Thanks for posting Ricardian - lots of interesting memories of the OCTU at Feltwell. The chap on the left watching the girl on the trampoline at 4 mins 30 seconds is a 17 year old Officer Cadet Tankertrashnav! I'd forgotten all about that film and it's taken almost 50 years to get to see it.

Don't the WRAF officers look smart? I know combats are more practical, but do they really have to be worn on a non-operational station in the UK? :(

Nice one, ricardian, although I didn't recognise any of the ladies! Nice shot of an MPN11 there at 10:00 in :)

Greetings, tankertrashnav, from a fellow Feltwell (172 Yellow Sqn [all male sqn], Jan-Apr 65).

Tankertrashnav - glad you eventually got to see your five seconds of fame! Is it my imagination or do those blues look a lot darker than they really were? Very smart ladies though

What's the tailwheel a/c taxiing in right at the end?

Looked like a Bristol Freighter.

That's what I thought, wonder what it was doing at an RAF base.

There were certainly Bristol Freighters of 41 Sqn RNZAF based at RAF Changi, where and when parts of this film were shot, but the apron shown would appear to be in a temperate climate (possibly the UK?). There were some civilian Freighters on the British register, perhaps this was one on a military charter. Could the apron be Brize Norton's?

I think it's Lyneham. The Bristol Freighter probably came from Boscombe.

MPN 11 - I was also yellow squadron - the all male lot! 168 course, so you arrived just after we passed out.

Dont remember many faces, but that blonde in the classroom - did I come back from the pub one night with her in the back seat of a Triumph Herald? ;)

Or is that wishful thinking? :(

I was the only single OCdt on 172 Cse with a car - accordingly I never used the back seat, except when parked :cool:

I remember my very first evening in the Junior Cadets' bar. An Irish lass (Green Sqn?) walked in, ordered a pint, swallowed about half of it in one go and said "F*** me, I needed that." I wondered what sort of air force I had joined!! `Not sure whether "Paddy" graduated, though.