Rare visitor at work.....

[wifesaysno]

Very nice Matt!

[andy190]

Lets hope you don't get close up with a Spitfire. They have fabric too.

What I meant by that was the Hurricane had a Fabric Covered rear fuselage whilst Spitfires fuselages are metal panels.

As far as I can remember the only part of a Spitfires fuselage that had fabric were the Control Surfaces.

[C]

Lets hope you don't get close up with a Spitfire. They have fabric too.

What I meant by that was the Hurricane had a Fabric Covered rear fuselage whilst Spitfires fuselages are metal panels.

As far as I can remember the only part of a Spitfires fuselage that had fabric were the Control Surfaces.

I know...

That's apart from the dummy ones... They were mostly fabric!

[jetprop]

You lucky bastard...

[BlackAce]

Why are some upside down?

:-? :-?

Matt

I was on my iPad, so it flipped it...

[ZPC2THLgate]

Awesome shots! I really like the first one



























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Thl THL W100 ThL W8+

[Hawkeye07]

The big honkin' radiator and the outward extending landing gear ( Dang Yank!! it's undercarriage or alighting gear!!) were big givaways too.

Matt explain something for me, You said you were a heavy and the fairy had gone home. OK, I know a fairy is an electronics type ( I was an aircraft electrician's mate in the USN we're called "One Wires") But what is a "heavy"?



Hawk

[expat]

The big honkin' radiator and the outward extending landing gear ( Dang Yank!! it's undercarriage or alighting gear!!) were big givaways too.

Matt explain something for me, You said you were a heavy and the fairy had gone home. OK, I know a fairy is an electronics type ( I was an aircraft electrician's mate in the USN we're called "One Wires") But what is a "heavy"?



Hawk

A heavy harks back to my Royal Air Force time. Not sure how it is now (probably the same-ish), but back then, we had the separate trades of:
Propulsion
Airframes
Electricians
Avionics
Weapons

These names were then internally shortened. Propulsion were refereed to as Sumpies or Sooties, Airframes are Riggers, Electricians are Dog F##kers (want to know more about the history of that then PM me....). Avionics are Fairies and the weapon guys were Dumpies (from bomb dump). This was then again internally broken down to Heavies and the rest. Heavies were Sooties and Riggers, guess due to being the main trades.

Today I still refer to myself as a heavy or sootie, although as a licensed inspector I am also a part time dog fornicator, but only LRU and basic electrical components and dumpy......
Fairies and electricians are a separate licensing requirement.

Matt

PS, of course, the number one trade was Sootie. The only reason the rest were not Sooties was that they all failed the aptitude testing for it. I mean, who in there right mind would be any one of the rest.........If I was anything but a Sootie, I would have gone through life feeling like a dismal failure...........

[SG-19]

As I have posted before if you want to see more, come over to my back yard at RAF Conningsby and view the BBMF at home, take the tour for Just a fiver, Check on line for more details.

[expat]

As I have posted before if you want to see more, come over to my back yard at RAF Conningsby and view the BBMF at home, take the tour for Just a fiver, Check on line for more details.

On my to do list, but I don't get up that far north in the UK (North being a perspective thing........I am in Germany )

Matt

[logjam]

Never mind about the transponder, Hurris used IFF, they only show as a single blip on modern SIF.

[MASABI TROOPER]

What a bird....................Spitfire is one of the best planes ever made..........
That´s a taste of real flying
Bruno (Trooper)