RAF Fairford requires volunteers

The pilot obviously hadn't taken off from a nearby pub! A lucky escape for all concerned it seems.

C'mon Arthur, you must have seen RAF helicopters landing at rural pubs before. And you know how many commercial pilots are arrested trying to board their cockpits drunk - well, most commercial pilot are just mature RAF pilots. When these teenage pilots got the chance to land near pubs, well you'lll notice the sudden preponderance of rural pubs called 'The Harrrier'. Sydney Hawker himself, the inventor of the aircraft, was so drunk when he patented V/stol that his name was incorrectly noted as Hawker Siddeley. One Harrier G7 was even caught drag-racing cars last week near Peterborough, which I'm sure will result in disciplinary charges for the wasted fuel. If you blow up the photo you can even the pilots girlfriend making an onscene gesture to the car driver.

 http://www.planetlemans.com/cmsv2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1881&Itemid=2


The campaign may seem like a foreign concept; after all, it’s no great secret alcohol use and military service enjoy a longstanding partnership. Maybe people don’t know what it means to drink responsibly; maybe they’ve never given it any thought. Maybe most people drink sensibly, and it’s just a common misperception that Air Force members are a hard-working, hard-drinking bunch. Whatever the case, Airman ZOT will get the facts out in the open, and allow people to judge for themselves whether its guidelines are worth following.
“The reality is that a small minority of us choose to drink irresponsibly. They are the ones getting into trouble the most – not always, but the most,” Major Brim said. “I don’t think that setting a standard is going to change the behavior of this minority significantly, but I do think that by pointing out that they are the minority, the rest of us can take pride in ourselves and speak up more clearly about the things we do for fun.

 http://www.lakenheath.af.mil/jet48/2005Folders/051305/feature_ZOT.htm