Me at Work

 

That's me fixing a blade fold problem on a Merlin.  

coming in to land on RFA Argus 

Wait for the aircrew. Merlin Mk1  

 

my son showing grandad the undercarriage bay on an FRS 2 (Harrier) 

 

FRS 2.  

BAE Hawk 

25,000 ft in the air sat in the back seat of a Hawk 

BAE Hawk tail 

 

Defence Flying Academy Squirrels 

A visiting Apache Longbow sat in the hangar ready for an Air Day 

3 Merlins returning home from an exercise  

Flight Deck of HMS Ark Royal 

Helicopter In Flight Refueling 

 

F35 Lightning II 

F35 Lightning II at Culdrose. Not the real thing. No room on the shelf for this 1:1 scale model.  

Merlin Mk1, 814 Naval Air Squadron  

814 and 829 Naval Air Squadrons operating from Sicily  

Red Arrows over Falmouth Bay 

 

selfie in a Hawk  

829 NAS return Home after a successful anti-piracy deployment  

my old flight deck helmet  

my last flight deck helmet  

Merlin 814 NAS nose art 

Merlin Mk1 829 NAS ready for an air display at RAF Waddington  

Merlins operating in the South of France. French NH-90 in the background. 

 

Merlin and a French NH-90 

1 of 3 stripped and abandoned Huey airframes out in the Middle East. 

Took my son to work. 

1992 HMS Invisible traveling through the Suez Canal. 

The Captains car on the flight deck. 1992. ASW Sea Kings of 814 squadron behind. 

using my modeling paints in the coffee room. 

Mural done. I enjoyed painting this (in works time too). 

Practical test on my load lifting course, with some help from 771 search & rescue squadron. 

Dutch Apache at Culdrose. 

Christmas away from home 2014. 

That's me spreading the main blades of a Merlin Mk2 

Good old Lynx. 

in the cockpit of a Phantom FGR 2 

The Navy's new Wildcat 

Apache sea trials 2004ish 

Seafire at RNAS Culdrose after Airday 2015 

Bosnia 1993, 2 Sea Kings, one from 814 and 849 A flight had major airframe cracks. They could't be fixed on the ship. Both were air lifted by a US Sea Stallion from a ship off the Italian coast to Brindisi airfield. They were sent home in an Antonov 

A SeaKing Mk6 & Mk2 AEW sent back to the UK nose to tail in the Antonov.