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    Strange Happenings over Buckinghamshire.

    Just a bit curious, really. Earlier this evening, around 1830, secondborn came in from the garden and said there was a jet messing about. Fair one, what looked at a distance to be at least 1 Typhoon was dancing around the skies to the west of a top secret indoctrination centre near Aylesbury...
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    I really have done splooshing

    Fellow Goaters This is it; after 26 years and 1 month of service to HM the Queen my final paid day of service is upon me. To any and all who know me . it's been emotional. Those still in and on or about to be deployed on Ops, stay safe and come home intact. Will I miss it? Hell yes. And no...
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    Goodbyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

    Well fellow splooshers/cravateers/phot type peeps. The end of an error. I handed back the old ID card today and have cleared. Thanks to those who replied to the email I sent out earlier. It has been emotional over the last 26 years, some good friends and people have left us, some more...
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    Discharge times; HR advice please

    Good evening goaters. On spec I applied for a job with a fairly well known international company and I have been shortlisted. I have now been asked to find out how quickly I could be released to start. I have explained fully during three interviews the potential pitfalls and they seem happy but...
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    Posted to England? LOA Please!

    OK, slightly tongue in cheek, but if THIS http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7944334.stm comes into force it will be another disadvantage to being posted to England. Families can already claim free prescriptions if registered with a GP in Wales or Scotland. If there was a minimum price for alcomohol...
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    I just hope she didn't buy a lottery ticket on the way

    HOW UNLUCKY IS THIS! I am not a religous man, but this is Gods way of saying "Sucks to be you............"...
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    Thought this might be of interest

    Don't know how many Goaters saw this. I was lucky enough to be present and thought that the way the whole thing was organised was an uplifting moment, even for a cynical old goater like me proving that no-one can do stuff like this like we Brits can. An inspring story of a veteran trying to set...
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    Oops! I appear to have left something sensitive on the train.... (Merged)

    Methinks someone may be invited to a chat without coffee soon! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7449255.stm
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    Vulcan Needs Help

    Mods, please feel free to move as required, but thought that this needed posting. I have just lifted this from the TVOC website. URGENT APPEAL FROM VULCAN OPERATIONS The Vulcan Operating Company URGENTLY Need An Off Duty Fireman WITH AIRFIELD EXPERIENCE To Assist With Test Flights Of Avro...
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    Top Quality Knowledge by the BBC Presentation Pool

    Did anyone catch the "One Show" on the Beeb tonight? Peter Snows son running around praising the RAF for 90 glorious years, getting to fly in the Typhoon and an old Avro 504 as well as a whistle stop tour of Hendon. All good stuff on this our Birthday. Couldn't help thinking he could have done a...
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    Who's a lucky boy!

    Blimey, what a day. Lunchtime I found out via email that I had won £300,000 on a Peugot lottery. Just about to send off all my personal detail, you know, nothing important, name age address occupation phone number when THIS turns up in the inbox Microsoft Award Team 20 Craven Park, Harlesden...
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    BBC Item On Armed Forces Morale

    Did anyone see the BBC news item on Armed Forces Morale tonight? Although most news items regarding us are sensationalised to get a good story for once I thought this one actually reflected the growing feeling among us regardless of the colour of our normal working dress. Still our political...
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    Commissioned Pilots

    Commisioned Pilots Commisioned Pilots It does seem that we "over rank" the winged master race. Even down to NCA. Our Atlantically challenged cousins seem to cope quite well with non NCO aircrew carrying out loadmaster, refuelling operator and other "non pilot" aircrew tasks. Just think of the...
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    Lightning

    rightning Lightning rightning Lightning I spoke to one of the pilots a few years back at Bruntingthorpe. He was a test Pilot for BAe; he reckoned there was a CAA nark there for every ground run. At the time they were lifting the nosewheel up then cutting power and popping the 'chute. He told...
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    Lightning

    Ah yes! Ah yes! I too was lucky enough to be at Binbrook for the last last lightning show. I remember well the rain that started just as the gates opened and stopped just after the show stopped. I also remember watching the last singleton display aircraft being towed back to the line after...
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    Bring the noise!

    Google Earth Google Earth Don't know when the image was taken, but search around Goose on Google Earth (Happy Valley in the search worked)It can be clearly seen between the two wikipedia markers. It will be good to see and hear it again. Shame the CAA scuppered the chances of a lightning...
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    Save The Slippit Inn

    I was "dahn sarf" about three years ago and there was a purge on section bars. Timmys, the Queen Vic, Lot 22 and several other (all military) bars were shut and reopened as amalgamated bars. Timmys, for instance, was shoehorned into Shadys. All the funds had to be transfered to the new bars...
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    DST Leaconfield

    One night only One night only I had the misfortune to spend just one night at Leconfield. Ended up in the transit room because snivililans staff had buggered of early and I couldn't get the key for the room because they had "put it somewhere". No drama, only one night. Until one little lance...
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    Strangest/Funny Tannoys

    Funniest Tannoys. Funniest Tannoys. Heard at Brampton early one wet April Morning. "SBFB,SBFB. Today is the 75th Anniversery of the formation of the Royal Air Force...2,3,4.. Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birhtday to you ...........etc. as the guard commander and the whole SGF paid their own...
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