Squadron nicknames

[greycoat]

Seeing YellowSun make comment about "ginger tom coming out of a dustbin" as a reference to a certain sqn on the "You've got to be Kidding" thread I wondered how many other nicknames people had for sqns other than their own. I'm guessing these names are not the most flattering and could be quite amusing. Any suggestions?

[Pilot Pacifier]

FREAKS!

Give you one guess which Sqn that is :}

[BluntM8]

Six-Foot (617 Sqn)
Shiny Twelve (guess...)
Shifty-Fix/ 65(Reverse) Sqn ... 56(R) Sqn
Tremblers (111 Sqn)
The Ton (100 Sqn)

There must be more?

Blunty

[Wrathmonk]

BluntM8

100 Sqn = Tatty Ton ;)

Then there is also ...

31 Sqn - Brown Stars / Dirty Bum
617 Sqn - Six Seventeen (they really like that one!)
XV(R) Sqn - Fifteen Arse Sqn (particularly when they insisted that the (R) was in the smallest font possible!)

[Gainesy]

56's Phoenix was known as the Oven-Ready Chicken at Akrotiri. LXX was Love & Kisses.

[Rossian]

I'm sure I won't be the first with this, but wasn't "****ty Six" a Jag Sqn?
The Ancient Mariner

[Radar Riser]

120 sqn is always known as the Big Badge Sqn. A few years ago, they had "CXX" painted in big yellow letters on the roof of the old squadron building. One Friday night, 2 drunken pilots, you know who you are!, from Octopussy sqn painted TS in big yellow letters after it.

Oh how we laughed when they had to replace the roofing felt!

201 are always known as girlies own, but not due to the fact that they are affiliated to Guernsey:E

[pr00ne]

Rossian the ancient mariner,
Yes, “****ty Six” is a Jag Sqn. Before that “****ty Six” was an F-4 Sqn, before that “****ty Six” was a Canberra Sqn and before that “****ty Six” was a Venom Sqn. Oddly enough before that “****ty Six” was a Vampire Sqn, and before that “****ty Six” was a Tempest Sqn. In fact you have to go right back to the time before “****ty Six” were a Hurricane Sqn to find a time when “****ty Six” were not known as such!
Tee Hee
Pr00ne
(ex- fighting 54th Sqn)

[Strictly Jungly]

FREAKS!
Give you one guess which Sqn that is :}

I know the sqn but.............
Can you tell us why this wonderful sqn is so called?

[Pilot Pacifier]

Sorry Strictly Jungly, if I was to tell you the reasons why, someone would have my nuts off... :eek: :ok:

[Dunhovrin]

208 always referred to 12 as Dog Squadron.

I had the pleasure of serving on Half Past Two or Chinese Dentists.

And didn't 201 call themselves 201 "Heterosexual" Sqn in the early 90s due to crises de sexuality on the other two at Kinloss?

[c130jbloke]

You also had the “shiny 10” who (strangely enough) operated the VC10 until their demise last year.
I seem to remember that 18 went under the cover of the “sh$tting donkey” Sqn as well.
:bored:
C130JB

[A2QFI]

II squadron used to be called "Shiny Two" and when they had Hunters their Tail Letters were S-H-I-N-Y-T-W-O, when we got F-4s they were S-H-I-N-Y-E-R-T-W-O.

[QFIhawkman]

32 (The Royal) Squadron... Known widely as 32 (The Spoiled) Squadron!

[ZH875]

208 always referred to 12 as Dog Squadron.
Ah 208 Sqn, AKA 'Runway Denial Squadron', 9/10 Buccs that took the RHAG seemed to belong to 208.

Anyone remember 44(Z) Sqn.

[Bob Wyer]

No Zimbabwe in the Outfit that flew the Rhodesian Flag outside their Squadron and had green and white scarves, but that was a long time ago. on a distant planet, the far side of the universe.....

[ZH875]

I think 44(Z) was used mainly by bods on the other 3 sqns at Waddington around 1980 ish.

