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56 Sqn - Chicken In A Basket isn't it? Also Shifty Fix.
Also sometimes 'The Penal Colony' or 'that bunch of ******* over there' depending on just how demanding they had been
Also sometimes 'The Penal Colony' or 'that bunch of ******* over there' depending on just how demanding they had been
ZH875 - yes, 44(Z) - the 'Zimbabwe Air Legion' - started as a joke of mine, but Terry M (who was on 44) had the t-shirts made on a Western Ranger...
23 - 'The crows'
50 - 'Sh*gging rats'
617 - 'Six Seventeenth Bombardment Wing'
43 - Fighting Cocks
And the 101 'ginger tom in the dustbin' looked more like a cat crapping in a pork pie.
As this is a family show, I shall not reveal what the 10 Sqn badge was often called......
23 - 'The crows'
50 - 'Sh*gging rats'
617 - 'Six Seventeenth Bombardment Wing'
43 - Fighting Cocks
And the 101 'ginger tom in the dustbin' looked more like a cat crapping in a pork pie.
As this is a family show, I shall not reveal what the 10 Sqn badge was often called......
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Strange though that 206 seemed to have forgotten their rug-munching mini-adj that was around at about the same time
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IV(AC) Sqn - 'Happy Four'
18(B) Sqn - 'My Little Pony' (keen on mythical horse-type creatures)
22 Sqn - 'The Romney Marsh Mountain Rescue Team'
27 Sqn - 'Bunsters' (keen on elephants)
18(B) Sqn - 'My Little Pony' (keen on mythical horse-type creatures)
22 Sqn - 'The Romney Marsh Mountain Rescue Team'
27 Sqn - 'Bunsters' (keen on elephants)
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216 Sqn - any variation that didn't go 2-sixteen (2-1-6, 2 hundred and sixteen or 2 and sixpence) was enough to upset them. Still think their motto was great, think it was Dona Ferens 'Bearing Gifts'
99 Sqn - Mr Whippy, obvious really!
99 Sqn - Mr Whippy, obvious really!
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I saw a photograph of the roof a few months back, but I can't remember where. Old age kicking in! I'm in a sandy place at the mo but will chase it up when I get back.
Oh yes, 9 to 4 sqn, "Right, if you're not flying or in the sim, I want you on the sqn in the afternoon aswell as the morning" OC 206, who shares the same name as a Formula 1 racing team.
Can't mention it as it will cost me a beer!!
I saw a photograph of the roof a few months back, but I can't remember where. Old age kicking in! I'm in a sandy place at the mo but will chase it up when I get back.
Oh yes, 9 to 4 sqn, "Right, if you're not flying or in the sim, I want you on the sqn in the afternoon aswell as the morning" OC 206, who shares the same name as a Formula 1 racing team.
Can't mention it as it will cost me a beer!!
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He was a total anchor, with a capital W (allegedly 
)MadMark!!!
"As this is a family show, I shall not reveal what the 10 Sqn badge was often called......" doth quote the BEagle.
Oh go on, pretty please. pretty pretty please with brass knobs on. Do tell the assembled masses, they won't tell anyone else ... honest. You can't introduce a little tidbit like that and leave them all wondering .....
Oh go on, pretty please. pretty pretty please with brass knobs on. Do tell the assembled masses, they won't tell anyone else ... honest. You can't introduce a little tidbit like that and leave them all wondering .....
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
1O1 the sqn with a hole in the middle.
Look at the left hand mess garage roof at Cottesmore, if it is still there, it was about 8 years ago. You can make out XV is BUMS.
10 painted it in big white letters in 1964. They then had to paint it out which they did in black. Unfortunately the roof is not black
Look at the left hand mess garage roof at Cottesmore, if it is still there, it was about 8 years ago. You can make out XV is BUMS.
10 painted it in big white letters in 1964. They then had to paint it out which they did in black. Unfortunately the roof is not black
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Busted Ring
Just to set the story straight when the ring was busted 1 Nav was ex 10 sqn, 1 Nav was ex 206 and the last was an EW operator need I say more.
I do remember a stroppy Jock getting upset when his garden was re arranged to follow the roof, whatever happened to the yellow duster rollnecks.
Something about that name Mc(pay beer) they were both knobs as I remember
Charlie sends
I do remember a stroppy Jock getting upset when his garden was re arranged to follow the roof, whatever happened to the yellow duster rollnecks.
Something about that name Mc(pay beer) they were both knobs as I remember
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Or was there yet another nav involved that I haven't heard of 
MadMark!!!
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8 managed to get the title of The Singing Sqn When one of their bosses turned up to a "Musical Jam" session of hardened rock aficionado’s and was all for Cum By Ya My Lord. Even had their Sqn Badge painted on the roof of the Res in Pordenone with a trebble cleft instead of the dagger.
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As Beags said earlier, 43 was the Fighting Cocks. However, once upon a long time ago in Bahrein, the son of a friend of mine looked at another mate wearing a 43 Sqn tie and said (LOUDLY) --- "Why is he wearing a Road-Runner tie?". Guess what, 43 instantly became to us the "Fighting Road-Runners"!
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