The Royal Air Farce. Memories of RAF Changi, 1965. I was on 800 Sqdn at the time, Fleet Air Arm, detached from HMS Eagle. What a wonderful place it was. Absolute luxury and no mosquitoes!
Looks like RAF Buchan as the radar station in the film. Plotting tables were finally phased out a few years after this film by a very primitive computer system. The Ops Room still looked very similar, we had the same Comms setup at Buchan on my first tour, just we had ERAPDS instead of the table for Tracks.
Type 80. Type 95 (S259) and FPS-6 height finder. Most likely Buchan. The Girl Fighter Controller controlling the Phantom ua-cam.com/video/XpDDwCcxggY/v-deo.html was in the next recruiting film including the Radar stations and Phantoms which was made in 1980. She was a little bit higher up in the food chain at Boulmer on that one. ua-cam.com/video/Fvqt99SRxU8/v-deo.html
Also doubles as a good tourist ad for people wanting to come and enjoy that lovely sunny English weather. Dig the beautiful dull grey sky in those shots. :)
Yes, as already mentioned, the background city is Nottingham. First I spotted the Shipstones pub, then the ABC cinema at the top of Chapel Bar and finally the careers office at the side entrance of the Victoria Centre, where I walked in to start my RAF journey in 1980!
@@barryporteous4904 Yes Pam served in the RAF in the mid to late 1960's. It's claimed that she even engaged in spying while in the RAF. Obviously not while trampolining...
@@barryporteous4904 Hi Barry, you are correct. I believe the spying was discreet and undertaken by Pam because she was seen as resourceful and was in the right place at the right time (to do whatever she did...)
The mess hall a Marham didn't serve the food like this 😂 i joined in 2000 but i feel it could have still been the 70s as we still had alot of the same equipment and buildings.
@@MrDastardly in the 70s the country was 88% white, and probably most of the immigrants were 1st generation and didn’t meet the requirements to join, it makes sense, all changed now though, much better representation
@@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe - No, these are the ‘real thing’, nothing to do with movies. They’re proper RAF ops rooms. I served in one (Sector Control, No.2 Grp, ROC) during the early 80s.
I dread to think how much money we’ve spend as a country on defence over the years. Certainly enough to eradicate poverty and homelessness for good, along with having the best national health service in the world. But we really need those weapons don’t we? 🙄
The British military had some good recruiting films back in the day, didn't they?
yeh and brochures
@@michaelbailey8729 Suffice to say that I joined the RAF as an apprentice in January 1964. Never regretted my decision.
The Royal Air Farce. Memories of RAF Changi, 1965. I was on 800 Sqdn at the time, Fleet Air Arm, detached from HMS Eagle.
What a wonderful place it was. Absolute luxury and no mosquitoes!
I joined in April 75. Great days!
The background city to this is Nottingham. I joined the RAF from that very same Recruitment Office 40 years ago.
Far better RAF then overseas postings galore.......
Troodos was about as good as it got.
Looks like RAF Buchan as the radar station in the film. Plotting tables were finally phased out a few years after this film by a very primitive computer system. The Ops Room still looked very similar, we had the same Comms setup at Buchan on my first tour, just we had ERAPDS instead of the table for Tracks.
Type 80. Type 95 (S259) and FPS-6 height finder. Most likely Buchan.
The Girl Fighter Controller controlling the Phantom ua-cam.com/video/XpDDwCcxggY/v-deo.html was in the next recruiting film including the Radar stations and Phantoms which was made in 1980. She was a little bit higher up in the food chain at Boulmer on that one. ua-cam.com/video/Fvqt99SRxU8/v-deo.html
Joined up in 79 as an air frame mechanic and flunked Ended up being a scopie they were very good days !!
Great film thanks
Also doubles as a good tourist ad for people wanting to come and enjoy that lovely sunny English weather. Dig the beautiful dull grey sky in those shots. :)
I was an CPL. LFGR in those days. The FPS6 Nodding horror radar was my speciality. I could, almost, cure the hydraulic leaks.
Recognised one of the Cosford instructors !! Pounded around the indoor track just a few times !!
