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  1. 18th December 2020, 01:35 PM #1
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    Hey you ex-RAN types explain to me how these things got airborne.

    https://fireaviation.com/2020/12/17/new-south-wales-company-acquires-11-seahawk-helicopters/


    Big bastards ain't they?
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    Quote Originally Posted by 4bee View Post
    https://fireaviation.com/2020/12/17/new-south-wales-company-acquires-11-seahawk-helicopters/


    Big bastards ain't they?

    Royal Australian Navy used S-70B-2 Seahawk between 1988 and 2017. Got a lift on one once.

    New ones are MH-60R Seahawk



    The dangling bit underneath the woka woka is a secret only UCs are aloud to chat about Whoops Weapon Systems Operators now not Useless Cs and more
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    Quote Originally Posted by NavyDiver View Post
    Royal Australian Navy used S-70B-2 Seahawk between 1988 and 2017. Got a lift on one once.

    New ones are MH-60R Seahawk



    The dangling bit underneath the woka woka is a secret only UCs are aloud to chat about Whoops Weapon Systems Operators now not Useless Cs and more



    Ooooo, that one has Wings.

    30 years service doesn't seem to too bad a life for one of those imho. That Dunking wottsit plays sweet lovin' music to the Mermaids as I understand, to attract them aboard.. Am I wrong? It is a wonder that they didn't have to be scrapped & buried ah la F-111 stylee? Yer know "Condition of Contract" ****/
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    I would have thought that the airframes would have been just about toast by the time the Navy got rid of them?
    That and removing all of the navy flight systems, there wouldn't have been much left except a worn out engine?
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    Easy.

    I was a tech on them Hey you ex-RAN types explain to me how these things got airborne. (Air Tech Weapons Electrical)
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    If you are serious about this the thread should be in "Flight".

    Some very ambitious people taking on these old work horses. They must have deep pockets is all that I can say.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cjc_td5 View Post
    I would have thought that the airframes would have been just about toast by the time the Navy got rid of them?
    That and removing all of the navy flight systems, there wouldn't have been much left except a worn out engine?

    Thanks, yeah that makes sense. Wouldn't be much secrecy these days in a clapped out Donk.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tombie View Post
    Easy.

    I was a tech on them Hey you ex-RAN types explain to me how these things got airborne. (Air Tech Weapons Electrical)
    Really? Were you in 816 Squadron?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Old Farang View Post
    If you are serious about this the thread should be in "Flight".
    Nah he is just trying to be a comedian again - as I have told him before, he should not give up his day job because the comedy doesn't work.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Old Farang View Post
    Really? Were you in 816 Squadron?
    816 Sqdrn. Imitate the action of the Tiger, My best mate's brother, Skinhead Kelson, was a member. Mad as a cut snake, but a good bloke. Our Patrol boat Captain on Ardent was a tracker pilot , who did a stint flying from Broome as fisheries surveillance. He told us when they were redeployed south, the trackers did touch and goes on the main road into town. The unofficial motto of the tracker squadron, having a go at the Skyhawk jets? Two screws beat a blow job every time.

    King Henry’s famous speech before the battle at Harfleur in William Shakespeare’s Henry V:

    Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect.



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