Mass murderer to Pilot
Chap I used to work with started out as EngO, did a few years and then moved across to Pilot as a multis driver.
My grandfather went from Inf NCO to Glider Pilot to Para. Guess he decided that flying low and slow wasn't quite such fun with the Germans shooting at you!
My grandfather went from Inf NCO to Glider Pilot to Para. Guess he decided that flying low and slow wasn't quite such fun with the Germans shooting at you!
I knew an RAF Sqn Ldr AEF Commander who was last reported pumping petrol.
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Of course that was a demotion .............?!
Joking apart, there was indeed a Brit Met Observer serving in the caves at Maastricht late 1980s, learned to speak Dutch and was last seen as a KLM pilot. This is hearsay but believed to be true.
Joking apart, there was indeed a Brit Met Observer serving in the caves at Maastricht late 1980s, learned to speak Dutch and was last seen as a KLM pilot. This is hearsay but believed to be true.
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TTN, pilot to cpl mess steward (Siloth 57)
Nimrod FE to airport security (Norwich Airport)
Vulcan Nav Rad to haberdashers at Inverness.
Anybody know of the fabled Nav to Golden Arches?
Nimrod FE to airport security (Norwich Airport)
Vulcan Nav Rad to haberdashers at Inverness.
Anybody know of the fabled Nav to Golden Arches?
I used to know a consultant pathologist. For a diversion at the weekends, he joined the TA as a Combat Med Tech, reaching the rank of Cpl. He was called up in GW1 in his CMT role. When his day job came to light (or existing knowledge thereof was acted upon), he went from Cpl to Colonel overnight.
Sounds like the promotion rate for US Army Air Corps Pilots during WWII....expansion combined with losses....made for rapid advancement.
Engineering officer to civvie 777 pilot.
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ATC Cpl at Valley ( early 70's ) with wings...some may remember him ?
Former SAC M.T. driver to A.A.C pilot...90's
Former SAC M.T. driver to A.A.C pilot...90's
one of the tanker squadron COs at Marham was also an ex Rock
Was not Air Cdre "Tiger" Tim Thorn an ex-Rock, who returned thereto after SASO RAFG appointment?
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And in my school days I knew a window cleaner in the Penzance area who had commanded a flight in a Halifax squadron. It appears he declined the opportunity to continue to remain in uniform so that he could return to his village, marry his sweetheart and take an outdoor job. He seemed to be a contented man.
Going the other way though, met a chap manning the kiosk at a mid-West US gas station (petrol) who claimed to have been an ex-KC135 driver.
Wrathmonk - I am still in touch with said ex Rockape. He still loves a party and seems to spend most of his time cruising with his lovely wife Sally!
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ACC pilot to army photographer
Someone I came across at LKG during Herrick 18, a former ACC Lynx pilot who had dropped two ranks from S/Sgt to Cpl in order to follow his passion and re-role as an army photographer. He stood out as I'd never previously seen a Cpl wearing the ACC pilots badge.
(T)TT was one of my UOs (may even have been A Sqn SUO) at the Towers in the 60s. Definitely a pilot, but having been a para qualified FAC he had a tour as Commandant of the RAF Regiment