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@rawlimark I’ve only got one, given to me, I was a fairford some time back

Now that I’m fully retired, 8th April, currently in Cancun, home on Monday, off on holiday again in 8 days, Retirement is really rough

Breakfast with a view, Cancun, Mexico,

VC10 , but from 12 seconds in Victor tanking 4 Lightnings

If you like Redtops, then there’s lots in this, again a quick capture using iPhone so not best of quality, late 1960’s early 1970’s

From a film from late 1960’s early 1970’s, looks like stock footage put together to form a film. Not a good copy, just a quick setup, using my iPhone, I was a bit impatient, just fixed my 16mm projector, after being broken your years, will get better quality soon

@Torque_is_Cheap @RAF_Luton

@RAF_Luton What a load of old bollocks.

Fact of the Day: The Voyager (Boeing A380) carries a BAC 1-11 on its back to use as an escape pod in an emergency, the 1-11 can also be used to carry personnel when the Voyager working in an air-to-air refuelling role and is full of petrol instead of seats Photo from a Canberra

Wow I wonder what this is

@clark_aviation My first flight as an air cadet, was in a varsity, from Gaydon, 4 1/2 hours, spent most of my time in the bomb bay observation post

Student navigators at work in a Vickers Varsity T.1 aircraft of No. 2 ANS based at RAF Hullavington in the late 1960s. I never managed a flight in a Varsity, but apparently I didn't miss much. They had a tendency to 'wallow' in turbulence, often causing much air sickness.🤢🤮

@rawlimark I’ll be there, probably in dads army now, “They don’t like it up them”

March off soon

First time at London remberance parade

@rawlimark Especially when you ask for the shilling back you lent them to buy a Naffi sandwich 😂

Ready for tomorrow, my first stroll down Whitehall

@rawlimark And my worry, was making sure I had black tape with me to cover up certain buttons on flight deck, when doing local boy photos 😁

@clark_aviation Throwing fuel on the fire 😁

A Convair 990 Coronado of American Airways, seen 'seeding the atmosphere' in the 1960s...over half a century before some 'crazy people' found out about it and started protesting on social media! 😂

@MOG2479152133 @Seb_Lanc99 Norton Disney, Lincoln LN6 9JN

@Seb_Lanc99 @Seb_Lanc99 Where is this memorial??? I need to visit!!! (Dad was RAF Navigator - 40yrs service inc 1 wk sat down the back of a 44sqn Vulcan RAF Waddington during the Cuban crisis!). TIA Noel 😎🏍️🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

A closer look at the detail of the construction. The aircraft is being placed on the supports tomorrow and Sunday. Those wishing to witness it are encouraged to do so by those putting her in place. (I don’t need to say this I’m sure, but please do so responsibly!)

Years later, I applied for his medals, as Percy was my dads half brother, from grandmother’s first marriage, I then went looking for, Percy’s full blood niece , who I eventually found, and handed her the medals

He was posted mia on 25th May 1944, I believe they were attempting a retreat, subsequently this date became his presumed date of death, as his body was never recovered. Grandmother Lizzie, refused to accept, his medals, because she believed he was still alive.

On this anniversary of VJ Day,remembering my uncle Percy, 160 field regt. Royal Artillery, MIA, in Burma, in the tactical region know as Blackpool. He was posted mia on 25th May 1944 He is remembered on the Rangoon Memorial. RIP We will remember them. #vjday80