Eng
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Post by Eng on Feb 17, 2013 20:19:48 GMT 12
STOP PRESS!!! Just had a post from Len Fretwell . Mystery solved . HE was the Warrant Officer at Qui Nhon :-) Eng
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furd
Flight Lieutenant
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Post by furd on Feb 18, 2013 7:45:33 GMT 12
Aw C'mon Furd ! You can do better than that !!!! You had better ask T/Tock. He'll cotton on straight away :-) I often wondered what happened to Eddie Brown . Flew a lot with him. I guess this conversation should be on a Sunderland File. The clue is 'Suck Squeeze , Bang ,Blow. I wonder at your FE course date -Doesnt coincide with my logbook Kind Regards Eng Sorry Eng, the clue is familiar but still working on it. Eddie went back to the UK not long after the Sunderlands finished and has not been heard of since. He would be in his late 80's now if he is still alive. The FE's (all 4 of us)were posted to MOCU in November 64 following 39 aircrew course graduation. I have checked my FE Cat Card and it indicates that I finished the MOCU course and was posted to 5 Sqn as a "C" Cat FE on the 30.4.65. Furd
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Eng
Flight Lieutenant
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Post by Eng on Feb 18, 2013 13:31:02 GMT 12
Haha Furd You are getting on !!! :-) :-) I replaced our dear late friend Peter Oates at Wiggers . Help at all Regards Eng
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 18, 2013 14:08:14 GMT 12
Haha, this is like breaking the Enigma Code.
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Eng
Flight Lieutenant
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Post by Eng on Feb 18, 2013 14:34:15 GMT 12
Sorry Dave Dont you mean the Engmech Code ?? :-) :-) Eng
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 18, 2013 14:45:14 GMT 12
Haha ;D
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Post by phil82 on Feb 18, 2013 15:19:51 GMT 12
Aw C'mon Furd ! You can do better than that !!!! You had better ask T/Tock. He'll cotton on straight away :-) I often wondered what happened to Eddie Brown . Flew a lot with him. I guess this conversation should be on a Sunderland File. The clue is 'Suck Squeeze , Bang ,Blow. I wonder at your FE course date -Doesnt coincide with my logbook Kind Regards Eng That was my first introduction to the workings of an internal combustion engine: Four stoke, Induction, Compression, Ignition, Exhaust, or as my Yorkshire instructor described it: "Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Fart". Some years later my eldest daughter was doing a horticultural degree at Massey, which involved some elements on engines, and she rang me to ask the easiest way to describe an IC engine, so I told her, and that's what she wrote. She got an "A" because the tutors described the description as "original and apt".
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Post by shorty on Feb 18, 2013 15:53:07 GMT 12
I was doing a correspondance school horticultural course while at Woodbourne and used the same phrase in an assignment. Again the tutor was very taken with it!
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furd
Flight Lieutenant
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Post by furd on Feb 18, 2013 16:19:28 GMT 12
Haha Furd You are getting on !!! :-) :-) I replaced our dear late friend Peter Oates at Wiggers . Help at all Regards Eng Peter was the FE Inst at FTS during my course so Eng you have to be Ralph W. Furd
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Eng
Flight Lieutenant
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Post by Eng on Feb 18, 2013 18:00:10 GMT 12
WEll done Furd . Lovely to once again meet up !! This is a tremendous site of Daves . There are a hell of a lot of tales out there and we have to tell them. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story ! :-) :-) Regards Eng
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furd
Flight Lieutenant
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Post by furd on Feb 19, 2013 7:35:36 GMT 12
WEll done Furd . Lovely to once again meet up !! This is a tremendous site of Daves . There are a hell of a lot of tales out there and we have to tell them. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story ! :-) :-) Regards Eng G'Day Ralph, great to see you on the site. I recently received a couple of emails originating from you that were forwarded via Don N's group of retired FE and Pilots and note you are still living the good life up north. Don logs on to this site also and no doubt has had a laugh at my attempt to break the "code." Keep well and hope to catch up sometime. Regards Furd
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fergi
Flying Officer
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Post by fergi on Feb 19, 2013 10:07:06 GMT 12
Nice to hear the banter between old mates, had a similar one on another site and it took me 6 months to guess the identity.
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fergi
Flying Officer
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Post by fergi on Feb 19, 2013 10:07:57 GMT 12
And I get a promotion for the last message too!!!!!
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furd
Flight Lieutenant
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Post by furd on Feb 19, 2013 10:37:16 GMT 12
And I get a promotion for the last message too!!!!! Congrats Fergi on your promo, W/O the best rank in the military.
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Post by vansvilla on Feb 19, 2013 17:59:29 GMT 12
Guy with "A4"? Badge may be John Matthews, eng fitt on 41Sqn.
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Post by bobajob on Feb 20, 2013 11:52:11 GMT 12
John Mathews sounds good to me also, rings a bell.. Bob Howard x 41Sqn 1972 - 1974
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Post by tbird75756 on Oct 11, 2013 8:45:13 GMT 12
72309 Bradbury M R 1978 41 Sqn,RNZAF 71189 Densem D R 1990 41 Sqn,RNZAF 74191 Keatley E B 1993 41 Sqn,RNZAF 81625 Abel M J RNZAF 71577 Charlton J R 1993 RNZAF Cancer 75086 Karauria J W 1970 RNZAF Plane Accident 80863 Mills A R 1990 RNZAF K338247 Oldfield G A 2000 RAAF; RNZAF Heart Attack 76055 Paterson D I 1970 RNZAF 78322 Turner R J P 2001 RNZAF 921456Williams R 2004 41 Sqn, RNZAF 76826 Ramsay W J 2004 RNZAF E81608 Davies T 2005 RNZAF G78022 Hill A E, BEM 2006 RNZAF 73889 Gourley R K 2007 41 Sqn, RNZAF 81360 Denniston R J 2007 41 Sqn, RNZAF 82450 Harford K D 2007 41 Sqn, RNZAF 81903 Pascoe A B 2007 40 Sqn, RNZAF Cancer of pancreas Testicle cancer 77793 Thurston B R 2009 71 41 Sqn, RNZAF 33180 Young L G 2010 41 Sqn, RNZAF 75756 Miller A P 2010 RNZAF 75756, AP Miller, is my Grandfather, passed away in Feb 2010. I was wondering if anyone had any images that had popped up of him in service in Vietnam? My grandmother (and hopefully my mother too) are hoping to travel to Singapore, where my mother was born on the base there and further afield to Vietnam. Thank you so much.
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Post by phil on Oct 11, 2013 10:40:34 GMT 12
You could try contacting Mr Mathew O'Sullivan at the Air Force Museum. He is the keeper of photographs and if there were any official RNZAF photos taken of your Grandfather the Museum should have them. They may also have private photographs that have been donated.
You could try emailing the museum:
research@airforcemuseum.co.nz
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Post by aileronroll on Oct 11, 2013 13:39:52 GMT 12
I may be mistaken but did John Lamont(of warbirds fame) fly with the RAAF in Vietnam also?
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Post by tbf25o4 on Jan 29, 2014 14:57:49 GMT 12
Re the Hercules flight for helo parts from Vietnam. Cunning Kiwis had dismantled one of the wrecked huey's at an American base to recover the gearbox mast and other parts to be used for instructional purposes back here in NZ
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