What happened to Typhoon F1
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
and we've got rid of the nasty B for Bomber designation - G is evidently much more touchy-feely and PC when hurling bombs and missiles onto foreign countries various...)
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"Ah, sigh. Darbouy is old enough to remember when we had a proper RAF and none of this pretend Army Bllx.
Ray,
Can you really remember the days before RAF aircraft marks were designated like this? Right back in WWII, we had Spitfire F.VIII, LF.IX, PR.XIX, Lancaster B.I, Mosquito NF.II, FB.VI etc"
No Sir, sorry, snotwot I meant, and 'twasn't me that put that meaning on it; but if you can, I doff my titfer to you.
One is remembering when the the RAF was an actual Air Force and not reduced to pretending to be Army clones. We really are not the same
However, Darbouy is certainly old enough to have been hanging around aircraft long enough to have seen things like Ansons, Pembrokes, Javelins and Hunters in service.
One also remembers life as a scaly brat; Darbouys Dear Departed Dad dragging him around various Sqns Venoms, Vampires, Javelins, Sycamores, Austers and the odd Lincoln back from bombing and straffing up in the Radfan, and etc. Anyone else pax'd in a Pembroke, Hastings trooper, or a York?
Ray,
Can you really remember the days before RAF aircraft marks were designated like this? Right back in WWII, we had Spitfire F.VIII, LF.IX, PR.XIX, Lancaster B.I, Mosquito NF.II, FB.VI etc"
No Sir, sorry, snotwot I meant, and 'twasn't me that put that meaning on it; but if you can, I doff my titfer to you.
One is remembering when the the RAF was an actual Air Force and not reduced to pretending to be Army clones. We really are not the same
However, Darbouy is certainly old enough to have been hanging around aircraft long enough to have seen things like Ansons, Pembrokes, Javelins and Hunters in service.
One also remembers life as a scaly brat; Darbouys Dear Departed Dad dragging him around various Sqns Venoms, Vampires, Javelins, Sycamores, Austers and the odd Lincoln back from bombing and straffing up in the Radfan, and etc. Anyone else pax'd in a Pembroke, Hastings trooper, or a York?
"Anyone else pax'd in a Pembroke, Hastings trooper, or a York?"
Two out of three suit you? (You'd have to be REALLY old to have paxed in a York....)
My Dad has all three in his logbook as P1, though he was dropping jeeps onto Imber from the Hastings, and the Pembroke was recce.....
Two out of three suit you? (You'd have to be REALLY old to have paxed in a York....)
My Dad has all three in his logbook as P1, though he was dropping jeeps onto Imber from the Hastings, and the Pembroke was recce.....
I was flown from Brüggen to Lee-on Solent in a 60 sqn Pemmy when my mum was ill in 1977.
I used to fly up and down from Lossie to Lee on the RN clipper between 74 & 76, it was usually a Sea Devon, but occasionally a Heron. It routed Lee, Yeovilton, Culdrose, Brawdy, Prestwick, Turnhouse, Leuchars, Lossie. Happy days.
I used to fly up and down from Lossie to Lee on the RN clipper between 74 & 76, it was usually a Sea Devon, but occasionally a Heron. It routed Lee, Yeovilton, Culdrose, Brawdy, Prestwick, Turnhouse, Leuchars, Lossie. Happy days.
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Did some ferry flights between St Athan and Marham with the Victor K2, 5 crew transported there or returned by DH Devon, complete with a snack meal served from a wicker basket complete with tin thermos!
These days its a couple or three hours by MT via the M4 to pick up the Funbus.
These days its a couple or three hours by MT via the M4 to pick up the Funbus.
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Got a lift in a RAF Dak a few years ago..... erm, well OK, the only RAF Dak and it was early 90's 
AFAIK UK Mil designation are function, mark then any mods. The function and mark are normally sequential and not repeated, eg: Tornado GR1, F2, F3, GR4
Well what happened with the Nimrod MR1 and R1? Was this to confuse the Ruskis or the spotters?
Any other types not conform?
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AFAIK UK Mil designation are function, mark then any mods. The function and mark are normally sequential and not repeated, eg: Tornado GR1, F2, F3, GR4
Well what happened with the Nimrod MR1 and R1? Was this to confuse the Ruskis or the spotters?
Any other types not conform?
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