Looks like Paul Godfrey, according to his Tw@tter feed, has been promoted to Group Captain and is to be posted to High Wycombe on our F35 Programme ...
Many congratulations Sir !
Wg Cdr Godfrey joined the RAF in 1991 progressing through flying training on the Jet Provost and Hawk. Posted to the Harrier in 1994, he flew in various operations in the Balkans with IV(AC) Sqn, based at RAF Laarbruch in Germany between 1995 and 1998. Returning to IV(AC) Sqn as a Qualified Weapons Instructor, he moved with them back to the UK where he began an instructional tour on 20(R) Sqn, the Harrier OCU. In 2000, he was selected for an exchange tour as the first non-USAF pilot to fly the F-16CJ, serving on the 55th Fighter Sqn at Shaw AFB, South Carolina. Here he contributed to the post-9/11 homeland defence task and twice deployed on operations to the Middle East. On return from the USA Godders undertook a ground tour as a Typhoon Requirements Manager and, in 2005, was posted as a Flight Commander to 3(F) Sqn, the first Operational Typhoon Sqn. After completion of Staff College in 2009 he was posted to MOD as the Typhoon desk Officer and is now the Officer Commanding Operations at RAF Coningsby. He has also enjoyed three seasons display flying with the BBMF.
Apart from that impeccable background he's also flown WK518 ... which could hover with a 90 Kts headwind
