Darren – i do have the details for ‘901’ somewhere but you’ll have to wait a few weeks as very busy now with my forthcoming show.
If you come along, you may be able to speak to the owners of her in person! Leave a message if you do not see them at the Pilots booking in point.
I was in 2121 Abingdon ATC from 86 to 92, had an excellent time.
Did loads of things, heres a few ie: was in the small bore & full bore shooting teams & lucky enough to represent Thames Valley wing in the prestigous Bisley competition, went to RAF Cosford & RAF Bruggen summer camps (Bruggen – loads of ‘tonkas flying’, went to a weapons storage area close by and kicked myself cos as a Lighting fan, remember seeing F2A’s & a few T4’s dotted around the site & forgot my bloody camera!, plus Sqn visits & a trip to Laarbruch & again see a Lightning F2A in the woods & again forgot my camera, belgian war museum, & i do remember flying into & out of RAF Wildenrath & my lasting memory of that place was the Phantoms blasting off!,) plenty of visits to places of interest, Ceremonial parades etc, got organised some talks from a friend who worked on Jags at Abingdon & later he went onto Omani Jags, & Capt Collins from the 133rd ANG from Minnesota whilst on Det at Abingdon with C130E’s, & before i left Cadets, as i worked at RAF Abingdon, got tours for cadets around the Jag & Buccaneer servicing flights….oh of course plenty of air experience flying – types included:
Andover E3, Puma with 88 display pilot, Chipmunk from the AEF at Shawbury (anyone rememberwhich AEF?), RAF C130, USAF ANG C130E out of Abingdon whilst they were on det, about a dozen VC10 tanker air refuelling sorties (types refuelled incl: RAF F4J Phantoms, Buccs, Tornado F3’s & GR1’s, Sea Harriers, Harrier GR5’s, E3 Sentrys, other VC10’s, Jags, ) 7 Tristar air refuelling sorties, Ventures of 612VGS, – all good times!
Had the good fortune of going to 12 or so annual ‘Spring Fever’ exercises on Salisbury Plain at Easter time, really good fun, learned to rough it over 5 days to survive on 24 hr ration packs, slept under bivvys, miles of cross country Nav training….. and night exercises.
Sorry for harping on, but ATC life then was excellent & wish i could be 14 again!:D 😀
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