Originally Posted by
ricardian
I remember being at Akrotiri 1965-67 when SCAF starting handing in their signals with all sorts of strange punctuation symbols - and this with no warning, one day it was the normal F/SIGS52 message form, hand-written; next day it was a stencilled template with hyphens, braces, colons etc and some numbers written in by hand.
Remember them well !!
A similar thing happened to Flight Plan signals around 1966-67 while I was at Wittering. They were also "space free" and a bitch to do until you got used to it.