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Having taken into account the current COVID restrictions that currently apply in the different parts of the UK, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2021 reunion.
The Chairman Nick Butler will be heading up the Fan at 0930 hrs on Saturday the 15th May and he will lay a BAFC wreath on behalf of the Club at the summit.
He will also toast The Fallen.
If other members wish to make their own pilgrimage up the Fan at their own risk please follow the relevant COVID restrictions that will be in place.
As a Club we are not able to accept liability for members safety and well being over the weekend of 14/15 May. Our Clubs insurance that normally covers Fandance will not operate this year.
Update to follow reference Aldershot 10 Miler on the 20th November 2021.
.........................................................................................................................The 10 Miler will be held on w/e Saturday 23rd November 2024........................................................................................
Hey Scotty, Working seven days a week mate. Could not make it up to Elsinore. Gonna have to do it next time around. I ain't master of me own destiny right now. Caught between the Yankee Dollar and a woman with aberration of the brain and more money than sense.
"If they control your speech.....they control your life" Me
Hey Scotty, Working seven days a week mate. Could not make it up to Elsinore. Gonna have to do it next time around. I ain't master of me own destiny right now. Caught between the Yankee Dollar and a woman with aberration of the brain and more money than sense.
Tone we will go done together next year for a few days maybe to a tandem or two. and Scotty have a happy Christmas and a safe and prosperous new year to you and yours, aye billy.
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Hey Scotty, Working seven days a week mate. Could not make it up to Elsinore. Gonna have to do it next time around. I ain't master of me own destiny right now. Caught between the Yankee Dollar and a woman with aberration of the brain and more money than sense.
No probs Tony. I understand real life gets in the way. I had planned 3 days off at the end to get up to see Billy but as soon as I opened the trip I was flooded with folks so no time off. We had 20 in the group this time so luckily I had some good instructors assisting.
Very best to you, Billy and all the ex airborne guys out there, planning for Apr next trip.
No probs Tony. I understand real life gets in the way. I had planned 3 days off at the end to get up to see Billy but as soon as I opened the trip I was flooded with folks so no time off. We had 20 in the group this time so luckily I had some good instructors assisting.
Very best to you, Billy and all the ex airborne guys out there, planning for Apr next trip.
Scotty, do you ever run in to a couple of former 1 Para MMG's, Ken Potter and Charlie Fitzpatrick, they will be getting on now but I understand got around the globe quite a bit on free fall?
Scotty, do you ever run in to a couple of former 1 Para MMG's, Ken Potter and Charlie Fitzpatrick, they will be getting on now but I understand got around the globe quite a bit on free fall?
Ken Potter is not a name I recognise but knew Charlie Fitzpatrick, sadly he passed away last year beaten after a long fight against the big C!
Scotty ,Just noticed your name is Milne,as I said in an earlier post ,used to skydive in early 60,s wi Jimmy Milne ,2 Para n also frae Perthshire,any relation?
Ken Potter is not a name I recognise but knew Charlie Fitzpatrick, sadly he passed away last year beaten after a long fight against the big C!
Thanks Scotty, Very sad to hear about Charlie Fitzpatrick (Fitz) a quiet lad, never up for aggro, pulled his weight around the guns. Not a way any of us want to go but sounds as though he fought for as long as he could. Odd, was just thinking about him a few days ago. RIP Charlie.
Scotty ,Just noticed your name is Milne,as I said in an earlier post ,used to skydive in early 60,s wi Jimmy Milne ,2 Para n also frae Perthshire,any relation?
No mate I don't know Jimmy, I went to 1 Para in 69 and didn't know any other Milne in the Reg till well after that. ☹️
Seems they train in the US better weather than Weston on the Green
Not just the weather Jack. I was a Training Flight Sgt PJI at Brize when 22 and others did their HALO courses. At the end of each course lads from 22 would come up to Brize to do the last few descents with the newly qualified blokes. Was crossing the aircraft mock up at the Parachute school and heard one of the blokes from Hereford practically telling the blokes on the HALO course to almost ignore all that they had been taught on the course. I pulled to guy out and took him to one side for a word, along the lines of WTF? He explained some 'differences between training and operations to which i said 'well why the f**k do you not tell the RAF OC Free Fall about where the training is not meeting operational reality. he said they were sick of telling them but the RAF were more interested in the officer pecking order than training needs. I told the RAF set up that they were in danger of losing the free fall training role, if they did not meet operational needs better. I learnt years later that 22 had had enough and simply walked. So not just weather Jack, but stupidity.
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