Si Wilson

ex-Royal Navy Historic Flight Swordfish Pilot and Civil Display Pilot

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

Looks like great fun! Do they cater for Stag dos!? 🤔👀😂

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Incredible footage of Ukrainian soldiers using a rifle to shoot Iranian Shahed 136 drones out the sky aboard a Soviet era Yak-52 training aircraft.

Insanity…

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

@timothyvan4343 @aviationarchive One of the best PC Flight Sims back in the day. One of my favourites!

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

@BeaverWestminst @Bert_Plumswang @SkippyBing Good point, I forgot about that one! 🤣

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

@Bert_Plumswang @SkippyBing @BeaverWestminst Wow, I think you might have found the one shit name not actually used by a British Aircraft manufacturer between start of WWI and end of WWII. 🤣

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

@Bert_Plumswang Well we did name the Mustang, Dakota and Mitchell among others. So I don’t think our naming record was that bad.

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

@SkippyBing @Hush_Kit Will do. I like having books in my library written by people I know.

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

@SkippyBing @Hush_Kit Sweet work Bing, hadn’t realised you had turned your hand to writing books. Where can one find copies of these?

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

@stuartroxy @MilitaryBanter They were clearly adept at ‘Fraud’ then! 🤣

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

@RoyalNavy @USCG BZ Bob, great job!

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

@clark_aviation The chock crews might be in place because they are either about to move the aircraft by hand or about to start it as there is someone on the port undercarriage leg looking like they might be getting ready to engage the inertia starting handle. Of course it could just be posed.

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

Or fly further away from the shoreline or cross the shoreline at an angle to minimise time where you will encounter higher densities of birds.

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

Flying low level parallel, close to the shoreline in an aircraft is never a good idea for the reason shown in this video. To avoid bird strikes it’s better to fly above 2000ft. Although it looks in this video the pilot has been forced down by low cloud. https://t.co/6Q8DQ40m4I

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

You may be old, but are you "Installed Windows 95 from a bunch of floppy disks" old?

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

@paynenotes1 It wouldn’t take much for this to horribly wrong.

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

🚁 Flying a helicopter this low over the sea might look badass—but in reality, it’s a dumb way to operate in a high-threat maritime environment.
Here’s why it’s tactically unsound, operationally risky, and basically asking to be shot down: 🧵

[Turbine Traveller @Turbinetraveler]

Avoiding radar but showing up on Sonar.

[Michael Glynn @realmikeglynn]

No. The short sleeve shirt and tie put a man on the moon and is found in most every airliner cockpit.

America is an aerospace republic - and here we respect the short sleeve shirt and tie.

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

@scottiebateman I think his AEA may have been found to be “contaminated” after landing and probably had to be disposed of! 🙈🤣🤣🤣

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

There’s no point doing the enemy’s job for them and scoring an own goal. 🥅🚁💥

Thankfully for us, this looks like a Russian helicopter—so keep up the good work! It’ll save Ukraine some munitions having to shoot you down. 🇷🇺🎯🇺🇦

[Si Wilson @SiWilson_Flying]

And if it’s not in an operational theatre, then it’s just an unnecessary dumb risk to take with the aircraft and the lives of others onboard—there is no margin for error.