For those of you that have everything
 

I just hope you don't need it soon :E

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/m.html?_s...w=raf&_sacat=0

I wouldn't be seen dead in one of those.

A lot of companies are going in for these, which has led to stiff competition in the marketplace

Well said PN!

I want one with "Starfighters"all over it!!

Remembering days gone by, I recommend one of those freestanding airmans/airwomans lockers.

I seem to recall that when required they could be suitably 'ballasted' for practice and more than one SWO bought a set of handles using PSI funds to screw into the sides.

Recently, I came across some photos in which the SWOs 'Bantam' small lorry was used to convey the deceased (in a proper coffin) to the nearby cemetery and with the requisite number of officers and men marching behind.

QRs stipulated how many made up the funeral party (depending on rank).

When my time comes, I have stipulated cremation with a return of the ashes, which are then to be thrown all over the lounge carpet in a final act of defiance. The Distaff has stated that she will then hoover them up and throw them in the dustbin!

Old Duffer

I remember seeing a documentary series about Woburn Abbey many years ago..One of the many interesting items covered,was that the then Duchess of Bedford, got the etate carpenter to fashion a coffin from one of the trees brought down in the great storm of '87.IIRC,it was quite elaborately decorated,and until the'need' arrived,she was using it as a blanket-chest in her bedroom.No cardboard box for her !

Last week I attended an ex-56 Sqn ground crew funeral using such a coffin. He had been a BBMF enthusiast in later life.

I thought the Starfighter was one! :E

At least you only use it once.

Not like they will be used to carry the deceased out of a crime scene :D . Watch the likes of BBC or ITV news (or fictional crime drama) covering a crime scene or accident in the late 70s/80s see men in black / grey suits (then later white Tyvek) carrying box to black van or hearse Watch likes of TJ Hooker, STarsky and Hutch, or Airwolf or CNN/CBS news...its gents in suits or boiler suits (if its LA County ME or NYPD) wheeling collapsible stretcher with zipped bag into black station wagon with MEDICAL EXAMINER or CORONER and flashing orange light.

One time over in Europe, was watching news channel, on about some mass casualty/pile up on Spanish highway and by god...the real fun (sorry funeral lot) were removing the decased after the Tyvek clad cops/Guardia civile done their work.....and no word of a lie they were running with the cokllapsible stretchers with caskets atop to the hearses like it was transporting trauma victims. Film crews followed the hearses back to hospital morgue and once again it was rushing with the caskets as if they were live patients!!

On a serious note, mate of mine went to the Co-op for a sky painted box for her late hubbie (she and her new bf are both aviation enthusiasts and run air combat gaming world). She showed my photos of the box when we met up for drinks the other year.....and very similar to the link the OP posted..

Cheers

Being made of cardboard they won't trouble the burners in the old crematorium too much.

They don't seem to have any used ones right now.. :(

I wonder if they do a Vampire.

I couldn't understand how one would pick them up as there are no handles and when you put the person in it do you run bodge tape around the lid?

Nice Idea, though not enamoured with the external finish, they do similar in Carlisle (or did) where they bury you in a cardboard coffin then plonk a tree on top to feed off you which I thought was a nice idea, myself I have asked to be torched then taken home to the lake district and scattered in the lakes, actually the one that supplies Manchesters water supply, I rather like the idea that somewhere along the line they all will get a little bit of me..... :) But shhhhhh it's not really allowed..

Brakedwell had a look, they will do whatever you desire, there is a Guinness one on their site as an example.

Cardboard

I like the concept and I think the plan view of an F3 would look good on the lid.

But £495 for a cardboard box to put my sorry 6ft 4in carcass in! Surely a 'tri-wall' from stores would be cheaper?

Regards
Mortmeister

They were quite a versatile bit of furniture then.......could also be used as a 4 man bobsleigh ( Halton had some useful hills ) ..slight problem with control however...and boarding whilst in motion . Not, as they say, for the faint hearted.

Weren't they called coffins, or was that a name from school?

I heard someone who had been refused entrance to Harrods had the ashes scattered in the front door access so everyone going in would take a little bit inside.

500 quid for a cardboard box?! It might just be the northerner in me objecting, but you have to be having a laugh!

I actually quite like the first one shown in the link, but only in principle....🇬🇧👍🏻😁

Jack

It is poignant to watch Just Jane's taxi runs at East Kirkby when just before she gets back to the hard standing, some-one occasionally nips out into the propwash and disperses ashes over the airfield.

Back in the day, we often carried out a few ashes drops into the Moray Firth from a Shackleton (and debating whether we could claim rations for them up to the time that they disappeared down the flare shoot). The trick was to hold the ashes in a loosely bound chart that would disintegrate and dispense the ashes once it had left the aircraft (there were the occasional mishaps with an inexperienced crew when the ashes were just poured into the chute leading to a blowback - often over the unfortunate Padre, and a requirement to vacuum the aircraft on landing). Do any current types still scatter ashes for ex-RAF personnel?

This is the dispersal of Sqn Ldr Ian "Beery" Weir" of 8 Sqn, reclining in his tube in the aircraft galley before the service.


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....49fa14e5cb.jpg

Did MF enter the flight time in Beeries logbook - failed to return?

Won't you get dizzy?

Old-Duffer
As done with due decorum 67-years ago.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....c10454d319.jpg


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....45a021035c.jpg

Not as warm: the funeral in Lincoln of LAC East who was killed in the crash of a Hawker Hart of 503 Sqn, RAF Waddington, in February 1937.




https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....867227424c.jpg

£445! What a 'R.I.P.' off.

References to Starfighter reminded me of an old chum who had played a Stormtrooper in Star Wars. He wanted his ashes fired into space but his wife found out this was way too expensive. Instead she had his ashes shot up into the sky over St Ives Bay in three rockets. She said that using her kitchen scales to weigh out specified amounts of his ashes into containers to be sent to the firework company was a strange experience. Great "funeral" and no coffin required, cardboard or otherwise.

MPN11 -
sorry, it was a poke aimed at the ruthless nature of those squeezing defence budgets over recent years, no offence intended so I have edited the comment. Apologies to anyone who felt the same.

Is it just me, or...……

Does anyone else have a rather strange picture in their head of a number of blokes turning up at Argos for the "Click and Collect" option, with one of them looking distinctly grey around the gills and somewhat uncommunicative?

Be Careful What You Wish For
 

Loaded stepfathers ashes into Chippie, off it goes to deposit him in the sky over his old operational airfield (Worboys 156 Sqn PFF). Chippie returns to an East Midlands station where 'they did it on grass' OC AEF points at fin. Pick up brush and dustpan gently scrape stepfather off fin and tailplane. Reverently scatter him in front of 2 hanger, hope mum didn't notice.