Elephantus Storcus Ori IIRC was emblazoned on the T-Shirts of the once famous 44(R) guys, still, in this day of Reserve Squadrons, maybe 44(Z) would be a better ident than being mistaken for a plastic sqn.

[Severance]

Sorry Strictly Jungly, if I was to tell you the reasons why, someone would have my nuts off... :eek: :ok:

:D
Shims aren't just spacers then?:=

[FormerFlake]

Any guesses for the 'Ice Cream Sqn'?

[Yeller_Gait]

Radar Riser,

Any chance that you have a copy of said photo of the roof of CXX?

As a long time serving girlies own, my favorite sqadron name was that bestowed on 206, aka 9 to 4 Sqn, a few years ago.

Y_G

[Mr C Hinecap]

56 Sqn - Chicken In A Basket isn't it? Also Shifty Fix.

Also sometimes 'The Penal Colony' or 'that bunch of ******* over there' depending on just how demanding they had been :E

[BEagle]

ZH875 - yes, 44(Z) - the 'Zimbabwe Air Legion' - started as a joke of mine, but Terry M (who was on 44) had the t-shirts made on a Western Ranger...

23 - 'The crows'
50 - 'Sh*gging rats'
617 - 'Six Seventeenth Bombardment Wing'

43 - Fighting Cocks

And the 101 'ginger tom in the dustbin' looked more like a cat crapping in a pork pie.

As this is a family show, I shall not reveal what the 10 Sqn badge was often called......

[Mad_Mark]

And didn't 201 call themselves 201 "Heterosexual" Sqn in the early 90s due to crises de sexuality on the other two at Kinloss?

Err, no - that was 206 . 201 had more than their share of (shall we say for political correctness) 'gentlemen in high heeled shoes', whilst 120 had their infamous "feel free to pull your plonkler in front of me" pilot :yuk:

Strange though that 206 seemed to have forgotten their rug-munching mini-adj that was around at about the same time :ok:


MadMark!!! :mad:

[Dunhovrin]

Was it in Flight that 43 were referred to as "The Flying Cocks"?

[OCCWMF]

43 - The Squabbling Knobs

[Training Risky]

IV(AC) Sqn - 'Happy Four'
18(B) Sqn - 'My Little Pony' (keen on mythical horse-type creatures)
22 Sqn - 'The Romney Marsh Mountain Rescue Team'
27 Sqn - 'Bunsters' (keen on elephants)

[South Bound]

216 Sqn - any variation that didn't go 2-sixteen (2-1-6, 2 hundred and sixteen or 2 and sixpence) was enough to upset them. Still think their motto was great, think it was Dona Ferens 'Bearing Gifts'

99 Sqn - Mr Whippy, obvious really!

[mgdaviso]

Going back a few years here - anyone know what 115 Sqn's nickname was?

[NutherA2]

Was it in Flight that 43 were referred to as "The Flying Cocks"?

The Squadron diaries include one newspaper headline which referred to 43 as "THE FIGHTING SOCKS"

[Radar Riser]

Yeller_gait

I saw a photograph of the roof a few months back, but I can't remember where. Old age kicking in! I'm in a sandy place at the mo but will chase it up when I get back.

Oh yes, 9 to 4 sqn, "Right, if you're not flying or in the sim, I want you on the sqn in the afternoon aswell as the morning" OC 206, who shares the same name as a Formula 1 racing team.

Can't mention it as it will cost me a beer!!:p

[Basil]

mgdaviso,
Considering the badge looks like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/Capn_Basil/7b3134a6.gif

it does leave some scope for the imagination :}

Basil (ex 115)

[Mad_Mark]

Oh yes, 9 to 4 sqn, "Right, if you're not flying or in the sim, I want you on the sqn in the afternoon aswell as the morning" OC 206, who shares the same name as a Formula 1 racing team.
Can't mention it as it will cost me a beer!!:p

Yep, don't mention the 'M' word :eek: He was a total anchor, with a capital W :yuk: (allegedly ;) )


MadMark!!! :mad:

[MrBernoulli]

"As this is a family show, I shall not reveal what the 10 Sqn badge was often called......" doth quote the BEagle.

