Another Newby!!

**jimbo600** · 15th November 2004, 06:46

Originally Posted by Stuey

Well i'll be!!

dont s'pose you went to kingsbridge secondary?? i use to ride a RD 125 round the area, use'd to go surfin out by Burgh Is as well, you wer'nt in the Navy were you??

Nah mate I went to Ivybridge Comp. Should have gone to Kingsbridge though as it was a better school.

Surfin' Bantham eh? Some good breaks to be had there. You get out much over here?

I was in the RAF as a photographer.

**Stuey** · 15th November 2004, 22:59

Originally Posted by jimbo600

Nah mate I went to Ivybridge Comp. Should have gone to Kingsbridge though as it was a better school.

Surfin' Bantham eh? Some good breaks to be had there. You get out much over here?

I was in the RAF as a photographer.

Bantham, thats the name, i totally forgot, nah, dont get out at all, sold my board b4 comin over

just so i had some xtra cash, want to get back into it tho but i dont have a car, bikes not big enuff to carry a board!!

Where were you based?? i started at Valley in Wales.

**Stuey** · 15th November 2004, 23:03

Originally Posted by SpeedMedic

Better start lookin thru your photos for a geezer helicopter technician mechanicy type bloke then. Bloody small world this

Unbelievable eh!! i travel half way round the world and still cant get away from the locals!!

**jimbo600** · 16th November 2004, 20:28

Originally Posted by SpeedMedic

Better start lookin thru your photos for a geezer helicopter technician mechanicy type bloke then. Bloody small world this

Well spank my arse and call me charlie.

A good mate of mine in Feilding is ex RAF too. He's a chopper crewman now. We should have a re-union bash, talk about how wank the RAF was at times.

**jimbo600** · 16th November 2004, 20:29

Originally Posted by Stuey

Bantham, thats the name, i totally forgot, nah, dont get out at all, sold my board b4 comin over

just so i had some xtra cash, want to get back into it tho but i dont have a car, bikes not big enuff to carry a board!!

Where were you based?? i started at Valley in Wales.

Mainly RAF Wyton and Northolt with little excursions to Falklands and NI

**Stuey** · 16th November 2004, 22:54

Originally Posted by jimbo600

Well spank my arse and call me charlie.

A good mate of mine in Feilding is ex RAF too. He's a chopper crewman now. We should have a re-union bash, talk about how wank the RAF was at times.

How wank the RAF was at times!!?? dont you mean all the time?

mind you, i had a good stint in Wales, start work at 7am and nock off at 12 mid day, and it was right on the beach, use to go to work in my 4x4 cage along the beach with my board in the back so i could go surfin on the way back home!!

**jimbo600** · 17th November 2004, 09:23

Originally Posted by Stuey

How wank the RAF was at times!!?? dont you mean all the time?

mind you, i had a good stint in Wales, start work at 7am and nock off at 12 mid day, and it was right on the beach, use to go to work in my 4x4 cage along the beach with my board in the back so i could go surfin on the way back home!!

Well yeah now you come to mention it, it was pretty wank all the time.

What was your trade?

**Stuey** · 18th November 2004, 21:42

Originally Posted by jimbo600

Well yeah now you come to mention it, it was pretty wank all the time.

What was your trade?

My trade was airframes, started off in Valley, N Wales then went to St Athan

thought i was goin to need a passport just to get out of Wales!! then moved to Lynham, stayed there till 98 then got the opportunity to come out here and join the RNZAF

they paid for the whole lot, thought, why not! free holiday if nothing else!!

**Stuey** · 18th November 2004, 21:45

Originally Posted by SpeedMedic

Go an fix that bloody oil leak of yours will ya.

Its more like an oil seep mate, only gets bad when i nail it!

**jimbo600** · 19th November 2004, 05:37

Originally Posted by Stuey

My trade was airframes, started off in Valley, N Wales then went to St Athan

thought i was goin to need a passport just to get out of Wales!! then moved to Lynham, stayed there till 98 then got the opportunity to come out here and join the RNZAF

they paid for the whole lot, thought, why not! free holiday if nothing else!!

Valley followed by St Athan, holy fuckin hell you poor sod. I left the firm in 96. Took a year off for my big OE, got as far as NZ and here I stayed. I also re-enlisted into the RNZAF. Did a year at Ohakea then in 98 I was posted to Whenuahappy I ran the photo sect up there. Left there and the RNZAF in 2001.

Kiwi airforce was much better than it's pommy equivalent. Managed to get promoted over here, something unheard of in the RAF.

**Stuey** · 19th November 2004, 12:34

Originally Posted by jimbo600

Valley followed by St Athan, holy fuckin hell you poor sod. I left the firm in 96. Took a year off for my big OE, got as far as NZ and here I stayed. I also re-enlisted into the RNZAF. Did a year at Ohakea then in 98 I was posted to Whenuahappy I ran the photo sect up there. Left there and the RNZAF in 2001.

Kiwi airforce was much better than it's pommy equivalent. Managed to get promoted over here, something unheard of in the RAF.

jimbo600, i think that i know you!

i was at whenurhappy from 98 to 2002, i used to have a bright green speed triple that was written off on the base!!!!

by a so called mate of mine!! one of the guys from the photog section took pics of the wreck! wasnt you was it??

**jimbo600** · 19th November 2004, 16:33

Originally Posted by Stuey

jimbo600, i think that i know you!

i was at whenurhappy from 98 to 2002, i used to have a bright green speed triple that was written off on the base!!!!

by a so called mate of mine!! one of the guys from the photog section took pics of the wreck! wasnt you was it??

Well fuck me all to hell it was me that took those photos. That triple was a farkin nice bike. I couldn't believe what that cockhead did to it.

Actually when you said you were airframes I wondered if it was you.

Good to hear from you again mate. Shame I didn't have a bike up at Whenuapai aye.