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Forum: Military Aviation

13th Oct 2011, 10:41

Replies: 214

Gutersloh, Mid 70s

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Posted By ShyTorque

A few weeks before Wg Cdr Holland's sad demise I...

A few weeks before Wg Cdr Holland's sad demise I recall him playing a tea chest double bass at a beer call, as part of a Harrier mates' band.

Forum: Military Aviation

9th Oct 2011, 23:52

Replies: 214

Gutersloh, Mid 70s

Views: 123,461

Posted By ShyTorque

The late, tragically killed Sqn Boss? If so, I...

The late, tragically killed Sqn Boss? If so, I took the Station photographer to the accident site (the Harrier squadron was deployed in the field) and we flew over and around the still smouldering...

Forum: Military Aviation

27th Jan 2011, 15:26

Replies: 214

Gutersloh, Mid 70s

Views: 123,461

Posted By ShyTorque

Teeters, I bow to your greater knowledge of...

Teeters,

I bow to your greater knowledge of those old hovering machines that sometimes flew. I was better aquainted with the flying machines that sometimes hovered..... and yes, sometimes drooped...

Forum: Military Aviation

27th Jan 2011, 10:50

Replies: 214

Gutersloh, Mid 70s

Views: 123,461

Posted By ShyTorque

Wasn't that the same occasion that an 18 Sqn...

Wasn't that the same occasion that an 18 Sqn Wessex got totally iced up while doing underslung load training over at Junker's Farm, on the south side of the airfield? The sudden thick ice jacket it...

Forum: Military Aviation

21st May 2010, 18:59

Replies: 214

Gutersloh, Mid 70s

Views: 123,461

Posted By ShyTorque

Bloody school teachers! :rolleyes: ;)

Bloody school teachers! :rolleyes:

;)

Forum: Military Aviation

20th May 2010, 23:07

Replies: 214

Gutersloh, Mid 70s

Views: 123,461

Posted By ShyTorque

BD, thanks for the lesson on the meaning of...

BD, thanks for the lesson on the meaning of military security classifications, although unusually I was required to sign the OSA declaration five times, three times more than most ex-military folk.
...

Forum: Military Aviation

20th May 2010, 19:35

Replies: 214

Gutersloh, Mid 70s

Views: 123,461

Posted By ShyTorque

Nice to see those photos but doesn't the word...

Nice to see those photos but doesn't the word RESTRICTED mean... well..you know, restricted? :confused:

Forum: Military Aviation

24th Feb 2010, 20:15

Replies: 214

Gutersloh, Mid 70s

Views: 123,461

Posted By ShyTorque

Yes, it was. Were you in the C Flt barn...

Yes, it was.

Were you in the C Flt barn where a certain beefer (GC) appeared to be terrified of rats after one was spotted running across the straw? We spent much of the night doing "rat...

Forum: Military Aviation

22nd Feb 2010, 20:56

Replies: 214

Gutersloh, Mid 70s

Views: 123,461

Posted By ShyTorque

Well it was mine so I washed it as much as I...

Well it was mine so I washed it as much as I wanted.

And if you've only got one guyrope and three pegs it's difficult to know how big the tent was supposed to be....

(At least I was never...

Forum: Military Aviation

4th Jan 2008, 20:24

Replies: 214

Gutersloh, Mid 70s

Views: 123,461

Posted By ShyTorque

Oh yes, the Top Secret "Hotel Foxtrot" exercise...

Oh yes, the Top Secret "Hotel Foxtrot" exercise names.... which everyone for miles around knew actually stood for "Harrier Force".

Ours were were "Spring, Summer, Autumn and Frozen Tiger". Saw...

Forum: Military Aviation

31st Dec 2007, 21:26

Replies: 214

Gutersloh, Mid 70s

Views: 123,461

Posted By ShyTorque

Al Boulden, Mike Barter and John Kennedy playing...

Al Boulden, Mike Barter and John Kennedy playing with... something of the late George McCracken's....! :)

I was at Gutersloh slightly later, October 1980 till December 1983, when 230 took over...

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