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Gloster Javelin
Javelin Aircrew.
Did you ever fly in Gloster Javelins? Britains forgotten Fighter Aircrew - how about a get together before we all die out?
Contact me at george.brothwood @ btinternet.com
Did you ever fly in Gloster Javelins? Britains forgotten Fighter Aircrew - how about a get together before we all die out?
Contact me at george.brothwood @ btinternet.com
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John Lewer, who currently heads up the Jet Age Museum near Gloucester flew them. We were instructors together on the Vulcan NBS at RAF Lindholme in the late 60's.
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Two of us (a constituted crew, no less!) have regular reunions, usually about four times a week, in the Whey Pat Tavern, St Andrews.
I'm not sure we would be allowed to travel further afield, though.
I'm not sure we would be allowed to travel further afield, though.
I am not ex-Javelin ("dragmaster") etc. etc. but I am still in close contact with one Peter Ash, if he is known to anyone. Let me know and I can put in touch, if he so wishes!
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We have an ex Javelin pilot in our 51 Squadron Association. His name is John Lucking. John served on Javelin in the UK and in Germany. I will pass on your details.
My personal association with the Javelin was with the AI-17 radar which I worked on at RAF Leeming and Waterbeach when I was an Air Radar Fitter.
Great days!
My personal association with the Javelin was with the AI-17 radar which I worked on at RAF Leeming and Waterbeach when I was an Air Radar Fitter.
Great days!
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If anyone remembers him I have an e-mail address for Mike Clarke whom I believe was a Navigator on Javelins until he crossed to the Dark Side. CB
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My Canberra navigator, Don Dipper, had a previous life as a Javelin navigator, UK and Tengah ISTR. Were Javelins ever in the Far East? I have contact details if any body wants them.
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Trevor Betterton, another name which might be remembered.
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My boss at RAF Det Salalah was a Wg Cdr ex-Javelin Nav ( Initials P G) he was an absolute corker - the troops loved him for 2 reasons:
He could drink more gin than any three of them and still stand up and speak clearly, even in the Wobbly Wheel Club..
When things were really hot and we had to turn round an RAF Herc within 30 mins, he would take his shirt off and hump pallets alongside the SAC movers.
He was replaced by a complete w..... (rhymes with Banker) who immediately destroyed all the morale and loyalty that P G had built up, but that's another story.
He (P G) went to HQ Stc doing some numpty job then Fylingdales as the CO, I think, with a rather lovely WRAF Sqn Ldr in tow.
He used to build amazing dolls houses with fantastic miniature furniture. He's probably dead by now because of the gin. But I loved him.
Rgds SOS
He could drink more gin than any three of them and still stand up and speak clearly, even in the Wobbly Wheel Club..
When things were really hot and we had to turn round an RAF Herc within 30 mins, he would take his shirt off and hump pallets alongside the SAC movers.
He was replaced by a complete w..... (rhymes with Banker) who immediately destroyed all the morale and loyalty that P G had built up, but that's another story.
He (P G) went to HQ Stc doing some numpty job then Fylingdales as the CO, I think, with a rather lovely WRAF Sqn Ldr in tow.
He used to build amazing dolls houses with fantastic miniature furniture. He's probably dead by now because of the gin. But I loved him.
Rgds SOS
Last edited by SOSL; 17th Dec 2012 at 12:52. Reason: to remove unintended innuendo and to add some real background
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Re: "Wonder if Hugh Stark of Sturgate treads this earth still. Gave me quite a bit of gainful employment in days past."
I was talking to Hugh at the funeral of Sqn. Ldr. Les Meadows last year.
Re: "Wonder if Hugh Stark of Sturgate treads this earth still. Gave me quite a bit of gainful employment in days past."
I was talking to Hugh at the funeral of Sqn. Ldr. Les Meadows last year.
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I did weather forecasts for Javelins, not sure where, but think it was Leeming and Nicosia. Am I imagining it?
There were a few ex-Javelin men I met in CAA ATC.
At LHR we had Derek Harriss (extra S is correct), RIP, Terry Quantrill and John MacDermott as rear seaters and IIRC Hank Prosser (RIP) as a former driver. At West Drayton I worked with Bob Houghton (also RIP) who had been a Radio Observer.
My wife, through art connections, knew a lady called Liz Deakin whose husband had been on Javelins in the Far East, possibly as a Flt Cdr.
At LHR we had Derek Harriss (extra S is correct), RIP, Terry Quantrill and John MacDermott as rear seaters and IIRC Hank Prosser (RIP) as a former driver. At West Drayton I worked with Bob Houghton (also RIP) who had been a Radio Observer.
My wife, through art connections, knew a lady called Liz Deakin whose husband had been on Javelins in the Far East, possibly as a Flt Cdr.
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That looks as though it could be a fantastic photo, but it is far too small to see properly. Any chance of a higher resolution version please?
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There were a number of 60/64 Javelins lost at Tengah in 65/66, at least four that I recall.
I was back in Singapore 1974/76 [Flt LT RNZAF]in ANZUK, and briefly lived in an ex-RAF MQ at 12 Hyde Park Gate at Seletar, and piled three deep in that corner of the airfield nearest the Officer's Mess were all 60 and 64 Javelins!
I was back in Singapore 1974/76 [Flt LT RNZAF]in ANZUK, and briefly lived in an ex-RAF MQ at 12 Hyde Park Gate at Seletar, and piled three deep in that corner of the airfield nearest the Officer's Mess were all 60 and 64 Javelins!