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Forum: Military Aviation
9th Nov 2017, 19:11
Replies: 415
Views: 198,236
Posted By Shiny10

Red face Left hand didn't know what right hand was doing

Gut in the 90's. For some reason Gut had a public holiday mid week that wasn't enjoyed by the rest of RAFG. A games night was organised between the Officers and Sgts Messes and a very good night was...
Forum: Military Aviation
15th May 2017, 16:02
Replies: 178
Views: 40,560
Posted By Shiny10

Sign above my engineering desk

If we can't fix it then it's not broken!!!!!!!!


"Home is where the Air Force sends you".
Forum: Military Aviation
12th May 2017, 10:01
Replies: 178
Views: 40,560
Posted By Shiny10

Sticky Issue

If the Royal Air Force had wanted you to have a wife it would have issued you with one!
Forum: Military Aviation
12th Jul 2016, 13:10
Replies: 243
Views: 68,012
Posted By Shiny10

Sign over Harrier Engine Desk 4Sqdn- IF WE...

Sign over Harrier Engine Desk 4Sqdn-

IF WE CAN'T FIX IT THEN IT'S NOT BROKEN!

At one squadron we were not allowed to write "No Fault Found" so improvised with "Stick to to seat interface...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Jul 2016, 16:19
Replies: 243
Views: 68,012
Posted By Shiny10

March the guilty barstward in

My mate Rick (RIP) was volunteered for a station parade. During the full ‘Dress Rehearsal’ they had an inspection by the parade commander who stopped at Rick and said.

“Are those your best shoes...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Aug 2014, 10:48
Replies: 97
Views: 16,901
Posted By Shiny10

At what cost to the taxpayer

His intentions are very admirable but not well thought out. Who is going to pay for the extra protection that will be required?

Is an RAF Helicopter full of his protection squad going to escort...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th May 2014, 10:45
Replies: 114
Views: 24,368
Posted By Shiny10

Why stop at me; the sentence does not stop there...

Why stop at me; the sentence does not stop there so why would you?
Forum: Military Aviation
28th May 2014, 10:40
Replies: 9
Views: 2,810
Posted By Shiny10

RIP Al King and the rest of the crew. Al...

RIP Al King and the rest of the crew.


Al was a great colleague, friend and sadly missed by all.
Forum: Military Aviation
28th May 2014, 10:28
Replies: 114
Views: 24,368
Posted By Shiny10

Takes all sorts

I had a class of ‘Foreign Nationals’ at Halton which included several Malays.

Six of them cooked my wife and me a traditional Malay curry and insisted we ate it with our fingers, it was delicious,...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Jan 2014, 15:00
Replies: 65
Views: 16,538
Posted By Shiny10

Walk don't run!

I was in charge of the ground crew whilst on ‘Q’ with the Phantoms at Leuchers with that damn box ticking away persistantly.

Early one afternoon one of the pilots came in and said “Buchan has...
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Jan 2014, 16:45
Replies: 25
Views: 5,292
Posted By Shiny10

Come backs are great

Whilst teaching at RAF Halton one Christmas my students were stood down early for the holidays but the staff had to work on to clean up.


One of my students took the wee out of me because of...
Forum: Tech Log
12th Nov 2013, 08:51
Replies: 23
Views: 14,219
Posted By Shiny10

A Simplistic View

One simple reason for high RPM,

Thrust formulae is: T = 1/2MxV2

Therefore if we want to increase the thrust we can increase the mass.

Two ways to achieve this are:


1) Increase the...
Forum: Military Aviation
5th Nov 2013, 12:58
Replies: 101
Views: 45,037
Posted By Shiny10

What Choice?

On returning from a tour in Cyprus I dutifully filled in my preferences form:

Negative area of choice ----------------Scotland

Negative type of employment --------Fighter Aircraft

I was...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Sep 2013, 16:45
Replies: 343
Views: 111,874
Posted By Shiny10

Great crews and gentlemen (mostly)

I was sent to Dakar with four hours notice to look after the VC10s during a skirmish down south.

One Ten came in for crew change heading north with the Co-pilots window completely crazed. Captain...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Aug 2013, 11:57
Replies: 21
Views: 4,631
Posted By Shiny10

1972 - 1998

1972, 70Sqn were operating several Hercs and Argosys out of Akrotiri with ONE JENGO and FltSgt working days. If we needed a Red/Green signing out of hours we took the F700 to the 'Station Duty Eng...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Aug 2013, 10:41
Replies: 646
Views: 156,582
Posted By Shiny10

Three Heads

An armourer on 4Sqn was called 'Threeheads' and I was stupid enough to ask him why!

"Because my name is Kev MacEnernie"! :bored:

(sorry about the spelling Kev)
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Aug 2013, 14:40
Replies: 343
Views: 111,874
Posted By Shiny10

Logic doesn't work

The friday Dulles always had a spare 'frame' (that's how they talked). All hell broke lose when the primary went U/S two hours before departure. The Flt Sgt panicked and told me to generate another...
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