tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18497269013733609652011-07-08T02:16:29.088+01:00For 85th entry RAF Halton apprentices. Administrated by Webmaster Ted.Webmaster Tednoreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1849726901373360965.post-66834826288245453952010-03-08T14:39:00.005Z2010-03-09T05:52:09.599Z

The website has been tidied up throughout and some new features added:A page has been added to record any members' biographical information that is sent in to me for publication. This could be the story of your entire life, or some particular period of your life that you feel would be of interest to us all.The News page was revised. Although it looks much the same, you can now subscribe to an

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Alan Findlay (a.k.a. Baw) sent this in today. A long post but full of dry, Scottish humor!Part 1 - Getting in with the crowdBack in the 1950’s, where old men tend to dwell more and more nowadays, there was a surfeit of school leavers from throughout the lands of the never-setting sun, desperate to get into RAF Halton and so begin a three year apprenticeship in one of the trades associated with

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The first time I looped a plane, I was a passenger in a Chipmunk. Every so often, pilots needing extra hours at Waddington would borrow a Chipmunk from Swinderby or somewhere and do their stuff. At the time, I was on the Station Flight and the said pilots would fly out from there, often offering a ride to one of us. This particular pilot allowed me to fly the plane all the way to an aerobatic

Webmaster Tednoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1849726901373360965.post-77415509284122415372010-02-08T06:30:00.005Z2010-02-08T07:08:16.278Z

Good news, chaps.The e-mails page on the website has been revised to improve protection against los bandidos de spam.The object of spammers is to have their "robots" look through all the pages on the Internet and to "harvest" unprotected e-mail addresses to send spam to. Protection is afforded by a) not having the straight address and b) involving the user in doing some human act that robots can

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Our fine Secretary, Ralph King, has just promulgated the following:Around 1987 I was telephoned by my best man Jack MacKenzie, 83rd. He asked if I was going to Halton for a meeting convened to talk about forming an ex-apprentices association. About 60 of us attended and a committee was formed which included a brilliant young chartered accountant with creative talents as well as being reasonably

Webmaster Tednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1849726901373360965.post-59081377148679562222010-01-31T16:32:00.003Z2010-01-31T17:19:40.180Z

Data-mining, i.e. stealing personal information for gain or malice is big business these days. At the very least, if your e-mail address is mined or "harvested" by something or somebody, you'll start getting lots of the dreaded Spam, as Henry Needham pointed out to us just this week.SENDING TO MORE THAN ONE PERSONAn e-mail in transit can often be intercepted somewhere. If the header contains many

Webmaster Tednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1849726901373360965.post-41272736609664861872010-01-29T17:39:00.005Z2010-01-29T17:51:31.140Z

Could this be our George?An unknown individual was caught by surveillance camera at VANOC headquarters in Vancouver attempting to purloin the prototype Olympic torch valued at $12,000. He later claimed that he was only attempting to promote the Olympic spirit as he intended to take it to his 85th Entry Reunion at RAF Halton near Aylesbury in England later this year.

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Came in an e-mail from Grog Watkins:In the 1930s the Russian army was  obsessed by the idea of creating huge planes. At that time, they were proposed to  have as many propellers as possible to help carrying those huge flying  fortresses into the air;  jet propulsion had not been implemented yet.  Not many photos were  saved from those times because of the high secrecy levels of such projects  

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As you may have guessed, we now have a Google account, complete with e-mail, photo storage, calendar, blog and all the other good things that Google provides. I'll be taking care of the account but interested individuals can be given access, for example, to the blog as authors. I'll be putting out an email to explain more later. Anon 682494

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Gorder Suter sent in a bunch of additionals and a correction or three. The page has been updated and uploaded. I've also changed my address both against my name and at the bottom of the page. TTFN, Webmaster Ted

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I've put a calendar up on the website, but it's not visible as yet, I'm still learning about how to provide access to you guys other than just reading it. For now, you can see it by clicking here. Do feel free to add comments to this or any other post, for that matter. Cheers, Webmaster Ted

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I've put an RSS feed at the bottom of the blog page. E-mail me if you don't how to use RSS. Basically, it allows to see if the blog has new posts without having to actually go to the blog. For example, I have a feed displayed on an iGoogle home page. Right now it's only showing the first post, but that's life in cyber-space, eh? Webmaster Ted

Webmaster Tednoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1849726901373360965.post-46742960891721672012010-01-13T20:19:00.002Z2010-02-23T06:34:46.449Z

Welcome. This is a test post for some old-timers who were trained in the art of aircraft maintenance at Royal Air Force, Halton near Aylesbury in England.I need a suitable picture for the right-hand side. For now, I've put I picture of a plane I used to part-own. It's a Rollason Condor wood&fabric tail-dragger then based at Sturgate airport in sunny Lincolnshire. Flew like a dream, somewhat

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