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Here’s a copy of the slideshow I made for the final beer call in April 2022.
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Harrier GR3 Heritage Centre Well at least we went out in style! Phil Willsher kindly arranged for the RAF Wittering Heritage Centre to be open before the Beer Call and twenty or so members took advantage to see the bona jets, briefing rooms and course photographs. After that over eighty members and guests […]
From Phil Willsher: To coincide with the IV (AC) reunion on 22 April 2022, I will be opening the Harrier Heritage Centre at RAF Wittering on Friday 22 April at 17.00. The visit will be for approximately two hours.Any member and their guests attending the reunion are welcome to visit, but please notify me no […]
I have today sent this email to all registered users. If you haven’t received it, please send an email to me – chris@f***f**.co.uk with your intentions. Thanks! —————————————————— As we announced last year, the Association is discontinuing physical meet-ups and reunions until such time as IV Sqn wants to recommence. Accordingly, we are […]
I have received this email from Matthew Illsley: Dear Mr Parker, I am writing to you to ask if you can help me find any information regarding No. 4 Squadron’s activities in Scotland during August 1990. I understand that at that time the squadron was based at Gutersloh in Germany and commanded by Malcolm […]
73 members replied, the results are shown below:
We will organise a beer call in the Stamford area later in the year (probably the Autumn) and publicise it on fourfax.co.uk The committee will decide how much should be set aside to allow the website to continue, and the remainder will then be […]
This email went out today (28 April 2021) to everyone in my records. Out of 805 emails, 140 bounced back as they are no longer in use. If you didn’t receive the email you may contact me at chr*s@fourf**.co.uk with your response. It would also be great if you could login to fourfax.co.uk (click […]
From Dick Wise dick@ukwises.com: I am a writer researching the Harrier sales campaign to China, during the 1970s. On 11 December 1978, Flt lt Paddy Roberts, based at RAF Wittering flew a demonstration flight for a Chinese minister at BAe Dunsfold. During his demo there was a problem, which caused John Farley, the Chief […]
From David Herriot of the Buccaneer Aircrew Association: You may have heard through the grapevine that all the Cold War jets are being evicted from Bruntingthorpe because the owner has leased the whole airfield for car storage. This meant that, until a new venue had been found, TBAG’s 2 fast taxy jets could […]
I’ve uploaded a document from the RAF Benevolent Fund describing their services. In case any of us are aware of someone who might benefit from some assistance from them… Thanks to John White of The Hunter Register for this information. Click here to download the file. […]From Denis Calvert <denis@interairpress.co.uk>: I’m writing something (again) on the Harrier. I’ve done most of the text, including interviewing a Harrier pilot – Peter Sturt – nice guy. He did a tour on GR3 with 20 Sqn in Germany, then later became boss of the short-lived 216 Sqn on Buccaneers. What I’m looking for is […]
John White writes: Some of you might like to see the short ‘film’ (16 mins) in the link below provided by Joe Dible. Some interesting live footage (a lot of very clever CGI), plus quite a bit on the individuals involved – some of those are still on the register.
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Giles Smith has sent me an email about Lt Playfair’s BE2a crash in 1913: I have been researching the former WW1 airfield at Lilbourne for a while now and would comment that, whilst the first paragraph is mainly about the vagaries of the Breguet aircraft, the crash involving Chinnery and Playfair was in a […] Joe Bartrop (project co-ordinator, RAF Commemorative Window Scampton Church) As we approach Remembrance Day, I have been advised write to you, and ask for your support to share this tribute with your members, some of whom may have served at RAF Scampton. The Ministry of Defence have announced that they intend to decommission RAF Scampton […]
From Nigel Walpole: Gentlemen, (Please see below – circulated on Nigel Walpole’s behalf – please respond directly to him)The heritage hunters of No. 234 Squadron (No. 1 Squadron, 229 OCU, RAF Chivenor) wish to publish a booklet of flight-line humour, ‘horror’ and achievement, entitled ‘Laugh with the Dragon’, modelled on those excellent books ,’Out […] |
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