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Parachute Badge with wings- at or from ?
I purchased an Army Book 64 at the weekend to a RA TA soldier who had qualified for the Parachute Badge with wings.The seller was telling someone that the soldier had done his training in Hastings ( see photo 3 ) but I was not aware of any parachute training being done in that location and then it occurred to me, the training was presumably done from a Hastings Aircraft ?
P.B.
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Handley Page made an aircraft the Hastings which was a troop transport... possible plane used?
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" are the paras still in the back or have they jumped out "
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Flew from Singapore to Thailand in one in 1966. The RAF guys I was drinking with the night before just laughed when I told them, but it got me there! Came back six months later in a Beverly.
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Flew in a Hastings from RAF Scampton in 1977 with the ATC. That very Hastings went into the Museum at Cosford. I think it is still there.
Graham. |
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Any landing that you can simply walk away from, is, without any doubt whatsoever, a good one!
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Quote:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pi...w=1280&bih=893 |
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Very nice acquisition Peter.
Tragic to read of these training accidents Mike - a terrible waste. Mike |
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Marc
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Exiting the Hastings was always a challenge. Very frequently the jumper's helmet hit the side of the fuselage just behind the door. RAF grey paint on your helmet was a badge of honour and service in the same way as a broken nose was a give away from having "rung the bell" with a mistimed exit from the boom of a Beverley.
Eddie |
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Little Baldon
It still makes me shudder - I had two friends (both 95 Cdo Lt Regt RA) on a Basic Para Course at No 1 PTS, RAF Abingdon at the time of this crash, but not on the Hastings that crashed. It must have been appalling - and many of those killed had no real need to be on the aircraft at all (multiple RAF PJIs etc. Mike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Baldon_air_crash |
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