Getting one over on the DS
 

I'd also like to thank the Mess Manager at CHOM, early 90s. Can't remember his name, but he was Scottish.

For family reasons, we brought our wedding forward about 6 months, with the idea that it would be 3 weeks after graduation. Sods law meant that plan was scuppered when there wasn't enough of us to do R Sqn and wedding would then be 3 weeks before graduation. Good old families officer refused us a house until after graduation, which also fell just before Easter Grant.

Had a word with nice mess manager and he arranged for Mrs SW to get a spare room on our corridor for the 3 weeks. Cleaners, bless 'em, even tried to find us a double bed! Mrs SW's room became a haven for all those things you didn't have time to tidy away before inspections (for the whole Sqn); Main Sqn were very quizzical about why a nurse kept leaving CHOM as they were forming up in the mornings and the DS had no idea. This was demonstrated by my flt cdr at grad lunch telling all the other parents aorund the table that grad day was the first time I'd seen Mrs SW since the wedding!

Probably the best value bottle of malt I've handed over in thanks :ok:

sw

What a cool Thread!

I would like to thank Chips Carpenter for all his chats in the Tigers den. His advice truely saved my life.

I thank Rich Holmes, Stan Laver, Sean Leach and Nobby VDB for helping me put on the funniest christmas show ever, on a stage, in the desert for 1000 troops in GW1.

I thank those on crew echo, and Mr Evans for not pulling the throttles immediately when i shouted 'throttles' over the channel

I thank OB and Tim Warren for wallace and gromits grand days out, and Matt Lalley for showing me that if you put your mind to it and stick with it you can do anything you want.

Thanks for the memories!

Tigs2,

Sounds like that Puma sim T/R training was worth the hassle of staying in a nice hotel in Stavanger. ;) Was yours the spider failure?

ShyTorque
How perceptive you are!

I would very much like to thank the Herc and Puma mates in Baghdad for getting me where I needed to go while on det.

Whatever your flying pay is, it isn't enough.

Possibly more perceptive than you might think, as I can also recall your ID (same squadron, slightly different time ;)

'91 or '92, I think it was. You handled it very well. Crewman didn't even get wet, as I recall :ok:

My First Instructors
 

I first flew at the gliding School at Swanton Morley which was a run a by Reserve Flt Lt, Alf Warminger. I then did a flying scholarship at Luton, before it had a surfaced runway, and my instructor was Ted Sessions. Both these gentlemen gave me a very good grounding in the basic skills and I went on to fly for another 40 years. I got a great start and thank you both.

Norman Buddin (CFI Cleveland Flying School in 1984) for teaching a spotty 17 year old air cadet how to land in a crosswind.

My wife, for making me realise there is more to life than just the RAF.

I'd like to thank.......
 

Excellent thread.

ILTT: WO Pete Howell of 230 OCU at Scampton for deferring my first ever 6442 (circa 1978). Without him I would be working in Tesco's

ILTT: WO Dave Angood (MBE Ret) All of us who know him can honestly say he is a top, top bloke.

ILTT: The gentlemen of the RAF Regt, who looked after me on two separate tours on two seperate Sqn's.

As an earlier correspondent said, the people who are celebrating VE and VJ day without whom we wouldn't be able to post the type's of criticism's of Bliar and Dracula that we can today.

And of course my wonderful wife and rugrats for being there for me when I have come back from the various "Holidays" that we have to go on as part of our "International police forcing" of the world.

I'd like to thank all the guys of 24/30 (Eng) Sqn, 47/LXX (Eng) Sqn, HLS and FLECS (all at RAF Lyneham) for being a top bunch of guys during a bit of a rubbish time. In particular the guys out in Basra (even the one that had me in front of the General).

You're a fantastic bunch of fellers, all the best for the future.

While I'm at it, thanks to the wider Lyneham community, even (grudgingly) the aircrew.

Oh and the Puma boys that helped us out in Iraq: you have spuds the size of the universe. I don't even mind you getting flying pay.

That'll do for the moment.

I would like to say thank you to all the BAE Dunsfold (and latterly Warton) Test Pilots for all the flying I experienced from 82 to 92.
It was truly the most amazing time and I feel priveleged and humbled to have been allowed to share those flights. In particular I will always remember the aerobatic training advice after my first loop to 'now try one to the right'.
RIP Taylor and Jim.

I would like to thank Sqn Ldr Karen Smart who kicked my backside (as opposed to biting, which was her norm with most people in the Mess), got me out of a rut and convinced me I was ready for better things. Thanks Karen.

The respondents on Stupendousman's thread who made me chuckle after a particularly crappy day. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. :ok:

I would like to thank the Air Force Board for accepting my resignation some 30 years ago - no Board since has made a smarter decision.

TP :cool:

I'd like to thank my dad and all his generation for the amazing things they did, with precious little thanks at the time, to keep us from being over-run by the nazis. They were an astonishing generation.