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my dear old mum still has a picture on the mantlepeice of me in a dp jacket very new beret and my piece of red towel, they let us take the coloured disc of the cap badge for the photo shoot
our fly past was from a tornado which i thought was cool but 3 years on 31sqn manged to change that view, the reviewing officer was from binbrook so we had a lightning display as well , only real problem was we had an army band playing never new why, i seem to remember having pretend rifles as well (more shortages) memories from 83
 
blakeymsf said:
my dear old mum still has a picture on the mantlepeice of me in a dp jacket very new beret and my piece of red towel,
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Mine has as well ....we had a Lightning for a flypast....never saw it but heard and "felt" it........6 months later i was posted to Binbrook XI Sqn and got to see them...inside and out.

Crack on..............:PDT_Xtremez_09:
 
24 years ago today, I got off a train at Newark to be met by a coach and DI to take me to Swinderby. Flypast at the pass out was the display Vulcan prior to 558 and two Phantoms. Still have the Video. I'll have to dig out the room photo.
 
blakeymsf said:
my dear old mum still has a picture on the mantlepeice of me in a dp jacket very new beret and my piece of red towel, they let us take the coloured disc of the cap badge for the photo shoot
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On the wall of my parents' living room still hangs a photo of me in No.1s during Swinditz. To be sure they were ready to collect on pass-out they were taken sometime during week 2, i.e., before our No.1s had been properly wrecked by the tailor.

I remember the photographer had a supply of jackets and hats in various sizes for the phots, along with some butchered shirt fronts and a tie with velcro fastenings because none of us had mastered the art of tying windsor knots yet. Gash as fcuk, but it looked the part. :PDT_Xtremez_40:
 
True Blue Jack said:
On the wall of my parents' living room still hangs a photo of me in No.1s during Swinditz. To be sure they were ready to collect on pass-out they were taken sometime during week 2, i.e., before our No.1s had been properly wrecked by the tailor.

I remember the photographer had a supply of jackets and hats in various sizes for the phots, along with some butchered shirt fronts and a tie with velcro fastenings because none of us had mastered the art of tying windsor knots yet. Gash as fcuk, but it looked the part. :PDT_Xtremez_40:
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Ahhhh the hat with the adjustable head band at the back with the scrubbed peak so it didnt glare in the flash.
 
Does anyone have any photos they would be willing to share with me on swinderby? totally regret not having any of my own to keep for later in life, i left there september 1990, great memories!!!(not at the time though) i remember having the very same book, thanks for showing us all.
 
The Loan Ranger said:
The book states it was printed in 6/88 so pictures probably taken 87 and used for a few years afterwards

Received book Oct 90
Got on the train Jan 91

Still happy'ish Mar 2008 on the way to 22
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Most of those photos were in the booklet I got in 83. 2 Flt in Gibson block(with 3 and 9 Flts) Nov 83. Flypast by Canberra T17 which was almost in orbit.
 
gray said:
If He's who I remember, He was at Locking late '88 - 1990ish. Used to hide behind trees to give us bolloc*ings !... He did used to have a bit of a sense of humour when out in the Flowerdown Rugby Club

Gray
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Slighly off thread
Remember arriving at Locking with Dave M a fellow MTD in a wagon to drop off some kit
It was a Friday night back before the RAF worked weekends we had come from Cranwell via West Drayton to drop some kit of and then hoofed it to Locking in a Bedford TM
A long day I jumped out with tie off and sleeves rolled up and addresses the duty CPL
Alright mate...........
Whoosh Mate Mate Mate (getting louder and redder) and then he proceeds to rip me and Dave to shreds whilst sliding about the floor round us on his tackety boots
Says to Dave wheres your fooking belt Dave lifts his belly and points underneath to his belt I start laughing which dosen't help

Anyway an hour later a completly changed man rang for a taxi and gave us downtown advise like he was our best mate
Met him at Halton and he was a good lad he started to say something about my kit and Dave (small world) who was there too went look weve all been here before so we had a good laugh about it

Swinderby arrived Jan '87 Garland VC block
Flight 18 red towel (IIRC got the photo somewhere)
Passing out on a freezing cold day padre banging on about the Herald of Free Enterprise
Fly past by lightnings IIRC it was advertised as the last official public flyby before they were scrapped
Some Lumpy Jumpers and lads from our flight passed out in jumpers because they couldn't get number ones for them

And then to Saints........

:PDT_Xtremez_43:
 
MAINJAFAD said:
Most of those photos were in the booklet I got in 83. 2 Flt in Gibson block(with 3 and 9 Flts) Nov 83. Flypast by Canberra T17 which was almost in orbit.
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Booklets hadn't been invented when I went through there!
 
Cracking thread this, Swinditz Apr 86, 15 flight or Sh$te as we used to be called by the DI's Sgt Hun*er and Cpl Fos%er, never forget the joy of MFT and the stretcher race!!, Making the big mistake of falling asleep in the Cinema during a GDT Lecture (Wrong thing to do!!).
Ah well be 22 years this Apr, still in though.:PDT_Xtremez_21:
 
Ahhh, happy days (in hindsight !!) 6 Flt, Nov 82>Jan 83.

Spent most of it outside picking up my bedpack which had exited the window via Cpl Ch*rlie J*nes' hands at 500mph. Ex -QCS, Manchester Peak, the full works, a proper DI.

MFT night exercise was frozen off, -14c so we slept in a hangar. Illicit beer in the Newcomers Club - I was only 17. Haircut every week, by a bloke who was obviously hoping to pick it as he went along.

Flypast at the end by a TTTE Tonka. Splendid stuff.
 
Inevertouchedit said:
Ahhh, happy days (in hindsight !!) 6 Flt, Nov 82>Jan 83.

Spent most of it outside picking up my bedpack which had exited the window via Cpl Ch*rlie J*nes' hands at 500mph. Ex -QCS, Manchester Peak, the full works, a proper DI.

MFT night exercise was frozen off, -14c so we slept in a hangar. Illicit beer in the Newcomers Club - I was only 17. Haircut every week, by a bloke who was obviously hoping to pick it as he went along.

Flypast at the end by a TTTE Tonka. Splendid stuff.
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Oh yeah!, I forgot about the UFB's at Swinderby. (Unidentified Flying Bedpack).

But your shoes came to hand first, seeing your nights bulling disappearing up the room was a tad heartbreaking.:0
 
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