ROYAL AIR FARCE: fun

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

More Cutbacks: All crew & no ship!

Alas it seems my fellow M.O.D. colleagues at Her Majesty's Royal Navy are also reeling from the savage swing of the defence accountants blade...

Monday, 7 September 2009

Good weekend?

What ho Chaps & Chapettes of Aviation Fandom!

Here's hoping one and all had a jolly good wheeze at the weekend, with more than your fair share of tiffing!

I know I certainly did...

After fending orf M.O.D. censorship threats (they don't like us revealing our secret mission reports here...), collating Intel reports of new readers (Hello, you're most welcome!) and replying to your kind messages of goodwill, we needed a bit of a whiz to combat the fatigue of good old fashioned hard work.

So my excellent very personal No 1, the lovely Lt Carruthers and her equally lovely assistant Lt Carstairs rather saucily suggested whisking me away for the weekend.

Oh, Rather!
How could any red blooded, true blue Brit hero lady Ace like yours truly refuse?

So, we fired up "Angel One", our Top Secret supersonic private jet...

...Piloted by the gorgeous Captain Fairfax, who warmly welcomed us aboard,

She put on these superb in flight movies...

...and flew us over to Korea, where our Biggin Hill Spy Satellites had picked out an unusual restaurant worthy of some serious investigation...

Orn the way, from our mile high positions, we spotted some simply splendid cloud effects around our escorting warplanes

We were lucky to see similarly striking scenes around some unsuspecting civilian airliners...

Though not too sure about this last one Fairfax claims she bagged from the cockpit.
Seems a tad iffy to me...

However, on touchdown it soon transpired all was not well at this particular eatery...

It had definitely seen better days...

And although the interior was still serviceable (not for Officers, admittedly, but NCO's would have found it appealing, I'm sure) ...