Originally Posted by
JENKINS
What a nasty-looking crowd in the newspaper article; would one, for example, buy a used motor car from one in particular? As for a Squadron Commander with a double-barreled name.......? An appropriate post, since it is their time of the year.
No NCO Navigators at Thorney on 46, albeit that one may have moved from Abingdon as an instructor with the Training Squadron. Standard crew one of each, that's four for the innumetate.
The "nasty looking" navigator was Garth Hawkins who was attached to the SAS and tragically died with his DAS comrades when the helicopter they were flying in from a carrier in the South Atlantic crashed killing everyone on board. Garth was the only RAF operational casualty in The Falklands conflict.