Robert Farrell

Retired, formerly MD Printing Company, Major (Rtd) RA, Aviator

[Robert Farrell @FlyBob]

@CdrEricson How unlucky, always thought anything to do with minesweeping a bit too dangerous for me!

[Robert Farrell @FlyBob]

Dan Jarvis should contact Tom Cruise for advice with Mission Impossible. He is going to need it!

[Robert Farrell @FlyBob]

@DominicFarrell Great news, honourable man.

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@DominicFarrell I wonder if whoever is offered the post will decide to put country before party (or ambition). We’ll see, but I expect the party with lots of smoke and mirrors.

[Robert Farrell @FlyBob]

@RDPHistory Remember speaking to some of the crew in the Mess at Waddington just after they returned. Some cool heads in that crew: from the moment of the refuel emergency, confusing Brazilian Air Traffic until landing was assured and finally using the Pope’s visit to get airborne.

[Robert Farrell @FlyBob]

@RDPHistory “To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there's the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…”. Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1

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@NewarkAirMus Congratulations, well done!

[Robert Farrell @FlyBob]

@xAviation @CcibChris I remember seeing a very similar display just outside Johannesburg SA about 1974. The only difference being it was by a 747! Amazing, the SP model I think.

[Robert Farrell @FlyBob]

@HiddenHistoryYT “Right, chief, better go round and check the rivets”

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@CcibChris Doesn’t look as “Macho” with Merlin’s.

[Robert Farrell @FlyBob]

Sky News needs to be more imaginative on its guests on The Wrap. Same old suspects. So predictable and boring.

[Robert Farrell @FlyBob]

@scottyeders @aniemyer Fortunate to have had a trip in one from RAF Brawdy in the late seventies,
22 Squadron if I remember correctly.

[Robert Farrell @FlyBob]

@mcribbHistory Didn’t Soult complain that Beresford should have done the honourable thing and capitulated given the allied casualties?

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@clark_aviation Had my first flying lessons at Speke in 1968, remember taxiing past the big turbo props in my tiny Tri-Pacer, all before the present 27/09 runway laid down.

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@mcribbHistory

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@mcribbHistory Visited a few years ago, a bit of good fortune was required and he got it. As regards the transport provider: Any port in a storm!

[Robert Farrell @FlyBob]

@Tunisia_1943 Alex in his specially made service cap, always immaculate.

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@IanMacDDRO @RDPHistory My uncle was on the Norland at this time, he had served in the Merchant Navy in WW2 as a young man, he was proud to go.

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