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  1. Tin basher

    Boeing boeing gone (maybe)

    Looks like troubled times ahead for Boeing, lawsuits, build quality issues and so on. As one of a very few large volume aviation manufacturers how much do Boeing troubles affect the whole industry? The path to civvy aviation is well trodden route for some ex service types an industry without...
  2. Tin basher

    King Charles not well

    Even King Charles who has not had a physically demanding lifestyle has not escaped the dreaded cancer. What next for Royalty? You wait 60 years for a state funeral now there is the potential for another one on the horizon. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-68213599
  3. Tin basher

    Unexpected reach around

    Oh dear potentially another (Innocent until proven obviously) unsavoury incident in Cyprus. Probably not how you want to be woken up https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13022813/raf-serviceman-groped-colleague-ayia-napa-hotel-room-denies-sexual-assault.html
  4. Tin basher

    Navy Oops

    Oh dear Albert goes bump. Reversing HMS Chiddingfold into HMS Bangor not good form at all reversing into your navy mate even if it is called Bangoro_O https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12986537/video-british-royal-navy-ships-collide-vessel-bahrain.html
  5. Tin basher

    New build Aircraft

    Britain has signed a deal with Japan and Italy to build the next generation fighter. "The Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) deal will see the headquarters for the cooperative defence partnership based in the UK - with a Japanese chief executive overseeing the project at the outset." " The...
  6. Tin basher

    Santa and the RAF

    Nice PR move helping "Santa" deliver presents to kids in hospital. Good job "Santa was given a lift in an RAF helicopter as he delivered 200 presents to a children's hospital. Father Christmas teamed up with RAF Benson for a ride in one of their Puma helicopters to visit patients at Oxford's...
  7. Tin basher

    2023 remembrance Sunday

    On the remembrance Sunday what are the great and the good of the goat doing different to a normal Sunday, if anything? Old TB will be off to the remembrance event at Cosford Museum this morning with an ex-Army buddy of mine and maybe a glass could be raised this evening to those I have reason...
  8. Tin basher

    MOD Accomodation charges

    If proven this could open a rather large can of costly worms as the claim is that singly accomodation charges have been subsidising married and old folk for years. "Solicitors at Leigh Day argue the policy discriminates against younger or single troops who have been 'effectively subsidising'...
  9. Tin basher

    RAF Photo Comp

    Get your votes in early for the best snap from the old F4 and cloudy crew. "The public will soon be able to vote on the winner of the People's Choice category."...
  10. Tin basher

    Dodgy Spares

    Not our stackers obviously but it seems certain elements of the aviation industry are getting a litle concerned there might be dodgy items in the civvy airlines spares system. It may well be just uninformed journalistic scare mongering but................ "AOG Technics Ltd, based in London, is...
  11. Tin basher

    New uses for old airframes

    For a long time there was an old Lightning next to the A1 just sitting there rotting gently away but now it seems people are finding new uses for old frames. So this tired old Jetstream, which I may have twirled a spanner on, is now an air BnB venue. Any other old RAF frames, you know of, now in...
  12. Tin basher

    Rugby Union world Cup

    So this year 2023 it's unions turn to hold it's version of the rugby world cup in that there France. (The Rugby League world cup was 2022) So 15 a side lovers can a home nation succeed? Perhaps even a Northern hemisphere nation? Which wild card team do you think can make the knockout stages...
  13. Tin basher

    UK military rugby player RIP

    No details, other than an account of his sad demise, no mention of which service the unfortunate individual was from. Whether he was a union or league team player it only states a rugby player. Whichever code it's a sad day for UK armed forces rugby and the wider service community...
  14. Tin basher

    Rank ability poem

    Back in the day there was a poem/rhyme, which I have misplaced, about the superman style abilities of different commissioned ranks starting at the top, Marshall of the royal Air force who could leap tall buildings, was as strong as a locomotive, a swift as a speeding bullet (something like that)...
  15. Tin basher

    Fantasy Football 2023 /24

    It's back For the 2023/24 Fantasy Premier League why don't you join the mini-league "E-Goat "? Joining the league couldn't be easier. Simply use the link below and you'll be added automatically after you've entered the game. https://fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto-join/ynv6ha League...
  16. Tin basher

    Fire fighter training

    Looks like the RAF are training Ukrainian fire fighters on the use of various donated machines. An intensive five day course apparently, no mention of which day is volleyball day. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-66127570
  17. Tin basher

    Outdated vehicles

    Normally our lords and masters wait until they have left the services before going off message. But the head of the Army has seemingly gone off message whilst still in uniform. " General Sir Patrick Sanders said much of the Army’s ‘platforms’ were ‘outdated’ and ‘not fit for purpose’, and...
  18. Tin basher

    Kings birthday honours

    Congratulations to the recipients of the various awards. https://raf.mod.uk/news/articles/kings-birthday-honours-list-2023-raf/ There may be someone you know but then again................
  19. Tin basher

    The Ashes

    Poms v Convicts in the ashes the biggest clash in cricket. Who wins the series. Mystic TB says 2-1 England with one, last pair of batters surrounded by fielders, draw and one rain affected draw. Jimmy Anderson is quiet at Edgbaston but shines at Lords and is on the honours board again. Mo goes...
  20. Tin basher

    Sad Story

    I never met Malcolm Livingston or knew him at all, the only conection is that we wore the same uniform. Seems a sad end to a life of a man who served his country and monarch...
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