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Best Fringe Benefit/Perk (not too serious, please)

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Old 9th Nov 2006, 11:23
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Best Fringe Benefit/Perk (not too serious, please)

Taking Safety Helmut's idea.....

Wasn't there once a Lightning pilot for whom Mrs Harry Staish was a (short-lived) perk?

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.....and, in the same vain, something similar at a Secret Wilts airbase not so many years ago
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Mid-70s there was a Jet Provost from Shawbury that used to do the rounds every other Friday with the RHS loaded with various Tupperware boxes full of different home-made pates that the ancient pilot's missus made to order.

Erm, just how many sailboards fit in an E-3 (without knocking a hole in it).
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Signing out a Fairey Huntress at BRNC on a Sunday pm with a mate and a couple of young ladies always sticks in my mind.

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When at Laarbruch and on XV used to send a Bucc to lossie to pick up fresh fish.
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Kipper fleet order of kippers from Machrihanish.
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Sendng an F-111 from Amberley to ESL and back to colect 3 Bottles of Grange (a present from my Dad on my 30th). The wine travelled well.

PS Grange Hermitage - a damn fine drop...
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have large boot, will shop.

......have you seen the price of ride-on mowers in this country!!!
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Salmon from Goose Bay back to Marham, courtesy of the Victor K2, the Window Boxes and Dog Kennel
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have large boot, will shop.
......have you seen the price of ride-on mowers in this country!!!
I didn't know that you could buy Ride on mowers in Kabul.
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Originally Posted by movadinkampa747
I didn't know that you could buy Ride on mowers in Kabul.

You can buy outboard motors(???) in Kandahar- if you've seen (or smelt) Poo Pond, you'll not be buying one of these for the weekend (except to power your HUMVEE through the stagnant sewerage...

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Originally Posted by airborne_artist
Signing out a Fairey Huntress at BRNC on a Sunday pm with a mate and a couple of young ladies always sticks in my mind.


Fairy Huntress? Is that a Nimrod Pilot of uncertain gender?
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Indeed ST, I think they were named as you suggest

Lovely classic powerboats and about £25k for one in good condition now. The County class destroyers each carried one - for the amusement of the orficers don't you know. That's why we had two or three at Dartmouth.
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