Squadron nicknames
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30 = Dirty Thirty
24 = XXIV = Puking Chickens - from their badge
4 = Happy 4
when 10 and 101 joined = binary 10101
99 = Mr Whippy or Black Pussys
216 = Twenty one-six or '216 Precious'
47 = foxy-loxy
24 = XXIV = Puking Chickens - from their badge
4 = Happy 4
when 10 and 101 joined = binary 10101
99 = Mr Whippy or Black Pussys
216 = Twenty one-six or '216 Precious'
47 = foxy-loxy
I recall a time when you couldn't drive down a motorway without seeing a dayglo train on a roadsign.
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230.... The cat pissing up against a set of feeler gauges .
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51 got a mention earlier. When I was at Wyton we always referred to them as the Formation Eating Team.
I used to drive by TCW each morning on my way to work at BZN. never heard them called that!! very funny!
I used to drive by TCW each morning on my way to work at BZN. never heard them called that!! very funny!
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Back when 617 had reformed at Marham the groundcrew crew room phone was regularly answered as "Kings Lynn Flying Club"!!
Also remember being on 27 when caricatures of Tojo appeared around the site and a Jap flag was proudly displayed from the groundcrews hotel on detachment at Villafranca!!
Also remember being on 27 when caricatures of Tojo appeared around the site and a Jap flag was proudly displayed from the groundcrews hotel on detachment at Villafranca!!
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IX(B) Sqn - The Bats
one time in Deci some departing Sqn left a graffiti somewhere that "they aint Bats, they're Squashed Frogs" ! and I suppose they did too !
We used to answer the phone as IX ( as in rhymes with FIX)
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I was enjoying reading this thread up to the point where I read his name. Arrrrggggg! re-emerging nightmares forming in my head, even after 25 years
the engineers on 27 at Marham in the early '80s went through a period of referring to the Sqn as 'Tenko' because it was run by Tojo
Thanks for the CxxTS roof picture, brings back many memories and laughs on final approach into KSS.......anybody got a snap of a certain Navs Allegro being crushed outside the same Sqn building in the late 80's by an armoured vehicle at a Friday afternoon beer call?
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Sorry Nosmo no pictures but it was a Renault 30 (brown) owned by my co pilot, who is now a Capt with Cathay, he was having trouble trying to sell it, so we thought we would help him get rid of it!!
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Going back in time, 12 were known as the Shinies possibly from when their Fairy Fox bombers were shiney aluminium.