Rick 🇺🇦 @RampRatRick

Repositioner of aluminium and composite tubing at an aerodrome near London. Joined December 2014

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Rick 🇺🇦 @RampRatRick

9 months ago

@NormanSufrin @nicholadrummond @Telegraph x.com/RDPHistory/sta… "Name one country that offered assistance?" New Zealand for a start.

Ricky D Phillips - Military Historian @RDPHistory

a year ago

May 20th 1982: New Zealand's PM Robert Muldoon offers to send Leander Class Frigate HMNZS Canterbury to the Falklands to join the task force. London politely declines, but suggest that New Zealand might help free up the RN Frigate Squadron in the Persian Gulf instead... 1/2

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a year ago

@Kingwolf84 @RDPHistory I wonder if government was concerned about speculation that if a small group of Royal Marines could inflict that much damage, what could a more substantial defensive force have achieved? Would inevitably lead to awkward questions regarding government lack of action!

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2 years ago

@Sherpa51 @rawlimark This could be the start of an entertaining meme...

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2 years ago

@GuideScot @Whyno_Scotland Parochial racist.

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2 years ago

@airnavgirlie @BT77W Not remotely operated, but the teams working the Jedi pad are the more experienced folk and the rigs are generally single operator, controlled from the deicing cab. On aircraft stands it's two people operating them, with one in the vehicle cab and one upstairs.

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2 years ago

@UKDefJournal I'd consider 'on Scotland' to be factually correct!

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2 years ago

@MagdalenDolores @geoallison @ItsTaz1989 @YaotlAltan @UKDefJournal Finally, you may wish to compare these two images for their similarities.

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2 years ago

@MagdalenDolores @geoallison @ItsTaz1989 @YaotlAltan @UKDefJournal The 6 high pressure compressor rotors (shown here on the left) and the single high pressure turbine (on the right) are approx. 1/3rd the diameter. So, very roughly, 60cm in diameter. Which, using the leg for scale, looks a similar size to the wreckage in the right-hand photo.

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2 years ago

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2 years ago

@clark_aviation I find it pleasing that at least five of the actual airframes depicted in the artwork are on display. SR.53 XD145 - Cosford S.6B S1595 - Science Museum DH.88 G-ACSS - Old Warden R.E.8 F3556 - Duxford P1127 XP831 - Science Museum

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2 years ago

@BT77W @HeathrowAirport I'm calling this month 'October'. It makes more sense.

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2 years ago

@PilotHusky @BrooklandsMuseu @MercedesWorld Visited today. Very satisfying that aircraft can still land there 👍

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2 years ago

@ron_eisele @militaryhistori First flights of each type just 33 years apart!

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2 years ago

@geoallison @BillDunblane @albions012 @Stephen82293563 Slight correction... there's a second one just visible too!

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2 years ago

@scottiebateman Appears to me to be a pilot well familiar with the glide performance of that aircraft. Converting height to speed to maintain control authority. Final wings level was prompt and neat, implying spare energy. The proximity of left wing tip to roof of final building though... 😯

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2 years ago

@RDPHistory "Don't win too convincingly"

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2 years ago

@rafredarrows Thank you. RAFAT's turn next! 👍

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2 years ago

Great news! After months of training, the British Airways Aircraft Movements Synchronised Towing Team has successfully completed its annual assessment and has been awarded Public Display Authority for the 2024 season. Yours truly in Blue Two.