Hunters vs Migs and Sabres

[Navaleye]

After all the depressing news recently, a little entertaining reading for you all. Here.

The question is is "Rog" the "Hooligan" of 892? Answers on the back of an envelope please.

[Worf]

That was a great flypast article about the Hunter vs the Sabre.

BTW an answer to how someone with a name like Mervyn Middlecoat was in the Pakistani Air Force - he was a member of the "Anglo-Indian" or Eurasian community. Of mixed British and Indian/Pakistani descent they were not very well treated by the Raj British.

They had long and illustrious careers in the Indian Air Force and the Pakistan Air Force. One of them (or should I say "us" as he considered himself Indian) Dennis LaFontaine was the Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force in the late 1980s.

My fathers instructor in the IAF was a gentleman named Cecil Digby - who was a WWII Spitfire pilot and had served with the IAF as part of the Commonwealth Occupation force in Japan.

Wg Cdr Middlecoat was killed in action not very long after the article was written - flying a F-104A Starfighter he was shot down by Flt Lt B Soni of the IAF flying a MiG-21FL. The story is here
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Hi...1War/Soni.html

Worf

[Wholigan]

892 Navaleye??? Most certainly not!! That's a fishhead outfit!

[Navaleye]

Wholigan, maybe I should have been more specific: 892 NAS mid/late 1970s as I recall it had a very high light blue contingent. :-)

[Wholigan]

Aaaah - so it did. I was not amongst them though, although it would have been great fun!

[Flatus Veteranus]

I do hope the Squadron have a copy of this delightful story. If not, have taken a print and will pass it to them. So redolent of life in the good old days in MEAF!