Travel sickness?

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AndyP
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Re: Travel sickness?

Postby AndyP » Sat Oct 14, 2017 7:21 am

vanman wrote:
AndyP wrote:Hello sailor! The Hermes used to do the same :vomit:


Quite.
I only had 9 months to get used to it in my 'Mick' :headbang:
I dont know about you?

:cheers:
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It is not HOW fast you drive, BUT:-- HOW you drive fast.

Cheers Andy

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Re: Travel sickness?

Postby vanman » Sat Oct 14, 2017 9:36 am

AndyP wrote:
vanman wrote:
AndyP wrote:Hello sailor! The Hermes used to do the same :vomit:


Quite.
I only had 9 months to get used to it in my 'Mick' :headbang:
I dont know about you?

:cheers:


A 'Mick' which Ark Royal were you on? Jees we all had bunks. Then again we weren't part timers. :D

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Re: Travel sickness?

Postby AndyP » Sat Oct 14, 2017 1:38 pm

One before the last R09.
I did her last Commission 65 to 66 on 803 Squadron Scimitars.
It is not WHAT you drive, BUT:-- the WAY that you drive it.
It is not HOW fast you drive, BUT:-- HOW you drive fast.

Cheers Andy

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Re: Travel sickness?

Postby RiK » Sat Oct 14, 2017 6:40 pm

AndyP wrote:65 to 66


*cough* Two years before I was born... *cough*

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Re: Travel sickness?

Postby vanman » Sat Oct 14, 2017 7:02 pm

AndyP wrote:One before the last R09.
I did her last Commission 65 to 66 on 803 Squadron Scimitars.


Must of been the last of the wooden hulled ones. I only remember Buccaneers, Gannetts, Seavixens and Sopwith pups. My seasickness probably around the same time as Riks mum was suffering from morning sickness. Mmm sobering thought :drinking:

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Re: Travel sickness?

Postby Triquet » Sat Oct 14, 2017 7:09 pm

vanman wrote:
AndyP wrote:I have never really believed in "Car Sickness".
I knew that in the past some of my Rally co drivers used to get it when looking down at the map or notes.

I always found that it was more of a symptom of the drivers use of the controls.

The worst was a guy with a new Company Mitsubishi and his family started getting 'CAR SICK' when going out in it.
Within a few minutes of setting off it was easy to see why.
He constantly 'pulsed' the accelerator pedal in 'auto' And see-sawed at the wheel.

Basically then 'Motion sickness'

When I served as a Aircraft Mechanic on the old Ark Royal it used to corkscrew* in heavy seas and many suffered.
Sea Sickness [or Motion sickness]
*[ The bow used to go up and down and round and round in a counterclockwise direction all at the same time. It was a known stability fault]


Hello sailor! The Hermes used to do the same :vomit:


Those big container ships and pure car carriers all do much the same thing. It's called parametric rolling and it's caused by the pitching motion changing the transverse stability and hence causing rolling.

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Re: Travel sickness?

Postby AndyP » Sat Oct 14, 2017 7:11 pm

Must of been the last of the wooden hulled ones.

OOOOH CHEEKY BOY :nono:

:lol:

Yes Gannets and Sea vixens too. We could not fly at night as the angle of attack meant the lights could not be seen properly.
What years were you.
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It is not HOW fast you drive, BUT:-- HOW you drive fast.

Cheers Andy

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Re: Travel sickness?

Postby vanman » Sun Oct 15, 2017 4:18 pm

68 to 73 best purchase I ever made, couldn't get out quick enough.

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Re: Travel sickness?

Postby AndyP » Sun Oct 15, 2017 7:15 pm

Joined as a boy seaman at Hms St Vincent.1962 then to 1972.
Then D by P (or PVR)
Big reunion last weekend in Southsea
It is not WHAT you drive, BUT:-- the WAY that you drive it.
It is not HOW fast you drive, BUT:-- HOW you drive fast.

Cheers Andy

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Re: Travel sickness?

Postby sussex2 » Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:02 am

vanman wrote:
AndyP wrote:I have never really believed in "Car Sickness".
I knew that in the past some of my Rally co drivers used to get it when looking down at the map or notes.

I always found that it was more of a symptom of the drivers use of the controls.

The worst was a guy with a new Company Mitsubishi and his family started getting 'CAR SICK' when going out in it.
Within a few minutes of setting off it was easy to see why.
He constantly 'pulsed' the accelerator pedal in 'auto' And see-sawed at the wheel.

Basically then 'Motion sickness'

When I served as a Aircraft Mechanic on the old Ark Royal it used to corkscrew* in heavy seas and many suffered.
Sea Sickness [or Motion sickness]
*[ The bow used to go up and down and round and round in a counterclockwise direction all at the same time. It was a known stability fault]


Hello sailor! The Hermes used to do the same :vomit:


Indeed it did! I have to say thought that a Ley Class mine hunter could do 15 degree rolls, inside the breakwater! On the latter is wasn't a case of motion sickness, more terror :)


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