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Let's not forget:
SLUF = Stupid Little Ugly F***er
ROLF= Right Obnoxious Little F***er
IFBAS = I'm F***ing Boring As Sh*t
OSLO = OuterSpace Liaison Officer
We also had an exchange pilot who had been given his life-long callsign by the USAF. However, we thought he looked more like Shrek. He objected and it stuck. He objected more strongly and it stuck more. He was a very big bloke....he threatened to kill people and return to the US and thereafter we called him Shrek behind his back.
SLUF = Stupid Little Ugly F***er
ROLF= Right Obnoxious Little F***er
IFBAS = I'm F***ing Boring As Sh*t
OSLO = OuterSpace Liaison Officer
We also had an exchange pilot who had been given his life-long callsign by the USAF. However, we thought he looked more like Shrek. He objected and it stuck. He objected more strongly and it stuck more. He was a very big bloke....he threatened to kill people and return to the US and thereafter we called him Shrek behind his back.
A turban wearing, hindu, engine Cpl. was known to all, including O.C. Eng. as Turbine. Probably wouldn't be allowed today.
A balding bengo was known as Mudguard - shiney on top but full of crap underneath.
A balding bengo was known as Mudguard - shiney on top but full of crap underneath.
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@Scottie66 I seem to remember there being all sorts of kerfuffle about Shrek, including US/UK officialdom being involved... and being told in one-liners to no longer call Shrek Shrek.
PS name and location is a dead give-away as to who you are, like mine I guess
PS name and location is a dead give-away as to who you are, like mine I guess
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A friend at my local gliding club (30 years ago!) called Tressel. Always the poor guy stood there holding one wing-tip of the glider while the other wing was being put on or taken off!
Also recall a Puma pilot called Carlsberg - he thought he was probably the best pilot in the world!
Also recall a Puma pilot called Carlsberg - he thought he was probably the best pilot in the world!
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"Shrek" Sounds like the instruction to stop calling Falkland Islanders "Bennies" (after the Crossroads characters for our younger viewers) - so they became "Stills" - because they were still Bennies
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When I was an inmate at Headley Court sometime in the last century there was a remedial therapist whose name was Pete Miles - we knew him as Meat Piles because he was a big b&&ger.
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No names, no pack drill
Female Herc pilot = EMU
*Big tall ugly bird who can't fly
Female Herc Navigator = PANG
*The noise made when the shovel had obviously once hit her in the face
Female Herc pilot = EMU
*Big tall ugly bird who can't fly
Female Herc Navigator = PANG
*The noise made when the shovel had obviously once hit her in the face
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There was an AEO on Nimrods known as COOT, C**** O***** Oxygen Thief, and a short hairy Nav on 206 who stated on his first day on the Sqn that he didn't want to be called 'Monkey' (this was his nickname going through Cranwell). I'll let you guess what his namebadge said when it turned up. 
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SPIN
Long after I had left the RAF and when I was involved in displaying vintage/veteran aircraft at air displays, the officer assigned to mentor me in the ways of the RAF Officers’ Mess at RAF Leeming(?) was a Tornado navigator called “Spin”. He was fairly short in stature.
At the end of festivities in the Mess on the Friday evening before the display, transport to the hotel was late to pick up those of us left behind. Spin told us that his wife was en route to the Mess, and he had arranged that she would drop a visiting French display pilot and me off at the hotel. In thanking her for providing us with transport, by way of light conversation I asked her the origin of his nickname. Was it perhaps because he liked the sensation of spinning? Not so, she replied, he was the Shortest Person In Nato.
Long after I had left the RAF and when I was involved in displaying vintage/veteran aircraft at air displays, the officer assigned to mentor me in the ways of the RAF Officers’ Mess at RAF Leeming(?) was a Tornado navigator called “Spin”. He was fairly short in stature.
At the end of festivities in the Mess on the Friday evening before the display, transport to the hotel was late to pick up those of us left behind. Spin told us that his wife was en route to the Mess, and he had arranged that she would drop a visiting French display pilot and me off at the hotel. In thanking her for providing us with transport, by way of light conversation I asked her the origin of his nickname. Was it perhaps because he liked the sensation of spinning? Not so, she replied, he was the Shortest Person In Nato.