Polar Wars - The Rules

[PR19_Kit]

So to be crystal (icy) clear, the subject does NOT have to be war-like, is that right?

Could I enter this GB with something off my British Antarctic Survey list?

Correct.  A new Trackrover and/or support Belfast would be kosher.

Thanks.

Trackrover and Belfast not on the cards. I have many other cadidates...

Even tho a tracked Belfast 🤔   

Hmm, well they tried a tracked B-36, so...

There was a F-16 fitted with tracks.

Yes Mac they certainly did ..not the greatest of ideas but damn it looked cool and very different 

So to be crystal (icy) clear, the subject does NOT have to be war-like, is that right?

Could I enter this GB with something off my British Antarctic Survey list?

Correct.  A new Trackrover and/or support Belfast would be kosher.

Thanks.

Trackrover and Belfast not on the cards. I have many other cadidates...

Even tho a tracked Belfast 🤔   

Alternatively, a heavy duty flying Land Rover

😁😁😁...your going to give Kit either ideas or nightmares 🤔 😬 

I've been flying WITH Land Rovers in the past........ 

OK, we both had a Beverly wrapped around us, but we were both up there at the same time........................until the loadmaster got fed up and shoved the Landie out the back! 

[Wardukw]

So to be crystal (icy) clear, the subject does NOT have to be war-like, is that right?

Could I enter this GB with something off my British Antarctic Survey list?

Correct.  A new Trackrover and/or support Belfast would be kosher.

Thanks.

Trackrover and Belfast not on the cards. I have many other cadidates...

Even tho a tracked Belfast 🤔   

Hmm, well they tried a tracked B-36, so...

There was a F-16 fitted with tracks.

Yes Mac they certainly did ..not the greatest of ideas but damn it looked cool and very different 

So to be crystal (icy) clear, the subject does NOT have to be war-like, is that right?

Could I enter this GB with something off my British Antarctic Survey list?

Correct.  A new Trackrover and/or support Belfast would be kosher.

Thanks.

Trackrover and Belfast not on the cards. I have many other cadidates...

Even tho a tracked Belfast 🤔   

Alternatively, a heavy duty flying Land Rover

😁😁😁...your going to give Kit either ideas or nightmares 🤔 😬 

I've been flying WITH Land Rovers in the past........ 

OK, we both had a Beverly wrapped around us, but we were both up there at the same time........................until the loadmaster got fed up and shoved the Landie out the back! 

See now that's like cheating and not cheating at the same time   

[Rheged]

And no doubt you offered up fervent thanks that it was JUST the Land Rover that went out the back door.  I hope it had parachute(s)to retard its fall; a  Land Rover plummeting unsupported out of a clear sky could give an innocent passer-by a very nasty crack on the head.

[scooter]

And no doubt you offered up fervent thanks that it was JUST the Land Rover that went out the back door.  I hope it had parachute(s)to retard its fall; a  Land Rover plummeting unsupported out of a clear sky could give an innocent passer-by a very nasty crack on the head.

Having watched a 436L pallet with a 3000 lb concrete block on it go ballistic right out the back of a C-130, you ain't just whistling Dixie

[kerick]

Some videos out there showing equipment slamming into the ground.

[PR19_Kit]

And no doubt you offered up fervent thanks that it was JUST the Land Rover that went out the back door.  I hope it had parachute(s)to retard its fall; a  Land Rover plummeting unsupported out of a clear sky could give an innocent passer-by a very nasty crack on the head.

After I'd done a few flights aboard 47 Sqdns then new Beverleys, the loadmasters would let me throw the drogue chute out of the big hole at the back. That was a small chute, about 24" dia maybe, which in turn pulled the main chutes out, and they in turn pulled out the Landie, 17 pdr, limber or whatever. Sometimes all of them in stream using some BIG chutes, but I was always firmly attached to the Beverley with a safety harness.

One one occasion they dropped a Landie and a 17 pdr over Salisbury Plan and the 17 pdr's main chutes candled, meaning they just streamed and didn't open, with the result that the gun went barrel first into the ground, quite a long way. They didn't fire too many rounds from it afterwards.............. 

[Wardukw]

I've seen pics of a M551 Sheridan light tank which was air dropped and since the chutes didn't open air dropped is literal 
It hit so hard the turret went thru the bottom of the hull which flattened the tank .
Would have made a awesome piece of lawn art 

[McColm]

I've always thought that the Corgi Major Chubb Pathfinder Airport Crash Truck has the Alvis Stalwart look about it. So is this allowed as a donor die-cast toy?

[Nick]

I've seen pics of a M551 Sheridan light tank which was air dropped and since the chutes didn't open air dropped is literal 
It hit so hard the turret went thru the bottom of the hull which flattened the tank .
Would have made a awesome piece of lawn art 

Like this one?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/kqjn54/airdrop_gone_wrong_m551_sheridan/

[Wardukw]

I've seen pics of a M551 Sheridan light tank which was air dropped and since the chutes didn't open air dropped is literal 
It hit so hard the turret went thru the bottom of the hull which flattened the tank .
Would have made a awesome piece of lawn art 

Like this one?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/kqjn54/airdrop_gone_wrong_m551_sheridan/

Nope 😄
Still funny ...the one I saw was flattened..like the top of the turret was the same height as the hull 😆
Also looked like is was scrub country where it fell .

[scooter]

I've always thought that the Corgi Major Chubb Pathfinder Airport Crash Truck has the Alvis Stalwart look about it. So is this allowed as a donor die-cast toy?

PM Inbound.

[kerick]

I've seen pics of a M551 Sheridan light tank which was air dropped and since the chutes didn't open air dropped is literal 
It hit so hard the turret went thru the bottom of the hull which flattened the tank .
Would have made a awesome piece of lawn art 

Like this one?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/kqjn54/airdrop_gone_wrong_m551_sheridan/

Nope 😄
Still funny ...the one I saw was flattened..like the top of the turret was the same height as the hull 😆
Also looked like is was scrub country where it fell .

Looks like everyone is in chem suits. I hated those things. I hope it was cold out to keep from overheating.

[Wardukw]

I've seen pics of a M551 Sheridan light tank which was air dropped and since the chutes didn't open air dropped is literal 
It hit so hard the turret went thru the bottom of the hull which flattened the tank .
Would have made a awesome piece of lawn art 

Like this one?
https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/kqjn54/airdrop_gone_wrong_m551_sheridan/

Nope 😄
Still funny ...the one I saw was flattened..like the top of the turret was the same height as the hull 😆
Also looked like is was scrub country where it fell .

Looks like everyone is in chem suits. I hated those things. I hope it was cold out to keep from overheating.

NBC suits ..oh happy happy joy joy 😡
The only thong ive ever worn where I felt like I peed myself all day long 
Twice was more than enough thank ya very much.

[kerick]

My reserve squadron had a training event where we had to wear those things all day for several days. It was in Savanna Georgia where it was 85F and about 85% humidity. I almost passed out. It was my first ride in an ambulance. A few hours in AC with lots of water and Gatorade. The medics stopped counting how many people they hauled in.

[McColm]

My reserve squadron had a training event where we had to wear those things all day for several days. It was in Savanna Georgia where it was 85F and about 85% humidity. I almost passed out. It was my first ride in an ambulance. A few hours in AC with lots of water and Gatorade. The medics stopped counting how many people they hauled in.

Happy days when I was in the T.A. and again in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force. Drinking with it on wasn't a problem as there was a straw attachment but eating was a bit tricky.