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SCORPION NEWS No 84 SQUADRON ASSOCIATION Scorpion News SCORPION NEWS No 84 SQUADRON ASSOCIATION ROYAL AIR FORCE ISSUE No 64 January 2019 1 Scorpion News No 84 SQUADRON ASSOCIATION, RAF PRESIDENT BRENDAN COTTRELL CHAIRMAN PAUL CRITCHLEY DEPUTY CHAIRMAN GRAHAM GOOSEY TREASURER & MEMBERSHIP BRIAN DIXON REUNION ORGANISER DEREK WHITTAKER GENERAL NEWS EDITOR TREVOR WRIGHT SECRETARY KEY GRAHAM ARCHIVIST CHAZ SCOWEN ASSOCIATION CORRESPONDENCE should be addressed as below: Paul Critchley Graham Goosey Brian Dixon Brendan Cottrell 11 Alderwood Drive Llwyn Onn 19 Acton Place 67 Hillhouse Road Hook Llangadwaladr High Heaton Downend Hampshire Bodorgan Newcastle Upon Tyne Bristol RG27 9RE Anglesey NE7 7RL BS16 5RT 01256 765964 LL62 5HU 0191 266 2049 0117 9871058 Derek Whittaker Chaz Scowen Trevor Wright Kev Graham 32 Delaware Avenue 33 Blenheim 8 Surfleet Road 3 Tissington Road, Albrighton Road Surfleet Grantham West Midlands Conningsby Spalding NG31 7FP WV7 3BW Lincs Lincs 01902 441153 01526 343614 PE11 4AG 01775 680427 BRENDAN COTTRELL [email protected] PAUL CRITCHLEY [email protected] GRAHAM GOOSEY [email protected] KEV GRAHAM [email protected] DEREK WHITTAKER [email protected] TREVOR WRIGHT [email protected] CHAZ SCOWEN [email protected] BRIAN DIXON [email protected] Views in this publication are those of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the Association or its officers 2 Scorpion News CONTENTS Title Page No Foreword 4 Editorial 5 Eileen Small 6 Solo Helicopter Flight GOODSAM Phone App 7 Editor History of New Chairman: Paul Critchley 8 - 9 Tower of London Torches 10 - 11 Ray Butchart Association Visit to Akrotiri 2019 12 - 13 The Future of 84 Squadron 14 - 15 Chairman “FIRE” Update From The Sharp End 16 - 17 OC 84. Obituaries 18 - 21 Remembrance: The Royal Albert Hall. 22 - 24 Ray Butchart 84 Squadron Annual Reunion 2019 25 Derek Whittaker Historic Helicopters 26 - 27 Mark Service Minutes of the Association AGM 28 - 30 September 29th 2018 Message From Connie Conradie 31 202 Squadron Association Reunion 33 - 35 Geoff Bakewell Personal Thoughts About 36 - 37 Remembrance Sunday 2018 Mike Chapple 3 Scorpion News FOREWORD BY THE CHAIRMAN It was an honour and privilege to be voted in as Chairman of the Association at the AGM in September. Looking back at our previous Chairmen, it will be a hard act to follow! Mike Chapple, Terry Butcher and Peter Hersey, all retiring Committee members, were publicly thanked at the AGM but I would like to record here our collective thanks for their work and dedication. One of our members who passed away in 2018 was Barry Furness, known universally by his colleagues as “Smokey”. Smokey was one of my ALMs when I was OC 84 and the obvious choice to be my Crewman when we had the honour of flying the Prince of Wales around Cyprus in November 1986. I recall having a conversation with him at the reunion in 2017. He was heavily involved with the RAFA and a keen advocate of its work. Having never been a member of the RAFA, he was keen that I should join. Following his passing, it seemed only right that I should make good on an undertaking I had made and join the RAFA. I recently received an email from the RAFA. It said “As a member of our Association, you’ll know just how important your membership is. To help us grow even more and to make sure we can deliver more and more welfare support, we need more people like you to stand with us. By simply forwarding this email on to a few friends and colleagues, you could help us find more valuable members. Demand for welfare support is growing and our strength is in numbers”. What struck me about the text of that email was the concept of us standing together and strength in numbers. If you are interested have a look at www.rafa.org.uk On a slightly different tack, I was approached by Goodwin Sands SOS who are campaigning to stop the Dover Harbour board dredging the Goodwin sands for aggregate. As they point out, the iconic Sands are the final resting place of planes and aircrew from the Battle of Britain. Details of their campaign are at; https://goodwinsandssos.org/. Looking ahead, it seems clear that all Associations will come under increasing pressure as the years pass and their current membership ages. Additionally, the pool of potential recruits is diminishing as the RAF has contracted. This is particularly relevant to us as the Squadron lost its RAF Engineering personnel with the introduction of the Griffin in 2003. At the moment, we have solid membership numbers and an