Only in The Sun!

[ED-SET]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/our_boys/article1066507.ece

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[rugby then work]

A clue to the content as well as a link to the story would be nice.

 

[woody]

Just use the force.............

 

[ED-SET]

A clue to the content as well as a link to the story would be nice.

is it too much work to click the link?? christ almighty you will be wanting a risk assessment next!

 

[Scaley brat]

is it too much work to click the link?? christ almighty you will be wanting a risk assessment next!

It's the scum. I don't really want to waste the electrons to load a page that could be utter cack !DT_Xtremez_06:

 

[mick-a-nick]

Would have to the Sun, RAF Pilot, the pilot in the picture is wearing Navy rank slides. Read a comic and learn from clowns!

 

[MAINJAFAD]

Would have to the Sun, RAF Pilot, the pilot in the picture is wearing Navy rank slides. Read a comic and learn from clowns!

They aren't RN rank slides either, top band would have a hoop on it. plus looks like four bands (Group captain if RAF or Captain for the RN), most Likely a gash photo of a civiee by the company who makes the NVG's.

 

[Tubby]

likely a bullsh!t story but probably real callsigns, not want to divulge anything so mods delete post if you feel you need to, but certian alberts very near by to those jets had comedy callsigns at one point, just adds a bit of fun to the mundaneness. probably someone taking the p!iss out of the scum for the origin of the names. seem to remember stories of 6 foot man eating camel spiders in the same paper from gulf war 1 that came from para's taking the mick

 

[MAINJAFAD]

likely a bullsh!t story but probably real callsigns, not want to divulge anything so mods delete post if you feel you need to, but certian alberts very near by to those jets had comedy callsigns at one point, just adds a bit of fun to the mundaneness. probably someone taking the p!iss out of the scum for the origin of the names. seem to remember stories of 6 foot man eating camel spiders in the same paper from gulf war 1 that came from para's taking the mick

It is a real callsign, and for a Harrier unit (1 Sqn) as this spotter site shows. All of the UK military and civil callsigns are actually published, seeing military aircraft have to communicate with civiee area and airfield ATC almost every day.

 

[Tubby]

fairy muff, thought they used one in theatre and changed when out of theatre i.e a route number rather than a name,

* doesnt have the ones ours were using, ours where all individual rather than jedi 1 jedi 2 etc

 

[planesailing]

Only in The Sun!

Yeah civvy capts badges, and a gizmo used by opticians?

 

[rugby_rules]

Looks like something Willy Wonka would wear in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (new one)

Read the article, im sure Cottesmore is in Rutland and not leics!! Could be wrong mind.

 

[Lights]

As far as I know, they use Jedi all the time.

There are funnier ones than that though

 

[Ex-Bay]

Looks like something Willy Wonka would wear in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (new one)

Read the article, im sure Cottesmore is in Rutland and not leics!! Could be wrong mind.

There's always been an argument about Rutland & Leicestershire.

 

[MrMasher]

Our crews at Odi used Jedi for a week on an ex in the mid 90's.

By the way, 1 Sqn isnt actually the oldest sqn in the RAF is it? I was lead to believe it was another Sqn as 1 Sqn was part of the RFC or something else before it was given to the airforce.
I could be wrong and I'm sure MAINJAFAD will be along in a moment with the answer???

 

[muttywhitedog]

From the RAF Website:

No 1(Fighter) Squadron, Royal Air Force Cottesmore, can trace its history back to 1878 when it was formed at Woolwich as No 1 Balloon Company of the Royal Engineers. It became No 1 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps on 13 May 1912, still with balloons, but re-equipped with aircraft 2 years later.

It is far & away the oldest.

6 foot - get some time in!

(and that photo is not a 1(F) Sqn pilot.)

 

[True Blue Jack]

Tertius Primus Erit (The Third Shall Be The First).

3(F) Sqn is the oldest Sqn in the RAF/RFC because it was the first to fly heavier than air machines.

1(F) Sqn can go and poke it. "There's nothing cushy about life in the Women's Auxiliary Balloon Corps." DT_Xtremez_32:

 

[muttywhitedog]

Horseplop!

I think you'll find II(AC) Sqn will have something to say about 3 being the oldest fixed wing Sqn - pretty sure they got the wheels off the ground a nano-second before 3 did in 1912 (or at least that was what was drummed into me during my 6 yrs on II(AC)!!)

Not quibbling about 6ft getting some time in though?

 

[MAINJAFAD]

Horseplop!

I think you'll find II(AC) Sqn will have something to say about 3 being the oldest fixed wing Sqn - pretty sure they got the wheels off the ground a nano-second before 3 did in 1912 (or at least that was what was drummed into me during my 6 yrs on II(AC)!!)

Not quibbling about 6ft getting some time in though?

1 Sqn were the first Sqn in the RFC, as they were a renumbered, already formed unit from the RE.

2 and 3 Sqn's got their first aircraft issued on the same day, (2 got thiers first), however 3 managed to get one of thiers airborne first, acourding to the history books.

 

[Shortie]

If I remember rightly, Harriers were using the Jedi callsign when I was at Wittering in 93.