NAS Keflavik - the return
 

Always did enjoy a few days at Kef especially when staying off base. But 6 months in winter no thanks! However, a perfect spot for MPA to be based.

There used to be a notice in Navy Ops at Keflavik that went along the lines of:

"What is the difference between Keflavik and Alcatraz?
You can swim to the mainland from Alcatraz."

I don't think it was a popular posting!!

Nicely timed for the return of the UK MPA fleet.
Now as long as they reform the best sqn, a Burns rematch could be on the cards :ok:

Ah Kef.
Home to some of the most beautiful women in the world.
Unrequited lust at 17½ :O
Regards, Den.

Aside from the cold, does location matter. Pretty much every US base on went on (and that was alot!) is a carbon copy.

I have to say, I's love it for someone to pay for to go back there...Iceland a pretty cool place these days (no pun intended).

TOFO,

There was only one Brass Nut.

YS:ok:

Unfortunately, 206 is already taken mate! :ok:

I remember our 2 Nimrod crews playing the P3 crews at 'shotgun' one afternoon at a barbecue. We'd polished off our 8 crates of beer in true shotgun fashion and were wondering where more crates were coming from. We were somewhat surprised at this point to see the P3 crews throwing-up after finishing their first 3 crates. We won.

Happyt days for thee taxi drivers, bet they up the prices, $4 didn't seem too much bet its $10 a pop now.

Great det there on the F3 in winter, so all trips flown in the dark. Some sort Bacardi given us that had to be drunk quickly, or it dissolved the glue in the paper cup......

The US Navy built their own hangar and HQ at Blackbushe in 1957 only for the UK government to try to 'close' the airfield in 1960. It wasn't closed, but the local council made sure the US Navy couldn't continue using it by shortening the runway and digging up the taxiway to the hangar.
Had this not happened, maybe the US Navy might still be there instead of Naples, having made plans to extend the Blackbushe main runway to 10,000 ft and build a secondary 7,000ft runway.

Voutezac

They say that if you can remember the BONEYARD, you have never been there.:E

Great fun in winter diving out of the upstairs window into a snowdrift and running back upstairs for a cold beer, I think:eek:

Heads down, Look out for the flak

Radley, i am going to bite, but remind me why the Portuguese were in Kef ? The Dutch were there full time because they could not bring an extra P3 into the Netherlands, are you getting Budweisers mixed up with Lajes?