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Old 14th Sep 2010, 06:28
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RAF security film

Anybody out there remember the 70's security film made at RAF Wittering. The story line was a harrier pilot who was going off the rails, it may have starred Richard O'Sullivan? as the pilot. I remember having to watch it once a year through the early 80's. Reason I ask is that my wife was in one of the scenes ( a young 19yr old ATC lovely ) and I would love to find a copy to give her and our girls a suprise. I've tried utube and alike with no luck.
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I do recall that security film:

RAF airman hitch-hiker decides to clam up when asked too many questions by a driver and is dropped off at Wittering.

Cheeky little WRAF who says "I'll do it any way you like, sir" to the Sqn Cdr about some document which needs re-typing.

Baby sitter and boyfriend who dresses up in her dad's RAF uniform, spilling S&C documents from dad's briefcase.

Suspicious 'bird watchers' observing Harrier exercise.

But I'm not sure whether it featured Richard O' Sullivan. He certainly appeared in a FS video; after oversleeping and missing breakfast, he enters the runway without clearance forcing an F-4 to go-around. There was another movie where someone talking about FAC work asks him if he flies Hunters. "No, Harriers actually" came the reply in a rather superior (and remarkably accurate) tone - I wonder how he knew?
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I can only remember an earlier one that featured a Canberra pilot , who when asked to climb to 40,000ft, replied:-

"Steady on old chap, this is only a Mk8"
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There was another movie where someone talking about FAC work asks him if he flies Hunters. "No, Harriers actually" came the reply in a rather superior (and remarkably accurate) tone - I wonder how he knew?
That no doubt comes from the early 70s when TWCU and 1 Sqn were based together. IIRC the majority of TWCU pilots were bound for F4 and Jag and not Harrier. Talk about chalk and cheese.
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That no doubt comes from the early 70s when TWCU and 1 Sqn were based together. IIRC the majority of TWCU pilots were bound for F4 and Jag and not Harrier. Talk about chalk and cheese.
Huh? TWCU wasn't formed until 1981 and, as its name implies, was an entirely Tornado Weapons Conversion Unit.....
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Dctyke,

Was that the one about DISTRACTIONS (written in zig-zag writing)? I seem to remember watching the same one about the bona mate who has snags at home, gets behind on his paperwork (probably the coffee boat knowing Crab Air's secondary duties ) and then leaves the pins in the seat, resulting in a lack of bang when he required it.

Age and beer have probably muddled up several of the flight safety movies but I, too, am sure Richard O'Sullivan was in that one.

Ahhh, the joys of the RAF training system, poor wx in the Yorkshire 'bowl' and a negative forecast from Stan
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Wasn't the Sy film the one that had a Harrier pilot hitting the bottle and meeting an attractive young lady in one of Soho's less salubrious establishments before finding himself confronted by an eastern european type with some very compromising photographs and a request for co-operation?

I seem to recall that said pilot was played by Richard O'Sullivan, who clearly hadn't been prevailed upon to have a regulation haircut.

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I thought that the Richard O'Sullivan one was a flight safety film where it was a chain of events leading up to an incident, one of which was not getting his breakfast in the morning.

The premise being that everyone has an effect on flight safety.
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Beags, you are of course correct, AD, the Hunters I was thinking of were
In August 1973, Nos 45 and 58 Sqns, equipped with Hunter FGA9s, moved to Wittering until they were disbanded in 1976.
but I incorrectly recalled that they were a tactical weapons training unit. I think that is the role they were actually fulfilling keeping FJ pilots gainfully employed.
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Ahem, more to the point, do we get a chance to see a 'before and after' of Mrs dctyke?
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heh, heh.......................... somehow I don't think she would approve of me splashing her pics across the site. If I ever find the film I'll send a link! The mail that mentioned 45 and 58 Hunters brought back some great memories, my very 1st posting................... happy days volunteering to sit at the end of the runway on sunny days collecting chutes and making sneb cans safe!
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Wasn't that the one with "Dr Norton" and the APACHE Missile - All Purpose Arsehole Creeping High Explosive?
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45 Sqn and 58 Sqn of Wittering's Hunter Wing were operational Hunter squadrons in every sense of the word. Pilots were posted there pending the availability of an OCU slot on other types.

IIRC, they won a prestigious NATO low-level attack competition with their map-and-stopwatch Hunters, much to the chagrin of the Pussycat people with their gucci new toy...

I was posted to 58 Sqn as the last pilot ever posted to an operational RAF Hunter squadron, then went on leave. When I came back the Boss had been told that the Wing's disbandment had been brought forward in order to provide more Hunters to RAF Brawdy, who couldn't mange to generate enough serviceable jets on a daily basis to meet the TWU's needs.

So I piled all my worldly belongings back into my car and returned to Brawdy; when 45/58's jets arrived they were in showroom condition compared to the scruffy things 63 (), 234 () and 79 () normally had to fly. That was the difference between having well-motivated groundcrew with a sense of squadron identity at Wittering and a bunch of pi$$ed-off teddies who hated being stuck in the bottom left hand corner of Wales miles from anywhere.

Hunter flying in the summer of 1976 - ****ing brilliant!
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Flight Safety - It's Nothing to Do with Me!

The Richard O Sullivan film was, I believe, entitled 'Flight Safety - It's Nothing to Do With Me'. Memorable for a scene in a stripclub featured a frustrated young harrier pilot (Sullivan) enjoying a personal dance (given the film's age you get to see the full top half) (!), a RAFP Cpl picking mushrooms who ends up falling off his bike and swearing under his breath at a Dominie crew, and a jobsworth techie who throws an 'RTI' test kit in a draw and clocks off early, hence grounding the fleet. The culmination of the frustration is Sullivan being told to go-around short finals as he's not received landing clearance, shortly before being called a 'clown' on the radio by an angry Phantom crew.

The film is of a fine vintage and totally un-PC, hence recommended viewing!

I'm only familiar as during a hold at Bruggen, my job was to make VHS copies for everyone else - good times.

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Poor old Richard didn't get the right breakfast either iirc, Boy was he having a bad day!
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There used to be another film called 'Frustration', we were shown it as 'space kidettes' in the 70's at 1 AEF at Manston when waiting as the rain stoped play! Ah...good days....

Think it had a crew in a Javelin having a bad day of all things!!!
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Harrier Flight Safety Film -Wildenrath

Part of the overshoot incident film was filmed in part at 20 Sqn and the Pussycat Club in Wassenberg. The film's Director stole the show.
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These films, I recall, were introduced by that red cartoon snake with the perpetual toothy smile called Hissing Sid! I remember some quite serious ones including one about an RAF Officer being blackmailed into spying at either Scampton or Waddington, during both their Vulcan eras. The poor chap had been filmed by some Commies getting it on with an intimate services operative, or whatever such young ladies are called now. Hissing Sid introduced the show by spinning in swivel chair asking if we would like to be in show biz, then introduced the Flt Lt somebody or other 'who wanted to be in show beessness' said Sid with his heavy East European accent. Also, that he like to haaf a vaery good time weev the ladees!

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The poor chap had been filmed by some Commies getting it on with an intimate services operative
Female or male?
The former: meh . . .
The latter, at the time, rather more serious.
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The following RAF short films are available on DVD, unfortunately the two classics Dr FOD & The Man From LOX are not on the list but are available on YouTube.

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ROYAL AIR FORCE IN THE 1960s - The Definitive Short Films Collection
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Airborne Assault Operation (1960, 29 mins)
Rescue at Sea (1960, 4 mins)
The Favourites (1960, 20 mins)
Adventure with Skill (1960, 19 mins)
RAF 42nd Anniversary (1960, 10 mins)
Streaked Lightning (1960, 5 mins)
Call Out : RAF Mountain Rescue (1960, 12 mins)
Delta 8-3 : The Vulcan (1960, 27 mins)
Technical Officer (1960, 22 mins)
These Things Happen (1961, 14 mins)
True Bearing : RAF In The Far East (1961, 28 mins)
No Claims Bonus (1961, 5 mins)
Transport Command : RAF Lyneham (1961, 24 mins)
Jungle Life-Line : RAF in the Far East (1961, 16 mins)
High Encounter : Valiant (1961, 21 mins)
RAF Recruiting with Kenneth Wolstenholme (1961, 2 mins)
Transport Command (1962, 16 mins)
Nuclear Defence Operations (1962, 22 mins)
Jubilee 1912-1962 : RAF 50th Anniversary (1962, 26 mins)
The Multi-Seat `MS 26' Dinghy (1963, 22 mins)
Forward Air Controller (1963, 25 mins)
The Fighter-Bomber Electronic Warfare Battle (1963, 21 mins)
Air-Head (1963, 10 mins) / Spinning Modern Aircraft (1964, 19 mins)
Flight - An Anthology (1964, 13 mins)
The Royal Airforce D/F Emergency Organisation (1965, 19 mins)
Escape From an Aircraft in Flight (1965, 21 mins)
Maritime Air Electronic Warfare (1965, 25 mins)
Routine Adventure : RAF In Aden (1965, 13 mins)
Winged Horizons (1965, 11 mins) / The New Men : RAF Recruit Training (1965, 19 mins)
A Matter of Choice (1965, 17 mins)
African Journey (1965, 12 mins)
Operation Bush-Fire (1966, 25 mins)
Thursday's Comet (1966, 26 mins)
Air Quartermaster - Training (1966, 25 mins)
Fifteen Flight Safety Flashes (1966, 17 mins)
Timepiece (1966, 22 mins) / The Supplier in the Royal Air Force (1967, 7 mins)
RAF Recruiting With Wynne Jones (1967, 1 min)
Into Action with the RAF Regiment (1967, 6 mins)
Royal Air Force Police (1967, 8 mins)
A Place for You in the WRAF (1968, 32 mins)
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Royal Air Force** (1969, 20 mins)
Malta - Shackleton (1969, 8 mins)
Tomorrow, Today, Survival (1969, 5 mins)
Jump To Action (1969, 19 mins)
Graduate In The RAF (1969, 19 mins)
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ROYAL AIR FORCE IN THE EARLY 1970s - The Definitive Short Films Collection
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Oxygen Fire In The Air (1969/1970, 18 mins)
RAF College - Cranwell (1970, 19 mins)
The Sharp End (1970, 14 mins)
State Of Readiness (1970, 2 mins)
Sea Survival With The RAF (1970, 2 mins)
Aircraft Mechanic - Weapons (1970, 6 mins)
Low Flying (1971, 18 mins)
RAF Catering Trades (1971, 7 mins)
Vision And Nuclear Flash (1971, 17 mins)
Low Flying Training - Part One (1971, 22 mins)
Low Flying Training - Part Two (1971, 27 mins)
Seven Days To White Tent (1972, 52 mins)
Exercise Senator II (1972, 21 mins)
RAF Scramble - Quick Reaction Alert (1972, 2 mins)
Nothing To Do With Me (1972, 21 mins)
The Royal Air Force Afloat (1972, 28 mins)
Exercise Black Spear (1972, 28 mins)
The Engineer In The RAF (1972, 22 mins)
Flight 618 (1973, 18 mins)
Personal Service - The RAF Secretarial Officer (1973, 15 mins)
An Introduction To The Nimrod (1973, 17 mins)
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ROYAL AIR FORCE IN THE LATE 1970s - The Definitive Short Films Collection
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Open Secret (1973, 42 mins)
Airfield Driving - RAF Little Rissington (1973, 21 mins)
Skill At Arms - The RAF Regiment Gunner (1973, 26 mins)
RAF Fire Brigade (1974, 17 mins)
Jaguar In Service (1974, 11 mins)
RAF Telecommunications (1974, 6 mins)
RAF Community Relations Officer (1974, 3 mins)
RAF Aerospace Systems Officer (1974, 7 mins)
RAF Ground Trades - Flight Line (1974, 5 mins)
RAF Ground Trades - Take Off (1974, 3 mins)
Take-Off : Harrier - Recruitment Trailer (1974, 3 mins)
Phantom Trailer (1975, 1 min)
Part Of The Team (1975, 20 mins)
Nimrod - The Mighty Hunter (1975, 20 mins)
Fly With The RAF (1975, 19 mins)
Serving With The RAF : RAF Jaguar (1975, 2 mins)
RAF Take-Off : Phantom (1975, 1 min)
Out Of The Rut (1975, 16 mins)
RAF Supply (1975, 5 mins)
RAF Police (1975, 4 mins)
Harrier - Strike And Survive (1976, 9 mins)
RAF Recruitment - Jaguar (1977, 1 min)
RAF Recruitment - Jaguar : Air Base (1977, 1 min)
RAF Recruitment - Jaguar : Faces (1977, 1 min)
Hush House (1977, 3 mins)
Fighter Controller (1977, 9 mins)
Royal Salute - Queen's Silver Jubilee Review Of The RAF (1977, 30 mins)
RAF Mountain Rescue (1977, 2 mins)
RAF Sea Rescue (1977, 2 mins) / Nimrod Patrol (1978, 6 mins)
Harriers Operation Hal Flint (1978, 38 mins)
RAF Counter-Marching (1978, 2 mins)
Bomb Cluster HE 600lb No.1 Mk.1 (Excerpt, 1971, 9 mins)
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ROYAL AIR FORCE IN THE 1980s - The Definitive Short Films Collection
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RAF Watchdogs (1980, 24 mins)
Flying Low In A Hawk (1980, 3 mins)
Nimrod Attack (1981, 2 mins)
RAF Police (1982, 6 mins)
Fighter Pit-Stop (1982, 2 mins)
RAF Intercept (1982, 25 mins)
RAF Engineering (1983, 25 mins)
Distractions (1984, 30 mins)
Operation Intercept (1984, 29 mins)
Talkdown (1985, 10 mins)
Aircraft Structural Integrity (1986, 27 mins)
Tornado (1986, 29 mins)
RAF Recruitment TV Adverts Of The Early 80s (4 mins)
RAF In Germany (1987, 3 mins)
The Price Of F.O.D. (1987, 22 mins)
Support Trades (1987, 3 mins)
Pilot Display (1987, 3 mins)
Engineering Trades (1987, 2 mins)
Harrier Passenger Brief (1987, 14mins)
RAF Air Force For Peace (1988, 20 mins)
Christmas Present (1988, 26 mins)
Hazardous Ops(1989, 24 mins)
RAF Wings (1989, 1 min)
RAF Regiment (1989, 17 mins)
RAF Auxiliary Air Force (1989, 19 mins)
RAF Junior Engineer Officer JENGO (1989, 21 mins).
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ROYAL AIR FORCE IN THE 1990s - The Definitive Short Films Collection
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RAF Way Of Life (1990, 1 min)
RAF Round-Up 1990 (1990, 24 mins)
Aircraft Pilot & Navigator (1990, 3 mins)
Guardians Of The Sky (1991, 14 mins)
RAF Cranwell (1991, 16 mins)
RAF Promo The Dream (1992, 2 mins)
Flypast For RAF 75th Anniversary (1993, 5 mins)
RAF Bosnia Air-Lifts (1993, 5 mins)
RAF Battle Manager (1993, 17 mins)
Stepping In Time (1993, 22 mins)
High Hopes (1994, 6 mins)
RAF Engineer Engineered For Success (1996, 15 mins)
RAF Logistics (1996, 14 mins)
RAF Payload (1997, 1 min)
RAF Regiment Gunners (1997, 12 mins)
RAF The Hunters (1998, 13 mins)
RAF Fighter Control (1998, 14 mins)
A Matter Of Life And Death (1999, 23 mins)
Sections From Rise Above The Rest Life In The RAF (1994, 6 mins)
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Look at Life: Volume 2 - Military (Only shown the RAF centric films)
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The Black Arrows
Thunder in Waiting
A Piece of Cake
Air Umbrella
Flight Deck
Pipeline
Survival
Test Pilot
Turning Blades
Golden Wings
Girls of the Air
The Sky’s the Limit
The Jet Folk
Jumping Jets
Air Lift
Down to Earth
School for Skymen
Free Fall
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