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Features: RAF100 Steam Challenge • RAF100 Parade in Leicester • Wittfest Success • Community Support TITLE OF ARTICLE SECTION HEADING Autumn 2018 Autumn WitteringThe official magazine for RAF Wittering and the A4 Force View AUTUMN 2018 WITTERING VIEW 1 Features: RAF100 Steam Challenge • RAF100 Parade in Leicester • WittFest Success • Community Support SECTION HEADING TITLE OF ARTICLE Editor Welcome to the autumn edition of the Wittering View. It doesn’t seem so long ago that I was introducing my first edition. I’m sure most of us have the same impression with the high tempo of Foreword work going on around the Unit. The main feature continues with proving powerful, and is helping the celebration of the RAF Centenary. In what has been a remarkable year for us to make informed decisions RAF Wittering personnel have been the Royal Air Force, Wittering continues to that better take account of involved in a vast array of events in the needs of our people. I was support of RAF100. A fascinating article focus on its dual roles of being the home of particularly proud to see the about the Steam Challenge on page Shadow Board engage with the 12 demonstrates the diversity involved specialist engineering and logistics capabilities Chief of the Air Staff and members in the events. We also have more on of the Air Force Board Executive the Baton Relay on page 13, with more under the command of the A4 Force, while Committee during their recent coverage of the significant RAF100 also providing a safe aerodrome at which the visit to the Station and, more event in London on page 16. The importantly, heartened to see the support from 2 MT Sqn can be read on next generation of military pilots learn to fly. views of our people shape the page 18. Committee’s discussions. 16 Squadron completed a challenging cycle ride and the RAF Operations SHADER in the series of RAF100 events, including The wing commanders and Police took to running a 100km Middle East, BILOXI in Eastern the centrepiece celebration in I listen to the Shadow Board, so relay (see page 15), while Low Europe, and NEWCOMBE in London on July 10. RAF Wittering for those who would like to make Flying Ops completed a rowing Central Africa have all benefited played a key role in the movement a difference, stretch themselves challenge (page 8). Rugby has from the expert skills of members of 1,900 personnel into central personally and professionally, and returned to RAF Wittering at last. of the A4 Force, and we will soon London for the parade, mounting wish to speak directly to the Station’s You can read about their successes enable and sustain the biggest the static aircraft displays, leadership, please ask your chain of on page 23, while the Cricket team’s multi-national exercise for many feeding of nearly 6,000 people command how to get involved. achievements can be found on page years – Exercise SAIF SAREEA III in Horseguards, hosting of many Gp Capt Tony Keeling 9. Find out about the 4624 RAuxAF in Oman. I also hope that you’ve aircraft and helicopters on our Adventure Training expedition on seen how busy our airfield has airfield for the fantastic flypast, page 21 along with an award for one been with visiting aircraft and inspiring the next generation of its personnel on page 8. Parades in Tutor flying. through Science, Technology, Leicester and Stamford can be found Engineering and Mathematics on pages 14 and 8 respectively, with Earlier in the summer, (STEM) and First and Second World the very successful WittFest featuring Wittering hosted the Race for War re-enactments, and of course on page 19. the Line National Final. Over participating in the event itself. All these events demonstrate 60 teams designed and built It was a remarkable atmosphere the effort that many personnel put rocket-powered cars and in London on the day, with the into all aspects of the RAF, be it on competed against one another public turning out in their tens of or off Unit; with Service personnel or to see whose was the fastest. thousands to offer their support with the local civilian community. We were honoured to have our and appreciation to the Royal Air May I thank everyone who has Honorary Air Commodore, Her Force – it was quite extraordinary. contributed to the magazine. Your Royal Highness The Countess of continued support will ensure RAF Wessex, join us for the event, and I would like to take the Wittering and the local community she certainly enjoyed meeting opportunity to shine a light remain informed about all the participants, families and those on the work of the Shadow events, activities and hard work who worked hard behind the Board, a diverse cross-section of carried out by Station personnel. scenes to make