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Help required please.


I am researching an aircrew member called Fl. Off.(?) Brick. I as told that a charity stunt was carried out by this gentleman when he carried a brick in his aircraft for a long period and that said item travelled the world with this pilot and was eventually auctioned off for charity.


I have seen this done with a teddy bear or the like over the years but NEVER heard of a brick.


I understand he may be a Jag driver?
I also understand that I might have been sold on a wild brick chase!


Regards
Dave

I could be wrong, but I believe 41 Sqn RAF may have been the keepers of Fg Off Brick, his wife and their small brick-like children.


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My brain cells are a little challenged but I believe his name was/is Luigi Stanford-Brick and although primarily a Jaguar driver, also features as crew in the flying log book of HRH The Prince Andrew (Sea King trip), among many other types.

It is rumoured that Fg Off Brick also flew with Det 4 9SRW but neither the RAF or USAF would confirm or deny the reports in line with standard policy regarding sections of the Armed forces.

There was a Brick at Nav School in the early 60s.

Brick was used to bring home the lesson that a Nav should check all his equipment before flying so that he could confirm post-flight that nothing had been left inadvertently in the aircraft.

Brick' s lesson was very simple. Hidden in the student's nav bag Brick remained undiscovered not only on that trip but over the following week in trips to the classroom, to flight planning, and even a dirty weekend in the boot of a car.

PN, Do you still have him? :E;)

No, he was a founder member of the new Nav School building and remained at Finningley after the station closed. He was a steady Brick to the end.

Pontious: was that brick's father or grandfather?

I think Brick' s grandfather served there much earlier on with S Eco. I think Brick' s father was lost at sea having sunk like the proverbial.

Although on the wrong side of the pond, maybe our friend brickhistory could shed some light on this?

Did brick have a family? I think a few of them may have ended up at the bottom of an unpopular flight commander's bergan, before we all tabbed up Mt Olympus.

AL, I am sure there is a Cypriot Brick clan, possibly related to the Scottish Mcavity Brick s or even the Belgian Bonds but they were on the maternal side.

Didn't he have a Polish half brother Breeze Block ?

Does anyone remember Brick' s French cousin, Briquette?

Stop, stop.

I flew F/O Brick when at Norwich (he was Colt at the time).

NATO travel order; 1369 (as was) everything in order. He was wearing shoulder rank.

What became of him, I know not.

If it's any help, I have a collection of rocks from Places I Have Been. They are now tastefully arranged in my garden forming, variously, part of a Moroccery, Iraqery and a Water Falk. For crossing the stream I have a Sennybridge and the base of my bonfire is nothing less than Otterburn. Ah, the joys of the mighty Chinny!

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This is 1435 Flt's Fg Off Sammy Seal who also had a wide array of time in various aircraft types and lots of lady pen pals! :ok:

LJ

I don't know what rank he reached but I do recall having Flying Officer Brick on board a Sea Harrier during the display season in 1992. I saw him quite a few times during the period and his logbook showed many examples of the types in which he'd displayed, including the Red Arrows. For some reason he always insisted on flying in his uniform jacket, the rank braid of which needed some serious attention from a seamstress but he was a conscientious officer who always remembered to carry his ID card.

Maybe it was the trauma of being kidnapped by the Fleet Air Arm at one of the air shows that finally made him consider his career in the armed forces but I do recall that particular event raising more money for the RAF Benevolent Fund than his previous efforts, due to the crowd wanting him returned from the dastardly Senior Service and paying his ransom.

Is this guy related to Baz Heath of Coastal?

[I Janda,[/I] I flew with Bas, and we both featured in the museum display at Castle Coronet.

I remember Bas was in the poo after one land away for not paying his mess Bill.

He never mentioned Brick.

Thread Drift!

More pictures of 'Sammy Seal' here at around the 10 minute mark, although in the end credits he is called 'Freddie Seal' - was he undercover? :}

iRaven


P.S.

Just noticed he is a supersonic seal...

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41 Sqn member
 

I do recall the brick being flown in the Space Shuttle. It was on a hop from UK to Paris for the Airshow, can't remember what year.


He did fly with the Jags out of Colt for a few years, it would be good to know if he's at Coningsby now.

Brick
 

Fg Off Brick flew on an AEW Shackleton sometime between 80-85. I remember the event because unfortunately after the trip they could not find the log book which had the records of all the previous trips!! How embarrassing?

Thanks PN. I was on 201 when Baz was a Flight Sergeant.

Fg Off Brick was a member of 41(F) Sqn at Colt and cadged a lift in any passing air transport or on det. He lived in a 'Jag Bag' made out of an immersion suit pocket and one of his fastest trips must have been on board the SR 71.

And the slowest when I escorted him on a heavylift Belslow on a Sqn recovery from Decci

Janda, I am surprised he got promoted as he was always in the poo and apart from the mess Bill incident I think he upset the Yanks at Kef as well.

I believe he went into the building trade after hanging up his headset, specialising in high quality sh#thouses.

LUIGI
 

Flying Officer Luigi Stanford-Brick flew with 41(F) Squadron at RAF Coltishall during the i980s and early 1990s, spending most of his service life in the port ADEN cannon link bay.
He married Eva (nee: Wayhaulaway) in 1983 and they had a child, Halfa (known as Arfur).

Luigi has been AWOL for about 10 years but an imposter, posing as the real thing has been in SEngO 41 Sqn's office at RAF Coningsby for a number of years. The whereabouts of Luigi, Eva and Halfa are unknown.

The imposter Luigi attended the 2013 Gulf War Jaguar Pilots reunion dinner and was photographed. The original Luigi had a proper No5 mess kit, while this brick would not say where it had obtained its shabby uniform.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the real Luige is requested to contact me or Monty Grisedale here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1748...119/?ref=br_tf

Mike Rondot
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I hear that Brick did see active service but was posted home from the plumbline after being injured in a mortar attack.........
although he was very useful in this :ugh: