The 1 Gp Dining In Night at Waddington
In response to Proletarian's post, bar jousting made a brief comeback a few years ago in a small base nr L'pool. The Bicycle or 'Steed' being replaced by a gullible first year and the lance by a handy bar stool.
The resultant jousting being a resounding success for the Mount and for the 'Steeds' a painful indication of why you should never volunteer for anything.
On the subject of mess cannons a drain pipe and the bottle off a de-icer can make a good mortar tube for tennis balls/half pint glasses (well there had to be a reason for them)
The resultant jousting being a resounding success for the Mount and for the 'Steeds' a painful indication of why you should never volunteer for anything.
On the subject of mess cannons a drain pipe and the bottle off a de-icer can make a good mortar tube for tennis balls/half pint glasses (well there had to be a reason for them)
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BigDH....
I hear you've been telling tales outta school me old.
"Daddies weekend away"??....
(I maintain it wasn't me though)
You and your Yank-tank are too big to hide
'The Chief', however, is safe and well.
I hear you've been telling tales outta school me old.
"Daddies weekend away"??....
(I maintain it wasn't me though)
You and your Yank-tank are too big to hide
'The Chief', however, is safe and well.
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The 1GP Dining in night at Waddington
WIWO Victors at Marham in the late sixties many people on the squadrons had been at the DIN, there were many stories. One refinement was that some rascal changed the destination boards on the waiting coaches, and in the confusion people got on the wrong coaches and woke up some hours later, at the wrong airfield. It took some time to sort out. I remember some outstanding DINs at Marham, both with 214 and 100. Very happy days, probably unthinkable now.
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CANTSAY,
Quoted: "Gutersloh 79,,, Whirlybirds CO, name not disimilar to 'Humpty-Dumpty' pi$$ed out of his brains leaves Mess and tries to drive home, just off base, and nearly wrecks everything in sight, suspended, loses command, Court Martialed, fined, posted, loss of seniority, but later becomes Air Commodore and SRAFO Hong Kong!! Scandalous!! Should have been jailed and key thrown away."
Not much bias and vitriol there then! Firstly, you are wrong about the year. Said squadron didn't even arrive in Gutersloh until a year after that.
Also, he certainly didn't "wreck nearly everything in sight". He had a minor shunt with a semi-derelict car on the MQ site. The owner of said machine was not too concerned and it was moved off the road, where it probably shouldn't have been in the first place, to be dealt with the following morning. Unfortunately the bump occurred outside an infamous Flight Lieutenant RAF Policeman's MQ. Before you could say "knife" there were more blue lights on scene than one could shake a stick at.
Said Wg Cdr was one of the most professionally talented and well liked senior officers the RAF had seen for some years. The service was sensible enough to see that, hence his later promotion once he had done his penance.
SRAFO Hong Kong was a Group Captain's post.
And he is now a very successful London barrister, so I would watch the accuracy of what you post if I were you.
Quoted: "Gutersloh 79,,, Whirlybirds CO, name not disimilar to 'Humpty-Dumpty' pi$$ed out of his brains leaves Mess and tries to drive home, just off base, and nearly wrecks everything in sight, suspended, loses command, Court Martialed, fined, posted, loss of seniority, but later becomes Air Commodore and SRAFO Hong Kong!! Scandalous!! Should have been jailed and key thrown away."
Not much bias and vitriol there then! Firstly, you are wrong about the year. Said squadron didn't even arrive in Gutersloh until a year after that.
Also, he certainly didn't "wreck nearly everything in sight". He had a minor shunt with a semi-derelict car on the MQ site. The owner of said machine was not too concerned and it was moved off the road, where it probably shouldn't have been in the first place, to be dealt with the following morning. Unfortunately the bump occurred outside an infamous Flight Lieutenant RAF Policeman's MQ. Before you could say "knife" there were more blue lights on scene than one could shake a stick at.
Said Wg Cdr was one of the most professionally talented and well liked senior officers the RAF had seen for some years. The service was sensible enough to see that, hence his later promotion once he had done his penance.
SRAFO Hong Kong was a Group Captain's post.
And he is now a very successful London barrister, so I would watch the accuracy of what you post if I were you.
