This been my 4th time serving in the Falklands and living at the airport , little has changed from a few of these shots, the accommodation looks almost identical on the outside. It's a marvel to British engineering at its best. Mind you in 2023 the temporary road surface to Stanley is almost gone only a few KM left to surface.
This was, and still is, an incredible story - importing materials and labour from the other side of the world to the middle of nowhere. Hope someone has kept the original film - it would be great to see in HD.
Shame the government destroyed the capacity to do this kind of project by undertaking the botched privatisation of the PSA a few years later…. Only in recent times has the Gov department’s started to rebuild some of its resources and skill sets.
If I was a Tory Donor how do I profit from a Publicly owned entity, low level corruption at the local level doesn't benefit me to the tune of Billions for major nationwide outsourcing projects like PFI eventually did and I can't extor... charge a reasonable sum to NHS staff for parking at work.
The closing credit is wrong - the first landing of a wide bodied jet in the Falklands was on May 1st 1985 - not 12th May 1985 which was the ‘official’ opening. Michael Heseltine confirms this in his speech towards the end of the film. I was privileged to be there on both occasions.
I served on NP8901 the Royal Marines detachment. The accommodation we had was a small hut complex that was condemned and no amount of persuasion could make those assholes back in UK invest in it...or appropriate measures to lay demolition charges at the airport to destroy it on any attempted invasion. They even tried to stop our mail as it was so expensive to fly it out there. But we made the place home and did our 12 months. Went back in 82 no accommodation. But loads of live ammunition.
Is there a community link to the guys who actually achieved this, who were part of it? I was there for 90% of the time and get the mid-day meal comment, we called it a Doggie bag, brown paper bag with a sandwich and not much else. Anyone who lived that life want to give their memories?
This been my 4th time serving in the Falklands and living at the airport , little has changed from a few of these shots, the accommodation looks almost identical on the outside. It's a marvel to British engineering at its best. Mind you in 2023 the temporary road surface to Stanley is almost gone only a few KM left to surface.
This was, and still is, an incredible story - importing materials and labour from the other side of the world to the middle of nowhere. Hope someone has kept the original film - it would be great to see in HD.
Wow success in every part of the continent.
Shame the government destroyed the capacity to do this kind of project by undertaking the botched privatisation of the PSA a few years later…. Only in recent times has the Gov department’s started to rebuild some of its resources and skill sets.
If I was a Tory Donor how do I profit from a Publicly owned entity, low level corruption at the local level doesn't benefit me to the tune of Billions for major nationwide outsourcing projects like PFI eventually did and I can't extor... charge a reasonable sum to NHS staff for parking at work.
The closing credit is wrong - the first landing of a wide bodied jet in the Falklands was on May 1st 1985 - not 12th May 1985 which was the ‘official’ opening. Michael Heseltine confirms this in his speech towards the end of the film. I was privileged to be there on both occasions.
Think i might still have the VHS i bought when i was down there in 92
Great Britain at its very best. God save the Queen. I am not even British.
They’ve almost got the road to Stanley finished.
I served on NP8901 the Royal Marines detachment. The accommodation we had was a small hut complex that was condemned and no amount of persuasion could make those assholes back in UK invest in it...or appropriate measures to lay demolition charges at the airport to destroy it on any attempted invasion. They even tried to stop our mail as it was so expensive to fly it out there. But we made the place home and did our 12 months. Went back in 82 no accommodation. But loads of live ammunition.
Not sure many people know NP8901 was pre-1982. I'm assuming that's what you mean?
Is there a community link to the guys who actually achieved this, who were part of it?
I was there for 90% of the time and get the mid-day meal comment, we called it a Doggie bag, brown paper bag with a sandwich and not much else.
Anyone who lived that life want to give their memories?
I remember the doggy bags and usually with soup.
Randy andy wow
He was deployed down there at the time on HMS Brazen.
Respect - unlike the £8 million wasted on extending Newquay just to patronise the Americans…
Absolute waste of money
Why