Oh go on, pretty please. pretty pretty please with brass knobs on. Do tell the assembled masses, they won't tell anyone else ... honest. You can't introduce a little tidbit like that and leave them all wondering .....;)

[Strictly Jungly]

Visited 25(F) Sqn recently..do they have a nickname?

Thanks for a very sociable evening chaps!

[Pontius Navigator]

1O1 the sqn with a hole in the middle.

Look at the left hand mess garage roof at Cottesmore, if it is still there, it was about 8 years ago. You can make out XV is BUMS.

10 painted it in big white letters in 1964. They then had to paint it out which they did in black. Unfortunately the roof is not black :}

[Charlie Luncher]

Just to set the story straight when the ring was busted 1 Nav was ex 10 sqn, 1 Nav was ex 206 and the last was an EW operator need I say more.:=

I do remember a stroppy Jock getting upset when his garden was re arranged to follow the roof, whatever happened to the yellow duster rollnecks.:uhoh:

Something about that name Mc(pay beer) they were both knobs as I remember:ooh:
Charlie sends

[Mad_Mark]

Just to set the story straight when the ring was busted 1 Nav was ex 10 sqn, 1 Nav was ex 206 and the last was an EW operator need I say more.:=

I think you'll find that the ex-206 navs lover-boy was in fact a pilot ;) Or was there yet another nav involved that I haven't heard of :confused:

MadMark!!! :mad:

[trap one]

8 managed to get the title of The Singing Sqn When one of their bosses turned up to a "Musical Jam" session of hardened rock aficionado’s and was all for Cum By Ya My Lord. Even had their Sqn Badge painted on the roof of the Res in Pordenone with a trebble cleft instead of the dagger.

[Wholigan]

As Beags said earlier, 43 was the Fighting Cocks. However, once upon a long time ago in Bahrein, the son of a friend of mine looked at another mate wearing a 43 Sqn tie and said (LOUDLY) --- "Why is he wearing a Road-Runner tie?". Guess what, 43 instantly became to us the "Fighting Road-Runners"! :E

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v479/Wholigan/43sqn-600.jpg

[Beeayeate]

3 Sqn was "C.o.c.k on a Rock". (A Cockatrice standing on a monolith).
http://www.bywat.co.uk/sqd-crests/Image11.jpg
Tertius Primus Erit.
.

[LateArmLive]

More like a f**ked up chicken on a breeze block!

[kippermate]

When I was at RAF Finnington (near Donchester) 115 Sqn were known as the 115th Tactical Flight Checking Sqn; sometimes, if feeling punchy, they flew slightly above the glideslope!

:ok:

kipper

[DHI]

Heard in the early Tonka days, 617 being reffered to as XV Sqn C Flight. Think it goes back to when XV were testing and 6foot were born!

DHI

[baffy boy]

6 Flying Can Openers
16 Saints
CXX Hugs and Kisses Sqn (not so called by those on CXX, apart from by a certain co-pilot perhaps)
64 (R) 228 OCU Dung Beetles

[spectre150]

Baffy - as well as being known (to themselves) as Saints, the rest of the Laarbruch wing knew 16 as STAINS - an anagram of Saints of course and standing for STuffed Again IN Salmond (the Salmond trophy was the RAFG inter-sqn bombing comp IIRC).

[Longstick]

800 NAS - The quiche

i.e. real men don't eat quiche.....

[Wader2]

"Right, if you're not flying or in the sim, I want you on the sqn in the afternoon aswell as the morning" OC 206, who shares the same name as a Formula 1 racing team.

Can't mention it as it will cost me a beer!!:p

I have the priviledge of being on the same sqn as the above mentioned sgt. Later I also had the priviledge of translating a letter that the said sgt, now air cdre had written.

The staish asked OC EES for 1 one page precis. OC EES passed it on to OC CIS Eng. Neither understood a word of it. It was lal very well writing - Base Systems Architecture (BSA) - but never explaine dwhat BSA was not provided enough context for the average pilot :} to understand.

