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Hi Chris, I am 52 years old and police-officer in my hometown Paderborn. Sorry for my bad english. A girl-friend sent me the link about your website. I was realy very surprised about it. I believe I was walking with my father in an early morning in 1973 to the place what ist here called “Mönkeloh”, in the south of Paderborn. The “Mönkeloh” ist the area where during the WW II the “Fliegerhorst Paderborn” was build. Early in 1916 in WW I. I walked with my dad, was a little boy, and he shows me the Harriers. The place was some hundred metres away from our house and we often could hear the noise, when the Harriers did warm up their engiens. Starting or landing over the day. At that morning my father took his camera. When we arrived that area he made some pictures of the aircrafts. Suddenly a guard arrieved “What are You doing here?” My first english lesson. My father came a little bit in panic, because he took photos. With his little engish words he told the guard-man, that he wants to show the Harriers to his son. The man smiled, showed us to follow him. Surpise, suprise – my father could make some other photos. After this he told me ” We have had many luck, son. Normaly they took my camera. It is not allowed to take photos about military things! “ I rember this morning looking on your site. I am working about the history of the Paderborn and Bad Lippspringe air-fields. My wife is a web- and graphic- designer, she created my website. On yours I found some pictures from Bad Lippspringe and some others might be in Paderborn I think. Since many years my father ist dead. His photo-collection is very big. If there is any interest, I will search his archive for the photos from that early morning to give them to you. Take a look at my website please: www.fliegerhorst-paderborn.de. It is still in work, sorry for this. My father was a hard-rocker taking photos, it was is love. I will look for the Harrier pictures. Possible it was before 1973.My mother owns all pictures from my father, some thousands. When I find them, you will get the pictures for your website. With airminded regards Fitti There’s a new website in town, the Harrier Force Association. From their front page:
I hope all of our 682 members will support this new association. 😉 From Tony McKeon:
[Please see this post on FourFax for details on the events and how to book them] From Jim Arkell, the Sqn Uncle: Harrier Withdrawal From Service – Ceremonial And Social Events Following the UK Government’s announcement that the Harrier is to be withdrawn from Service, a series of events will be held over the next 3 months as a fitting tribute to a wonderful aircraft and to the people associated with it for the past 41 years of service. The first such event will be a celebration of UK Harrier VSTOL at RAF Cottesmore culminating in a 16-ship final flypast in December. Later events include the Squadrons’ disbandment parade at RAF Wittering in January, for which a commemorative brochure will be produced. In addition, moves are afoot to form a Harrier Force Association to cultivate links within the Harrier community and organise reunions from time to time. Continue reading Harrier Withdrawal From Service — Ceremonial & Social Events Here is a review written by IFALPA after they looked at the stuff that’s so far come out of the QF A380 incident. All fairly straightforward, and once again, it highlights what a great job the highly experienced and well trained QF crew did. It also poses some really troubling questions that have the potential to shake up the entire system from certification authorities through regulators, through airline training departments. It also blows away the Airbus mantra that their jets are so smart that you can stuff an inexperienced crew from Nigeria in the cockpit, and as long as they can keep the wings level until the A/P is turned on, and then slavishly follow what the totally brilliant and foolproof ECAM system tells them is wrong and what to do in what order, all will be well… Continue reading More on the Qantas 380 From Paul Hayden: Hi Guys, Has anyone got information re a possible Harrier get together in 2011 prior to disbanding and further will there be a 4 Sqn 100th reunion in 2012? Paul I’m hearing rumours about a final Harrier bash, maybe at Wittering, maybe in December. Does anybody have more information on this? Please share if you know… Here are just some of the problems the Captain of QF32 had in Singapore last week:
The Captain was in the left seat, FO in the right), SO in the 2nd obs seat (right rear, also with his own Radio Management Panel, so he probably did most of the coordination with the ground), Check & Training Captain in the 1st obs seat (middle), training another C & T Captain. All five guys were flat out, especially the FO who would have been processing complicated ‘ECAM’ messages and procedures that were seemingly never-ending. From Fito: Gentlemen, This year’s Christmas get-together will be on Monday 20th December at the Railway Inn, Ketton from 7.30pm. Normal routine – for any newbies that means £10 a head in the kitty, everyone welcome (even WAGS!), stay as long as you want and have a beer or two with some old mates from this club that now has a declining membership! BTOBS Please forward this email to anyone not on the address list – and check out this link: The Flight Ops Officer
We’re back up and running again after a few days’ offline. I think I’ve tracked the problem down this time. When I was testing plug-ins I was activating and deactivating them to see their effect, and one of them writes the invisible .htaccess file at the root of the server. The edits to this file were, I thought, crashing the host server and since that’s in Canada, I had to email the host support staff to reboot it. However, I now find that I can re-edit the .htaccess file and restore it to its original settings, and the server isn’t actually crashing at all. I think…  Gordon Lewis Gordon Lewis was a pioneering engineer who was the driving force behind the revolutionary Harrier jump jet. Mr Lewis, who has died aged 86, worked at Rolls-Royce in Patchway during its golden age of innovation. He was seen as one of the leading figures in British aviation in the 1960s and also worked on the engines which eventually powered Concorde. Even after his retirement, the Bristol resident was a leading figure in the engineering fraternity and was a regular speaker and guest at various events. Mr Lewis, who was awarded the CBE in recognition of his achievements, died peacefully at home with his family in Bristol on 4th October. He joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1944 as a young graduate from Oxford University and soon became involved in the early design of jet engines. He originally worked on the project to build the engine which powered the Vulcan aircraft before he came under the wing of Sir Stanley Hooker, the leading engineer of his time. In 1956, he took the designs of French engineer M Wimbault and started to adapt them in a project which would eventually lead to the invention of the engine for the jump jet. The engine meant that aircraft could take off and land vertically for the first time ever and Rolls-Royce still leads the way in the field to this day. Mr Lewis also led the way in working with other manufacturers across Europe and with his German and Italian counterparts, he helped to develop the engine for the Tornado and later the Typhoon. As well as being a great talent, Mr Lewis was also well known for his dry sense of humour and as a great inspiration for his colleagues. A spokesman for the firm said: “Gordon Lewis was an inspiration to innumerable teams, not only on engineering matters but also on commercial and project aspects. “Refreshingly honest and open in debate, his judgements were usually adopted as the correct course of action although, if his advice was not taken, he always committed himself wholeheartedly and loyally to making a success of the chosen policy.” Mr Lewis retired in 1986, by which time he was working as technical director for Rolls-Royce, having been appointed CBE in 1977 and awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society British Gold Medal in 1978. In 1980, he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Bristol University in 1987. A great innovative engineer, he is universally held in high regard by the international aviation community and he supported the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust throughout his retirement. Colin Smith, director of engineering and technology at Rolls-Royce, said: “The news of Gordon Lewis’s sad passing marks a great loss for Rolls-Royce. Mr Lewis was instrumental in developing a number of the most significant families of aero engines produced by the company. He developed the technology behind vertical take-off and landing and this is still at the forefront of engineering excellence today. Mr Lewis was an inspiration and our heartfelt condolences go to his family.” He is survived by his widow Marjorie, who he was married to for over 60 years, their son David and two daughters Susan and Jane. More information on his early Pegasus work from a 2004 lecture he gave: Hawker Association From a service briefing:
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