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Strategic Air Command would occasionally measure the work week of air crews, find out that between training activities and alert duty it was around 85 hours a week, and decide it didn't want to know after all.
And if you don't think a seven-day alert tour was 24/7 duty, you've never cocked a replacement aircraft on alert at 0100 hours in a snowstorm so that the old alert bird could make a scheduled training sortie.
And if you don't think a seven-day alert tour was 24/7 duty, you've never cocked a replacement aircraft on alert at 0100 hours in a snowstorm so that the old alert bird could make a scheduled training sortie.
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On one occasion - Endex - all repair to bar.
Some little time later enter Boss - "Stop drinking! We've been tasked one more sortie!"
"How much have you had to drink?"
"How much have you had to drink?"
"How much have you had to drink?"
etc. etc.
Exit Boss with miffed but mellow crew
Some little time later enter Boss - "Stop drinking! We've been tasked one more sortie!"
"How much have you had to drink?"
"How much have you had to drink?"
"How much have you had to drink?"
etc. etc.
Exit Boss with miffed but mellow crew
Who is that 2 to the right of NC - not Aunty Joan is it?
Heck that long ago. Aunty Joan was Air Cdre Joan Hopkins. She, allegedly, refused the DWRAF appointment. Joy Tamblin's predecessor, Molly Allott, was a member of "my" Yacht Club. The great (IMHO) Neil Cameron was Assistant Commandant of the Towers during my time as a cadet.
The last DWRAF, Air Commodore Ruth Montague, 1989–1994, was the wife of Monty, one of the instructors at British Airways Flight Training Centre, Cranebank.
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Wait! Wasn't this about the Living Wage?
A lot of people know that
Wait! Wasn't this about the Living Wage?
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