The Worst/Best RAF Station
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...just spent a day in nicosia, sipping brandy sours while the good lady destroyed the credit cards. Came home and took children to the beach for an hour. It might be Nov, but it's boilin'. Should be able to fit in a quick ski up Mt Olympus soon as well, before flying around in my classic machine, admiring the scenery and watching the dolphins. RAF Akrotiri - sh*t for your career, but great for your life.
Worst...Valley - Mt Pleasant with less culture.
'I'm getting paid EXTRA for this???'
Worst...Valley - Mt Pleasant with less culture.
'I'm getting paid EXTRA for this???'
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RAF Little Rissington always seemed to hold a special magic (I suppose it was the nearest RAF Camp to my home) and I actually enjoyed begging trips in Vickers Varsities (remember them eh!)there as a Space Cadet. Other good ones were RAF Thorney Island and Gaydon(also as a space cadet) More recently, I've enjoyed RAF Church Fenton (Lovely Camp but too many trips into York led to marriage!)Akrotiri (a little empty in my time, it must have been amazing in the 60s and 70s) and RAF Halton (well it does have an airfield (and they trusted me to fly there)and a mess that doubles up as a fim set (See the Bond film tomorrow). Worst ones: RAF Hereford (but in a nice part of the World) and, difficult for getting to know people BZN (but it got better when they found out that I did the resettlement interviews!) I guess places are what you make them all are worse for fewer blue suits. 
Worst place - no where can surely beat Aldergrove
Dull and Wet(that's just the locals) and surrounded by peat!
Best Place - RAF Strawberry. Far enough from Shrewsbury to keep the size of the doormat a reasonable size and excellent beer/mexican.
Dull and Wet(that's just the locals) and surrounded by peat!
Best Place - RAF Strawberry. Far enough from Shrewsbury to keep the size of the doormat a reasonable size and excellent beer/mexican.
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All Crab bases are @rse apart from toast 24/7
in the Wardroom. However:
Worst: St Mawgan - having once been at Culdrose, anywhere west of Exeter falls into this category.
Best: ??Clueless??
in the Wardroom. However:
Worst: St Mawgan - having once been at Culdrose, anywhere west of Exeter falls into this category.
Best: ??Clueless??
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I`m with EESDL but which Mexican are you talking about? Am I missing something?
Best overseas Gutersloh cause we had a job to do and we did it well. The job did not entail being a pawn for Tony`s army.
There must be something good about Aldergrove, but blowjob Jill left a long time ago
and I cannot think of anything else, apart from top biking roads with Mr Honda.
Best overseas Gutersloh cause we had a job to do and we did it well. The job did not entail being a pawn for Tony`s army.
There must be something good about Aldergrove, but blowjob Jill left a long time ago
and I cannot think of anything else, apart from top biking roads with Mr Honda.
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Best in UK - Chivenor (Heaven in Devon true enough.)
Best abroad - Bruggen (but that may just be the ale talking.)
Worst in UK - Valley (if you've been stationed there you know why.)
[ 14 November 2001: Message edited by: Count Terport ]
Best abroad - Bruggen (but that may just be the ale talking.)
Worst in UK - Valley (if you've been stationed there you know why.)
[ 14 November 2001: Message edited by: Count Terport ]
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Best - Waddington (Vulcan era) - unfashionable, but good lively OM, good pubs and friendly natives.
Worst - Gutersloh - nothing but Harriers, Tacevals and washing machines in my time.
Worst - Gutersloh - nothing but Harriers, Tacevals and washing machines in my time.
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Worst - Kinloss, ****ed around 24/7 by 18 Gp and the Navy. 5 hour drive down the A9 before civilisation and surrounded by lifers who thought Kinloss was the centre of the world.
Best - Chivenor in the early 80s Mon-Fri 9-5 (plus a little night flying) great flying with blunty hours. Ugly mess but the girls from Croyde Bay weren't worried about that.
Edited cos I didn't check for spelling, let that be a lesson to you all. ISS grade C, but ask me if I care.
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Best - Chivenor in the early 80s Mon-Fri 9-5 (plus a little night flying) great flying with blunty hours. Ugly mess but the girls from Croyde Bay weren't worried about that.
Edited cos I didn't check for spelling, let that be a lesson to you all. ISS grade C, but ask me if I care.
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I know I'm not talking RAF here (but if ya ain't cheatin' ya ain't tryin hard enough!)
Two thoughts:
1. Nellis is heaven on a Friday night
2. Worst--Danang during the tri-weekly rocket attack (but that was a long time ago)
Two thoughts:
1. Nellis is heaven on a Friday night
2. Worst--Danang during the tri-weekly rocket attack (but that was a long time ago)
I can't believe we're on page 3 of this thread and no-one has mentioned the holy station of Finningley! (A little silence for the long departed). 70p on the bus from the Staish's house to the first pub and lots of ladies. OK, so I'm biased as a Nav, but I've heard pilots and even SNCO aircrew who had to endure the cr*p of AAITC talk fondly of the place.
Tiger_Mate
As the Mexican was not on your 252, it does not mean it wasn't there:-)
The "Castle Vault", I think it was called. Just as you drive in, on the left, opposite the Pongo Museum.
As the Mexican was not on your 252, it does not mean it wasn't there:-)
The "Castle Vault", I think it was called. Just as you drive in, on the left, opposite the Pongo Museum.
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For me Best is a tie with Chivenor in 83ish to Wildenrath in 84-88 ish. Wilders was magic-cheap ale, excellent hooligan flying,and we all thought we had C***s 12 foot long 'cos we flew F4s. I also had a great time at Leeming in the 80s-90s and an OK time at Conningshole (dont want to go back tho')
Worst well Mt Plez- got to be really
Worst well Mt Plez- got to be really
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EESDL....Ref Mexican:
Have been missing out on said location cause I usually turn right b4 getting there, will check out and send sitrep.
Finningley......argh!!! Now he`s started it!
I married a girl from South Yorkshire (Epworth) and you dont half get a belt when you call her a Donny Lass
T_M
Have been missing out on said location cause I usually turn right b4 getting there, will check out and send sitrep.
Finningley......argh!!! Now he`s started it!
I married a girl from South Yorkshire (Epworth) and you dont half get a belt when you call her a Donny Lass
T_M
This obsession with Arthur Scargill International Airport, People's Republic of South Yorkshire is definitely a navigator thing. The union between the rubber-skirted inmates of Doncaster and the directional consultants at Finningley was clearly intended by the Almighty as a simple technique to enrich the gene pool. But whicn needed it most.....??
