Teen Weeny Airways

[SilsoeSid]

To forgive is Devine etc anyway I thought the group photo was a wind up as normally the light blue beret of the AAC should be front & centre as they regularly claim it’s the hardest regiment in the army to get into etc etc

Regiment!?!?
I wonder what the ‘C’ in AAC stands for :rolleyes:

[Fortissimo]

Regiment!?!?
I wonder what the ‘C’ in AAC stands for :rolleyes:

Cadre.

[NutLoose]

Regiment!?!?
I wonder what the ‘C’ in AAC stands for :rolleyes:


We knew them as "Teeny Weeny Airways" when I was at Odiham.

[SilsoeSid]

We knew them as "Teeny Weeny Airways" when I was at Odiham.
Which was all taken in the nicest way… until someone called the groundies ’Teeny Weeny Airways Troopers’!

Have ago at the aircrew by all means, but leave the groundies out of it :ok:

[ShyTorque]

An AAC QHI based at Shawbury had some little gold “zaps” made which stated “You’re being flown by Teeny Weeny Airways Taxi Service” with the capital letters in bold text. All good fun! :ok:

[passpartout]

Didn't the Tornado F3 det at Dhahran in 1990 call themselves the Combined United Nations' Tornado Squadron?

[polecat2]

Yes, it was reported to be the shortest-lived military unit in history.

[SilsoeSid]

An AAC QHI based at Shawbury had some little gold “zaps” made which stated “You’re being flown by Teeny Weeny Airways Taxi Service” with the capital letters in bold text. All good fun! :ok:
IIRC, originated from the Falkland roulement tours :-)

[MPN11]

IIRC, originated from the Falkland roulement tours :-)
They were certainly called Teeny Weeny Airways in 83 when I was down there.

[minigundiplomat]

Regiment!?!?
I wonder what the ‘C’ in AAC stands for :rolleyes:


Club, it's almost certainly 'club'.

[ShyTorque]

IIRC, originated from the Falkland roulement tours :-)

I thought this was in 1979 - but I might be wrong because I was posted to Shawbury twice.

[SLXOwft]

Teeny Weeny Airways at Middle Wallop in 1963.

https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/37436/

I first heard the soubriquet used for 3 CBAS


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[The Helpful Stacker]

I'll not hear a bad word against Teeny Weeny Airways. There is no finer pizza and mail delivery service in the world.

[Thud_and_Blunder]

SLXO has provided definitive proof, Shy - I also remember it from the late 70s :ok:. Fond memories of the time the RAF and AAC shared a Flight Safety organisation from SLXO's post too - I remember looking out for the annual 3CBAS crash-mag in the crewroom reading-list.

I grew very tired of the inter-service nastiness practised in the main by my own lot; I can remember being on the staff of the Chinook OCU going into the Station Brief on the first Monday of a new course that happened to have 2 x AAC exchange officers. The station-master and one of his squadron bosses decided to have a public discussion about the forthcoming JHC, where a typical comment by the latter concerning future leadership of the Command by officers from other services was "...and we all know the AAC are sh*t". I asked my 2 new students if they'd like me to walk out of the briefing with them, but they decided discretion on day one was the better part of valour. Having thoroughly enjoyed my own exchange tour (actually a loan tour... long story) I knew that some of the best aircrew I ever had the pleasure to serve alongside included officers and NCOs of the AAC - same went for the groundcrew and the REMEs on the independent Sqn where I spent most of my tour.

[SilsoeSid]

Teeny Weeny Airways at Middle Wallop in 1963.

https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/37436/


Can’t see any gold zap stickers :cool:

[Downwind.Maddl-Land]

They were certainly called Teeny Weeny Airways in 83 when I was down there.
And in Belize in 81, where they operated from a dispersal next to Butcher Radar.

[megan]

Thought this thread was going to be about the aircraft spouse, I and another couple flew around Oz on the return from Vietnam 1971, for we dubbed the aircraft "Teeny Weeny Airways". Looked a bit more pristine then than the photo.


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[scoutah1]

Thought this thread was going to be about the aircraft spouse, I and another couple flew around Oz on the return from Vietnam 1971, for we dubbed the aircraft "Teeny Weeny Airways". Looked a bit more pristine then than the photo.


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1024x672/0032618_0639aafb9be0255bca8b8c8c3b7f8c84fd0ac906.jpg

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In the 60s we referred to ourselves as TWA. I had a girl friend who was most disappointed when she discovered that I was not a real TWA pilot. Happy days.