38 posts tagged Biggles

An RAF infantryman has been awarded the Military Cross for “outstanding courage” in a fire fight near Basra.  Corporal David Hayden, from Spalding in Lincolnshire, received the award for bravery of the “very highest order” during the Iraq incident last August.

According to the media a RAF engineer has told an inquest he found “shocking” corrosion on fuel pipe couplings on a Nimrod aircraft shortly before one of them exploded in mid-air. Sergeant Andrew Whitmore revealed he had to saw off one corroded metal cover by hand.

Two RAF airmen whose bodies lay buried in the wreckage of a Second World War bomber for 67 years were reunited with their comrades in a war cemetery yesterday.  An RAF honour guard stood by as their remains were buried in Bergen, Holland. A four-man crew was aboard the Hampden bomber P1206 of 49 Squadron when it took off from Scampton, Lincs, on Nov 8, 1941.

It is reported that RAF jets have been launched at least 21 times to respond to Russian military planes in the last year, the armed forces minister has revealed.  Flights rose after President Vladimir Putin reinstated Cold War-style long range air patrols last August.   In a Commons written answer,

Cook Islands television. I knew that we could not always have the glorious Miss Tahiti contest televised every night, but the pickings are slim. Looks like Friends is on tonight instead. Maybe I need to go back to reading Biggles? It's a pretty gripping point in the story.

The RAF St Eval Friends Reunited Association 1939-1959 is trying to contact all ex-RAF St Eval personnel, to invite them to our next reunion at the Trebarwith Hotel, Newquay, in October 2008. We would also like to contact a Dennis Power at RAF St Eval, mid-1950s, last known address Caerphilly. RAF

Since I was a little boy, I have been fascinated with aircraft, mostly aircraft from WWI and WWII. When I was younger, I built nerdily-painted plastic model aircraft - P-51 Mustangs and Focke Wulf FW-190s - and read W.E. Johns’ Biggles stories, replete with stiff upper lips, engine coolant, and the satisfying comfort that natives knew their place.

Since I was a little boy, I have been fascinated with aircraft, mostly aircraft from WWI and WWII. When I was younger, I built nerdily-painted plastic model aircraft - P-51 Mustangs and Focke Wulf FW-190s - and read W.E. Johns’ Biggles stories, replete with stiff upper lips, engine coolant, and the satisfying comfort that natives knew their place.

OUR NEW REDLAND CITY COUNCIL Congratulations to our new “Mayor Melva” and all new and re-elected Councillors. Commiserations to those who were not elected or re-elected. We wish you all the best of luck, or as they say in the classics “New broom – clean sweep” or is to be “You ain’t seen nuthin yet!” EASTER MARKETS ( from Bev.

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