In WA during the late 70s, if it was raining on a Friday, the school flying was cancelled and the instructors would adjourn to a pub some 30km away for a Flight Safety Meeting. Such meetings involved ladies demonstrating the safe way to remove clothing, which perhaps was soaked in fuel, to avoid going up in flames. From all the demos I saw, luckily none of the girls were injured.

The Perth council decided that because the pub was open to the public, it would be possible that a child or a snowflake would see such a demonstration of safety and construe it as something else, so the so-called "Strip shows" were banned from pubs.

The pub had a close look at the wording, and got around it by having the girls come onto stage naked, and slowly put their safety equipment on. Sometimes very slowly, and some of the equipment didn't look very safe, just little bits of string, but they were Hi-Vis, so that was alright.

The one on the corner of the square? ;)

1st night at Bruggen asked the german taxi driver after NAAFI had shut to take us newbies to somewhere we could get some more beer and there were girls, dropped off in Elmpt, walked into a darkened room, projector flickered on showing porn films on wall and ermm, not the type of girls we were after appeared... beer quaffed and departed in fits of giggles.

Nutty, you obviously had higher standards that the Tanker ......s 😆

They had one of those safe disrobing demonstrations in the families club at St Mawgan once. Just the once - the effluent hit the fan . Dont EVER sit at the front.

Thanks goodness cameraphones didnt exist.

This is apocryphal but it has come to me twice from different sources, many years ago.

A certain Group Captain , famous for his role in THE forecast of 1944, was saaid to be unwise enough to sit in the front in a dive in Hamburg soon after victory. The exhibish apparently made use of his hat as a prop.

As I say, apocryphal but it does lend spice to what otherwise has always seemed to me to be a strange story of "weather by committee"

At Marham we had a combined, post Corporate, gentlemens' evening in the SNCO's Mess. Our USAF exchange pilot was unaware of the rule. He pretty soon was!

I suppose a Group Captains hat is marginally more versatile that an O/Cpl armband, the latter being requisitioned, along with the wearer at the time, to enhance the performance of the lady artiste one evening at Bruggen.

Said wearer of the armband on the night was a far from unwilling volunteer however......sadly, his enthusiasm for furthering Anglo-German relationships as part of his otherwise boring duty that evening was somewhat misunderstood by those in authority the next day. It was probably "pure coincidence " his name appeared somewhat frequently for this duty for a while thereafter ......hence we thoughtfully used to ask what he was doing at the weekend in the gliding club bar mid week.

Immediate Flashing then!!!

Not that I would, but would you be able to claim for becoming a porn star under resettlement. :*

Indupitably. If you can train as a ghilly in Ireland, Champagne production in France, ski instruction in Austria you can study anything. I went to India.

Wasn't there a girl who had a pole dancing course funded? Not that that is in any way akin to appearing in porn movies.

Gentlemens Evenings were a fairly regular event in many OR's clubs up until the early 90's which were usually well attended. Along with simillar but often more riotous events in rugby clubs etc which ISTR made the News of the World on more than one occasion.

The last one I remember attending was in the Skyways club at Wyton about 1992. In the spirit of equal opportunities there was reciprocal entertainment laid on for the good ladies of Wyton the following week, which by all accounts was worse!

Then there was the topless mud wrestling night also in the Skyways.......but thats another story!

....and then there was Ellen's Bar in Nicosia !!!!!!!!!!


Aaron

Am I the only one that sees:

Probe launched . . . RAF

and think of Space Command?

Quite stirred my memories (yep, just my memories!) Radio Canada IIRC

There was a similar demonstration in the Families Club at Marham in the 80's closely followed by a repeat performance by one of the "Readers Wives" who thought she could do better!