Warmtoast, Thanks for posting the colour pics of the tower and knacker cracker. I have just put some B&W photo's up on another site from 1969 when I was in Singapore.
As you know I enjoy the historical aspects and do my best to preserve artefacts and documents. When we had a clear out at JATE circa 1995 I sent the original drawings of the Ringwood tower over to Rolly W in the PTS Museum. they were drawn on waxed linen in India ink and were really works of art rather than Engineering drawings. I do hope they are still there.
Does anyone know when the knacker cracker on the Gateway Field at Brize was taken down. Probably to make way for the C17 Sqn buildings mid 2000s. I think it was abandoned on advice of the elf and safety police when nobody would accept any responsibility for it's design.
I did the water course 3 times as a civilian and had several goes on the big fan and swings in the PTS hangar.