it such an personnel who are becoming Finally, I would like to thank Emma enjoyable day for all. increasing helpful to me as Station Stacey who continues to be a pivotal Commander to understand the member of the small editorial team. We are now well into the issues that matter to our people. Flt Lt Owen Newman Royal Air Force’s Centenary Year, Giving our people a voice so that and many of our people have had we can make decisions informed the chance to commemorate, by the views of a range of ranks, celebrate and inspire through a ages and professional outlooks is Submissions Please direct all submissions for Wittering View Magazine to: The Editor, [email protected] [email protected] Please try to ensure that images are in .jpeg format and Find us on Facebook as large as possible. Text should be supplied in Microsoft Word .doc format or plain text if possible. at Wittering View 4 WITTERING VIEW AUTUMN 2018 TITLE OF ARTICLE SECTION HEADING Wittering View The official magazine for RAF Wittering and the A4 Force 06 14 21 Contents Race For The Line 06 News In Brief 08 Padre’s Corner 11 RAF100 Steam Challenge 12 RAF100 Baton Relay at Wittering 13 RAF100 Parade in Leicester 14 16 Sqn Centenary Cycle 15 RAF Marks 100 Years 16 Op AD ASTRA 18 Remembering Lancaster DS690 18 WittFest Success 19 Ninety Years of 504 Sqn 20 Ex ALPINE ENDEAVOUR 21 Rugby Returns to RAF Wittering 23 Community News 26 Tea Break Time 28 16 In The Hot Seat 30 Editor Distribution Designed By Flt Lt Owen Newman Morrisons Stamford, Sainsbury's Stamford, Families' Sherrie Bacarese [email protected] Shop Wittering, Walkers of Stamford, Stamford coffee shops, Phoenix Shop Wittering, Wittering Advertising Deputy Editor local businesses and amenities. Lance Publishing Ltd, 1st Floor, Tailby House, Emma Stacey Bath Road, Kettering, Northants, NN16 8NL Published By Tel: Tammie on 01536 526667 Team Lance Publishing Ltd, 1st Floor, Tailby House, [email protected] Marissa Russell, Cpl Paul Robertshaw, Ed Palmer Bath Road, Kettering, Northants, NN16 8NL and SAC Matty Smith. Tel: 01536 512624, Fax: 01536 515481 Printing www.lancepublishing.co.uk Lance Print Ltd, Email: [email protected] Tel: 01733 390564 AUTUMN 2018 WITTERING VIEW 5 FEATURE RACE FOR THE LINE Race For The Line National Finals At Wittering Hundreds of school children designed, built and raced miniature rocket cars at RAF Wittering for the Race for the Line National Finals. An RAF Typhoon. Race for the Line is a schools’ Her Royal Highness the and the Red Arrows gave the through the forces. It’s just a competition run by The Learning Countess of Wessex, RAF captivated audience a series great partnership.” Partnership and supported by Wittering’s Honorary Air of breath-taking aerobatic the Armed Forces. The aim of the Commodore, joined the Station manoeuvres. Wing Commander Craig event is to inspire Year 7 students for the event where she met Watson, principal engineer at to take up Science, Technology, with the school teams and Aulden Dunipace, Chief RAF Wittering, said: “We’re very Engineering and Mathematics watched the final races. Executive of The Learning privileged to be hosting the final (STEM) subjects. Over 60 teams Partnership, said: “Without of Race for the Line. STEM is really from schools across the country Between races the support from the tri-forces this core to the RAF, innovation and created micro-dragsters and participants and their families year, and particularly the RAF, science have been a huge part competed against one another were treated to a series of air we would not have been able of everything we’ve achieved to see whose was the fastest. displays, beginning with the to deliver the competition. over the last 100 years. By The winning team was from the Grob Tutor piloted by RAF 78,000 students in Year 7 built making science and engineering Littlehampton Academy in Sussex; Wittering’s Flight Lieutenant rocket cars and raced them accessible, and by inspiring their car achieved an actual speed Andy Sell. In a cloudless sky across their playgrounds; we them, children can see brilliant of 66.1 miles per hour. a Spitfire, an RAF Typhoon ran 400 qualifying race events possibilities for their futures.” 6 WITTERING VIEW AUTUMN 2018 The races. Aulden Dunipace (left), HRH the Countess of Wessex (centre) and Group Captain Tony Keeling (right) with the winning team from Littlehampton Academy. Her Royal Highness the Countess of Wessex is shown a rocket car by one of the teams. The Red Arrows. AUTUMN 2018 WITTERING VIEW 7 NEWS IN BRIEF News In Brief RAF Wittering Marks Freedom Of Stamford Town and Station united when the personnel of RAF Wittering marked the granting of the freedom of Stamford to the historic base.
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