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Whislt definitely having no liking for socialist gits whether in power or not I think the comments about no fly past for the RAF 50th birthday are wrong.
What was the 18 Sqn Wessex from Acklington, deployed to Odiham, doing a fly past at Abingdon for?
By the way believe Betty was watching.
What was the 18 Sqn Wessex from Acklington, deployed to Odiham, doing a fly past at Abingdon for?
By the way believe Betty was watching.
BEagle, you are correct. But how come you were doing your gnat IRT there in 75? I was under the impression that the place closed for flying in 74, apart from the odd wokka wokka or herc making what I guessed were deliveries of some kind. I think it was a buc in raspberry ripple that made the last sortie out. Anyone able to confirm or deny?
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Yesterday afternoon a lot of threads suddenly had
popping up at random, not just on mil forum. Must have been some sort of glitch as they seem to have mostly gone now.
And no, I had not had a long liquid lunch.
popping up at random, not just on mil forum. Must have been some sort of glitch as they seem to have mostly gone now.And no, I had not had a long liquid lunch.
Whowhenwhy,
RRE stopped flying from Pershore in 1977.
RRE stopped flying from Pershore in 1977.
The Tower Bridge Hunter bloke was Alan Pollock. The story was extensively written up in an early Flypast magazine (September 1982?), including his own take on why he did it......
2LP,
Can you PM me with some contact details? Have an urgent question or two.
Couldn\'t find much on the web:
"In 1968 it was the RAF\'s 50th birthday, yet the top brass did not se fit to mark this with any flypast, choosing instead for mere parades on the ground. Many RAF personnel were less than impressed and one Flt Lt Alan Pollock of 1(F) Squadron decided to mark the occasion in style - first with toilet-roll bombing missions against rival squadrons, and then on April 5th, while suffering from the beginnings of pneumonia which no doubt had some affect on his decision making processes, he flew his Hunter over London and at the last second decided to fly under the top span of Tower Bridge! Knowing of the consequences of his unauthorised trip, he proceeded to beat up several airfields and landed to meet his fate. It would be the end of his RAF career (he went on to run a successful exporting company), with political influences making sure he was treated incredibly unfairly - thrown out of the RAF with no right to appeal, no court martial at which he could present his case, medical evidence ignored, unable to meet with his superiors, etc. It took until 1982 for his case to be fully heard, and only then was he exonerated."
2LP,
Can you PM me with some contact details? Have an urgent question or two.
Couldn\'t find much on the web:
"In 1968 it was the RAF\'s 50th birthday, yet the top brass did not se fit to mark this with any flypast, choosing instead for mere parades on the ground. Many RAF personnel were less than impressed and one Flt Lt Alan Pollock of 1(F) Squadron decided to mark the occasion in style - first with toilet-roll bombing missions against rival squadrons, and then on April 5th, while suffering from the beginnings of pneumonia which no doubt had some affect on his decision making processes, he flew his Hunter over London and at the last second decided to fly under the top span of Tower Bridge! Knowing of the consequences of his unauthorised trip, he proceeded to beat up several airfields and landed to meet his fate. It would be the end of his RAF career (he went on to run a successful exporting company), with political influences making sure he was treated incredibly unfairly - thrown out of the RAF with no right to appeal, no court martial at which he could present his case, medical evidence ignored, unable to meet with his superiors, etc. It took until 1982 for his case to be fully heard, and only then was he exonerated."
