Still looking for Javelin crews

[Steve Bond]

With thanks to all those Javelin chaps who have contacted me in the last few months, work on this new book project is now picking up. I am still keen to contact both those who responded but did not follow-up - please, and any others out there. I welcome contact with anyone who flew or worked on the type with any unit anywhere - for example, where are you RAF Germany Javelin crews?!

Please respond so that I can tell you more about what is planned.

Thanks!

[Steve Bond]

Bouncing this thread back to the top in the hope that an RAFG Javelin man or two will see it and respond. 'Javelin Boys' is now on the stocks and interviews are still taking place.

Please contact me if you crewed or maintained them in Germany - there must be SOMEONE out there surely!

[Steve Bond]

Amazing. Lots of Javelin activity in Germany with several squadrons yet there seems to be nobody left. Shame, the story will be incomplete without it.

[NickB]

Steve - my ex-father-in-law was a back-seater on Javelins, but oddly not a full navigator, more of an in between role - cannot remember the full name his role was given.
Anyway, pm me your contact details and I might be able to ask him to help you out...
Cheers
Nick

[tiller]

Radar Operator

Hi NickB

The brevet your ex father-in law would have worn was an RO - radar operator ( NCOs) Radar Officer (commissioned).
Regards
Dougie

[Fixed Cross]

NickB,
and tiller,

Please forgive the minor correction but the official RO brevet title was Radio Observer. I wore one for 5 years before exchanging it for a Pilots wings. There were only a few serving ROs so I may have known your ex-father-in-law.

[NickB]

Fixed Cross - pm sent!

Thanks all for clarification.
Best
Nick

[matkat]

Used to se them when they flew over Broughty Ferry when I was growing up.

[Basil]

Back about 1968 we had a co-pilot on the Argosy at Benson (or was it Cottesmore?) who had lost an eye. ISTR he was ex Javelin.

[Steve Bond]

Thanks NickB, private message sent.

[Steve Bond]

Thanks Jenkins, private message sent.

[langleybaston]

I supported 29 Squadron Javelins at RAF Nicosia c. 1963 if memory serves. They were no trouble to a very junior Met Man.
Unlike Gp Capt Mickey Martin, who routinely scrounged fags from me, and indeed from all and sundry.

[Steve Bond]

Thanks for all the replies, I have now made contact with two RAFG 'Javelin Boys'.