Thread Of Positive Awesomeness

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  1. Don the Don

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    #1741 Don the Don, Oct 28, 2020
    Thanks for sharing that Adie, a lot of decisions had to be made after those strikes, like having done away with guns on fighters and relying on missiles those Mig 21's where an awesome piece of kit for the time. and misjudging the range of those sam's
     
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  2. dilligaf

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    #1742 dilligaf, Oct 28, 2020
    I never got as far as the Falkland Islands :confused:
    But I did get posted to Ascension Island to enjoy the sunshine :sun::cool::p
     
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  3. Callumity

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    #1743 Callumity, Oct 28, 2020
    Refuelled there too. Lump of lava!
     
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  4. Don the Don

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    #1744 Don the Don, Oct 28, 2020
    Penguins and the local bennies to play with you did not miss much Dilli, Ascension runway has been out of use for ages now but I bet it would have been sorted if Pritti Patel had got her way to use Ascension as a refugee camp.
     
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  5. JtC

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    #1745 JtC, Oct 28, 2020
    Thanks for posting that, Adie P. Real life is better than fiction. What a great read about great men.
     
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  6. Foxy1

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    #1746 Foxy1, Oct 28, 2020
    I never set foot ont Falklands. Some of our lads did, mainly t'fleet air arm guys. Some ot ships company did exchanges with army lads on shore. I never set foot on land for 5.5 months. : unamused::(
     
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  7. Ducatitotriumph

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    #1747 Ducatitotriumph, Oct 28, 2020
    I was there on HMS dumbarton castle for 6 months, stuck in 1 place.
    2 days before I flew out, a rope got itself around the prop shaft, bent it and that was that.
    Cost more to fix it (there were only 2 built hms leeds castle) than to build another so it got towed back (after I left) and scrapped.
    Lot's of time spent on duty at 12-4am, watching vultures and penguins!
     
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  8. Ducatitotriumph

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    #1748 Ducatitotriumph, Oct 28, 2020
    WOW. Pure Beauty.
     
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  9. SleepyOwl

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    #1749 SleepyOwl, Oct 28, 2020
    Wow! The Falklands has changed by the looks of it. Looks almost civilised! Spent a year of my life down there in two x 6 month stints (early 83 and 84). There only was one main harbour in Stanley. The Wildlife was so unused to seeing humans that the birds (feathered variety) would just land on you if you lay down. I remember actually being able to hold a penguin without it struggling at all

    On a pretty awesome story we went to South Georgia and 6 of us got off to explore the old whaling station for the day. Strange to be the only people on the island. My second name is "Sprott" which is not exactly common but on exploring the six graves in the old whaling station graveyard, one of them was some distant relation! The chances of me getting off the ship and the name being on the graveyard must have been millions to one.
     
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  10. SleepyOwl

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    #1750 SleepyOwl, Oct 28, 2020
    Triumph launch?

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    #1751 Callumity, Oct 28, 2020
    The photo is fairly recent with the new ro-ro berth. Didn’t look like that 25 yrs ago! I best remember Commerson’s Dolphins chasing small boats and the LCVP like mini Orca - which are of course dolphins.

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  12. SleepyOwl

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    #1752 SleepyOwl, Oct 28, 2020

    Its a bloody beautiful world that we live in
     
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    #1753 Vulpes, Oct 29, 2020
    This photo reminds of the time some 20 White Beaked Dolphins came to play around the yacht when we were rounding Cape Wrath on our way to Stromness. Beautiful.
     
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    #1755 SleepyOwl, Oct 29, 2020
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    #1756 SleepyOwl, Oct 29, 2020
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    #1757 SleepyOwl, Oct 29, 2020
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    #1758 Sandi T, Oct 30, 2020
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    #1760 Oldskool, Oct 30, 2020
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