RAF Topcliffe

[Herod]

Thread drift I know, does anybody in the RAF still play Uckers, Kierki or Clag ?

They must do. It's embedded in the DNA

[AdrianShaftsworthy]

Careful, I might have to syph on your blob!

[Davef68]

Exercises Chameleon 2-21 and Cobra Warrior 2-21 are both on this week. Which explains why I have just been buzzed by a C-130

[1771 DELETE]

Reminds me of the blimp in Cudjoe Key, but it had an APG65 radar mounted underneath.

https://thekeywester.com/2013/02/fat...da-keys-blimp/

[diginagain]

Originally Posted by taxydual

Ah, a memory moment. Having hosted a Hull ATC Squadron around Local Control (the greenhouse bit on top of the Air Traffic Control building) circa 1982, it became apparent that certain items had 'gone walkabout'. Namely 1 Very Pistol and 5 Very Pistol Flare Cartridges. Thankfully, someone twigged that Local Control was slightly 'deficient' in inventory items and the 'little tinkers' of Hull ATC were given a shake down before leaving Air Traffic. The result produced the Very Pistol but also SIX Very Cartridges. We were missing 5. A quick demonstration to the Humber 'Little Tinkers' by blatting off a Red, solved our accounting problem. But.......where had the 'Little Tinkers' aquired the extra Cartridge? We locked the ground floor door, played Uckers (Thank You RNEFTS), and promptly dismissed the whole thing.

Sounds very-much (SWIDT) like our Detached Flight from the wrong side of the river, "The West Side Boys".

[Topcliffe Kid]

I was born there! My Dad was on Neptunes. Always raises an eyebrow when I tell people I was born on an airfield. I've never been back, although coincidentally we are staying in the area soon.... a return after 60+ years.

[NRU74]

Originally Posted by AdrianShaftsworthy

Careful, I might have to syph on your blob!

In Clag, wasn't the most difficult hand to understand 'Resting on Arms reversed, rolling blind, misère with trumps ' ?- certainly after a few tinnies!

[Shackeng]

Originally Posted by NRU74

Is the Busby Stoop still going ?
Last time I passed, about ten years ago, it was an Indian Restaurant.
I remember Officers' Confidential Orders in the sixties forbidding us young APOs visiting it !

Fortunately that did not apply to lesser mortals.😎

[Fareastdriver]

I was born there!

I was born in the sick bay of RAF Cranwell.. In my later career people would ask me if I had been at Cranwell.

I would answer that I had; I was No2 Entry.

I had an elder sister.

[Tengah Type]

Kierki and Clag still played in my household with kids and grandkids. I have not seen any such activity in UK crew rooms since the 80s.
But the squadrons I was on since then had a very different working pattern to the old 8 til 5, with a couple of nights night flying. In those days you were
expected to be at the squadron every working day to be available, at the Flight Commander's whim, for any 'Silly Little Jobs' that came up. 1990 onwards
at least half the squadron was on detachment for Ops or Exercises. We did play some card and board games on detachment but not to the intensity of the 60s.