Your finest RAF Moment?

[vim_fuego]

One for past and present...

What was or is to date your finest moment in the RAF. A prize or our un-dying admiration to the most original....

 

[Kryten]

Being told at Swinderby to put 5 rounds in the left hand target, but actually putting them in the target in the left hand lane next to me, and earning a withering stare from the Rock Cpl who couldnt understand why my neighbours target had 10 holes in it.

On a more serious note, being asked to brief The Queen on a visit to a certain Norfolk Flying Club, and briefing Prince Charles at a skills fair in Birmingham...

 

[metimmee]

Being told at Swinderby to put 5 rounds in the left hand target, but actually putting them in the target in the left hand lane next to me, and earning a withering stare from the Rock Cpl who couldnt understand why my neighbours target had 10 holes in it.

On a more serious note, being asked to brief The Queen on a visit to a certain Norfolk Flying Club, and briefing Prince Charles at a skills fair in Birmingham...

Ha, I may have been at the same skills fair....we were showing off a robotwars robot. Prince Charles didn't come to see us.

 

[SAXAVORDIAN]

Corny as it may sound Passing Out Parade at Swinderby 14 Flt 1981. To see my parents and younger brother watch me achieve my ultimate ambition at 17 1/2. Still remember the bull nights polishing the bloody floors cleaning the bathrooms and toilets with toothbrush. Making sure my bed pack was pin sharp. Mock Drill Rifle polished to the nth degree. And finally after several weeks of early morning wake up calls from the blooming tannoy. To join in with the rest of my room mates to scour the floor with boot marks, dents for the next newbies to suffer.
Can a fellow old comrade confirm was the Tea laced with Bromide during the eighties.

 

[muttywhitedog]

Lowering the ensign at RAF Coltishall on 30 November 2006 in front of about 5000 spectators, families, dignitaries and colleagues to signal the end of an era.

 

[Are El]

Think one of the best things was a back seater in a tonker late eighties in Germany.

 

[busby1971]

Loop de Loop in a Tonka and being winched into the back of a Seaking and then downloaded onto a boat were pretty memorable, separate events luckily.

 

[Rigga]

I think my personal highlight was raising the ensign at Gutersloh...upside down!

 

[BOWSER]

Getting posted to AFCENT and finding that my Quarter was directly opposite the local Off Licence, trouble and strife wasn't too happy but I was in 7th heaven

 

[Tin basher]

I think my personal highlight was raising the ensign at Gutersloh...upside down!

Ah the old upside down ensign c0ck up a feat I managed twice in my career. At Cosford one morning in front of the duty dog, a bunch of instructors, a few 100 trainees and an apoplectic SWO Alex S and I repeated the skill again some years later on one rainy cold morning at Lyneham.
Finest moment not for me but for my gran was when the queen sent me to work on the Reds, gran nearly burst with pride she was so pleased. Me I hated my time there with the posing pre-madonna, holier than thou, tosspots. But Gran was happy

 

[vim_fuego]

Leaning on the wall by the main door of the E3D back end simulator whilst using the phone and accidentally pressing the building power isolation switch with my shoulder...thus turning off all the complex machinery in mid run, chewing up tapes and fcuking the whole facility up for 2 months.

Both popular and hated all at the same time depending on your outlook...

 

[SAXAVORDIAN]

Leaning on the wall by the main door of the E3D back end simulator whilst using the phone and accidentally pressing the building power isolation switch with my shoulder...thus turning off all the complex machinery in mid run, chewing up tapes and fcuking the whole facility up for 2 months.

Both popular and hated all at the same time depending on your outlook...

Ouch

 

[Gonterseed]

Orderly dog. About 2330. Bloke turns up at guardroom. Rather dashing looking in civvies, taxi scoots off and he's telling me that he is Lt Cmde Fishead and he is posted in. Unfortunately he only packed civvies and doesn't have his 1250 (or fishead equivalent) which is coming with his stuff tomorrow to the officers mess. Shows me his passport and a letter from some navy captain which explain his credentials. I ask him to wait while I call the mess orderly to come and escort him to the officers mess. I call the snow-drops. A navy officer with a 'tash is not a navy officer. They turn up and I tell them to arrest him. Anyway, OC OPS turns up 3/4 of an hour later (while I was doing the key check rounds) and gives the orderly sgt a b0llocking for ruining an operation round-up exercise. Turns out the "new posting" was an RAF squabbling bleeder and the ops organisers thought that the late night crew would be average numpties !