Nicknames
We had a Welshman named Jones who's last three were 633.
There was a certain Nimrod Nav captain nicknamed 'Ricardo' (as in Ricardo Cranium)
(I know, it could be any of them
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I was on the same sqn as Fatal; I remember the first day he was on the flying programme crewed with "Crash".
There was a Flt Cdr who was a bit of a control freq. (sic) nicknamed TAD.
On a previous squadron there was a brilliant Flt Cdr who was getting a bit portly nicknamed F-squared (fat f****r); but you would never dare to say that in ear shot.
There was a Flt Cdr who was a bit of a control freq. (sic) nicknamed TAD.
On a previous squadron there was a brilliant Flt Cdr who was getting a bit portly nicknamed F-squared (fat f****r); but you would never dare to say that in ear shot.
Chief called Swan Vesta - Red head, white body (allways wound up)
NB - Nitrogen Bottle or nitrogen - dirty git with black neck and grey body
Wingnut - hopefully obvious
Rigga: I don't remember who those refer to from 91, if you get time PM me on and give us a clue (probably need to tell me what their postion was as I am terrible at putting names to faces)
NB - Nitrogen Bottle or nitrogen - dirty git with black neck and grey body
Wingnut - hopefully obvious
Rigga: I don't remember who those refer to from 91, if you get time PM me on and give us a clue (probably need to tell me what their postion was as I am terrible at putting names to faces)
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Met a couple of crews from the 119th Wing, North Dakota Air National Guard (the "Happy Hooligans") some time ago at the London (Ontario) Air Show (late 80s); they were flying F4Ds at that time.
They wore name badges showing that they were all related (must be a ND thing); the Gozinya brothers - Rod, Woody, Hardy and I forget the fourth one's name (supppose it could have been "Dick").
Mister B
They wore name badges showing that they were all related (must be a ND thing); the Gozinya brothers - Rod, Woody, Hardy and I forget the fourth one's name (supppose it could have been "Dick").
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Kelvin Rucksack to explain.....was the absolute zero who had to be carried everywhere.
He was the man of recycled paper to save money for the photocopiers....which jammed every machine on base which resulted in...you can guess the rest
He was the man of recycled paper to save money for the photocopiers....which jammed every machine on base which resulted in...you can guess the rest
Allegedly there was a female nav at Lyneham who was known as Drift Bitch. The story I heard was that during a procedural instrument approach the young lady (new to the sqn and keen to show off her skills) started pattering the approach plate (joining for a sector blah, QDM is blah etc etc) and the handling pilot apparently said "shut up and tell me what the drift is". No idea how true it is, but heard from more than one person. Anyone care to confirm or deny?!
Before anyone criticises I'm not suggesting that what she was saying isn't good CRM/SOP etc, merely reporting what I was told.
Before anyone criticises I'm not suggesting that what she was saying isn't good CRM/SOP etc, merely reporting what I was told.
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No idea how true it is, but heard from more than one person. Anyone care to confirm or deny?!
She got the nickname on the OCU.
The SOP for Herc Navs was to give the pilots the drift so that you could adjust the downwind leg in the visual circuit.
The story goes that our heroine was a little bit behind the aircraft and, having asked for the drift a couple of times, the student Captain came out with the immortal line:
"Oi, give me the f***ing drift, bitch!"
She was also known on the Sqn as 'Nav Bag'.
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"Oi, give me the f***ing drift, bitch!"
Some 1312 Flt Herc mates flew one low level trip in the South Atlantic with a guest from the VC10K crew observing. He came back wetting himself with laughter - every time she'd piped up with some inane commentary as they bumbled along, the operating pilot just replied "La la la. Not listening, not interested!".
Wretched woman also deleted the 'Show me Goldie' screensaver from the 1312 Flt crewroom computer....
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