Flying Royal Marines
 

Mick Reece (ex RM aviator) has embarked on a project to update a historical record of Royal Marines aviation.

He has decided to go back to 1960 which was in many ways a pivotal year. The start of the commando ships era, birth of ULA flights followed by 3 BAS, SNCO pilots, RM observers and aircrewmen and now the return to fixed wing flying with the Harrier, not to mention the numerous conflicts. As he is discovering daily, an awful lot has happened in the last 50 years, indeed, far more than he had anticipated.

He started this project just over eight months ago and is now more convinced than ever that such a record is overdue. The most difficult part, so far, is locating as many of the RM aircrew as possible to ensure accuracy. He emphasises that he does not intend to include anything that is not already publicly available in, say, the G & L. In particular from that era, he is trying to trace Messrs Booth, Brown, Colton, Galbraith, Hunt, Jones, Nelson, Stokes, West, Duttson, Greig.

He is looking for any ex RM pilots particularly in the era mentioned earlier. If you want to help, PM me and I will forward your details to Mick.

John

Pity you are not going back earlier!!! for the Gods..... Hay, Patch and Cheesman:D Flying Marines - Royal Marine pilots of the Royal Navy in WW2. Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 Contents Page

Flying Marines
 

TipCap,

You may want to look at this Flying Marines link

It is currently kept up to date by a serving RM FW pilot.

Regards

FNS :ok:

Thanks David

To quote Mick

"Marsh's 'Flying Marines'? An impressive and comprehensive tome, now out of print and copies are like gold dust. It covered RM fixed wing aviation in detail and helicopters only briefly in the '60s up to circa 1970, just when I stopped flying. As you will now gather, it is now hopelessly out of date."

regards

John

Hi FNS

Never got to Yeovilton, I was a Junglie at Culdrose but I guess that is a long time before your era :D.

From another thread I believe Mick is registered on that site. If not, I will link him anyway.

Funny thing is that when I looked at my logbook Mick Reece did my first ever flight in a Wessex V on 707 RNAS in 1966

Best wishes

John

Friday nights: one end of the bar the pingers, t'other end the Junglies, Moet at 19/6d a bottle, terrible times :p