Tim L-G🇺🇦

Guess whose back! Back again! @ShipWrektPod is back

@Essex_CC @TomGate08668093 I’ve just heard all the boats in the channel have turned back after hearing you swapped some flags about.

A second Union Flag has been raised outside of Essex County Council’s headquarters in Chelmsford, following control of the authority transferring to Reform UK after last week’s elections. The move brings Essex County Council in line with Reform UK national policy, which only permits the Union, national, county or armed forces flags to fly at council buildings under its control. “Today we have raised a second Union Flag at County Hall in Chelmsford. It was a proud moment to see it flying high, representing all of the nations that make up our wonderful United Kingdom.” Cllr Peter Harris, Leader of the Council’s Reform UK group and County Council Leader Elect. The flag of Ukraine that had previously flown since 2022 has been replaced, and following discussions with the Ukrainian community in the county, will find a new home. Councillor Harris said: “The replacement of the Ukraine flag does not diminish the support and generosity that Essex residents have shown the people of Ukraine since 2022 and I know this will continue.”

@russellquirk Also Russell…..

I’m sat in my first Essex County Council meeting on Monday morning, listening to a councillor induction presentation. ‘Any questions?’ asks an officer. A hand goes up. ‘Yes’ says a recently elected Labour member. ‘Do I get a pension as a councillor?’. His first question was about how much money he gets. Not procedure, or meeting dates or where the loos are… but how much cash he can grab. Same old Labour.

Well done to everyone who voted Reform. You just put Putin at the heart of our politics bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The UK media have made this country ungovernable. Discuss?

@mpwarwick We are building the right ships, just in the wrong order.

... has the Telegraph really interpreted out-of-sequence construction activity as being the ships "built in the wrong order" ...?

Ba ha ha ha ha

@A4KikeLippi 🫡to the A4 and those who flew them.

Hoy se apaga una parte de la historia de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina. El A-4AR Fightinghawk inicia su despedida… y para muchos de nosotros no se va solamente un avión. Se va una etapa de vida. Detrás de cada vuelo hubo madrugadas heladas en plataforma, olor a JP-1, briefings eternos, camaradería, disciplina y una pasión difícil de explicar con palabras. El Fightinghawk no era solamente una máquina de combate: era un símbolo de entrega, de vocación y de orgullo por vestir el uniforme de la Patria. Pero su historia venía de mucho antes. Antes del A-4AR estuvieron los A-4B y A-4C Skyhawk. Aviones que quedaron grabados para siempre en la historia grande de la aviación militar argentina y en el legado de Malvinas. Fueron aquellos hombres los que llevaron el Skyhawk al límite, volando rasante sobre el mar, enfrentando condiciones imposibles y escribiendo algunas de las páginas más heroicas de 1982. Cada vez que uno se subía a un Fightinghawk, era imposible no sentir el peso de esa herencia. No era solamente volar un avión de combate. Era continuar una tradición construida por pilotos que dejaron un ejemplo de valor, profesionalismo y entrega absoluta. Tuve el privilegio de volarlo. De sentir cómo cobraba vida en cada puesta en marcha, de despegar sabiendo que arriba quedaban solo el avión, el entrenamiento y uno mismo. Ahí entendías el verdadero significado de palabras como honor, sacrificio y responsabilidad. El A-4AR nos exigía todo. Y justamente por eso nos enseñó tanto. Hoy llega su despedida oficial, pero ningún Skyhawk dejará realmente de volar mientras siga vivo en la memoria de quienes lo operaron, lo mantuvieron y lo admiraron desde tierra. Porque algunos aviones trascienden el metal. Y la saga de los Skyhawk en la Fuerza Aérea Argentina, desde los A-4B y C de Malvinas hasta el Fightinghawk ya forma parte eterna de nuestra historia. AD ASTRA PER ASPERA y NO HAY QUIÉN PUEDA!

@GreatStrides65 @TheAngry53586 @TomSharpe134 Navigator was a Lt Cdr Spec N. IMHO executed an excellent TCM to avoid any sanction.

@IntercityFC @TheAngry53586 @TomSharpe134 The BOI report rather suggests that the OOW was dropped in it

This part of the dit gets studied a few times during one's time in the RN. In sum, if you're going to RV with a merchant vessel, take steps to not actually RV with the merchant vessel...

@RAeSTimR Work on Ajax continues

It is 2347. Humanity has conquered the solar system. Belters mine asteroids, while Mars and Earth square up for conflict. On Enceladus, an RAF Wedgetail is about to take another test flight, prior to delivery...

@ArmchairAdml Or the movements were not visible on tracking sights.

Really intriguing to hear of Britains involvement here. I couldn’t find any C-17 or A400 movements that could be related to this, so how we moved this material is really interesting.

@RSE_VB I can’t imagine how morale was?

I was on this cruise! Spent Christmas in Hong Kong! Epic!

The Cruel Sea

@TopGunMovie TG Maverick ‘Where am I?’ ‘Earth’

"My favorite Top Gun memory is ______"

@TomSharpe134 @TimWinRN BM shouted ‘Get out of the bridge’ and left via the port bridge wing towards the GDP. Must have come within of whisker of being crushed.

@TimWinRN 4. MEO went to the heads and came back to find a bulbous bow where his pit used to be 😳

@TimWinRN @TomSharpe134 Yes there is an upside down Sea Dart visible in one of the photos.

@TomSharpe134 Three things I heard about this incident: 1. The Seadart quarters watchkeeper would have lost his legs if he didn't have his feet on the control panel. 2. One of the missiles flipped 180° despite lack of space. 3. CO threw his team under the bus at his court marshal.

@John_ForemanCBE @TomSharpe134 Navigation Data Book. Know your radius of 180 turn at the speed and wheel you plan to use. Offset by that plus the distance you want to finish up away. Add 200 yards for your career.

@TomSharpe134 If joining from ahead at night: allow an offset, use the radar, don’t slot straight into station, practice it and then still don’t do it.

@TheAngry53586 @TomSharpe134 The SPS as the BOI covers, really could have done no more.

@TomSharpe134 When you’re SPS, report the merchant ship bearing 145 at two cables CPA steady bearing… And the OOW says “Roger, watch “

@OldF1fanbored Worked very closely with Adm Fieldhouse during the Falklands War. There is one rather amusing dit he span about a phone call between Woodward & Fieldhouse.

@IntercityFC Made Commodore though..

I am going to tell you the greatest dit you will ever hear about a potato. A story I came across in researching something totally unrelated to the spud.

@TomSharpe134 An extra…Midhsipman Tony Radakin was in Southampton at the time. He said later that Captain Taylor taught him many lessons about how to remain calm in a crisis that night. The salient lesson as Tom says, it don’t turn in front of 34,000 tonnes of container ship.

@AlistairCarns The darkest hour is the hour before dawn.

Have a great evening everyone….and remember ….. we have so much to be proud of….we are Great Britain!