Originally Posted by
ACW342
If you wanted fish, you should have called me at Lossie ops. One year just before Xmas I saw off a shack off to Scampton, I think it was, loaded with cod and haddock ( no cash, fish for fresh Lincolnshire veg and a few chickens (plucked and cleaned)) just as a Britt was landing from Boscombe to pick up a few stone of Cod. I finished the day with more cod onto a Canberra for Binbrook. There were quite a few entrepreneurs at Lossie and Kinross thanks to the low pay airmen received and the massive cost of living thanks to North Sea oil, which saw airmen like me with two young children having to go overdrawn thanks to the storage radiators in AMQ's ( If you got a Taxi into Lossie or Elgin I could have been your driver!)
Sounds like RAF Masirah in the mid sixties. We had a schedule of three Argosies a week from Aden to Masirah called RSM's - Ryan Salalah, Masirah, which night stopped at Masirah then headed back to Aden via Salalah and Ryan. I always picked up a load of cooked Crayfish tails from the Sergeants Mess at Masirah for 6 pence a tail and popped them in the freezer as soon as I got home in Maala. They made very nice Lobster Thermadors!