Originally Posted by
rlsbutler
Can we hear a bit more about AFS Strubby ?
Not exactly Strubby, but in 1959 I did a Piston Refresher Course at it's other half - Manby. Never did know why I needed a piston refresher before being posted on to Twin Pioneers in the Gulf when, apart from my Hastings second pilot job, I was averaging 30 hours a month on the Squadron Chipmunks and Anson. An oppo was on the Canberra course at Strubby at the same time so I used to visit the mess regularly. I remember the Grimmy competitions and a one-eyed fish gutter from Grimsby, who was banned from the mess because whoever got to her first always won the kitty! Borrowing a Piston Provost for a weekend away was never a problem in those carefree days.