216 Squadron Disbandment Parade
I just stood and watched a Tristar flyover on approach to Birmingham. Whilst I normally have a quick glance, today I watched it until it disappeaerd from sight. I reflected on my first trip as an Air cadet based at Brize, to the numerous flights back and forth to Akrotiri on my first tour. To the ball breaker Falklands run; sleeping on the floor and running for the first beer on turnround at Asi, to the tannoy at MPA "Tristar 200 miles inbound", we knew the post was coming and fresh milk. You were a great workhorse.....Thank you
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Good luck to all on 216, especially all of the Air Engineers who now don't have a flying role to go, a sad day. Strange how every aircraft we've scrapped recently had an Air Eng seat and that has now led to the largest 'Capability Gaps' we've seen in living memory 
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May I add a small proxy whimper on behalf of the OH, who was Adj of No 216 in Comet 4 days.
She doesn't take any criticism of the Comet's oversized nose wheel ... She was there when delivering VIPs to chocks to the second was 216's business, and size didn't matter! She also wonders whether even Air Force One is as punctual as 216 was?
May Donna deliver gifts again ... A great squadron with a great and varied history. And it's always, and forever, Two-Sixteen, as befits its parentage
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She doesn't take any criticism of the Comet's oversized nose wheel ... She was there when delivering VIPs to chocks to the second was 216's business, and size didn't matter! She also wonders whether even Air Force One is as punctual as 216 was?
May Donna deliver gifts again ... A great squadron with a great and varied history. And it's always, and forever, Two-Sixteen, as befits its parentage
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AWACS is now fully manned in the 3rd seat so practically all of the Air Engs from Nimrod, VC10, C130K & Tri* are having to fill non flying posts or retire with the exception of the lucky few who still manage to get some hours on the BBMF Lanc.
AWACS is now fully manned in the 3rd seat so practically all of the Air Engs from Nimrod, VC10, C130K & Tri* are having to fill non flying posts or retire with the exception of the lucky few who still manage to get some hours on the BBMF Lanc.
