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1980s RAF Recruiting Picture

Old 15th Mar 2013, 20:04
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Old 15th Mar 2013, 20:44
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Nutloose,

It would have been healthier to bin 'Fag' day and have 'Shag' day.
Quit smoking and shag a nurse.

Unless she had a dose then you could look forward to the 'umbrella' oooch!

Not that I'd know.
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Old 16th Mar 2013, 00:47
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Do any of the crews in the pics post here?
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Old 16th Mar 2013, 00:55
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I believe that the pilot in the pic on post #11 posts under the name of Beagle
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He's flying handsfree
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Old 20th Feb 2017, 05:11
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Just out of interest why does the Jaguar in post #6 not have a chiselled glass nose with the laser ranger and marked target seeker?
Is it French or a T2 with a canopy closed ?
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Welcome to the 2023 pay scheme. "Obviously any job that pays this kind of money takes some doing". The chap in the advert looks so impressed.
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Old 20th Feb 2017, 06:32
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Originally Posted by gr4techie
Just out of interest why does the Jaguar in post #6 not have a chiselled glass nose with the laser ranger and marked target seeker?
Is it French or a T2 with a canopy closed ?
Not an expert on Jags, etc, but with ex-spotter hat on I think from fading memory the "glass nose" was a retrofit that came along a year or two or perhaps more after the type was introduced into RAF service. Standing by to be corrected.

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Old 20th Feb 2017, 07:25
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Navigator by 23 - age creep even then. A few years earlier you could be 20-21 and as a pilot a V bomber captain by 23.
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