Hi all

[EdStep]

Hi mate
Welcome from me as well.

Thanks Tim

[EdStep]

Hello and welcome. Help, advice and banter, all in copious supply.

Excellent, thank you I'll be calling out for help no doubts...

[EdStep]

Welcome to the forum. Ex-Rigger here. Nice to see the old Junior Technician badge in the profile pic :smiling3:

Another heavy ... can't have too many heavies I always say. What did you work on may I ask?

[AlanG]

Another heavy ... can't have too many heavies I always say. What did you work on may I ask?

Jet Provost, VC10 C.MkI/ K2/K3, Tonka GR1 & 4 and lastly Nimrod. Also spent a bit of time on VASS and did cross-servicings on F-16, Mirage 2000 and some Dutch jet

[EdStep]

HI welcome from me as well an just to warn you that i know Mick made a cracking build of his jag an i like very much but i bought one an it was one of the worst fitting kits i ever built an i had to do major surgery on it to get it to fit like mick says it does put up a fight to build an i wont ever buy a k/h kit again
all best chris

Thanks Chris, :sad: I think - back in at the deep end it seems.

[EdStep]

Ed,
I will still welcome you despite you being ex RAF :tongue-out3: . Look forward to seeing you around the site.

lol Thanks Scottie

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Welcome aboard Ed.

ATB

Andrew

Thanks Andrew

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Welcome Ed!
Engine men are awesome.
Steven

Thank you Steven, been a long time now, but it still sparks something off when I hear them.

[EdStep]

Duel-trade (cross trained) rigger/sooties are even better lol

Split brains pfffft. lol

[EdStep]

Welcome!

You're going to love it here..... I've learnt so much it's unreal.

Del

Thanks Del, sounds great

[EdStep]

Hi and welcome to the forum Ed

Thanks Papa

[EdStep]

Ed,
a warm welcome from Italy by someone who re-started after 35 years. It's a complete new world, as someone has already pointed out.
Your mentioning the RB199 brought to my memory a Varsity test I had to pass: the input data where those of an endothermic engine and at the end of my calculations the outcomes where so high I thougth I completely failed the test until the day after, when the professor told us we worked on the RB 199 data :cold-sweat:. Of course, my career went in a totally different direction, but that's life...:thinking:.
Welcome again.
Andrea

Propulsion science sent fear into many a sooty on the fitter's course, but all forgotten when elbow-deep in Avtur

Thanks Andrea.

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My loving memory of the RB199 is wearing the kidney belts on engine runs, the smell of the burnt avtur (lovely) and watching the diamonds in the reheat at night (joyous)

Some good memories lol. I remember being tied to a vertical steel girder in the testbed to leak-check the reheat fuel system (involved ramping up to max reheat, the coming back into dry range) with a torch lol. Not a good combination the day after a night out and a curry :flushed:

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Ed. Just notice you worked on 3 Sqn Majors. Was that at Saints?

Hi Alan, it most certainly was; part of Chiefy Nod's engine team 92-97. Were you there?

[AlanG]

Yeah i was at Saints. Worked in 'Twin Peaks' at10 Sqn VC10 Majors in '93