Get Over Jaguar !
Joined: Sep 2005
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From: england
I think that this has shown exactly the problems with the RAF as a whole at the moment, NO ONE has listened to the people that know thier jobs and know thier aircraft. 
We have been torn to pieces by beaurocrats and lean teams and civilian contracting, I barely recognise the RAF I joined 8 years ago, how some of the long timers must feel is beyond comprehension...
At least the Jag force have the good sense to honour one of the RAF's best and most successful assets that has served for years without complaint, and the SQN's that have been treated in a disgusting manner
... Unfortunatly the same thing is going to happen across the whole RAF soon 
.... Enjoy it while you can chaps
We have been torn to pieces by beaurocrats and lean teams and civilian contracting, I barely recognise the RAF I joined 8 years ago, how some of the long timers must feel is beyond comprehension... At least the Jag force have the good sense to honour one of the RAF's best and most successful assets that has served for years without complaint, and the SQN's that have been treated in a disgusting manner
... Unfortunatly the same thing is going to happen across the whole RAF soon .... Enjoy it while you can chaps
Joined: Feb 2007
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From: Bournemouth
Kengineer,
I barely recognise the RAF I joined 8 years ago, how some of the long timers must feel is beyond comprehension...
Nicely put fella.
'kinell, I joined the RAF in 1965 - at least I became a member of the Royal Air Force, not the Royal Air Farce.
Confuscious he say:
"he who laughs last only just seen joke"
JP
I barely recognise the RAF I joined 8 years ago, how some of the long timers must feel is beyond comprehension...
Nicely put fella.
'kinell, I joined the RAF in 1965 - at least I became a member of the Royal Air Force, not the Royal Air Farce.
Confuscious he say:
"he who laughs last only just seen joke"
JP
Joined: May 1999
Aviation Qualifications: ATP+Mil
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From: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
Kengineer, a similar thing happened to the last non-TWU Hunter squadrons.
I arrived (as the last JP ever posted to an operational Hunter squadron) to join 58 Sqn at Wittering on 16 May 1976. Only to find out that the disbandment had been brought forward by 6 months, so back I went to TWU Brawdy on 28 June 1976. After a very enjoyable few weeks, even if I didn't get to fly the RAF's best-kept Hunter F(GA)Mk9s....
Well, not until the aircraft were handed over to join the rest of the barely-serviceable and very tatty jets at Brawdy.
I should have spotted the signs then......
The way the last Jaguars have been treated is despicable.
I arrived (as the last JP ever posted to an operational Hunter squadron) to join 58 Sqn at Wittering on 16 May 1976. Only to find out that the disbandment had been brought forward by 6 months, so back I went to TWU Brawdy on 28 June 1976. After a very enjoyable few weeks, even if I didn't get to fly the RAF's best-kept Hunter F(GA)Mk9s....
Well, not until the aircraft were handed over to join the rest of the barely-serviceable and very tatty jets at Brawdy.I should have spotted the signs then......
The way the last Jaguars have been treated is despicable.
