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EARLY FLYING
Chipmunks and smart cars on the North Airfield
The "A3" chipmunk flight - Cadets - left to right...
Rear - Shimmons, Griffiths, Foulger, Synnott, Yates, Carter, Walton - Instructors?
Front - Liddell, Lovegrove, Cresswell, Johnson, Waugh
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Left - First Solo -
Allan Macdonald getting his final brief from Flt. Lt Couchman - 'Now
remember if you bounce 3 times and it's still not down start saying
"Our Father......"!
Right - The reward you got for getting back on your own! |
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Dick Northcote and Malc Caygill
During the dark cold war days of '64 waiting to be scrambled in their Chipmunk!!!!
FLYING TRAINING
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I wasn't until a we had been at Cranwell for almost 2 years that we were allowed to get our hands on a "Jet". Our JP training started in July 1965...
Above - The morning line-up Left - John Liddell giving his JP a hug! |
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A Flight Cadet's trusty steed - the "Mini Jet"
I am sure that you will agree that the photographs are excellent and rare record of our younger days. Our thanks go to Chris for resurrecting them from old slides and providing them. And our belated thanks and thoughts go to Peter.
The Formation Team - Chris Saunby, Brian Synott and Pete Thompson
The scruffy flying suits certainly made them look dashing, slim and good looking - but then we were!
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Chris moves in |
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As the old wartime song goes .... "Coming in on a wing and a prayer"
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"Nice one Saunby - Now let's try a barrel roll!"
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Snotty can't resist getting in the middle with "Soixante Neuf"
A joyful sight after a hard trip - Runway 27
(although we must have had to guess which runway it was in those days, for the MOD doesn't appear to have had enough paint to paint on the numbers - or maybe we were so good that we simply kept wearing them out by landing on them !!!)
How many aircraft can you spot - click on the airfield photograph and take a close look!
And after a hard days flying what do you do? ........
...... get stuck into a hard nights drinking!
Left to right - Scotty (Having trouble seeing), Dick Shuster (Having trouble sitting), Pete Thompson (Making trouble), Dave Foulger (Having trouble focusing)
Front - Keith Jackson (Having trouble finding himself)
Somewhere underneath - one or two more "C" Squadron drunks (In trouble)! (count the feet and hands?)
(Although judging by the worn out footwear they've either given some old tramp a bed for the night or it's an Engineer doing a stress test on the buckling bed?)
Click here for the history of the JP