[WhiteOvies]

801 NAS - The Jumper Tuckers - for crimes against fashion and probably uniform regulations.;)

[push&start]

Originally Posted by Radar Riser
"Right, if you're not flying or in the sim, I want you on the sqn in the afternoon aswell as the morning" OC 206, who shares the same name as a Formula 1 racing team.
Please don't tell me this joker is now air cdre
Ex 9-2-4 Eng

[Wader2]

That was 10 years ago. Has either reached his level of incompetence or retired - or both.

[Spiro]

32 (The Royal) Squadron... Known widely as 32 (The Spoiled) Squadron!
Funny, been on sqn for 6 years - never heard of that, guess valley's getting to you! I guess if spending 400 days deployed OOA in last 3.5 years is spoiled then pass the silver spoons round!

Hows that 8-5 mon to friday job by the way? LOL

He throws the bait and waits...

[Beeayeate]

Anybody mentioned 'Secret Squirrels' yet? (51 Sqn)

And wasn't 192 Sqn (Watton) called 'Wiggley Amps'?

:cool:

[push&start]

That was 10 years ago. Has either reached his level of incompetence or retired - or both.

Reached his level of incompetance way more than 10 years ago and with luck has long since retired.

[engoal]

I seem to recall sharing the ACMI pan in Deci in the late '80s with 228 OCU, who insisted on decorating the famous wall with pictures of Claude, the Gay Scarab Beetle.

Also, TWCU used to attract titles such as Trans-World Cock Ups and Tornado Washing and Cleaning Unit.

Lastly, the engineers on 27 at Marham in the early '80s went through a period of referring to the Sqn as 'Tenko' because it was run by Tojo and you couldn't get out.

[greycoat]

Would that be the same Tojo who was at the HQ STC bunker in the late 90s?

[Safeware]

I thought 51 Sqn was 51 Snoop Group?

and 10/101 Sqn the binary Sqn?

sw

[QFIhawkman]

SPIRO, never mind the bait...... Check your PMs.

And don't fish for QFIs again without checking your facts.

[Mighty Norman]

I think you'll find that the ex-206 navs lover-boy was in fact a pilot ;) Or was there yet another nav involved that I haven't heard of :confused:

MadMark!!! :mad:


I actually though 120 was the Hetero Sqn as 201 had a certain young Queen, 206 had a slightly older one whereas 'Rent-Boy' technically was just regarded as a 'sexual-deviant'............;)

[Mighty Norman]

6 Flying Can Openers
16 Saints
CXX Hugs and Kisses Sqn (not so called by those on CXX, apart from by a certain co-pilot perhaps)
64 (R) 228 OCU Dung Beetles

Baffy you are being far too polite mate....it wasn't hugs!!!!!:p

[Mighty Norman]

I do remember a stroppy Jock getting upset when his garden was re arranged to follow the roof, whatever happened to the yellow duster rollnecks.:uhoh:


Still wear mine with pride (no Splitter, that's WITH not AT Pride!!!)

Did anyone ever paint the 201 float pink or rainbow coloured or did I just dream it?!!

I was on the mighty 120 at the time and nearly crashed my car into the boss's office on my way to work when I saw the CXXTS...there's a few aerial pics of it knocking around and even in the newer pics you could still make out the TS.......Juliet Echo...not there's a naughty boy!! Spank him Yupp...oops:=

[Duncan D'Sorderlee]

It was 206 (Heterosexual) Sqn - in the days before equal opportunities - there were pens and beer mats to prove it! It didn't half wind-up OC CXX when he was given a '206' pen to sign his bar chit!

[Pontius Navigator]

It was 206 (Heterosexual) Sqn - in the days before equal opportunities - there were pens and beer mats to prove it! It didn't half wind-up OC CXX when he was given a '206' pen to sign his bar chit!

Did that on 35. Some wag ordered a few gross and dished them out by the bucket load with instructions to get rid of them. Lasted about 4 weeks up and down the routes and round UK.

