Allan Brocklebank

Chartered Aeronautical Engineer Retired Early from the War Office now under training as a Crash Test Dummy

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@1940Andy I wish I was more local. I am currently preparing similar for our U3A WW2 History Group. Trying to cover more obscure stuff including Air Launched and Op Penguin, mobile V2, using material I uncovered at the RAF Wyton Heritage Centre where I volunteer.

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@scottiebateman @DaveLBywater @ScotAirAmb Happy Birthday Scottie. One of our Cambridge RAeS members had cause following a bicycle accident. He came to talk to us about their work and now raises funds for EAAA. My son also volunteers with them teaching First Aid. Big fundraising campaign at the moment as they need to move

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@Pjohnnners @HullCity @FA @JoshSnaith @OllieHarsley @ForStatue @ebrcmorley @hullccinfo @looknorthBBC @HumbersideSport @HullCityStats There’s a fair bit on line about it. BBC and Cambs Uni have articles. A few years ago I was half minded to pop down to Parker’s Piece and adorn the new statue with my spare Tigers scarf. Morley does not appear to get a mention. Looking forward to Man U at home.

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@John_ForemanCBE @PhilipIngMBE Shouldn’t be too difficult to put probes on them as we did with Sentry. Much before this we fitted Hercules and Nimrod with probes quite quickly for Falklands.

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@scottiebateman Don’t forget to tell us all about it at Cambridge RAeS next month.

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@history99917180 One of these would have been more effective over the Oxmoor.

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@history99917180 @dcms1000 Here’s a painting I did for him when he was on 5 Sqn up at Binbrook. It still hangs on my mother’s stairs.

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@history99917180 @dcms1000 I still have my dad’s WIWOL tie somewhere.

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@history99917180 Surprised you didn’t end up at Watford Gap in Northamptonshire!

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@bbcburnsy @robbopalmer @HullCity And Kieth Chegwin in the front row.

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@MikeHistorian I nearly fell off my bar stool in there a few weeks back. £7 a pint. I must still be thinking about Mess bar prices.

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@DrChrisBennett @RDPHistory Boat Yard story: I approached a local boat yard to strip some paint of a Nimrod dielectric panel using dry ice. It took more than the paint off! Went right through!

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@DrChrisBennett @RDPHistory Some of the Glass Fortified Polyether Sulphone stuff for Harrier and Jag was made at RARDE Waltham Abbey. They were to help me out with the Chinook stuff after the conflict was over. The bits I designed are still in use on Chinook today!

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@DrChrisBennett @RDPHistory Thanks Chris, we used RAE Bedford for the GRP plinth for Omega on the Nimrod R. Which as you may know operated from San Felix. There was an Omega Beacon down that way!

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@DrChrisBennett @RDPHistory Chris, where was your dad working making these radomes. I too was working on radomes for Chinook RWR in a hurry at the start. They were made at SSU Woolwich. I was at EWAU, RAF Wyton. We did several rush jobs in support.

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@Wiswesser Enjoyed your talk at Cambridge on Friday evening. Thank you for your insight during these fraught times in geopolitics.

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@history99917180 @miktorVeldre @SBarrettBar I remember remonstrating with the first one about him parking his Disco on the grass. He told me he was on Operations! In his look alike Officers jacket with his sheriff’s badge! I think I called him something rude. Later to find out about his mobile phone picture misdemeanours.

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@rawlimark I must go to get some new glasses. I first read this as “I was up in an A400M this morning”

[Allan Brocklebank @al_brock]

@rawlimark You could probably put up four Canberras and call them the Green Marrows.