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Forum: Military Aviation
28th Apr 2016, 17:05
Replies: 81
Views: 14,595
Posted By Deskex76

Please leave the badges to those at the pointy...

Please leave the badges to those at the pointy end, and spend the money on something useful instead.

I always thought that the role of we scribblies was to do what we could to make the lives of...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Dec 2015, 13:20
Replies: 7
Views: 2,346
Posted By Deskex76

I know what you mean, racedo. Recent...

I know what you mean, racedo.

Recent casualty myself of just such a re-org by the blind led by those with the jargon and guile but not the understanding - clearly, an area in which I need to...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Nov 2015, 07:19
Replies: 29
Views: 9,331
Posted By Deskex76

Same attitude as the couple who moved into a...

Same attitude as the couple who moved into a house in our village not 10m from the church, and promptly tried to get the church bells silenced. As they say, there's nowt so strange as folk...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Nov 2015, 09:24
Replies: 322
Views: 106,519
Posted By Deskex76

From the PM's speech at the Guildhall last night:...

From the PM's speech at the Guildhall last night:

"...We know we need the ability to carry out airstrikes so this money will provide for more fighter aircraft........ All these measures - and more...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Aug 2015, 20:06
Replies: 927
Views: 424,285
Posted By Deskex76

Surreptitious...

Surreptitious...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Jun 2015, 23:20
Replies: 147
Views: 74,189
Posted By Deskex76

One for those with a few bob and a barn to spare...

One for those with a few bob and a barn to spare (as well as the grammar mafia).

Owners looking to sell Panavia Tornado GR1 aircraft in Lincoln | Lincolnshire Echo...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Nov 2014, 21:14
Replies: 35
Views: 9,404
Posted By Deskex76

It was at Yeovilton, late-ish 70s, I think. I was...

It was at Yeovilton, late-ish 70s, I think. I was there as a cadet and saw the whole event. Tragic. ISTR that there was something about it in Air Clues afterwards.

It wasn't the best of times for...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Jul 2014, 23:35
Replies: 27
Views: 4,923
Posted By Deskex76

"Even with Viagra..." Would that count as a...

"Even with Viagra..." Would that count as a UOR?
Forum: Military Aviation
6th Jul 2014, 04:10
Replies: 75
Views: 25,710
Posted By Deskex76

That's quite a stone-chip. Glad no-one was hurt. ...

That's quite a stone-chip. Glad no-one was hurt.

"Northern", Willard? Not according to Sheffield University..... North-South Dividing Line (http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/maps/nsdivide/) Of...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Jun 2014, 15:43
Replies: 114
Views: 24,374
Posted By Deskex76

Fox 3/Wanderoo.. Same Sqn, Fox, different...

Fox 3/Wanderoo..

Same Sqn, Fox, different courses.

To have been stuck on the plain amidst that quantity of armour would have been "entertaining", if quite an impressive sight (OK - in those...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Jun 2014, 12:41
Replies: 114
Views: 24,374
Posted By Deskex76

Fox.. Nov 83 SPTA night navex near Imber...

Fox..

Nov 83 SPTA night navex near Imber with stretcher-borne "casualty", by any chance? Those really were tanks of the trundle...trundle... (clank).. variety. It was foggy, too...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th May 2014, 06:06
Replies: 75
Views: 17,232
Posted By Deskex76

2381 (Ilminster) Sqn late 70s. Taught me an awful...

2381 (Ilminster) Sqn late 70s. Taught me an awful lot. COs ex-RAF Airfield Construction Service and ex-FAA Corsair pilot. 2 I/c ex-Blues & Royals, so we were pretty good at drill. My first F3822 even...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
16th Apr 2012, 19:43
Replies: 300
Views: 764,839
Posted By Deskex76

Radio Lincolnshire interviewed a geophysicist...

Radio Lincolnshire interviewed a geophysicist from Leeds University about the project earlier today. There is a three-minute extract from that interview at the link below. William Wright, of said...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Mar 2012, 13:33
Replies: 27
Views: 5,973
Posted By Deskex76

Echo just about all of the advice above. Be...

Echo just about all of the advice above. Be prepared to be flexible and if you can find your next role whilst still in work, so much the better.

I spent a while "Between jobs" recently after...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Jan 2012, 01:34
Replies: 27
Views: 6,735
Posted By Deskex76

Armoured car patrols? Not in the old Ferret...

Armoured car patrols? Not in the old Ferret armed with a broom handle that was parked outside the Mess for the Summer Ball in 85-ish... Was that before or after some wag wheel-clamped the nosewheel...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Aug 2011, 19:20
Replies: 199
Views: 26,319
Posted By Deskex76

Greater Manchester Police have started publishing...

Greater Manchester Police have started publishing sentences on a well-known social networking site beginning with "T" (@gmpolice). Nice to see that the Beak has awarded four months' youth custody to...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Dec 2010, 16:34
Replies: 663
Views: 168,871
Posted By Deskex76

PER ARDUA AD ASTRA - A Handbook of the Royal Air Force

Amazon have used copies from £2.76 inc. P&P.

I must mention this to my dearly beloved. With a little luck, a copy might just appear under the tree in three weeks' time. I could do with a bit...
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Sep 2010, 20:58
Replies: 7
Views: 2,779
Posted By Deskex76

Risk assessments for drill? Please tell me...

Risk assessments for drill?

Please tell me you're joking.
Forum: Military Aviation
22nd Sep 2010, 20:43
Replies: 44
Views: 9,347
Posted By Deskex76

Hampdens - Slight Thread Drift

OK, not Battle of Britain, I know, and a diversion from Barbara's wonderful reminiscences of life just up the road from me but could we return briefly to the case of inaccuracies on the RAF History...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Sep 2010, 09:24
Replies: 64
Views: 43,215
Posted By Deskex76

Wasn't the Sy film the one that had a Harrier...

Wasn't the Sy film the one that had a Harrier pilot hitting the bottle and meeting an attractive young lady in one of Soho's less salubrious establishments before finding himself confronted by an...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Dec 2009, 08:00
Replies: 58,121
Views: 10,946,544
Posted By Deskex76

SDR Latest: Ainsworth plans New Model Army.

SDR Latest: Ainsworth plans New Model Army.
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Dec 2009, 18:48
Replies: 42
Views: 8,760
Posted By Deskex76

Bentley Priory used to have stacks of Wooton...

Bentley Priory used to have stacks of Wooton originals, the Nottingham Lace, the Adelaide Room, and, of course Dowding's office. The Mess certainly didn't insure the Wootons in the 1980s (something...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Nov 2009, 15:15
Replies: 84
Views: 20,792
Posted By Deskex76

The North-South Divide

Afternoon, all, and huge respect to those of you still doing the job, wherever you are, from a long-ago entry in the Retired List.

This might go some way to assist Beagle in yesterday's quest for...
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