SRENNAPS, did you not fly whilst a GOLDSTAR in the Other Corner or had you ''fallen from Gracie'' by then:ooh: Sorry I couldn't resist it :ok:

I was lucky enough to fly out to Cyprus from Wildenrath in the nose of a B(I)8 Canberra as ground crew support of 88 Sqdn. I got a good shot with my camera when we flew over Valetta harbour in Malta en-route at 47,000 ft. As the pilot forgot to tell me to strap myself in when we landed at Luqa I got a good shot of the runway (about 3 feet away) when we touched down. On landing at Akrotiri, a snoop saw my camera and asked if I had taken photos which of course I had. He confiscated the camera and when the photos were printed they removed the negatives of photos that apparently were security sensitive and then asked the pilot, a Sqdn Ldr when he was having his supper if it was OK for me to take photos I eventually received the contact prints of the film and my camera, the prints they had removed was over the island of Malta. What a waste of time.

While on a course at JATE in the 70's, Concord was doing training flights for BA and they had a daily raffle for station personnel to go up; never won.

One of the Gutersloh Harrier Squadrons used to fly a Harried t-bird back to the UK some weekends; was offered a flight, but never managed to get off when a seat was available.

I never win the lottery either ....................... :{

On Sqn ops at TTTE could get a flight after getting a German Navy Winco to sponser me. Only snag was be 100kgs or less for the seat, with 3 weeks to go and well ! over the limit I asked could I have a leg cut off and go ? Answer was no !
Also while at ATC MPA mate on 78 ops asked pilot could his mate from ATC fly with them ? Sure he said, what she called !! mmm, did some explaining and got my flight, what a fantastic 2 1/2 hours. :D:D:D

Back in the 1970s, it was sometimes possible for a sqn groundcrew member to fly over to Goose on the 7th seat of the mighty Vulcan.

We took a certain lad once in 1978; upon our arrival at Goose he was spirited away by the local det gang to 'experience' Newfie culture. In particular, a spot which was known to feature an entire range of STDs...:eek:

After we'd been in Goose for a few days flying STCAN 9 &10, the boss and his crew came through northbound from Offutt on their way home. Whilst making small talk in the bar, he asked how things were going.. "Fine, boss!", came the answer, "...but the lad we brought with us has been having the best time of all - he's been $hagging for Queen and country amongst the Newfies ever since we landed!"

"Good lad! What's his name?"
"J/T T****r"
"WHAT? That's the little $od who's been taking out my teenage daughter. BASTARD!"

:ooh:

However, since his daughter was (except to the boss) well known to be somewhat 'generous with her favours', it's unlikely that the relationship suffered much.....:(

Ha, Ha, Ha. How I laughed when I read that. Gracie, now he was a man who could put the fear of God into anyone :}. A fair but hard Sqn WO. He looked after me a few times.:ok:

However, no I did not fly with the Goldstars. I did not even make the first “Red Flag”....an incident in Deci might have put paid to those kind of luxuries.:rolleyes::rolleyes:

SRENNAPS You might not have made the first Red Flag - but we had a ball on the 2nd :ok: Remeber doing the 'Sweeper' to that Hic airfield in the middle of ......... close to Des Moines, Iowa, en route to Trenton - then the luxuries of 'GOOSE, THE DOG & PINK POLAR BEARS :mad::mad:

No mate, wrong aircraft!

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...stuff/PAX3.jpg

I flew in 129, aka ZG752.

I thought I recognised that photograph !

15th Feb 2008.

Ricko.

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/m...g?t=1266429880

Being the photo swiper that I am (cheers easy) I have just purloined the last offending entry. I set it as background and discovered the widescreen-ness of my monitor gives the stunted GR a much sleeker line, almost like an F3 (but without the style, obviously)

just one more.

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/m...oRB/Lakes1.jpg