Crap pens though, they didn't even last 4 weeks :}

[Strictly Jungly]

Sorry Strictly Jungly, if I was to tell you the reasons why, someone would have my nuts off... :eek: :ok:


PP,
Thats OK. I have it now................was it the Dick Emery look alike?

[engoal]

Would that be the same Tojo who was at the HQ STC bunker in the late 90s?

The very same, and more recently still, since he emerged blinking from the bunker and moved into the big house.

[push&start]

30 Sqn = Palm Tree Airlines

[Blackhawk9]

A couple from the RAAF
9 Sqn -Blackhawk-(Had an Albatross on the crest)- Angry Duck! all grafitti done by 9 sqn personel was signed- An Albat. T. Ross Production!
33 Sqn- 707 vip/Tanker Winging Windsors- complained about anything not for them!!
77Sqn -F/A 18-Angry Dogs- Chinese dog on crest
12 Sqn -Chinook -Angry Palm Tree Airlines
35 Sqn -Caribou/Iroquois, Wallaby Airlines

[alexmac]

45 (R) fly the 'Bling Air'....any names relating to the Taj Mahal

[spectre150]

TTTE = Thomas The Tank Engine

[greensatin]

mgdaviso & Basil

With a motto of 'Hands On', think we were called something like 'The Wackers', ......but correct me if I misspelt.:=

Tom (ex 115 Marham 1956)

[Circus Chimp]

The best nick name I've come across was held by 51 Sqn....It was in 1995 when they were commonly known around Waddo as 34 Flt

[HJones]

Hi All
Im New to the forum. Retired from the RAF 2002 and fled to the US~!

Heres my ten penny worth ...


617 Sqn - Six one Spit or Dumb Bas**rds as opposed to Dam Busters.

23 Sqn - 23 Foot and mouth

and a non aircraft Sqn, on which I served. - 5131 (BD) Sqn - the wanky bomb, due to the gloved hand holding a bomb.

[FantomZorbin]

I seem to remember the "World Famous Recce Force" - 13Sqn - or the 'Stabbed Cats'.
I've heard 13 is now twinned with X-Box, is that right?

[Roland Pulfrew]

Duncan D
It was 206 (Heterosexual) Sqn - in the days before equal opportunities - there were pens and beer mats to prove it! It didn't half wind-up OC CXX when he was given a '206' pen to sign his bar chit!

Always loved the disinformation put out by Octo-pussy Sqn, strangely forgetting that two of the Kinloss ring spent their first tours undercover on 206. And of course forget their mini-adj and the Kinloss Ladies Ring. :suspect:

[Tashengurt]

TTTE = Thomas The Tank Engine

I recall a time when you couldn't drive down a motorway without seeing a dayglo train on a roadsign.


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[Canadian Break]

11Sqn - The "flying sh*tehawks"

[RedhillPhil]

I always thought that 43 squadron personell were referred to as "The chicken farmers".
There used to be an old boy - now deceased - who lived in the next road to us who claimed to have served in Hunter days. He kept a few Bantams in the garden. His name was Doug - I never did know his surname.

[Neptunus Rex]

In the middle '60s, following a spectacularly less than successful Cat Board interrogation, 206 became known as:

"F Troop."

[Daf Hucker]

I have a photo of the 120 Sqn roof after a mid-night visit from 206, but for soem reason I'm not allowed to post attachments? :{

[The B Word]

V(AC) Sqn - "the girls school" in the 1990s
29(F) Sqn - Triplex
72 Sqn - Basutoland
111(F) Sqn - One hundred and eleven squadron :E
234(Madras Presidency) Sqn - The dragons
74(F) Sqn - The Tigers, with a spoof motto of "I fear Norman" (should be I fear no man)
99 Sqn - Ice Cream Squadron
45 Sqn - Flying Camels
19(F) Sqn - Fighting Dolphins
IX(B) Sqn - The Bats
56(F) Sqn - Shifty-fix, chicken in a basket, 65(reverse) sqn
64(F) Sqn - Fying dung beetles
43(F) Sqn - The squabbling bantams
17(F) Sqn - The Black Knights

getting bored now...

