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Forum: Military Aviation

20th Mar 2023, 10:03

Replies: 206

Fate of RAF Scampton

Views: 53,519

Posted By John LeBrun

Faldingworth was a nuclear weapons maintenance...

Faldingworth was a nuclear weapons maintenance base. The Thors were based at RAF Hemswell. Incidentally the Scampton station shield showed a bow and arrow, the arrow was at the same angle to the...

Forum: Military Aviation

1st Jun 2021, 08:24

Replies: 85

Independent RAF

Views: 23,087

Posted By John LeBrun

Thank you for your support. You hit the nail on...

Thank you for your support. You hit the nail on the head. These were my personal thoughts which I believed were worth airing.

Forum: Military Aviation

15th Mar 2021, 22:08

Replies: 85

Independent RAF

Views: 23,087

Posted By John LeBrun

I really expected intelligent replies and...

I really expected intelligent replies and considered thoughts to my post about the justification an independent RAF. Abuse gets nowhere other than to make abusers show the narrowness of their...

Forum: Military Aviation

10th Feb 2021, 09:48

Replies: 85

Independent RAF

Views: 23,087

Posted By John LeBrun

Independent RAF

An independent RAF is becoming hard to justify. The Royal Navy, with its new carriers and aircraft could easily take on the RAF role on land. The Fleet Air Arm had a number of land bases in the...

Forum: Military Aviation

3rd Aug 2020, 08:25

Replies: 41

RAF Waddington 1960 "Delta 8-3"

Views: 27,440

Posted By John LeBrun

All these memories! When Bootsie was CO...

All these memories!
When Bootsie was CO Waddington, a practice Blue Steel HTP offload was scheduled on his staton from a Scampton aircraft. This was meant to be a daylight exercise but it was dusk...

Forum: Military Aviation

15th Jul 2020, 17:03

Replies: 41

RAF Waddington 1960 "Delta 8-3"

Views: 27,440

Posted By John LeBrun

I was not in the film but I saw it at a...

I was not in the film but I saw it at a Monseigneur cinema in London just before I joined the RAF from the RCAF in 1961. Would you believe that 6 months later I was a co-pilot on that very squadron...

Forum: Military Aviation

15th Aug 2018, 07:46

Replies: 70

Happy 100th Anniversary RAF

Views: 17,509

Posted By John LeBrun

Last Friday, August 10th, as part of its...

Last Friday, August 10th, as part of its celebrations of the RAF 100th birthday, a formal dinner was held in Lincoln Cathedral. I decided to go and put a deal of effort into the project as I live in...

Forum: Military Aviation

15th Aug 2018, 07:22

Replies: 35

Vulcan Minimum Aircrew?

Views: 8,140

Posted By John LeBrun

When I flew the Prince of Wales in a Vulcan in...

When I flew the Prince of Wales in a Vulcan in July 1971 (he was finishing his training at Cranwell and the RAF decided to let him experience front line aircraft - Phantom, Nimrod and Vulcan), he...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

28th May 2018, 13:20

Replies: 14

Vulcans In Circuits?

Views: 3,569

Posted By John LeBrun

Bill is nearly right. We were limited to a grand...

Bill is nearly right. We were limited to a grand total of about five in the two circuits together . A visual circuit took some 4 to 5 minutes of relentless work for the two pilots; an instrument...

Forum: Military Aviation

19th May 2018, 07:57

Replies: 57

Vulcan B2?

Views: 17,739

Posted By John LeBrun

I flew a Vulcan B2 with bomb bay tanks for 7:05...

I flew a Vulcan B2 with bomb bay tanks for 7:05 hours. I had proposed to HQ No 1 Group at Bawtry to take a Vulcan around the North Pole. The plan was to take off from Bodo in Norway, fly to the Pole,...

Forum: Military Aviation

9th Nov 2013, 19:57

Replies: 41

RAF Waddington 1960 "Delta 8-3"

Views: 27,440

Posted By John LeBrun

The Delta 83 documentary players which I...

The Delta 83 documentary players which I recognize are Neddy Claypham, Mike Pilkington, John Sewell and the Groupie was, I believe, Bootsie Griffiths. Mike Pilkington eventually became an Air...

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