The BBC gets it wrong again !!!!!
 

The BBC strikes again !!!!

"The parachutist, believed to be from the RAF Falling Rocks team, was unhurt."

Parachutist lands on a bystander at a display in Devon. According the BBC must have renamed the Falcons !!!!

Does'nt take much to do some checking. :ugh::ugh::ugh:

Maybe I should have checked first - DOH !

THE FALLING ROCKS PARACHUTE TEAM - Display Parachutists

Maybe journos aren't all bad;)

Hold on there tiger...

The RAF Regt have a parachute display team called (funnily enough) the Falling Rocks.

Tedious, uninformed Beeb bashing.

I have got my coat and am leaving the building !

Followed the link to the team's site - I must say those are some of the most fabulous berets I've ever seen.......they look like the cast of Allo Allo.

:rolleyes:

Aw.

We've all done it.

I was thinking that SS. I used to shrink mine but one of them is a master at it. Fiver a hit I'll bet. The Sgt had other ideas though. :D :D :D

Who the **** are they trying to look like with those absurd berets?

Do they think they look 'ally' or do they think they are proper Paras?

Chisellers either way and seeings how they are 'in the public eye', they look like bloody air cadets. Outraged! :rolleyes:

Nah, the Beeb got it almost right. Not Falling Rocks, Mrs PN has always called them the Falling Fools.

They are trying to not look like the rest of the RAF. Rumour has it they're going to start wearing 'blues' to work next...:p

STH

:ok:Yep, the Rocks were involved in the opening of our local community center in Bury St Edmunds a few years ago. Dropped onto a postage stamp of a playing field and handed over the keys to the place to local dignitaries. All landed withing a few yards of the cross, damn good effort.
I believe that they carry with them the ashes of a former member who passed away several years ago. He makes every jump with them. I'm ashamed to say that I cannot remember his name. Full of praise for all Rocks at the moment!!

I hadn't noticed his beret, instead being drawn to that 'tache the size of a Choppers handlebars. Good show ole boy. :ok:

Falling Rocks, strange name for a parachute team me thinks.

Ascending Rocks would be a strange name

Penguin's outrage at dress regulations! Hah!!!!!!
 

I can't believe I'm reading this. Penguins having a go at Rocks for not being dressed correctly!! :ugh:

For your information the majority of the team are 'proper paras' as they have served on 2 (field) Sqn. Not only do they have to pass P company they have to go through Pre Para (an equally gruelling course) to be allowed to go through P company.

Additionally, much to the chagrin of the Parachute Regiment, 2 Squadron RAF Regiment were the last british airborne unit to carry out an operational drop - in Sierra Leone.

So instead of knocking them and how they look - and believe me I've seen a shed load of RAF technicians/aircrew/officers in general look a bl**dy sight worse - try to get some basic facts straight at least.

Chocket Rucker - I too have done all the Rocks discussed above have done, and another "special" s*l*ction.

I think wearing the beret like a Frenchie (and that includes the Paras) looks dire.

What's the deal with this guy's beret? Isn't that the Iraqi way of wearing it?

http://www.raf.mod.uk/fallingrocks/r...7F7189E4C8.jpg

Well according to this, they're not getting two new carriers but 65,000. Which is nice........

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | Warship deal takes a step closer

From the above:

65,000*36 = 2,340,000 F-35B.

Just think of the low-level flying complaints....