Ben, is your father aware of the existance of the RAF Butterworth and Penang Association? Perhaps he he get in contact with a few old ‘mates’ there.

The Association’s website can be found here:

http://www.raf-butterworth-penang-association.co.uk/

and the Forum site here:

http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=96877

We are always happy to hear from people who served at this location.

thanks for that, ive passed the info on 🙂

0.o what aircraft? 🙂

the best one ive heard that he’s told me is of a vulcan going vertical over the middle of the base in the dead of night, after the crew had got into an argument with some AAF F86 pilots about them not being able to manouvre the vulcan like their F86’s, so the squadron leader ( i believe was his rank ) got his crew out to his aircraft (all of them had supposedly had a few) gets the ground crew to wind her up, and off the go on takeoff. my father meanwhile is asleep in a makeshift radar tent in the middle of the base, when suddenly there is a DEAFENING noise and the tent is going crazy flapping and swaying about. my father thinking that this was an earthquake, promptly falls back to sleep again. anyway the following morning, sat in the mess and one of his friends asks him if he heard the noise, to which he obviously replied yes, and his friend told him the above story. when he told me, i couldnt stop laughing (i believe the squadron leader was dismissed :eek:) ill get him to email me whatever he can think of 🙂

haha i can imagine the party invitation title “come to our lightning roast” roast your chicken an just about everything else in the heat and thrust of my avons. 😀

i know!!! where would it land 😉

a couple of Groom Lakes’s (Area 51) “Black Projects” would do nicely 😉 😀