continuing on with the 216 Squadron neighbours

The OCU was quite a busy place, so for towing out 216 aircraft we needed to negotiate with the OCU on space and borrowed ground equipment from both the OCU and 208. didn't pay to leave anything around either.

A chance to catch up

Some of you might not remember this but in the late 1970's at Honington the aircraft pan was crowded, because all the squadrons aircraft used the same place. so it was common to have to compete for a spare slot. The OCU always lined up on ther east side and accomodated most of the slots as they had 16 aircraft to fly most days. 216 Squadron, when it came along had to park the far end as the OCU had all the slots.

For pictures relating to 216 Sqdn this one would be a good one

216 Squadron was the first squadron to work up as a laser guided bomber outfit.

They had the equipment fitted in 1979 and were trialling up until the grounding, as far as i remember everything went well. I don't remember well, but there was something about not dropping the Lepus flares in front of the target at night, beleive this was a fundamental aircrew fau pas, please confirm....

A frequent destination for the Bucc

We did seem to spend quite a lot of time at Gibralter. 12 Sqdn one year spent 9 months away, a proportion of it spent with this view, which I thought was rather good. From my Friend Neil.