I cannot see how to do this. Yes, I can right-click a file and choose to email it but it always goes to a new email, not to the one I'm replying to.
I can work around it with the copy and paste routine. That sends the file as a picture on the email - not as an attachment.
You need to send it as an attachment, which you need to do from within whichever program you are using; see the screenshot below for Outlook 2010.
Thank you "Seavixen32". That works fine.
By the way, I'm ex-RAF. Was the Sea Vixen a carrier based variation of the Vampire? Or perhaps it was a slightly later aircraft.
You're welcome.
The Sea Vixen was a carrier-borne aircraft, but although made by the same company (de Havilland) was not derived from the Vampire.
It was originally known as the DH11O and was at the design stage the same time as the Gloster Javelin. At the time the RAF were undecided which aircraft they wanted, but eventually chose the Javelin leaving the Royal Navy with the Sea Vixen (whose predecessor was the Sea Venom).
It entered Fleet Air Arm service in 1959 and was retired from active service in 1972. Although there are several complete aircraft remaining as museum pieces, the Sea Vixen pictured in my signature is the only airworthy one in existence.
It is painted in the standard colours of battleship grey and white, complete with the flying-fist insignia of 899 Squadron and the letter E denoting which carrier air-group it belonged to, in this case HMS Eagle.
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I seem to remember you saying that you were on HMS Eagle in the mid '60s. Did you by any chance call in at RAF Gan?
I can remember playing rugby against the Navy in '67. Not sure if it was Eagle or the Ark.
We got slaughtered and I lost all my front teeth when I went round the blind side of the scrum and met a 20 foot tall stoker coming the other way(He seemed that size
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The ship sailed without one sailor and we got sent on a search for him. He was found asleep in a monsoon ditch, clutching a crate of Tiger to his chest
Happy days indeed
I remember Gan well, although I never got ashore there.
HMS Eagle was stationed in the area in 1967 and there was much merriment amongst the crabfats (naval slang for the RAF's Brylcreem boys) when a diverted Sea Vixen overshot the runway at Gan and finished up getting rather wet. The RAF fire and rescue crew were in hysterics until they saw an RAF pilot clamber out of the aircraft - it was common practice at the time for Royal Air Force pilots to cross-operate with the Fleet Air Arm at sea.
As for playing rugby, big, fat, hairy stokers loved to get involved because it was one of the rare occasions when they could leave the engine room and get some fresh air in their lungs.
As you say, happy days.
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