Originally Posted by
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The Dennett EngO referred to in an above post was John Dennett, he was Sengo on 3 at Gut in the late 70's. There was also a WgCdr Cheeseman at Sealand in the early 80's, an eng with pilot's wings and the CO was a Group Captain eng who's name escapes me now but he wore an AEO badge.
There was a scheme in the late '50s early '60s that saw medical officers and engineers undergoing aircrew training so that they could better understand the modern aircraft systems. There was a wg cdr doc pilot at AMTC and we had an elect eng offcer AEO on one of the sqns, IX or 35, at Cottesmore. We were surprised that he only did one tour as he was a good AEO.
I don't know how much benefit the Eng branch got from a relatively small number of aircrew trained officers.