Life Through Your Camera

[Skid Kid]

Hiya guys!  I've been back from Afghanistan for about 3 months and realised I'd forgotten to upload some pics...

[Skid Kid]

..and finally, my one man war on bringing back nose art!

[4X-NTY]

Awesome pics skid!
In the third picture,it kinda looks like a detonator,what is that?

[Ragwing]

Awesome pics skid!
In the third picture,it kinda looks like a detonator,what is that?

Standard shell connector.  You connect it to these type of connectors



Note the insulation failure on the wire that shorted out the circuit.

[Skid Kid]

Note the insulation failure on the wire that shorted out the circuit.

Indeed it did.  The connector in question goes to the AH-1W's combining gearbox oil pressure transmitter.  The vibration of the bird caused the inner conductor (which carries the signal) to repeatedly contact the outer shielding (keeps outside electrical signals from messing up the signals on the inner conductor) and made the combing gearbox oil pressure gauge jump all over the place.  I took that pic as a reference to grab a replacement pin (wire splices are not authorized that close to a connector, so we just trim back to the damaged section and replace the pin.)  30 minutes of trimming and soldering later, the gauge now behaves like a saint. Welcome to my world...

P.S. I'll try to dig up some more pics.

[Oddball]

One of many pictures from this years Flying Legends at IWM Duxford.  Me doing a tower jump with the Parachute Regiment:



Do you think i'll be able to get into Smoke Jumper's school after that?

[Oddball]

A couple of photos I got sent through the post of my trip to Russia.  Both photos are in the Cemetry in Archangel:

[Oddball]

Just seeing if this video works. Its meant to be a line up of Spitfires from this years Flying Legends at IWM Duxford.

[gibbo_335]

  The link to the actual file works...Nice vid cobba

[YawningMan]

Hey, Skid Kid! Those cannon plugs are familiar to me. I worked on F/A 18s in MALS 11 for awhile. We did some work on the cables sometimes.

Sadly, I never went to the sandbox. They kept goading us on, but my EAS came up. I was disabled, so I decided to leave. Two months after I was discharged, I hear about Fallujah in the news. Took me a couple of years to get over that guilt.

Now, my time in service just seems like memories in someone else's scrapbook.

[FlyboyGil]

Getting back to my models. My recently completed 1/32 scale MK 1 "SPITTIE" in Tucks colours.

[gibbo_335]

Getting back to my models. My recently completed 1/32 scale MK 1 "SPITTIE" in Tucks colours.

  Nice one Gilly!!!

[FlyboyGil]

Getting back to my models. My recently completed 1/32 scale MK 1 "SPITTIE" in Tucks colours.

  Nice one Gilly!!!

Thanks Dingo. 

[Oddball]

nice job chief, should get my BBMF kit (including DC-3) built.

[YawningMan]

I have a BF-262, V-tail Bonanza, and I think a Viking (S-3) model laying around somewhere I need to get to. There may be more. I don't know for certain.