[The Helpful Stacker]

Non-flying unit..

TCW = Two C***ts and a Wireless.

[Tea White Zero]

30 = Dirty Thirty

24 = XXIV = Puking Chickens - from their badge

4 = Happy 4

when 10 and 101 joined = binary 10101

99 = Mr Whippy or Black Pussys

216 = Twenty one-six or '216 Precious'

47 = foxy-loxy

[Easy Street]

I recall a time when you couldn't drive down a motorway without seeing a dayglo train on a roadsign.

What is the history of this practice? There are dayglo bulls-heads leading the way from Brize to Marham and I've always wondered who / when / why...

[ExAscoteer]

It's not 'Dirty Thirty', it's 'Dirty Firty' complete with glottal stops!

[NutLoose]

230.... The cat pissing up against a set of feeler gauges .

[Shack37]

As requested (if it works)


http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa163/exshack37/120SqnRoof.jpg

[NutLoose]

It does :}

[oxenos]

205 Sqn - " White Knuckle Airlines - the only airline which lets you sit with the crew "

[dragartist]

51 got a mention earlier. When I was at Wyton we always referred to them as the Formation Eating Team.

I used to drive by TCW each morning on my way to work at BZN. never heard them called that!! very funny!

[The B Word]

Shack 37

Cracking picture, mate! :D But, by crikey, it's grim up North!

The B Word

[wasacop]

Back when 617 had reformed at Marham the groundcrew crew room phone was regularly answered as "Kings Lynn Flying Club"!!
Also remember being on 27 when caricatures of Tojo appeared around the site and a Jap flag was proudly displayed from the groundcrews hotel on detachment at Villafranca!!

[flipflopman]

Sadly, apart from the building bottom left, everything
you see has been reduced to ground level.

[howiehowie93]

IX(B) Sqn - The Bats

THe IX(B) Tonkas used to have a green bat on the fin,
one time in Deci some departing Sqn left a graffiti somewhere that "they aint Bats, they're Squashed Frogs" ! and I suppose they did too !

We used to answer the phone as IX ( as in rhymes with FIX)

Regards
H

[SRENNAPS]

engoal

the engineers on 27 at Marham in the early '80s went through a period of referring to the Sqn as 'Tenko' because it was run by Tojo

I was enjoying reading this thread up to the point where I read his name. Arrrrggggg! re-emerging nightmares forming in my head, even after 25 years:mad::mad:

[Lightning Mate]

31 Sqn. - Fivestar.

[nosmo king]

Thanks for the CxxTS roof picture, brings back many memories and laughs on final approach into KSS.......anybody got a snap of a certain Navs Allegro being crushed outside the same Sqn building in the late 80's by an armoured vehicle at a Friday afternoon beer call?

[Xercules]

And then, of course, was 23 Sqn down at Stanley and then MPA known as the Wimps, although at this distance in time I cannot think why.

[INT_QRU]

That CXX picture always makes me laugh - excellent!

Rich

[speedbird320]

70Sqn LXX Love and Kisses

[grizz]

Sorry Nosmo no pictures but it was a Renault 30 (brown) owned by my co pilot, who is now a Capt with Cathay, he was having trouble trying to sell it, so we thought we would help him get rid of it!!

[Pontius Navigator]

Going back in time, 12 were known as the Shinies possibly from when their Fairy Fox bombers were shiney aluminium.

[ICM]

I would dearly like to be able to pin down the first use with certainty but, equally back in time, the 'Shiny Ten' appellation may well have begun when the squadron re-equipped with the metal HP Hinaidi, circa 1930. The change from all-wooden aircraft certainly seems to have caught folks' attention, and I can see why such a name may have spread around a bit around that time.

[turbroprop]

The B Is for best

[Ali Barber]

1ACC didn't like being referred to as 1 Amateur Camping Club in an exercise ATO

[27mm]

92 Sqn - The Cobras

19 Sqn - The Dolphins (aka Bunch of Pooftas):p

[david parry]

809squadron....Immorals;)

[flipper the dolphin]

Tiger, Tiger, Tiger.......Rah,Rah,Raaaaaaah!

