Originally Posted by
WB627
They do not look any different from the aircrew I met as a CCF cadet and I met rather more than most as my Dad was a pilot with 1 AEF. Not only did I meet current aircrew including pilots holding doing a stint on the AEF, but I also met senior serving officers who were "keeping there hand in" whilst their day job was flying a desk. I also met a lot of WW2 pilots like my dad, including his personal friends, Mac Hamilton DFC*, Frank Wolfson DFC, Bob Robinson a City of Glasgow Squadron Spitfire Pilot (you can always tell a fighter pilot, but you cannot tell him much!). There were even a couple of Navy pilots on the AEF, one serving (MOD desk job) and one retired who happened to live round the corner from us. And there is my late father in law 618 Squadron and his brother Blenheim air gunner 236 Squadron Battle of Britain.
They all did their duty for King/Queen and country and unlike Garth, lived to tell the tale. I would have bought a used car from any of them.
The post by JENKINS. is one of the most reprehensible posts I have ever had the misfortune to read on PPRuNe
Er, as someone who was aircrew, I have to say that, whilst there WERE a lot of great guys (and they all were guys in my day) there were also some thoroughly rotten bad eggs who I most certainly would NOT have bought a second hand car from! Folk come in all shapes and sizes and types. Good, bad and indifferent. Aircrew are no different.