6 Squadron

[I Ball]

Can anyone offer an up date on the reforming of 6Sqn

[Benjybh]

Am I right in thinking that they are to be the next squadron to stand up with Typhoons?

[SENTRYBOD]

6 Sqn will build at RAF Coningsby begining Dec 09. It will then move as a unit to RAF Leuchars forming on 1 Oct 09. :ok:

[SENTRYBOD]

Whoops 1 Oct 10!

[Finnpog]

I was looking up 6 Sqn history today - the whole 'Flying Can Openers' (that started as 'Tin' Openers when equipped with Hurricanes on Anti-Armour ops in the desert).

I still smile at the photographes showing the red on pale blue logo on the side of Jaguar air intake nacelles.:ok:

[pr00ne]

When sh***y six move from Coningsby to Leuchars, will they take their groundcrew with them..............................................

[L J R]

Didn't they just finish Red Flag?...oooh sorry 6 SQN RAF...!

[SENTRYBOD]

pr00ne

Yes the unit move will be all aircraft, aircrew and groundcrew that have been mustered by then.

[pr00ne]

SENTRYBOD,

I see, thanks. They're not following historical precedent then?


Pr00ne
ex-54

[Not Long Here]

6 Sqn have been going for a wee while out here with Sea Sprites. :}

[Stitchbitch]

PrOOn, nice to see someone from 54(R) posting here...Everyone knows that 6 sqn RAFO (or SOAF to old soaks) was the best 6 sqn around. And the Hunter probably went a bit faster than the cat...

[Captain Kirk]

Pr000ne,

If you want to read history then do it properly - I think you'll find that quite a few sqns vacated their airstrips in a bit of a hurry in the early days of WWII. What would you have done - let your aircraft be captured intact? Destroy them unnecessarily?

Or man up and make the hard choice?

[pr00ne]

At LAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you Capt Kirk.


Still, only ONE squadron was called SHI**Y SIX and only ONE squadron had songs written about it...................

Pr00ne
ex-54

[Captain Kirk]

Only one sqn had songs written about it??? Your repertoire must be very limited! And why mask Shiney six?!!

Now Pr000ne, I served with both auspicious sqns and the fishing season closed at the weekend!

Audax Omnia Perpeti

[pr00ne]

Well Capt, I only served with one of them, as well as a much less auspicious lot out in Germany, so I am sure you can appreciate that I am referring to the KIND of songs sung about SH1TTY S1X with one subject in mind. Seemed to work in crewrooms in places such as Coningsby and Akrotiri.
:ok:

[soddim]

I must point out to Proone that one of the songs of my period on shiney six included the line:

'Oh what a cock-up, how they got shot up, poor old 54'

So songs were not exclusively written about six although there was much to sing about in those days.

[pr00ne]

soddim,

True, very true!