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Old 1st Dec 2020, 15:08
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Originally Posted by RAFEngO74to09
Tornado GR1 ZD718 accident was 140 miles west of Masirah - steep turn at very low level 4 days before the start of the Op DESERT STORM Air Campaign.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/55434

As my late Pa used to say -"Never fly below half your wingspan".

Nick Taylor
John E-J
Al Curtis
Gordie Batt

All still on CAP down south.

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Old 1st Dec 2020, 16:51
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Originally Posted by PapaDolmio
Not strictly an RAF Tornado loss I guess, but not forgetting OLt Peter Castner, Sqn Ldr Bernie Towl, TTTE, 17th June 86, Claerwen, Wales.
Interesting. Greg Hurst's crash (Jan 99), actually a mid-air collision, was in a TTTE jet. We were both instructors there at the time. I was one of his pall-bearers. RiP m8.

Wasn't it John Towl? Again, I was there at the time. Student pilot aborted from low level in poor weather, got the recovery wrong leaving the burners in and became disoriented. John ejected them but was outside seat limits.

Perhaps it's only RAF jets on the poster.
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Old 1st Dec 2020, 17:32
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Sadly my list is long, with many of the names already posted here so I will not repeat them. But there are some others, very close to home, who will never be forgotten and who constantly remind me of my own mortality:

Bill Graham
Tony White ('Big T')
Hoof Proudfoot
Alex Parr

Rest In Peace

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Old 1st Dec 2020, 17:46
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Originally Posted by just another jocky
Interesting. Greg Hurst's crash (Jan 99), actually a mid-air collision, was in a TTTE jet. We were both instructors there at the time. I was one of his pall-bearers. RiP m8.

Wasn't it John Towl? Again, I was there at the time. Student pilot aborted from low level in poor weather, got the recovery wrong leaving the burners in and became disoriented. John ejected them but was outside seat limits.

Perhaps it's only RAF jets on the poster.
Could well have been, it was a long time ago! IIRC he was known as Bernie around the Groundschool when he was an Instructor and was on his Conversion Course on A Sqn.
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Old 1st Dec 2020, 20:07
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In addition to others already mentioned........

Jeremy Hall
Steve Wakely
Andy Bloxham
Jim Downey
John Roberts
Keith Holland
Brian Weatherley
Paul Adams

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Old 2nd Dec 2020, 11:44
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Amazing to see the names; students, passing acquaintances from various pubs, and so on. One in the latest with whom I shared a soccer tour in Cyprus from Muharraq for example, all bring memories. Yesterday my wife bumped into a squadron crash survivor from 1972, a regular sharer of coffee and cake when not in lockdown. From this encounter I give you a colleague from two squadrons -

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Old 2nd Dec 2020, 16:57
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I remember on Ground School being told by our instructor
" Laugh, but look around. In a few years 10% of you will no longer be wth us..
That Class included Peter Stacey and Nigel Elsdon........

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Should our new-found freedom allow travel to Salisbury, Elsdon remembered in lovely Saint Thomas church, with decent breakfast in cafe opposite.
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Old 4th Nov 2021, 14:14
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A few more

Keith Holland
Bruce Cogram
Lawrence Warner
Tom Bayliff
Nigel Storah
John Carver
Greg Lane USN
Dave Sunderland
Berndan Hearney
Dave Haward
Paul Gunnell
Ken Hayr

We will remember them

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Let me add to the list.........

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Old 4th Nov 2021, 21:07
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A couple from my past

Arthur Mitchell
Chris Taylor
Dick Langworthy
Brian Jopling

And all from my ex RAFG Sqn who I knew

Dave Critchley
Mark (Jara) Jaroszynski
Dick Wharmby
Ron Sedlickas
Eddie Miskelly
Bill Cunningham
David Cousins
Mike Scouse Brown
John Temple
Terry (Gus) Angus


And those from this forum who are no longer with us from

CoffmanStarter through to Danny42c

gone but not forgotten.



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Old 4th Nov 2021, 22:17
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CoffmanStarter through to Danny42c - Very thoughtful additions to the list of the unforgotten, NutLoose.

- Ed
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Thanks, I would like to add Cliffnemo (Clifford Leach) I am unsure if he is no longer with us or if anyone knows, but he started the gaining pilots wings during ww2 thread, he stopped posting and ceased posting on the site below in 2012, it would be a tradgedy if his passing wasn’t remarked on here as he was an inspiration.

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Old 5th Nov 2021, 05:44
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On this day

Flt Lt Fiona Johnstone PMRAFNS, Master Aircrew Peter Barwell AFC, Cpl Martin Cook PMRAFNS.
Not forgotten
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Old 30th Jan 2022, 12:48
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Originally Posted by NutLoose
A couple from my past
And all from my ex RAFG Sqn who I knew
Dave Critchley
Mark (Jara) Jaroszynski
Dick Wharmby
Ron Sedlickas
Eddie Miskelly
Bill Cunningham
David Cousins
Mike Scouse Brown
John Temple
Terry (Gus) Angus
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A smile slowly came across my face as I remembered and reminisced. Fellow Wassers Dave Cousins and John Temple, FLMs Jara and Scouse, and Gus Angus, et al. I spent three of my happiest years with these guys. RIP
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I will add Bernie Worthington who was on the Nimrod in Canada. We shared a room at Brawdy.
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