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Anyway, I must go. They want to come in to tidy my room and there's bingo followed by a singalong down in the lounge.
Even after the Anson was retired, they forgot to retire the pilots.
And then there was that corner of Brampton Park OM where every lunchtime several senior officers could be seen snoring quietly behind nthe Times or the Telegraph. Reading (or even sleeping behind) the Guardian was seen as slightly reactionary.
And then there was that corner of Brampton Park OM where every lunchtime several senior officers could be seen snoring quietly behind nthe Times or the Telegraph. Reading (or even sleeping behind) the Guardian was seen as slightly reactionary.
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You could always tell a Supplementary List officer by his tie. It had a ladder with just two rungs at the bottom.
Somebody could have joined the RAF when I left in 1978. Were he have gone to helicopters it is quite possible that he is coming up to retirement having spent all his time flying the same dozen or so Pumas that I had already flown for seven years.
Somebody could have joined the RAF when I left in 1978. Were he have gone to helicopters it is quite possible that he is coming up to retirement having spent all his time flying the same dozen or so Pumas that I had already flown for seven years.
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Lunchtime drinks
As a young erk at Valley in 70/71....our Fg Off, who lived in private accommodation on outskirts of Holyhead, used to drop us off at the Bull at Valley on his way home for his lunch and pick us up on way back. The Bull was full to the brim with airmen each and every lunchtime. However, had to put Fg off in his place when he wanted to come into the pub to have a pint with the troops before he took us back...informed that if he wanted to drink at lunchtime he would have to join his commissioned colleagues at a pub (forget name) in Treaddur Bay! Joyeous days.
Avoid imitations
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Somebody could have joined the RAF when I left in 1978. Were he have gone to helicopters it is quite possible that he is coming up to retirement having spent all his time flying the same dozen or so Pumas that I had already flown for seven years.
"Those Pumas, they'll never last more than five minutes....."
41 years since they first began saying that...
