Ex Valiant Reunion at Newark Air Museum

[Daddie Jaffa]

Hi Chaps( I'm posting this on behalf the 18Sqn Assoc):

The 18 Sqn Association Secretary has received a request from the Newark Air Museum asking if are there any ex Valiant personnel who would wish to attend a reunion on 17th and 18th May 2014 at the Newark Air Museum if so please contact [email protected]


apologies if this has been repeated eleswhere.

[Tankertrashnav]

Just to clarify, this is the V-Force Reunion (http://www.vforcereunion.co.uk/), which is of course open to all who were on the V Force, either as aircrew or groundcrew, on Valiants, Victors and Vulcans. Full details on the link.

In the past the Valiant contingent has been very well represented, especially considering the great age of some of them ;)

[ValMORNA]

Any chance of the Vickers Valetta personnel being considered 'V-Force'?

[Tankertrashnav]

No, or we'll be having Vildebeest crews asking to come along next ;)

[pbk]

Ex Vimy ground crew? Great Grandad would love an afternoon out.......

[ian16th]

The one that should qualify was the Vickers Varsity.

It was the same era and designed to drop bombs.

[Tankertrashnav]

I illegally occupied the bomb aimer's position in the nose of a Varsity for a landing at Gaydon once. Have to admit I flinched as the nose wheel touched!

[ian16th]

The most comfortable place that was ever used to locate any radio equipment was down there.

You laid on your back on a nice soft 'bed' to work on the 2 VHF Tx/Rx.http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/thumbs.gif

Different to 'organ lofts' and other obscure places where it was usually stashed.

[Fareastdriver]

I illegally occupied the bomb aimer's position in the nose of a Varsity for a landing

Did that at Wyton with the BLEU. Even funnier when the runway is wet.

When the V Force reunion website put a Valiant Mk1 on their website I will be interested, but not until then.

[ian16th]

Like this BK1?

http://www.vforcereunion.co.uk/images/mugshot.jpg

[Old-Duffer]

What about the Vultee Vengeance - and nobody mentioned the VC10

[ValMORNA]

In my defence, re the Vickers Valetta, we did carry bombs (as freight) from Fayid to Nairobi for the Avro Lincolns to use as Mau-Mau pacifiers. There was the occasional hitch, of course.