Tales from the RAF

[Guest Canberra Man]

There's a new erk on the dispersal and I land the job of showing him round the Lincoln on a what to do and not to do basis. It's a cold day and the NAAFI wagon had just been so we took our coffee and buns into the nose out of the wind and I carried on my chat. Break was over so we tidied up, but before I could stop him the new lad threw his coffee dregs down what looked like drain in the floor. It wasn't a drain, far worse. There was a bang and a thud and a ten man dinghy shot out of its stowage in the wing root. The look alike drain was the flotation switch for the dinghy in case of a ditching at sea. I had to put the lad on a charge. He got one week confined to camp and had to pay £5 towards the cost of restowing the dinghy.

 

Ken

 

 

[Tomo]

Whoooops

 

 

[Neil_S]

Brilliant!

[dazza 38]

Ouch, how was his promotion prospects, after that ?

 

 

[old man emu]

RAF? British organisation?

 

He made it to Air Commodore.

 

OME

 

 

[Yenn]

Just goes to show what the requirements for air commodore are.