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Also Nick Taylor, ex 98 entry RAFC, subsequently went Navy and also got himself a detached tour flying Beavers in the AAC, before going on to 360 Sqn on Canberras before then to Sea Harrier and unfortunately going in at Goose Green.
Dave Morgan of course (who posts here on occasion), went Navy helicopters to RAF helicopters, then on to RAF Harriers, including the Falklands , then back to RN Sea Harrier.
Falklands
Also Nick Taylor, ex 98 entry RAFC, subsequently went Navy and also got himself a detached tour flying Beavers in the AAC, before going on to 360 Sqn on Canberras before then to Sea Harrier and unfortunately going in at Goose Green.
Dave Morgan of course (who posts here on occasion), went Navy helicopters to RAF helicopters, then on to RAF Harriers, including the Falklands , then back to RN Sea Harrier.
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My old pistol shooting mate, Albie, went RN>RAF whilst driving whirlybirds. Instructed at Shawburg before going into business outside in a totally different field.
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There was an RAAF F/A18 pilot a few years ago who applied for and passed 22 SAS selection, then even more bizarrely elected to try (and passed) SBS selection. Last I heard is that after a few more years he had applied to transfer to the RAF...
There was also a former SAS trooper (Velcro Trevor ?) who was medically discharged from the Army due to losing a few toes to frostbite on an exercise who then joined the RAF as an officer and qualified as a Jaguar pilot.
There was also a former SAS trooper (Velcro Trevor ?) who was medically discharged from the Army due to losing a few toes to frostbite on an exercise who then joined the RAF as an officer and qualified as a Jaguar pilot.
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I think your information re the Jag mate is incorrect. Following university Trevor 'no-toes' was commissioned in to the RAF Regiment and lost his toes to frostbite in a training exercise.
At Headley Court, where he was sent to learn to walk again, he met two pilots ( one the boss of a Tornado squadron) who were also being rehabilitated and they convinced him that despite losing his toes it would be possible for him to fly as a pilot.
To cut a long story short, Trev was offered pilot training and qualified as a Jag Mate. His second tour was as a Tucano QFI.
He is now a BA captain.
How do I know? He shared a house with my Jag Mate son, and they remain great friends 20 years later.
Please excuse the plug Mods, but Trev' has just written a book based on the diary he kept in training. A very funny great read - go to the South American site and search "Average" by Trevor Edwards.
At Headley Court, where he was sent to learn to walk again, he met two pilots ( one the boss of a Tornado squadron) who were also being rehabilitated and they convinced him that despite losing his toes it would be possible for him to fly as a pilot.
To cut a long story short, Trev was offered pilot training and qualified as a Jag Mate. His second tour was as a Tucano QFI.
He is now a BA captain.
How do I know? He shared a house with my Jag Mate son, and they remain great friends 20 years later.
Please excuse the plug Mods, but Trev' has just written a book based on the diary he kept in training. A very funny great read - go to the South American site and search "Average" by Trevor Edwards.
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Dave Morgan of course (who posts here on occasion), went Navy helicopters to RAF helicopters, then on to RAF Harriers, including the Falklands , then back to RN Sea Harrier.
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The Army places a lot more responsibility for its kit on its NCOs than the RN or RAF. Hence as an NCO you can command a multi-million pound armoured vehicle or communications installation, or wait for it..a helicopter.
The RAF & RN use officers for the same job (i.e. driving airframes). Granted some of their aircraft are even more expensive, and carry lots of lives, or in days gone by, the responsibility of hundreds of thousands of lives with atomic weapons.
But at the basic level, driving an airborne battle taxi is an NCO's job in the Army and an officer's in the other two services.
The RAF & RN use officers for the same job (i.e. driving airframes). Granted some of their aircraft are even more expensive, and carry lots of lives, or in days gone by, the responsibility of hundreds of thousands of lives with atomic weapons.
But at the basic level, driving an airborne battle taxi is an NCO's job in the Army and an officer's in the other two services.
A small point but I'm pretty sure that Moggie flew a RN Sea Harrier in the Falklands
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No he wasn't did any RAF GR3s shoot down an Argentine aircraft Mowgli certainly did.
He took the aaa round on the first Sea Harrier raid on Stanley
Sorry Haraka I was not trying to be clever but he was a Flt Lt attached/exchanged with the Dark Blue chaps
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He took the aaa round on the first Sea Harrier raid on Stanley
Sorry Haraka I was not trying to be clever but he was a Flt Lt attached/exchanged with the Dark Blue chaps
Best
John
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Jumping_Jack ... interesting! I must drop him a line - we've been out of contact for a few years!
Haraka,
Jonw66 is correct.
Jonw66 is correct.
He was on the "I counted them all out ,I counted them all back" mission which was , as you say, Sea Harriers.
Thanks for the correction.