful memory of that day though, never forgot the thrill of leaving the earth and flying up and away.
That brought back happy memories of my first solo in a Chipmunk at Roborough Airport in Plymouth when doing flying grading for the RN.
1979, I graduated kindergarten. Now, I'm a Grandpa. Tells how old I am. BEAUTIFUL DHC-1!!!!!
In all my Air Experience Flights as an Air Cadet I don't think I was ever given a bone dome. All I ever got was the cloth inner helmet.
I’ve filled many a barf bag in a Chipmunk. Happy days.
I was an Air Cadet 191 Baines Grammar School Squadron 1972 and on one occasion AEF Flying at RAF Southport or near I was allowed to loop the Chipmunk myself 3000'AGL minimum Height and it was great fun. My Pilot had the rank of Flight Lieutenant but was in fact an ex Air Vice Marshal who still loved flying. He told me never to marry as Women always want you back on the ground how true.
Great Video , I joined the ATC 2167 in Tredegar Gwent around 1970/71 , flew a chipmunk and also went up in a Glider , great memories
I was in 2167 in the 70s :)
I met "John" at ATC Summer Camp in August 1988 at RAF Halton
He was on staff from one of the other Squadrons from Norfolk and Suffolk Wing
Happy memories. 1404 Sqn, 1974-77
I flew in WZ878 from Teesside Airport in the late 1980s while in 2505 Sqn ATC. I remember asking the pilot how will I know if I have to escape in the air.? His reply was 'I'll tell you once and then if you see me with my parachute open floating away, you'll know to get out quick!!' We always watched Top Gun while waiting to be called. I always seemed to get called just after Goose was killed. Not the biggest confidence boost.
Been there & done that! Great fun!
This takes me back to when we used to go flying at Marshall's, Cambridge. We never used to wear helmets though.
Great times back in the 60's. With Gliding at Debden and North Weald (pre-M25)
Wow is that the jump johnny jump video we used to have to see before a flight I remember that, I haven't seen that for years.
and if i remember correctly the video doesnt tell you to pull the rip cord. they point it out after hahaha
Never got any AEF in our mob but managed a couple of hundred hours later on sitting in the front. No parachutes or lifejackets, just a pair of disgusting headphones and even worse throat mics. Colleague inverted his one day and the biro that fell off the floor went straight up his nostril causing a massive nosebleed that completely blinded him …
Accidentally discovered that the Chipmunk could be placed in an interesting level but stalled attitude and it descended vertically like a lift with no IAS - open the throttle and it just motored forward into normal flight - was only able to do it once more ‘tho I was told the CFI could do it on demand
Probably the most enjoyable flying in my career …
Still remember this from the cadets in the early 90's. Barrel rolls, loop the loops, with you in control etc, good times. Edit: Same as the other chap Garry, we flew in them at Turnhouse, after that it was RAF Leeming along with Tucano and Harrier T10 flights.. for the best perfoming cadets of the week. ;)