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Forum: Military Aviation
13th Aug 2021, 19:55
Replies: 471
Views: 132,924
Posted By Roebuck

BEagle, Does the aircraft name 'Bonaventure'...

BEagle, Does the aircraft name 'Bonaventure' resonate?

Roebuck
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Aug 2021, 17:13
Replies: 69
Views: 13,416
Posted By Roebuck

Brakedwell, for all his alleged misdemeanors, I...

Brakedwell, for all his alleged misdemeanors, I have a lot of sympathy for JJ and wouldn't wish his fall from grace on anyone. I quoted from an article I read which actually displayed a photo of the...
Forum: Military Aviation
2nd Aug 2021, 18:11
Replies: 10
Views: 3,987
Posted By Roebuck

I take issue with the record and am unable to...

I take issue with the record and am unable to 'unsee it' as I describe. To paraphrase, 'I counted them out, and I counted them in' as well as marshalling of course. Without prevaricating, 15 Sqdn...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Aug 2021, 16:57
Replies: 69
Views: 13,416
Posted By Roebuck

Was that because of Bernie D's redress re the...

Was that because of Bernie D's redress re the Andover incident ?[/QUOTE]
Don't know about that, but I have read a certain aoc afme had his treasured car transported from Aden to the UK on an R.A.F....
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Aug 2021, 21:58
Replies: 471
Views: 132,924
Posted By Roebuck

Khormaksar Days

...and Habylayn, Ataq. Went to them on days off. Being on MRT made it that much easier.

Roebuck
Forum: Military Aviation
1st Aug 2021, 21:34
Replies: 471
Views: 132,924
Posted By Roebuck

Philrigger: From your posts on this thread, we...

Philrigger: From your posts on this thread, we may have crossed paths. I was possibly on that Beverley from Djibouti you mention, and Lyneham as also a giveaway.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Aug 2021, 16:52
Replies: 65
Views: 19,543
Posted By Roebuck

F104 Starfighter - Lawn Dart

F104 Starfighter - Lawn Dart
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Aug 2021, 16:24
Replies: 69
Views: 13,416
Posted By Roebuck

Was '413 the Christmas Tree we used to rob blind?...

Was '413 the Christmas Tree we used to rob blind? There was an Argosy in the hanger at Khormaksar that I don't believe flew in my eighteen months of doing First Line on MRT. The number doesn't strike...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Aug 2021, 15:50
Replies: 69
Views: 13,416
Posted By Roebuck

Brakedwell: Apropos 'Johnnie' Johnson's garden &...

Brakedwell: Apropos 'Johnnie' Johnson's garden & the David Shepherd painting, he did receive his cummupence eventually and what a cummupence it was! As for JJ's Eastleigh visits,did he not insist on...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Jul 2021, 14:59
Replies: 471
Views: 132,924
Posted By Roebuck

Same same here. The card we carried read 'Halt...

Same same here. The card we carried read 'Halt Waqif, Halt Waqif, Halt Waqif or I fire'. at which point with somewhat unsteady hands you were allowed to load your five rounds into the mag. Did you...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Jul 2021, 12:51
Replies: 471
Views: 132,924
Posted By Roebuck

Manning a Snowplough being driven up Lyneham's...

Manning a Snowplough being driven up Lyneham's main runway, singing my head off, and hearing a sweet wraf's voice, which i believe I recognised, and she me, over my headset saying ''you're on open...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Jul 2021, 21:14
Replies: 471
Views: 132,924
Posted By Roebuck

Regularly hitching between Coventry and...

Regularly hitching between Coventry and Cottesmore, in uniform, was not a problem-until. Wanting to watch the final CCFC home game one Tuesday evening, and being overconfident of my hitchhiking...
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Jul 2021, 15:44
Replies: 471
Views: 132,924
Posted By Roebuck

Likewise British Eagle Cottesmore to Butterworth,...

Likewise British Eagle Cottesmore to Butterworth, 1964, as part of the Confrontation strategy. The aircraft was named 'Bonaventure'. Forget how we were brought back.
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Jul 2021, 14:31
Replies: 10
Views: 3,987
Posted By Roebuck

My first posting out from Training was 10 at...

My first posting out from Training was 10 at Cottesmore and eighteen very happy months later, the Sqdn disbanded. This was marked with a flypast of a diamond nine formation of our Victor Mk 1's, an...
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