Squadron nicknames

[Duncan D'Sorderlee]

It was 206 (Heterosexual) Sqn - in the days before equal opportunities - there were pens and beer mats to prove it! It didn't half wind-up OC CXX when he was given a '206' pen to sign his bar chit!

[Pontius Navigator]

Originally Posted by Duncan D'Sorderlee

It was 206 (Heterosexual) Sqn - in the days before equal opportunities - there were pens and beer mats to prove it! It didn't half wind-up OC CXX when he was given a '206' pen to sign his bar chit!

Did that on 35. Some wag ordered a few gross and dished them out by the bucket load with instructions to get rid of them. Lasted about 4 weeks up and down the routes and round UK.

Crap pens though, they didn't even last 4 weeks

[Strictly Jungly]

Originally Posted by Pilot Pacifier

Sorry Strictly Jungly, if I was to tell you the reasons why, someone would have my nuts off...

PP,
Thats OK. I have it now................was it the Dick Emery look alike?

[engoal]

Originally Posted by greycoat

Would that be the same Tojo who was at the HQ STC bunker in the late 90s?

The very same, and more recently still, since he emerged blinking from the bunker and moved into the big house.

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30 Sqn = Palm Tree Airlines

[Blackhawk9]

A couple from the RAAF
9 Sqn -Blackhawk-(Had an Albatross on the crest)- Angry Duck! all grafitti done by 9 sqn personel was signed- An Albat. T. Ross Production!
33 Sqn- 707 vip/Tanker Winging Windsors- complained about anything not for them!!
77Sqn -F/A 18-Angry Dogs- Chinese dog on crest
12 Sqn -Chinook -Angry Palm Tree Airlines
35 Sqn -Caribou/Iroquois, Wallaby Airlines

[alexmac]

45 (R) fly the 'Bling Air'....any names relating to the Taj Mahal

[spectre150]

TTTE = Thomas The Tank Engine

[greensatin]

115 Squadron nick.

mgdaviso & Basil

With a motto of 'Hands On', think we were called something like 'The Wackers', ......but correct me if I misspelt.

Tom (ex 115 Marham 1956)

[Circus Chimp]

The best nick name I've come across was held by 51 Sqn....It was in 1995 when they were commonly known around Waddo as 34 Flt

[HJones]

Sqn Names

Hi All
Im New to the forum. Retired from the RAF 2002 and fled to the US~!

Heres my ten penny worth ...


617 Sqn - Six one Spit or Dumb Bas**rds as opposed to Dam Busters.

23 Sqn - 23 Foot and mouth

and a non aircraft Sqn, on which I served. - 5131 (BD) Sqn - the wanky bomb, due to the gloved hand holding a bomb.

[FantomZorbin]

I seem to remember the "World Famous Recce Force" - 13Sqn - or the 'Stabbed Cats'.
I've heard 13 is now twinned with X-Box, is that right?

[Roland Pulfrew]

Duncan D
It was 206 (Heterosexual) Sqn - in the days before equal opportunities - there were pens and beer mats to prove it! It didn't half wind-up OC CXX when he was given a '206' pen to sign his bar chit!

Always loved the disinformation put out by Octo-pussy Sqn, strangely forgetting that two of the Kinloss ring spent their first tours undercover on 206. And of course forget their mini-adj and the Kinloss Ladies Ring.

[Tashengurt]

Originally Posted by spectre150

TTTE = Thomas The Tank Engine

I recall a time when you couldn't drive down a motorway without seeing a dayglo train on a roadsign.


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Eleven

11Sqn - The "flying sh*tehawks"

[RedhillPhil]

I always thought that 43 squadron personell were referred to as "The chicken farmers".
There used to be an old boy - now deceased - who lived in the next road to us who claimed to have served in Hunter days. He kept a few Bantams in the garden. His name was Doug - I never did know his surname.

[Neptunus Rex]

In the middle '60s, following a spectacularly less than successful Cat Board interrogation, 206 became known as:

"F Troop."

[Daf Hucker]

Yeller Gait

I have a photo of the 120 Sqn roof after a mid-night visit from 206, but for soem reason I'm not allowed to post attachments?

[The B Word]

V(AC) Sqn - "the girls school" in the 1990s
29(F) Sqn - Triplex
72 Sqn - Basutoland
111(F) Sqn - One hundred and eleven squadron
234(Madras Presidency) Sqn - The dragons
74(F) Sqn - The Tigers, with a spoof motto of "I fear Norman" (should be I fear no man)
99 Sqn - Ice Cream Squadron
45 Sqn - Flying Camels
19(F) Sqn - Fighting Dolphins
IX(B) Sqn - The Bats
56(F) Sqn - Shifty-fix, chicken in a basket, 65(reverse) sqn
64(F) Sqn - Fying dung beetles
43(F) Sqn - The squabbling bantams
17(F) Sqn - The Black Knights

getting bored now...

[The Helpful Stacker]

Non-flying unit..

TCW = Two C***ts and a Wireless.