active front line Squadron – long may that continue – but should and can we do more? And if so, what would that look like – how do Associations attract new and younger members – how do they present themselves as relevant in the 21st Century. Perhaps the concept of standing together, as the RAFA puts it, as retired “veterans” - as my US neighbours would call us - is enough? Your committee do not have a monopoly on good ideas so I would be pleased to hear from you if you have any ideas to make the Association more relevant to potential new recruits. At the very least, perhaps we could all be advocates for the Association and encourage any ex-84 Squadron members to join the Association – standing together and strength in numbers! I hope you have all enjoyed the Christmas and New Year celebrations. My very best wishes for 2019 to you and your families. I look forward to catching up with some of you during our visit to Cyprus in May and at the next Re-union in September. 4 Scorpion News EDITORIAL I trust 2019 has started off in a positive way for you all? I have as promised been keeping busy, this retirement lark is just a myth. I have never had a day off since I stopped working. As I mentioned in the last edition I have been collecting money to buy defibrillators, well I managed £6K so did manage to get the four. When we were due to go on holiday in October, we unfortunately lost our Boxer dog “Truly” and although we had only been her friend for 16 weeks it was awful to have to say goodbye. This was the second old lady we had lost in 2018. However, whilst we were away our local Boxer rescue received a call from Battersea Dogs Home, asking if they had anyone who could possibly adopt a young dog with only three legs. They immediately thought of us. So only a week or so after returning from holiday a van arrived from Battersea with a new 3 year old cracker called Maisie. The rest is history, maybe you saw her and us on the TV as she starred in the Paul ‘O’Grady show in December? Well she has settled in brilliantly and it’s like she has always been here, she is still adjusting to life with only three legs, but if she’s galloping you wouldn't know. Hopefully, this year we may be able to drop in on some of you whilst passing, as we intend to use the motor home a bit more this year, health etc permitting. In this edition you will notice that we have received several invitations to various events in various countries throughout the year. It would be very nice if we were represented by someone at these events, see how you feel about it! Oh and if you do attend an event, please could you write a short article for inclusion in the next edition? For those like me who couldn't attend last years reunion in September, you will notice that there has been three changes amongst the association committee. I would just like to say a thank you to Mike, Terry and Pete for the help that I received during their time in office. So, we start a new chapter in the magazines history. As usual this is a call for your assistance, as without input from you of either funnies or serious material it is near impossible to publish an interesting read. So please send in whatever you think other members would find interesting, or maybe suggestions to alter the format or content. I have been delaying the publication of this edition hoping to get some New Hooters for inclusion etc, however it appears that we do not have any this time. So I would urge you all to try and persuade anyone you know who has been associated with the squadron to give us a try. They will either hate us or love us? I think all relevant stories, articles have now been received so it is time for proof reading and then off to the printers for a weekend posting hopefully. So I look forward to seeing several of you in Cyprus in May. All the very best Trevor 5 Scorpion News For those members not familiar with Eileen, here is a brief explanation: Eileen has been an associate member of the association for a very long time, certainly well in excess of 25 years. She regularly attended our annual reunions and was very popular with all those with whom she came in contact. Her connection with the association was through her brother who had lost his life whilst serving with the Squadron in the Far East. Unfortunately Eileen has been unable to attend our reunions for several years due to failing health. However, obviously she is an avid reader of the Scorpion News and kindly reacted to my request for articles of interest to include.
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