Jaguar - Strike Squadron - COI Film From Late 1970s
Lovely stuff! - However....Did Jaguar Sqn numbers really go as high.. . ???
I remember (II Sqn 76-79)that dreadful GQ Torso Harness very well - `Drop testing` Raymond Baxter and other high profile back seaters at Laarbruch was great fun!! But it was not the best bit of AEA known to man..
Great times! If only time travel was an option....
I remember (II Sqn 76-79)that dreadful GQ Torso Harness very well - `Drop testing` Raymond Baxter and other high profile back seaters at Laarbruch was great fun!! But it was not the best bit of AEA known to man..
Great times! If only time travel was an option....
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What an amazing time capsule of life in the RAF in the late70s- I loved the bit where all 4 studes got in the back of a tiny landrover( a tardis?) all with cases and then seem to be driven from a field in Scotland to RAF Bruggen!!! - I don't recall owning a suitcase ! I had a blue grip and later a green one that I think you could climb into if you were less than 5 feet 2! - once full of flying kit it was then too heavy to lift!
I take my hat off to the Jaguar wing ( I was AD at the next base south from Bruggen) I wouldn't have changed my time in RAFG for all the world but looking back it all seems a bit surreal what we did
I take my hat off to the Jaguar wing ( I was AD at the next base south from Bruggen) I wouldn't have changed my time in RAFG for all the world but looking back it all seems a bit surreal what we did
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That film brings back memories of RAFG. Seriousness, uncertainty, olive drab paint, sweat and charcoal lined NBC suits, densely planted woods and the sense that anything could happen and that if it ever did, there would be no half measures and it wouldn't be good news.
Memories consist of Bodge tape and plastic sheet decontam centres, bodge tape and lashing tape CPX sandbags, bodge tape and lashing tape CPX trenches, buckets and brushes with plastic noddy over suits to decontaminate jets, and thinking if this is the best we have, we have lost.
Egg Banjos, Exercise Breakfasts, QRA meals... (there's a definite line of thought running there) and the police block next to ours burning down whist we were partying on exercise and no one noticing.... Ohh and did I mention exercises?
Anyone remember the film showing the effects of a near miss on a HAS with a Meatbox or the like inside and some sheep... Narrator pointing out the jets relatively light damage meaning it would fly again, but all the Sheep ( read us) were dead from the blast wave.
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be!!
Turn the clocks back - I would love to do it all again!!
Even though people I thought were really old look incredibly young!!
I could even witness newt and his amazing single-engine recovery technique again!!
Turn the clocks back - I would love to do it all again!!
Even though people I thought were really old look incredibly young!!
I could even witness newt and his amazing single-engine recovery technique again!!
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When I was holding on 79 Sqn at Chivenor as a pilot officer Adj, for me between Valley & Chiv, I will always remember a 4-ship of Hunters diverting into Chiv after taking off from St Athan en-route to the middle east.
The formation leader was a flying officer! You might remember who that was!!
When was the last time a flying officer was entrusted with leading a 4-ship on a trip such as that!!
Thread drift - sorry - will get my hat etc...................
When I was holding on 79 Sqn at Chivenor as a pilot officer Adj, for me between Valley & Chiv, I will always remember a 4-ship of Hunters diverting into Chiv after taking off from St Athan en-route to the middle east.
The formation leader was a flying officer! You might remember who that was!!
When was the last time a flying officer was entrusted with leading a 4-ship on a trip such as that!!
Thread drift - sorry - will get my hat etc...................
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Absolutely mate. Said flying officer was severely bollocked for that particular trip/diversion. No press-on spirit those bleedin' senior officers in those days!
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I think some of this film has been left on you tube's cutting room floor. I'm sure it ended with the same chap who is speaking at the end talking about 'of course if we do have to use this force we've failed'. To some film of a stick of bombs landing on a 'convoy' of old Service Commer vans and minibuses; this always struck me as the Vulcan attack from the BBC's Skywatch program. I'm I deluded as usual?
