Chinooks are *very* distinctive and the wop wop wop rather loud. Can normally hear them, indoors, about 5 mins before they fly past. Other helos aren't quite so distinctive, but we can identify the Air Ambulance from anything else but thats probably because we hear/see it quite often.
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Opps - didn't scroll all the way down. Teach me to get up early and play on here half asleep.
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Very encouraging. I too was fascinated by a mangle. Eventually I got interested in using gears and pulleys on my Meccano set and made a range of daft devices. Re: Interviews. Any candidate who can express some enthusiasm for something practical (rather than Xbox and football) is likely to become a good trainee.
Depending on who you listen to, we would be affected by the blast...!
Had to go to a house, er, somewhere just under the /approach/ path to Heathrow. Riding in the noise of the planes, even landing, was almost unbearable - I'd hate to live there - then Concorde came in. It made the others seem like background noise - I'm quite happy that I've never heard it take off!
Another time I was riding down the A329 SE. of Goring. Lot of noise from the traffic on the wet road and a fast train adjacent to the road. The whole lot was drowned out by Concorde going over. Must be about 25 miles from Heathrow; the 'plane didn't look very big, but by 'eck!
Vivid memory of seeing it fly over the suburbs of Nottingham at a time I was working on the RB211 project.
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That's what they are there for - to die to save the carriers.
And most importantly forgetting to refuse their bombs to low altitude, until some d*****ad of a retired air marshal or something pointed this out on the good old "we must be neutral" BBC. Whereupon the Argies said thank you very much and promptly sank the destroyers in San Carlos.
Bit gruelling but I'd stand a decent chance of doing well in those sorts of things. The trend a while back of "From your experence give an example of ...", totaly floors me as I just can't pull things out of memory like that. There has to be something to remind me of a
*specific* event first *then* I can recall it.
If you were cautious you would learn the abilities of your air defences and use them to best advantage... he basically dismissed them even though they were pivotal to the outcome.
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There seems to be something broken with that page. There's a 'video sized' chunk of whitespace right where you'd expect the video to be but no video.
A google search for "amazing-video-wales-filmed-6551556" fails to find any alternatives with most links leading back to that broken web page.
Do you know of any alternative sources I might be able to try?
ITYM "competency based" recruitment; and if so you have my sympathy. I had to use it for external recruitment c.10 years ago. Bloody useless when I needed some very specific skills (plus a professional law or accountancy qualification) which couldn't be tested that way. Luckily I managed to finesse the point by screening applicants using written tests (administered by an external recuitment agency) else I fear HR would have pushed me to take people who told good anecdotes when I needed Miss Marple-like bacon-slicer minds. The most shocking thing was that I had to fight to get objective, written tests accepted as valid for competency based recruitment.
It's a Flash video served from BrightCove. Ad/Spam/Script blocker of some kind? Flash working fine elsewhere?
I get pictures but no sound on this clip (Win 7/64 + Chrome 35).
Just tried again ... plays fine for me.
Here is link to another coipy of it ....
A bit like the captain of the Glorious, then? Wasn't even flying patrols and so didn't spot the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau before they saw - and sank - him. But then he was a submariner, AIUI, and so probably didn't understand what carriers are for.
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I wasn't aware there had been an attempt at removing explosives from another ship in the channel. From Wiki
"...One of the reasons that the explosives have not been removed was the unfortunate outcome of a similar operation in July 1967 to neutralize the contents of Kielce, a ship of Polish origin, sunk in 1946 off Folkestone in the English Channel. During preliminary work Kielce, containing a comparable amount of ordnance, exploded with force equivalent to an earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale, digging a 20-foot-deep (6 m) crater in the seabed and bringing "panic and chaos" to Folkestone, although no injuries..."
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Not when they were being sunk in Falkland Sound, because there was no CAP (Combat Air Patrol).
Our carriers involved in the Falklands do were very well protected aand it was down to their anti-missile systems that that took out the Atlantic Conveyor. The exocet was on its way to one of the carriers whose anti-missile system went into action and drew the exocet away. Unfortunately, when the exocet passed through the defence, the next thing it saw was the Atlantic Conveyor. From that moment its fate was sealed.
I know this because I was in the RN at the time and privy to a great deal of info. Later, on leaving the service, I lectured in anti-missile decoy Tactics and equipment usage.
Neither was I. OTOH, Folkestone managed a real earthquake more recently!
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