Those of us stationed there had unlimited Algerian 'ruff red' with both lunch and dinner :ok:

When I stepped out of the Beverley, I was an innocent 20 year old, who'd never drunk wine or set foot outside of the UK.

I changed :ok::ok::ok::ok::ok:

You know you're getting old when, you'd love to make a contribution to this thread, but you can't remember anything!:confused:

You know you're getting very old
 

When one of your studes is in the House of Lords

Ah... "Rothwell Haigh, are you still working ... click ... brrr" :*

Oh, VERY cool :cool:

When the musket you used had proper dropping power and they tried to convince you the Bren you were looking at isn't a Bren but an LMG.


.

When Abingdon, Acklington, Bassingbourn, Binbrook, Brawdy, Chivenor, Coltishall, Cottesmore, Gaydon, Kemble, Kinloss, Lindholme, Little Rissington, Lyneham, Middleton St George, Manby, Strubby, Syerston, Ternhill, Thorney Island, Wattisham, Watton, White Waltham and West Raynham (and probably others my befuddled brain has forgotten) were all active flying stations.

They were when I joined. Sob!

When airways had colours.

When bread, coal, vegetables and milk were delivered - as were clean sheets in Quarters.

When aircraft had Drift Sights and Sextants.

When your car ran on the same oil as your aircraft.

When you used OM15 as upper cylinder lubricant.

When your inflight calculator was made of disks of metal with 'Dalton' written on it.

When a HUD had an emu on the end of it.

When Fire Piquet meant a free night watching a film in the ASTRA.

When the co-pilots carried F6663 en route.

When aircrew wore newer flying kit than UKBAGS.

When en route, we carried SVC.

When part of your flying kit were goggles.

When Walkmans were cutting edge and worked on little green batteries from Stores.

When Stores was called Supply.

That'll do pig . . .

You open PPrune to see a link to the obituary of a teenage girlfriend's Father - and realise it was 55-odd years ago........................

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e6...ps0b50b02e.jpg

Ah the great cartoons of Bob Stevens USAF.

Saturday nights. When a quid paid for a film at the Odeon for two, four pints and four gin 'n orange afterwards, a packet of fags, and the bus fare home. And whatever the film, it was two seats in the middle of the back row, white thighs, girdle and suspenders, and --------


Now I much prefer a good curry, but in all honesty there's not an option :uhoh:

And to add to 1.3V Stall:
Atkinson Field, Bruggen, Changi, El Adem, Gatow, Gutersloh, Khormaksar, Kai Tak, Kuching, Laarbruck, Labuan, Luqa, Muharraq, Seletar, Tengah and Wildenrath....
and that's just the ones I could have been posted to on completing flying training ....
let alone the others overseas I operated into:
Sharjah, Riyan, Masirah, Salahah, Gan....
all now closed....tempus fugit.j

When nobody knows what a "cheap Changi" watch is!


3P:)

Aside from Gan and Atkinson Field, did them all, and all those of 1.3V's. Not boasting, simply privileged :) How will my grandkids see so much, at no cost? :sad:

You had a schoolboy crush on Amy Johnson.

What's a Walkman? :confused:

"When nobody knows what a "cheap Changi" watch is!"

And they haven't heard of the Temple Hill Gorilla.

"When nobody knows what a "cheap Changi" watch is!"

And they haven't heard of the Temple Hill Gorilla!

You put a post on here and then forget you've already done it.

When.....you do an airtest on a J-P 4, 50 yrs after you first flew it at FTS....

I eventually had to change "you lie, like cheap Changi watch" to "you lie, like cheap Taiwanese timepiece".

..When you have to explain what a Varsity or radial engine are.

When young ladies open the door for you !

When you have to explain what Two Stage Amber was ... and before anyone gets any funny ideas ... I was told about it a long time ago and can still remember !

Trump you Danny - when they offer you their seat in a bus or train........................

Double trump! . . . when they help you across the road.

No, it's still flying 70 years on.

No, my picture was in a museum 45 years ago :)

Got me. My local Air Cadet unit has no one that was born when I joined :)

When Abingdon, Acklington, Aldergrove, Ballykelly, Bassingbourn, Binbrook, Brawdy, Chivenor, Coltishall, Cottesmore, Finningley, Gaydon, Honington, Kemble, Kinloss, Leconfield, Leeming, Lindholme, Little Rissington, Lyneham, Machrihanish, Middleton St George, Manby, St Mawgan, Stradishall, Strubby, Swinderby, Syerston, Ternhill, Thorney Island,Topcliffe, Upwood, Wattisham, Watton, White Waltham and West Raynham

when you remember Pontius was a pilot :8

I've just realised...
 

The date of my commission was as far from the outbreak of World War One as from today's date! :eek:

When your mode of transport to Singapore and back was a troopship !!

Check user name. I was running the show before Pontius even started flying training. ;)

In The SH world......
 

Violet 813, Red 850......Red 650 even, and Green 100 are no longer remembered......

Not withstanding all the equivalents are just as pertinent in Afghan..... It still makes you feel old that you knew them......

Wasn't it Dobbo called 747 through the overhead and Jabba got an "Orange Whip" from FL nose Bleed in A JP 5?

When the girl in PSF asks you if you are sure that there is a letter in your Service number!!!

No way...
 

Really? Do service numbers not have a letter in any more?

I looked at a pax manifest the other week and my Army service number is loads x 10 to the power N ( where N is a really large integer) lower than the RSM of a just returned unit from out east....WTF?:\

"An anuvver thing....."
 

I can remember when even if you didn't know the extension, or title or name or really any other details than what they did........The telephone operators at a unit would get you through to the right person first go.....

Never......"so where in 15 Sqn do you want?
" no we don't have a CSRO"
"I have OC C Flt"
"Ok how about Aircrew crew room?"
"No...nothing under that....how about Admin NCO?"

Station Sick Quarters(SSQ) now Station Medical Centre.
Does anybody remember those addictive NAAFI square fruit pies in the sixties ,came in a box and had cherry,blackcurrant fillings. Do aircrew still get flying rations today ? remember Mars bars,chewing gum .

...you remember when you could walk into the Officers' Mess bar at any time during the week and it was never empty.

You are actually old when you can remember walking out of the bar!!

Cheap Changi watch
 

When your first cheap Changi Watch circa 1968 stops working after nearly 50 years and your next one from 2010 stops after a couple of months!