Chris Wren

[Canadian Break]

Does anyone know the current whereabouts of Chris Wren? Son of the famous cartoonist; QFI extraordinaire; pianist of fame and, at the time I knew him, owner of a 3L Capri and a pair of six-guns! CB.

[Tankertrashnav]

I last saw Chris at the V Force reunion at Newark Air Museum last April (2010). I'm pretty sure he was still a Virgin Atlantic captain at the time, although he may have just retired. If you PM me and give me your email address I can email Chris and get him to contact you.

Never mind the 3L Capri, when I was at Marham on 214, Chris was a co-pilot on 57 and the only one on the base who drove an E-type Jag. Heard him singing in the showers at Sharjah once - he had a good voice too!

If you go to the reunion website V-Force Reunion (http://www.vforcereunion.co.uk/) and go to page three of the gallery there is one of Chris's dad's cartoons, which is excellent.

[BSweeper]

CB, TTN et al,

Here is a pic of Chris (note the 1Gp SD hat), his Dad and me after flying a Canberra on the Mag 7 in 1977.

I was his Nav for 2 years and there are so many stories it would eventually get boring.

Suffice it say I first met him on arrival at my new Sqn. Checking into one of the Mess huts at St Mawgan, I was confronted with a man, prone, with a silenced .22 rifle with a sniper-scope shooting out the lights.

A truly great bloke (ask the one about the still that he got workshops to make - 160% proof - blew your head off). Could play anything as long as it was in C; piano or accordion. Or the time that Scarfy secretly tied his flying boots to the rudder bar from the front Nav position whilst on a Wembury Q. I could go on.
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/aa421/patch1231/ChrisWrenhisDadandMe.jpg

Would love to make contact - please PM me.

BS

[Whopity]

and the only one on the base who drove an E-type Jag.No, there was a Sqn Ldr with a new E-type as well, green I recall! Chris at a Party in 71

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38428747/Chris%20Wren%201971.jpg

[Tankertrashnav]

No, there was a Sqn Ldr with a new E-type as well, green I recall!

Not doubting you, but I dont remember him. On my OCU course that year there were two Sqn Ldrs with Jensens, quite a classy course.

(Apart from my VW :()

[Whopity]

Which course was that? I seem to recall a Jensen.

[Airborne Aircrew]

Chris at a Party in 71

She looks drunk enough that even a pilot can score....

[Tankertrashnav]

Whopity - 95 Course on 232 OCU. The Jensens were a 541 and a CV8.

[Whopity]

TTN Fairly close, I was on 86, the first full Marham course but it didn't have a number then, just TTF.