Originally Posted by
ricardian
1961 and my first posting to RAF Driffield. One of the National Servicemen was a JnrTech Ground Wireless Fitter; his civilian job had been with Rolls Royce in Derby - designing military aircraft engines
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In June 1956 I was due to join the RAF on National Service, but I was transferred from Glasgow to Derby by Rolls-Royce, to work as an aircraft engine designer on the Conway, then theoretically a military engine. I was told by the Personnel Officer at Hillington as I turned to leave his office - 'by the way you are now permanently deferred from NS'. And so I was, I never got called up.
I was not best pleased, as I had a chit from GUAS (which had no slot for me after I passed all the tests to join) saying to the recruiting people that I was to be sent straight to Cranwell when my call up came. I
wanted to be a pilot. I finished my career as a Chief Engineer in an electro-optics company instead. I did become a glider pilot eventually.