Fish runs were well-known even in the '70s. A chap flew a Hunter up from Brawdy to collect a couple of bags of prawns, which would be stowed in the sabrinas. All went well and he was soon on his way back to Brawdy...

But at low level...
In the Summer of '76 - one of the hottest for years...

Liberating the prawns from the sabrinas, he was greeted by 2 bags of warm, pink, fishy smelling sludge!

If you wanted fish, you should have called me at Lossie ops. One year just before Xmas I saw off a shack off to Scampton, I think it was, loaded with cod and haddock ( no cash, fish for fresh Lincolnshire veg and a few chickens (plucked and cleaned)) just as a Britt was landing from Boscombe to pick up a few stone of Cod. I finished the day with more cod onto a Canberra for Binbrook. There were quite a few entrepreneurs at Lossie and Kinross thanks to the low pay airmen received and the massive cost of living thanks to North Sea oil, which saw airmen like me with two young children having to go overdrawn thanks to the storage radiators in AMQ's ( If you got a Taxi into Lossie or Elgin I could have been your driver!)

Complaints only seem to start when bleeding heart liberals or Messrs Sue,Grabbit& Runn appear on the scene.

Sounds like RAF Masirah in the mid sixties. We had a schedule of three Argosies a week from Aden to Masirah called RSM's - Ryan Salalah, Masirah, which night stopped at Masirah then headed back to Aden via Salalah and Ryan. I always picked up a load of cooked Crayfish tails from the Sergeants Mess at Masirah for 6 pence a tail and popped them in the freezer as soon as I got home in Maala. They made very nice Lobster Thermadors!

Around 70 years ago, an OCU Lancaster flew down to Somerset from Kinloss on a particularly urgent mission......

....to deliver Spey salmon for a dining-in night at RAF Merryfield. But in doing so, apparently it hopped down the runway in ever-increasing bounces until the QFI took control. Much to the amusement of the resident Vampire flyers!

Apparently after it came to a standstill, a car drove over to the mighty bomber. Out came the salmon, then the car drove off and the Lanc about turned and rattled off back to Scotland.

I am sure the old Colt officers mess is a private establishment now, it was sold by the Ministry of Justice to a religious group, that got the locals a bit up in arms then. The last time the asylum seekers were about, there were the complaints and rumours that a bunch of ex verts were planning to run a patrol group watching out for the unwashed and unwanted. Until the fact that it could be classed as vigilante action and slightly unlawful that put them off. Did seem to drag up the zealots on certain FB groups. As for Colt, it was great being 20 years behind the times. Way more atmosphere about the place and many of us that were based there wish it was still open as a RAF station compared to the likes of Marhell and Coningshole.