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All ex Buccaneer CREWS we need your help, Beware Big Pics (Article on PPRuNe)

This is the start of a message board on PPRuNe (Professional Pilots Rumour Network, Military Aircrew)

 

Trumpeter are going to produce a kit in 1/32 scale (we think) that will be huge but can someone tell me for them, this is the info at the moment we are after;

 

"The Bucc had 2 different wingtips, and I've only been able to find a possible drawing of the short version in a (probably wrong, ironically) magazine. Before I pass the information on, can anyone please confirm who used, when, and how, the two different tips"

 

For more info.........and to view the pictures.............

 

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/401066-all-ex-buccaneer-pilots-we-need-your-help-beware-big-pics.html

 
 

CAN YOU NAME ANY MEMBERS OF THIS HMS CONDOR CLASS

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Keith Dugan has asked me to publish this photograph to see if anyone recognises themselves or knows (and can name) any person in this class photograph. Also, do you know the Instructor or the date it was taken?

Update from John Carp (ex Poaem(WL))

Looking at the photo I am almost certain that the CPO is Jeff Morris, he was up at Condor and moved down to Daedalus when training transferred. I knew Jeff when we were both part of the Exped Training Section, Jeff was a instructor and I was the storeman; I bumped into Jeff again at Lee whilst on a Weapons Conversion Course in 1980, he was then a Civilian Instructor.
 

What do we know? Well the old style Bell-bottoms were replaced in 1977 by Flared trousers; the person bottom row on the right is wearing an AH(1) badge so must be a retread changing Branch. Keith seems to think the person in the middle row, second in from the right was on 800 Sqdn about 1970-1972. HMS Condor became a Royal Marine Base on 4th September 1970.

How did he get this photo? it somehow ended up in his drawer at the time he finished working at HMS Sultan a year or two ago; but he doesn't know how.

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All answers to Phil Glover at phil@allglover.freeserve.co.uk