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Yep, 82nd Squadron ATC 1972-75 and yes that safety video was ingrained on my memory “you should be slightly bent” 😂😂😂. I flew the AEF Chipmunks and later as an instructor I would ride as safety pilot for a friend who owned a private one G-AMUF out of Redhill. Good times.

Chipmunk fact: It's nigh impossible for a short 13year old sitting in be back to see forward when taxiing on three wheels.

Great video

1962 , ATC 8f Coventry. flying Chipmunks from RAF Cosford , once a month !

ATC cadet early 70s flight experience at Marshalls Cambridge. Happy days.

Sir, A very good video! As an owner the one and only flying in Poland SP-YAC I share love in Chipmunk. It is also a great responsability! Yes, I know - it’s difficult to say Wsiewołod Jakimunk ;-) Pawel & my point of view ;-) m.th-cam.com/video/wTauQ8yOkKA/w-d-xo.html

My first flight was in a Chipmunk in 1970 at RAF Shawbury on Annual Camp with 455 Squadron ATC, I can still smell the hot leather etc

Superb

Hi Andy...thanks for a very informative video on that wonderful little machine...the Chipmunk. As an engineer my first experience with the Chipmunk was at Middle Wallop in the early sixties with the Army Air Corps. After my Army service I worked in Canada for many years where I specialized in major aircraft structural repair work. During that time I repaired some badly damaged ex RCAF chipmunks which were in civilian ownership...and on my return to the UK I continued my structural repair work on a self employed basis and was involved in much chipmunk repair work in East Anglia right up to shortly after the covid plandemic when I decided I had had enough and ( kind of ) hung up my tools.!!

It is a nostalgic, well designed, well harmonised little aeroplane and a delight to fly.

The Chipmunk was the first aircraft that I flew in, with Paisley ATC from RAF Turnhouse, an amazing experience, you saying about the parachute reminded me that it was our NCO's who strapped me into it and they had it that tight I think that my back would have broken should I have to use it.

Wis I could draw like that great video Andy 🎉

Went there too ATC my first ever flight in a chippie 😊around 64 ❤

Many thanks Andy for making my drawings known, I'm currently working on another sketch of a Blohm & Voss Bv.141, this time looking down on her from above, without doubt this was the strangest aircraft to ever take flight.

First flight 07 12 1975...WP805, 6AEF Abingdon... Never forget your first flight in Chippy....

Nice Andy. I worked for our airline and loved just watching them come in.

Just like the incident at the US-Candian border the night before Thanksgiving, there is absolutely no information (still) of what happened. It is hushed up so as not to affect the fragile economy. Why the incident affect the economy? That question is itself its answer.

Kinell!

Everyone and his dog ,Are trying their luck ,because they know Joe isn’t all there.

this was a week ago

The red sea will stay red

Really???

Can't say I'm surprised Andy

They don't look safe Andy 🥶

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Very interesting Andy 🏆

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Beautiful

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Very special to me too for the same reason. 162 Stockport Squadron (The Bonecrushers). Did a good few flights from RAF Woodvale, RAF Abingdon, in Chippies, and also from a few other AEFs round the UK. Great memories from those days! I joined 1988 and left in 1995, never experienced the Bulldog, just as well really as I didn't like it! The Chipmunk had a real 'Spitfire' feel to it that you just didn't get with side by side seating in the Bulldog!

It surely is. A de Havilland classic, even if it was de Havilland Canada designed.

Great memories of flying in the Chipmunk at Marshalls Cambridge. When I was in 1476 Sqdn Rayleigh. Mostly back in the 60's

Looks amazing

Nice 🏆

Yip i flew one recently at prestick airport

Just found your channel. I completed my "flying grading" and first soloed in a Chipmunk at Roborough Airport with the Royal Navy Britannia Flight with in 1970. To this day I still remember the downwind checks: (MFFHHB) Mixture, fuel, flaps, hood, harness, brakes. Happy memories.

And the Harry monk 🤣 I was very proud to fly an aircraft built in our town .I have to admit I thought the road was named after the aircraft .not the other way round ..is it the same for comet way ... sadly the factory is now gone ..the design office is now Hatfield police station . But they have a small museum underneath in the old bunker. ...the security guard house is now a KFC . The last aircraft to leave Hatfield was the BAe 146 used for the queen's ( now kings ) flight . Thanks for this ..I will be sharing it with all the ex ATC I still know .

Wow lots of ex ATC on here . Cool

2203 sqn. many years ago

Very well done doc. I bumped into a former RCAF F86 pilot a couple of years ago here in Toronto, he said he had trained on Chipmunks and Harvards. The Chipmunk was apparently a beautiful aircraft to fly, but the "Harvard was - a - b****!"

I to, was in the Air Training Corps (489 Squadron, Olten & Acocks Green, Birmingham). My air experience flight was at RAF Valley in 1975. I believe the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight still use a pair of Chipmunk’s for pilot familiarisation of tail dragging aircraft.

Did you never wonder how the parachute worked. I'd always had a vision of dangling by the arse. Like you the chipmonk has a place having being allowed to fly it and the acrobatics the pilot did.

I had a few flights in Chipmonks at RAF Abingdon near Oxford with the Air Cadets in the 1970s. Great fun. I remember well the rather dated safety film made by the Southampton ATC squadron and the parachute that made it hard to walk. Think they were replaced by Bulldogs. Edit: I remember one cocky cadet that was always bragging about everything. He ate a whole Battenberg cake on the coach on the way there for his first flight with predictable results.

Andy thank you for sharing your aviation channel, I am going to go through all the vids. congratulations on your origional channel which has grown very organically! I think its because you speak the truth and say it exactly as most of us are thinking ! 👍👍

A rather anonymous looking A32o neo

It's a company called Vueling. They're a low cost spanish outfit.

Was watching typhoons practicing dogfights over the Norfolk coast last week. Impressive plane 👍

Omg that's amazing

Lovely to see