The phantoms used were 43 Sqn based at Leuchars. The uniform brings back horrible memories, I joined in '73
I’ve never seen this before…..and joined in November 1976! Nice video. Thanks for posting…..I joined as DE A-Fitt-A…..
Most welcome 👍
How clean the streets are.
2 Stroke motocycle ! had a Suzuki GT 380 in college
I had a Suzuki GT 250 that was great fun and quick in it's day.
The radatr that tracked the intruder was the Type 80 at RAF Saxa Vord in the Shetlands. An interesting place to serve, as I found out the hard way.
I was there October 88 to April 1990. 😃
@@ianmcclellan7695 Lovely place when the wind dropped and it stopped raining.
Bloody hell! A very young and fresh-faced mover, Steve Perry at 5:30.
Yes, as already mentioned, the background city is Nottingham. First I spotted the Shipstones pub, then the ABC cinema at the top of Chapel Bar and finally the careers office at the side entrance of the Victoria Centre, where I walked in to start my RAF journey in 1980!
Great stuff,no wokeness there
Sure this is the film I saw at the CIO "What job do you want to do in the RAF?". "Radar looks cool" says I, TG3 and 23years on, wasn't a bad choice.
When we could, we did........not now
51st state?
Oh look no beards or tattoos
Or gay grooming?
Was that the loveable comedy poet Pam Ayres on the trampoline at 9.30? We'll probably never know...
She was in the RAF!
@@barryporteous4904 Yes Pam served in the RAF in the mid to late 1960's. It's claimed that she even engaged in spying while in the RAF. Obviously not while trampolining...
@@rlane63 I seem to remember that when she was on the QI programme that she said that she had worked in photo reconnaissance analysis.
@@barryporteous4904 Hi Barry, you are correct. I believe the spying was discreet and undertaken by Pam because she was seen as resourceful and was in the right place at the right time (to do whatever she did...)
The mess hall a Marham didn't serve the food like this 😂 i joined in 2000 but i feel it could have still been the 70s as we still had alot of the same equipment and buildings.
RAF Buchan T80 and S259
Still had Flm's then!
Coldwar ended right here.
Why are those air force piggies wearing hats on the a/field?
FOD ALERT 🚨
@@Jamiesbird Yes, their thick as shyte!
What a load of bullsh//t I was demoted in 1971 we were still using 1943(property of coastal command) signals equipment
Still wearing WW2 putties and helmets in the 1980's
We had a Country back then not just the Royal Air Force before the invasion!
We had an air force not air farce!
Do you mean the Argentine invasion of the Falklands? (1982).
No, he's just making a grubby little racist statement
Blast, eish I'd watched this and joined up........instead of ending up in the Parks Department!!!😩😩😩👎👎👎🤮🤮🤮.
Shame that they sold off all the perks to the croniest bidder.
The armed forces hardly exist now as for borders and still even having a country.
It's all the fault of those dusky chaps, right? Racist
For an ethnically diverse country, all of the people in this film are white and primarily male.
@@MrDastardly in the 70s the country was 88% white, and probably most of the immigrants were 1st generation and didn’t meet the requirements to join, it makes sense, all changed now though, much better representation
Quit right too !
Did these sets originate in the Battle of Britain?
@@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe - They’re not ‘sets’!
@@AtheistOrphan Cells ,cubicles. Borrowed from the movie?
@@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe - No, these are the ‘real thing’, nothing to do with movies. They’re proper RAF ops rooms. I served in one (Sector Control, No.2 Grp, ROC) during the early 80s.
@AtheistOrphan Thank You!
We were still using Bakelite headsets in 1987 at Buchan. We did have the newer type of headset but also some of the older type.
I can just see Gen-Z CRINGE…
I dread to think how much money we’ve spend as a country on defence over the years. Certainly enough to eradicate poverty and homelessness for good, along with having the best national health service in the world.
But we really need those weapons don’t we? 🙄
RAF - RIDICULOUS AIR FORCE
hahaha
@@biboyumandar1538 You fuckers ought to know all about that.
У них теперь больше самолетов, чем у России, они могут уничтожить их за 5 минут😂🤣😂🤣 Россия теперь ШУТКА, как маленький котенок, а не большой медведь.😾
@@scopex2749 Kier starmer does not agree!