Meet the navy portsmouth

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

HERES A FEW HMVF MEMBERS WHOS NAMES I HAVE FORGOTTEN,MAYBE YOU COULD HELP.

Heres one i do know its our old mate Tony resting after a hard day on the buses,i hate you Butler.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

[Lord Burley]

That mock up of the JSF has certainly done the rounds.Cant see it ever seeing Navy use,as already there are arguments over budget costs,and the reluctance of the Americans to pass on information to there lesser partners.

[BIGREDONE]

Here are a few snaps of the day. I was there with Mr STRIKE AND RETURN 460 and Mr JUMPBOOTS representing the D-Day museum Southsea. As we expected vast quantities of visitors (35 thousand reported), we kept our display small and compact. We were sited alongside the 1940's sing-along stage that held shows throughout the day. I would like to add there is only so many times you can hear "run rabbit run" before I had the urge to lock and load the 30 cal!

 

Met lots veterans and like minded people and the display was well received by all that visited us. Overall a very enjoyable three days, well for some of us it was three days.....you know who im referring to!

 

Edited July 29, 2008 by BIGREDONE

[Jack]

OK chaps - thanks for letting us know about this one :argh:

 

- bet Catweasel was like a child in a sweet shop :whistle:

 

- Big red one - are the rumours true that Ken was trying to buy that aircraft carrier????

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Now thats dedication,at least the model makers are keeping it alive,well done lads.

Edited July 29, 2008 by catweazle (Banned Member)

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Even tho none of this is seen its built exactly as it would of been in real life.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

somebody like to tell me what this is cheers.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

[Lord Burley]

 

 

The gun above looks like a variation on the M134 family of miniguns.I would suspect the larger calibre GAU-17/19.Too small to be a M61 Vulcan.Fires around 6000rpm.Love those models by the way,especially the Shermans in the landing craft.

Edited July 29, 2008 by Lord Burley

[David Ives]

a gun:idea:

:rofl::rofl:droped yourself init there sorry:rofl:

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

What type of gun is this?

Nice little jet rib.

[Tony B]

Was Trident there? Somewhat lost track of her since everything was sold to the Arabs & Americans.

[BIGREDONE]

No Trident was not there. The good (working) part of the Dockyard with all the laid up ships was not open to visitors. I also noticed that some ships that were advertised did not show up either. The main air display was the Royal Naval historic flight but due to maintenance problems, we only had the Sea Hawk and Harvard on Friday and just the Harvard for the rest of the weekend. The Red Arrows made one appearance on the Friday at 1700. It was not like the Navy days of old very much scaled down, no memorabilia stand selling goodies and no big military regiments, establishments static displays. However, I did notice the abundance of motion simulators at least 4 in one area.

Catweazel I noticed you previously mentioned Gosport, are you over this side? as I work in the Royal Hospital Haslar & Fort Blockhouse which includes the Submarine museum and HMS Hornet the old gun boat establishment which is now the joint services sail training centre.

Paul

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Yes mate both Horatia and Gee are in Premier the old Camper yard,you can see Gee from the rd on the Hard awaiting return of the bodged parts,We are allways taking a stroll down there usually turn back at the sub museum.Its a very interesting area as you know.i am allways there if i am not at a vehicle show.(and there getting less, too much agro)We must meet up for a pint/chat,maybe give you a ride out,can pm you with mobile if you like.cheers cw.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

A visiting south american sail training ship leaves for home,when they were level with the fort they fired some cannon which wasnt expected.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

some of the reenactors did a great job.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Bigredone puts on a good display,nice to meet you mate,another face to a name.

[chevpol]

Bigredone puts on a good display,nice to meet you mate,another face to a name.

 

the first photo is my mob, forces 80 (www.forces80.com)

 

Mark

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

the first photo is my mob, forces 80 (www.forces80.com)

 

Mark

well done mate,great display,i didnt know whos it was,shame we didnt meet up.seen your display somewhere before.

[chevpol]

well done mate,great display,i didnt know whos it was,shame we didnt meet up.seen your display somewhere before.

unfortunatly, Iwasnt there, work commitments usually mean I can only attend 1 day shows, one of theses days I will do a weekend with them!!!

 

they were also at the southend do on the pier apparently

 

All the best

 

Mark

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Blimey just seen where you are located,did they come all the way down for the show?