Name the place!

[Gelsons Dad]

Falklands

Well done.
That was too easy.
I'm going to find something more obscure :-)

 

[Gelsons Dad]

OK, the clue is in the picture. 1998 first civvy job after I left the RAF. Name the European airport!

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

OK, the clue is in the picture. 1998 first civvy job after I left the RAF. Name the European airport!

Oslo?

 

[MillionMilesAway]

OK, the clue is in the picture. 1998 first civvy job after I left the RAF. Name the European airport!

Novair were Swedish, so one of the Stockholm airports?

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I took this photo in 1991.
10 points for the first person to name the place.

Going back to your original picture,

I've just randomly been sent an image on WhatsApp from some one I work with. I can't post the image, as I don't have an image hosting account (plus, it's not my image).

It's a picture of XV231 (35) from the second aircraft over the NP with HMS Trenchant and USS Spadefish below, from early 1992.

Apparently you guys had some difficulties navigating so far North as the Nimrod INS toppled at about 80N, and the enhanced INS fitted for the trip toppled at about 85N, plus, every direction is South from the North Pole.

 

[crazyg]

Didn’t Tommy lee Jones nick that boat??, then stevie seagull nicked it back??

No, he was just a cook.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

No, he was just a cook.

But the bad guy sure looks like Eric Trump's dad.

 

[Gelsons Dad]

Going back to your original picture,

I've just randomly been sent an image on WhatsApp from some one I work with. I can't post the image, as I don't have an image hosting account (plus, it's not my image).

It's a picture of XV231 (35) from the second aircraft over the NP with HMS Trenchant and USS Spadefish below, from early 1992.

Apparently you guys had some difficulties navigating so far North as the Nimrod INS toppled at about 80N, and the enhanced INS fitted for the trip toppled at about 85N, plus, every direction is South from the North Pole.

That's all correct we had our two crew navigators plus the Station nav and his mate on board. We even had a spare INS running and ready to swap. They used a technique call grid navigation once we got past 75N but in the end we reverted to dead reckoning until Radar picked up the subs then we did radar homing to find them.

We circled about a dozen times and when it was time to go home the instruction was go south and we all shouted which one?

We used the subs alignment to give us an initial heading then updated out position from radar fixes on the way south.

We did inflight refuelling on the way up and back, from a VC10 if i remember correctly. No problem finding them either time.
All jolly good fun for a 23 year old GD :-)

 

[bluevillain]

Have I stumbled into a WAFU/Crab porn site.

 

[Gelsons Dad]

That's all correct we had our two crew navigators plus the Station nav and his mate on board. We even had a spare INS running and ready to swap. They used a technique call grid navigation once we got past 75N but in the end we reverted to dead reckoning until Radar picked up the subs then we did radar homing to find them.

We circled about a dozen times and when it was time to go home the instruction was go south and we all shouted which one?

We used the subs alignment to give us an initial heading then updated out position from radar fixes on the way south.

We did air to inflight refuelling on the way up and back, from a VC10 if i remember correctly. No problem finding them either time.
All jolly good fun for a 23 year old GD :-)

edit to add this was all before GPS.

edit edit . This is a picture of us running in to the subs for the first time. We though we might try and sneak up on them but below 100' we couldn't make out the horizon anymore so had to climb a bit. the subs are the two dots in the distance.