Question for Rick

[AllanL]

I guess it just reflects the general surprise that a stickler for detail like Rick could leave out such a vital element of the Chippie experience as the up-chucking cadet! :sicky:

For those youngsters out there, the whole experience was amplified for the poor sod in the front by the fact that we used a mike system that was strapped round the throat, rather than the modern system. This enhanced the 3-D wrap-round Dolby Technicolor up-chuck sound effects no end.

I had a number of flights in the back of a Chippie from Woodvale in the late sixties, and on one occasion got stuck with the job of strapping the younger erks into their parachutes, escorting them out to the aircraft and getting them strapped in to the back seat. All went well until one Chippie started to taxi away with a first-time cadet in the back, then slammed to a halt after about thirty yards. The canopy flew back and the instructor leapt out and stormed off. I ran over to see to the cadet in the back - and found out that he had thrown up quite spectacularly in the short distance that they had travelled. He got to clean out the cockpit for his troubles. :axe:

If Rick wants the effect for his sound-file I believe that Salford University have a recording of just the right intensity from their national survey of revolting sounds. Why they bothered is even more OT.

[Nigel H-J]

Don't know how true this was but back in the Seventies there was a story going around that at an ATC summer camp at one RAF Station a cadet went up in the back seat of a Chippie only to throw up as the aircraft was approaching and pulling over the top of the loop..........the cadet had managed to release his face mask but was unable to jettison his insides succesfully into the bag...............The pilot was totally unaware of this event until the nose was pointing vertically down!!