Has anyone got an intelligent answer for an innocent request?

Perhaps some more thought before posting smart alec replies
will entice more people onto this forum! Not everyone knows their way around the tintanet!

To the original request, no I do not think that an EE Lightning will ever fly again in the UK, nor anywhere else. The USA may have a chance but I am not holding my breath.

Many of us have tried, but the CAA said NO!

Grumpy Bob

Wokka Bob, I am glad I cheered you up a bit in your time of sadness. I must admit though I usually have the opposite effect on most people!:)

I know the feeling, but don’t take it personal. Its meant to hurt!:diablo:
Thanks again. See you on the bright side of 2012.:D

If you are at a loose end for half an hour or so try this one done on a 419 scammer. I love it!

http://419eater.com/html/okorie.htm

Absolutely priceless. Made my Christmas after losing my best friend recently.

614 Sqn – Special Forces?

I apologise if I am high jacking a thread. The link is tenuous. The linked website has been raised for

http://www.memorialgrove.org.uk/royalairforceservicingcommandosawards.htm#glossary

Under 3225 SCU; there is a Unit Commendation to Commanding Officers of 15 and 614 Squadrons. 15 were in France but as previously posted 614 were in Tunisia. I have found elsewhere that it may not be 15 Sqn that were nominated for this award. Included are 4 X MiD’s.

Recently I have found that one of my favourite uncles is mentioned in dispatches for his work in the Middle East (Palestine/Israel?). Unfortunately he passed away some 40 years ago so is unavailable for comment. Knowing him he would not have told me anyway. I have his Service Record but am no further forward. The rest of the extended surviving families are as much a loss as to the reasons for these Citations as I am.

The book “A History of the R.A.F. Servicing Commandos by J P Kellett & J Davies (ISBN 185310 051 X) does not enlighten the reader due to the authors not being involved with 3225 SC.

Now to my question? Does anyone know where I can find a copy of the Citation/signal remembering its Special Forces. Cannot find anything in the London Gazette. Do you have any further information to the deployment of 3225 SC?

Once again we are in the hands of you genius’s out there.

Thanks for your time

Bob

April 1991
A Flight Mech’s War
Concluding Douglas Broom’s wartime diary.
Edited by Alastair J Goodrum:)

Not sure if this is the correct way to post another thread, but here goes.

From Thread, Historic Aviation, Back from the Dead

Re the AAC Historic Flight Skeeter,

‘Quote’the MAA are not content for the gearbox to be serviced, and although Boeing have offered to build new blades the MAA won’t have it either.

Most of their ac have been grounded this year while a MAA ‘safety case’ is sorted. Progress is being made.
The MAA are the Military Aviation Authority which was set up post the Haddon-Cave report into the loss of the Nimrod. Effectively they are the equivalent of the CAA.’Unquote’

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=113580

Bob, major servicing doesn’t include the paint, the facilities to paint a large aircraft doesn’t exist at Saints, they are painted at Manchester after the test-flight schedule. In this regard the VC-10s appear externally tidyier on arrival than on departure.
Standards of servicing are as high these days.

Pagen, although we all know that being cut to the bone means we no longer have our own large aircraft spray facilities, it still makes me wince to see our public image so blatantly disregarded. Some 15 years ago, we were not allowed to put an aircraft out with even the slightest amount of primer visible.

I too had a one way conversation with OC Eng when one of the Pumas on air test put down on a certain golf course (precautionary landing) with the rear fairing still in primer! Oh dear, how sad.

Glad to hear standards haven’t dropped.:diablo:

Thanks Phantom Phil. That makes these pictures FI summer 1997.