What a waste of a perfectly good biscuit!

And you Sir have all the hallmarks of being an ISS pedant / instructor. Now go hang your head in shame and talk to the other oldies about when English was taught proper and all that stuff.

Defenceless crab
 

A crab with no pincers - must be FAA or AAC, surely?

GROBACE

Crabs are awarded pincers at the end of basic flying training and an approved course in table manners.

Please do try and keep up!

My Lord M - what is an ISS pedant?:)

I believe (believed) the AFL was published online 3 years ago.. Certainly the retired list, and some RAFR, were not published as the source was then the infamous JPA.

ISTR that appointment lists in the DT & Times (with the exception of promotion lists) were taken as a savings measure, along with The Air Force List and "blue letters", when Innsworth moved to HW. :uhoh: So much for ethos and heritage.

Roland - this is the same RAF that let Bentley Priory, our spritual home and the the heart of the defence of the country when all else in Europe was falling to the Nazis, go at the stroke of a pen.

If our illustrious leadership can get rid of that sort of ethos and history at the stroke of a pen, do you really think they are going to bat an eyelid about the promotion of a few minions being mentioned in the press being cut?

FWIW, having held at BP and knowing the story behind its deminse, I doubt I will ever forgive the hierachy for that one.

I'm intrigued. What's a deminse?

or indeed ...really MELCHETT...do better, or lose the argument along with the title!!!!!

:=:=:=

H-W

Sir Hardly - Doneby

I thought that you would like to see My Lord Meltchitt doing his weekend homework........................:ok:


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Yes yes yes, very funny. Two typos in how many posts?! And in my defence, I was dealing with some very stroppy fitters who had upset Mrs M, so I think I can be excused.

However, if bast0n et al demand it, I will instigate suitable measures to ensure it never happens again and go and beat my servants and get them to read the dictionary on my behalf. Incidentally bast0n, I think you'll find the encouraged / approved dictionary is the latest version of the COD rather than Collins!

My Lord

I thought it best if yu stated on the esay virsion....................:ok:

Claws (or should it be clause)
 

How do you encourage a dictionary? To do what? Perhaps a copy of Fowler or Roget would serve Melchett better.
But there's a crab that clearly passed both the eating and the flying course!

Gentlemen, please. We are brothers in arms, regardless of capbadge.

I had the privilege and vague pleasure of reading the then CAS's comments about the closure of Upavon, the Founding Font of Crab-dom, and likewise the demise of that historic building, wherein sat ACM Dowding, at Bentley Priory.

Personally, I would opine that Aldershot should be bulldozed for the safety of the local populace [although they merit little recognition]. Portsmouth is beyond the pale already, and deserves no further comment.

Really? Since when? :confused:

Shietalk

1918..................:ok:

In that case, in your own words: "Do keep up". :p

Sir Douglas Bader presented the last sets of post BFTS wings to 15 course at RAF Linton on Ouse in 1976. Since that date, RAF wings have not been presented until after AFTS.

The RN are only jealous. They have to live with the fact that most of their 'appointments' are printed in the classified section of the Gay News.

ShyTorque,

Unfortunately for you, bast0n is right - some of us do get our wings at the end of basic flying training! Since about 2002, the flying badge has been awarded to students graduating from Basic Fast Jet Training at Linton-on-Ouse. The studes who had already gone on to the Advanced course at Valley were all presented with their wings at a big "super grad". I don't know why it changed; it seems a bit premature to me, given the cumulative chop rate over the 2 halves of Valley.

ES, Thanks, That's why I asked the question; I did think it might have changed back again but Baston said it never had changed. I was a few courses behind number 15 and we were very disappointed to be told we now had to wait until after AFTS. I eventually gained my flying badge in 1979 (and kept it).

Guess why the system was all changed in 1976? Too many students were being subsequently chopped at Valley! What goes around, etc.

But what fast jet training is now done at Linton?

TINYTODGERDIPLOMAT

I think I know now why you make posts like this refering to the RN:-

I think you should "ComeOut" as I think I have found an old photo of you:ok:
ShyTorque

This is not meant to be a history lesson - but a bit of banter...................:)