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Boatbuoy said:
Eric Mc said:
That's "somewhere between Oxfordshire and Hampshire". Did you REALLY know where you were? (nice picture though)
It's pretty hard to have a clue about 'anything' down the back end of a Chinook when you're not wired up!
Back in the days before WE had Chinooks I was in the back of one that even the crew didn't seem to know "quite" where they were.
After Reforger 77 we had been lifted from our "area" in a couple of US Army CH47s sent to take us back to our debrief and R&R (TA unit)
They flew across a huge tented camp (In Bavaria) and landed for ten minutes, everything still turning up above, while the crew sent a chap to a Command tent for directions and instructions
(probably NOT why he went running across but we did take off again and fly for another ten minutes or so before landing on an airfield.)
I wish I could remember the name of the place, had a great time there for twenty four mad hrs before flying home in an RAF C130
Guam said:
Boatbuoy said:
In that case, is this your house? 
Bugger that brings back memories, time was that serious Journos could ramp ride on those puppies, before the health and safety kicked in (assuming a co-operative crew of course) Do you guys still go Fried Egg spotting in the Summer
I've got great memories of various escapades with all 3 of our fine forces, including video footage from when we flew under some National Grid power lines in a Puma. Other memories cover going low level over Heathrow in a Chinook, wingovers in a Wessex, autorotaions in Gazzelle, and being winched into and out of Sea Kings to name but a few.
Great fun, but time to move on.
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