[Dominoe]

No 78 Sqn (MPA) had a nickname - or more accurately a song - mmm more of a chant really.

[cornish-stormrider]

so what were the nicknames for XI(F) and 33??

just coz I was minioning on them an no bugger ever told me!

[Tea White Zero]

OOOOps 78!

whoosh 1312!

never understood the whoosh bit... should has been a rumble rumble drone 1312!

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

I was XI(F) late 80's ish. If anything, it was Legs 11. We got the WWII badge, with Ginger Rogers' legs, remade.

[PFMG]

After all the Nimrod banter I'm surprised no-one has recalled that CXX were also known as The Masons - or did I just dream that?

[Alber Ratman]

Don't let the real old boys of No 6 Squadron hear you call it " Canopeners", They get a right monk on.. It was the Tin Openers in 1942 out in Egypt when the Sqaudron ground crew came up with the idea for a marking up an emblem on their Hurricane IID's to match the Sharks teeth on the 112 Sqn Kittyhawks. One of the Sqn pilots had said ot one of the ground crew post a anti tank sortie with the 40 mm canon armed Hurri, " It was as easy as opening a tin of bully!" That was the inspiration for the Winged Tinopener mofit that then OC, Wing Commander Roger Porteous allowed to be painted to the aircraft..

Love Flight Golbal, wish this had existed when I was researching stuff for the 90th Aniversary..:O

hurricane | 1951 | 0021 | Flight Archive (http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1951/1951%20-%200021.html)

Shiney Six comes from the days of flying Bristol F2B fighters in the middle east during the 20's..:E

[pr00ne]

Canopeners? Tinopeners? Shineysix?

it's:

****TY SIX


and we all know why!

[Alber Ratman]

Jealous...:E

[Riskman]

3(F) - 3 Fag

In Futurum Videre ;)

[cynicalint]

Forty Who? ........or was that second division south?

[ArthurR]

43 sqn hunters, Khormaksar, were refered to as the "Punchy Chickens"

[BSweeper]

No 29(F) were known as Triplex. The probably apocryphal story is that in the early 1020s an erk was tasked to paint the CO's plane with a "29 in Roman numerals". On questioning what on earth that was, he was told "two X's and and one X". The aircraft in question duly had three X's painted on the wings.

I never knew what 30Sqn thought about that.

I say "probably apocryphal" because there is a picture of a 29Sqn aircraft in 1924 with four X's.

617Sqn, in my time, were always known as the "Dead Dog Club".

No7(B) Sqn were obviously known as "The Magnificent Seven". On dining in nights at St Mawgan this used to pi$$ off 42Sqn no end, as the tune played by the band was far more rousing than Elgar's "Nimrod".

Happy days.

[Cabe LeCutter]

In the late seventies, I seem to remember one wag modified 43 Sqn motto emblazoned on the side of their hangar. FARTING COOKS. A lot of not happy faces :hmm::hmm::hmm:

Heads Down, look out for the flack

[BEagle]

When I was on 35, 617 were 'the dead dog mob'. 44(R) became 44 Zimbabwe, 50 were the '$hagging rats'....

On 56, the other squadron (23) was invariably known as 'the crows'....

All banter, of course!

[Tommy Tipee]

A bit of thread creep perhaps, but in the early 70's it was the fashion at Lyneham for squadrons to produce stickers to mark their presence down the route or to zap visiting aircraft.

Unfortunately, the punchy "HIT THE FLOOR.... IT'S 24" offering took on a very different meaning when the letter "S" and the word "ON" were strategically added by passing graffiti artists.

Result, one very p****d off Boss, who if I remember correctly was the same guy whose suggestion that we should all have special ID pictures taken wearing gas masks for use during TACEVAL was not said in jest.

[Bill Macgillivray]

Beagle, 35 motto was "One animal against us" if my Latin was correct !!:ok::ok::ok: