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Chris Wren
Does anyone know the current whereabouts of Chris Wren? Son of the famous cartoonist; QFI extraordinaire; pianist of fame and, at the time I knew him, owner of a 3L Capri and a pair of six-guns! CB.
I last saw Chris at the V Force reunion at Newark Air Museum last April (2010). I'm pretty sure he was still a Virgin Atlantic captain at the time, although he may have just retired. If you PM me and give me your email address I can email Chris and get him to contact you.
Never mind the 3L Capri, when I was at Marham on 214, Chris was a co-pilot on 57 and the only one on the base who drove an E-type Jag. Heard him singing in the showers at Sharjah once - he had a good voice too!
If you go to the reunion website V-Force Reunion and go to page three of the gallery there is one of Chris's dad's cartoons, which is excellent.
Never mind the 3L Capri, when I was at Marham on 214, Chris was a co-pilot on 57 and the only one on the base who drove an E-type Jag. Heard him singing in the showers at Sharjah once - he had a good voice too!
If you go to the reunion website V-Force Reunion and go to page three of the gallery there is one of Chris's dad's cartoons, which is excellent.
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Chris Wren, his Dad and me - St Mawgan 1977
CB, TTN et al,
Here is a pic of Chris (note the 1Gp SD hat), his Dad and me after flying a Canberra on the Mag 7 in 1977.
I was his Nav for 2 years and there are so many stories it would eventually get boring.
Suffice it say I first met him on arrival at my new Sqn. Checking into one of the Mess huts at St Mawgan, I was confronted with a man, prone, with a silenced .22 rifle with a sniper-scope shooting out the lights.
A truly great bloke (ask the one about the still that he got workshops to make - 160% proof - blew your head off). Could play anything as long as it was in C; piano or accordion. Or the time that Scarfy secretly tied his flying boots to the rudder bar from the front Nav position whilst on a Wembury Q. I could go on.
Would love to make contact - please PM me.
BS
Here is a pic of Chris (note the 1Gp SD hat), his Dad and me after flying a Canberra on the Mag 7 in 1977.
I was his Nav for 2 years and there are so many stories it would eventually get boring.
Suffice it say I first met him on arrival at my new Sqn. Checking into one of the Mess huts at St Mawgan, I was confronted with a man, prone, with a silenced .22 rifle with a sniper-scope shooting out the lights.
A truly great bloke (ask the one about the still that he got workshops to make - 160% proof - blew your head off). Could play anything as long as it was in C; piano or accordion. Or the time that Scarfy secretly tied his flying boots to the rudder bar from the front Nav position whilst on a Wembury Q. I could go on.
Would love to make contact - please PM me.
BS
No, there was a Sqn Ldr with a new E-type as well, green I recall!
(Apart from my VW
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