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Re: EFTS Chipmunk
Posted: 25 Jul 2009, 14:02
by DispatchDragon
Cheers Daryl
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Leif
Re: EFTS Chipmunk
Posted: 25 Jul 2009, 15:55
by delbydoo
Thanks Leif, I've updated the thumbnails so that people can now see what they are instead of a few jumbled pixels
Cheers
Re: EFTS Chipmunk
Posted: 25 Jul 2009, 16:51
by DispatchDragon
No sweat they look ok over there and are taking traffic
Feel Like doing a Hamster Chippie? I do believe that G-AMXL was sold to the Air College from Luton Flying CLub in the Mid 60s -- there is a good example
still flying around in Hamble colours G-ARWG
Leif
Re: EFTS Chipmunk
Posted: 25 Jul 2009, 16:54
by Techy111
Nice to see the Berlin Chippie...was stationed at Gatow for 5 years way back when....I am sure the other chippie had some yellow on her....will dig my photos out....had many a scary flight on those chippies....
Tony
Re: EFTS Chipmunk
Posted: 25 Jul 2009, 16:56
by DispatchDragon
Tony -- OFFTOPIC you were at Gatow? when? my brother was at the ASC in the late 70s and flew the Chippies for fun
Leif
Re: EFTS Chipmunk
Posted: 25 Jul 2009, 17:02
by MilesMan
Aha - a chippy paintkit.
Now this I can't resist!
cheers all, Peter Watkins
Re: EFTS Chipmunk
Posted: 25 Jul 2009, 17:14
by DispatchDragon
oh oh -- Its that Watkins Chappie -- Bet there are some pale powder blue Chippies in our future
Leif
Re: EFTS Chipmunk
Posted: 25 Jul 2009, 18:42
by delbydoo
DispatchDragon wrote:No sweat they look ok over there and are taking traffic
Feel Like doing a Hamster Chippie? I do believe that G-AMXL was sold to the Air College from Luton Flying CLub in the Mid 60s -- there is a good example
still flying around in Hamble colours G-ARWG
Leif
Please forgive my ignorance - I was never in the service so don't speaka da lingo - (I was a brat, daddy was a Flight Sergeant) but what's an 'amster? Apart from being baked bean orange and white in colour and furry of course.....
I found a reference to G-ARMG, part of the Center of Aviation Training
http://www.airliners.net/photo/De-Havil ... 1522235/M/
Which would be rather nice, so I may give that a go..............
Cheers
Daryl
Re: EFTS Chipmunk
Posted: 25 Jul 2009, 19:05
by DispatchDragon
Hamster = coloquial term for a BOAC/BEA student(cadet) pilot - training at Hanble -- Hence "Hamble Hamster's" I remember the chipmunks coming into Luton Flying Club in the mid 60s -- I guess they must have used it as one of the stops for their long cross countries as they always had to come into the office and
phone home before continuing on. At the time Luton Flying Club possessed two Chipmunks - G-AMMA and G-AMXL - so we also owned a large dayglo orange
trolley accumulator (trolleac) which I pulled out onto the grass many times to get the neophyte Trident , VC10,Vanguard and 1-11 pilots started
by the way if you now where the plug in is on a Chippy -- it was a slightly scary place for a 14 year old to stand
Leif
Re: EFTS Chipmunk
Posted: 25 Jul 2009, 19:09
by Garry Russell
Oh yes.College of Air Training.
I used to see their Beech Barons a lot....G-AWA series.....they went under eventually.
Garry