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Re: Oh dear - red faces as well?

#181 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Fri Nov 11, 2022 4:13 pm

QR #1 Don't get caught.

If you do, all 2241 other QRs apply.

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#182 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Nov 11, 2022 5:38 pm

We had a pilot on 10 Sqn who specialised in biting ladies bums, never a formal complaint but he did get slapped a few times. Those were the sensible days.

Mrs Ex-Ascot says that she didn't hit him but demanded a beer :YMPARTY:
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#183 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Fri Nov 11, 2022 5:43 pm

specialised in biting ladies bums
In Strike Command, we had things like weapons and intercepts and electronic warfare to specialise in.
I always wondered what you Transport lot did :D

Where was the Course held?
Did you get a sustificate?

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#184 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Nov 11, 2022 6:28 pm

Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote:
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specialised in biting ladies bums
In Strike Command, we had things like weapons and intercepts and electronic warfare to specialise in.
I always wondered what you Transport lot did :D

Where was the Course held?
Did you get a sustificate?
Well In my game it was keeping your china tea cup on your saucer In a turn. Especially when on finals.
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#185 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Fri Nov 11, 2022 6:37 pm

Ball not centred, balls get sintered, eh?

We were never trusted with posh stuff like saucers. Mugs more appropriate, apparently.

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#186 Post by Boac » Fri Nov 11, 2022 7:25 pm

Well In my game it was keeping your china tea cup on your saucer In a turn. Especially when on finals.
You would think a VIP flight crew could fly a balanced turn, though, wouldn't you? =))

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#187 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Fri Nov 11, 2022 8:09 pm

Ah, but if they all didn't, how would the pax ever know?
They already think the normal smell of every building is what we call new paint.

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#188 Post by Boac » Fri Nov 11, 2022 8:35 pm

They must have got through a lot of fine china during training.

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#189 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Fri Nov 11, 2022 8:59 pm

That must have been why they did so many trips to Cyprus - china-smashing capital of the World!

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#190 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sat Nov 12, 2022 7:53 am

I bet that there is a ring leader woman in this stirring up the sh1t.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... adron.html
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#191 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sat Nov 12, 2022 4:57 pm

Says the Daily Wail, whilst posting well over 20 photos on the right side of the page treating women as sex objects.

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#192 Post by TheGreenAnger » Sat Nov 12, 2022 5:08 pm

Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote:
Sat Nov 12, 2022 4:57 pm
Says the Daily Wail, whilst posting well over 20 photos on the right side of the page treating women as sex objects.

The Wail: Putting the Sin back into Sincerity.

Back in my school days, in Calvinistic South Africa, the photos of women that the Wail posts on the website today would have been regarded as hardcore porn! ;)))

Strange thing about the demographic that purchases the modern Daily Mail, the paper that is, is that a higher proportion of women purchase the paper than the other titles out there. Damned lies and statistics perhaps.

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#193 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sat Nov 12, 2022 5:18 pm

"The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country"

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#194 Post by 4mastacker » Fri Nov 18, 2022 10:07 pm

It's always my fault - SWMBO

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#195 Post by Ex-Ascot » Sat Nov 19, 2022 8:38 am

The plods said that they found no case to answer. I still think that this may be two cases of unfair dismissal.

Boac, is The Red Arrows a Squadron? I thought not but the press keep referring to the Squadron. I see the motto is 'Eclat' which is a bloody frog word not Latin.
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#196 Post by Boac » Sat Nov 19, 2022 10:00 am

Never was, as I recall, it just 'existed', and I guess other outfits like the Red Devils etc were the same. The imposition of an Officer I/C' is new to me, the team leader used to be the 'I/C', although we did have a W/C 'in place' at Kemble (cannot recall his title) who was notionally in the chain of command somewhere.

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#197 Post by Boac » Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:27 pm

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... eague.html

What a mess. First season (as No 3) in 2009. He was team leader in 2017 and came back as 'O/C' in 2021. How many other skeletons?

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#198 Post by Ex-Ascot » Tue Nov 22, 2022 12:16 pm

Boac wrote:
Mon Nov 21, 2022 9:27 pm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... eague.html

What a mess. First season (as No 3) in 2009. He was team leader in 2017 and came back as 'O/C' in 2021. How many other skeletons?
Well at least they are all being done for groping and bonking girls. Could be worse, like the two jaguar pilots. =))

I still wonder if all this fuss would have been made if it was just a front line Squadron not the display team. For goodness sake the things that went on which were swept under the carpet. I am sure that we can all recall a few.
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#199 Post by Pontius Navigator » Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:37 pm

Telegraph
The alleged victims have called for a public apology from the most senior officer in the RAF, Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Wigston, as well as for the squadron to be disbanded altogether.
That'll play well into the defence cuts brigade.

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#200 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Tue Nov 22, 2022 1:50 pm

A year's "pause", allegedly on operational grounds, then a permanent disbandment announced on a Bad News Day about 8 months later, assuming there's no great outcry?

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