Recruitment film.
I have just watched a RAF film for the first time and thought are there two air forces and did I join the wrong one!!!!!! Its on U tube and is called "True Bearing 1961".Some good stuff though!!
Look forward to comments!! |
The "Talking Pictures" Freeview TV channel also shows the occasional short film regarding the RAF. Today they showed "Time Piece" from 1966.
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That film is nearly 60 years old.
Nostalgia isn't........ |
Old.....whatever happened to the Tech's Toolbox?
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Foind this film in looking for other recruitment firms. Thought it deserved being posted.
https://media.nationalarchives.gov.u...fliers-europe/ The untold story of the RAF’s black Second World War fliers over Europe |
Originally Posted by oldpax
(Post 10652030)
I have just watched a RAF film for the first time and thought are there two air forces and did I join the wrong one!!!!!! Its on U tube and is called "True Bearing 1961".Some good stuff though!!
Look forward to comments!! |
Techs toolbox.Well we had them on "Coastal"wooden box lockable in which all sorts were kept.Working first line you didn't need them as centralised servicing took over .In fact all you needed was a G.S.scredriver for most jobs!! Of course you did a variety of jobs most of them dirty ,ie topping up oil,15 gallons per engine per day on Varsities !Refuelling ,towing trolleyaccs putting away in the hanger as not enough room on the line.Could go but!!
Of course this was the 1960s and I am sure things have progressed a bit since then. Fire piquet and duty elect ,does this still have to be done? |
...and thought are there two air forces and did I join the wrong one!!!!!! |
I left the RAF in 1968 and after five years learning in the power industry started another life as a contracter travelling to jobs in many countries.Apart from the odd one most of the time I was accommodated in nice hotels !! Still flew in economy though!!
So every continent covered except New Zealand or PMG but that's only a big island isn't it?Or Greenland and Iceland!!! |
Originally Posted by SASless
(Post 10652098)
Old.....whatever happened to the Tech's Toolbox?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RAF-Appre...UAAOSwYABd84EO |
Still using the "Three P" method of maintenance I see!
Pound it to shape, Pound it to fit, and Paint it to match! |
Royal Air Force In The 1960s
Originally Posted by oldpax
(Post 10652030)
I have just watched a RAF film for the first time and thought are there two air forces and did I join the wrong one!!!!!! Its on U tube and is called "True Bearing 1961".Some good stuff though!!
Look forward to comments!! 13 hrs 21 min of nostalgia - available from the usual sources. The last title is Graduate In The RAF, which gives a good snapshot of the RAF I joined.... |
I think that the RAF, and the MoD in general, would do far better in the recruitment stakes if it could fix the underlying problems revealed in the two headline BBC articles of yesterday, one by an ex soldier complaining of being bored and misemployed in the Army, spending all his day roaming around camp being told to pick up litter, and the ex RAF lad saying he left last year as he was fed up of things breaking; heating, running water and toilets being just a few examples, in one instance they were without working toilets for over a week.
No recruitment film is going to work unless those fundamentals are sorted. Cummings is your man! |
Originally Posted by NutLoose
(Post 10654150)
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