So long as its not you presumably…no offence intended;).

None taken, but it shows that nobody can expect a free ride. I grew up in the worst council estate in my home town of 20,000, but knew that I had to improve my situation by doing my best at high school, getting a good job, and then attending college education later in life to gain promotion.
Everything I now enjoy in life is from my own hard work and effort, and while my own parents were too poor to be able to send me to university, I did everything I could to smooth the path for my two children, which has been rewarded by them both gaining 1st Class Honours, and good jobs in this hostile climate.

Found a couple more.
WL756 taken pre-flight during the walkaround – talk about ‘1000 rivets flying in close formation’…

and WL757 (still extant at Paphos?) taken from inside WL756, just about to taxi…

Any nation that wants to prosper in the future must invest heavily in the education of its young.
Personally, I’d make studying useful subjects totally free, such as maths, physics, chemistry, engineering, etc, which might actually benefit the country’s industrial and design infrastructure, but make people pay heavily for more esoteric degrees such as sociology.
That would sort out the wheat from the chaff – going to university is a privilege, not every Britney and Ryan’s right. Someone has to clean the bogs…

Hope you don’t mind the bump to this old thread.
Found some old photos I took while aboard WL756 on a routine flight from EGQS over the North Sea on January 20th 1983.
At one stage we overflew Norwich at night, and headed off towards the Dutch coast – and it was very eerie sitting in the front glazing seat. Intercom silent, bomber’s moon, wondering what it must have been like during WW2, watching for enemy fighters…



Yours truly, complete with immersion suit. A lasting memory of the return journey is of all the bulkhead doors monotonously swinging in unison up and down the fuselage, and the aircrew being extremely bored and lethargic, reading paperbacks.
Once back in the Lossie area, they were all very upset at the skipper electing to do so many circuits…

Lossie in the early 1980s…

Brumley Brae scrap yard, Elgin, 1970s…;)

Lossie again, early 1980s…

WL756 over the North Sea, January 1983…

The Stranglers
Blimey – I didn’t realise there were other bands….

All taken at Lossiemouth in the 1970s…

RNAS Lossiemouth Station Flight 1971 – 1 Sqn pilot Flt Lt (now AVM retd!) JDL Feesey…

Has the Whitley been there long? I only noticed it there a few days ago!