Coastguard Tales Part Four

[stan_deezy]

It's a beautiful summer day and we are tasked to fly a patrol in the helo. Basically a "waving the flag" sort of thing: showing the public what their taxes are being spent on.<br />We decide to head out to a beach that has recently been designated one of the first nudist beaches in the UK.<br /><br />The pilot has jumped into his seat and thrown a grab bag down at his side with a camera in it.<br /><br />We overfly the beach and quickly spot a group of charming young ladies proudly baring all and waving at the helo........so the pilot askes the co-pilot to take the controls and then reaches down to pick up his grab bag and get the camera out.<br /><br />Unfotunately he's put the bag down below the emergency release bar for the perspex escape hatch beside him and when he pulled up the bag and found it caught on something he pulled a bit harder and shoved the bag about to release it.....The next thing we know the perspex escape hatch has blown out and fallen into the sea <br /><br />We tried to explain it as an "unknown cause" incident when we landed but the C.O remarked that he wondered if it had anything to do with the phone call he'd had earlier from a girl who claimed that the Coastguard tried to "bomb" her from a helicopter when she was swimming at the nudist beach

 

[Twidget]

Re: Coastguard Tales Part Four

That is a riot. <br /><br />We used to 'borrow' the Signalmans large binoculars when cruising by Blacks Beach in Ca. A whole amphibious transport full of peeping toms on the superstructure.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Coastguard Tales Part Four

I dunno StanD! I'm having trouble picturing a nudist beach in the UK. Seems that you would need a set of welding goggles to keep from being blinded by all the white skin.

 

[Triton II]

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Here’s one for you. Some friends of mine from my days in the RAF were tasked with going to the Falkland Islands with their F4 Phantoms after the Falklands War in the early 80s. They enjoyed the unlimited low flying and did patrols as far afield as South Georgia. One story they told on their return was that they were not permitted to fly towards penguin colonies that existed on several beaches – at least not from directly out to sea. It seems that one pilot noticed that whenever they flew past the beaches, the penguins all watched them. So he slowed down and instead of flying along the beach he flew straight from out to sea over the top of the penguins and inland slightly. His back seater had a good look behind (that’d be a first!) and saw that all the penguins under their flight path had fallen flat on their backs! To this day I find it difficult to believe this story, but boys will be boys! It’s also well known that F4 pilots are the biggest bunch of liars on the planet… but that’s another story! And yes, we did 'find' the odd nudist beach in our time.

 

[stan_deezy]

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lol boomyal, we have a few but for the most part they are empty or just have a few very small guys walking about <br /><br />The one I'm talking about is even funnier because its in Scotland which is not renowned for high temperatures, although I've seen it hit 30'C once in a summer <br /><br />Yeah Twidget it was quite funny afterwards but not at the time get chewed out by the "old man"