R.A.F. Swinderby 2020 - A Drones View 

No, IT WAS GREAT FUN . GRIM OR NOT 6 WEEKS WOULD DO IT AGAIN IF I COULD. FOR WHAT THE NEXT 20 ODD YEARS GAVE ME IT WAS WORTH EVERY PUSH UP , EVERY BOLIKING, EVERY STAY BEHIND WEEK ENDS, EVERY MILE OF THAT COLD CROSS COUNTRY RUN AT 7.AM AROUND THE AIR FIELD IN FEBRUARY WITH ICE EVERY WHERE.

Well you should of NOT EVER HAD JOINED UP . ITS PEPOLE LIKE YOU WHERE DISCHARGE OR JUST GOT THROUGH ON THE SKIN OF YOUR PANTS. MOST OF USE GUY'S HAVE NOW RETIRED AFTER 20 /30 YEARS WITH A GREAT PENSION ALL FOR A SAKE OF A 6 WEEKS OF HARDSHIP AND BULLSHIT. AND HAD A GREAT CAREER. AND I was there in 1978. And NOW BENEFITTING FROM THOSES 6 WEEKS OF HARDSHIP. AT R.A.F. SWINDERBY.

Totaly RESPECT your son AND HIS THOUGHTS OF R.A.F. SWINDERBY. I WAS THERE IN 1978 AND I FEEL THE SAME.

The barracks is all a housing estate now.

Dear Swinders, there in 1970, December, basic training, but allowed home for Xmas for 2 days, loved it, and RAF training, 10 week's now, compared to 6 weeks in them day's.

@@johnmurphy818 6 was enough John, but I bet it's all different now, no shouting etc???

@@stdavidboy constructive encouragment Nigal, I would think is the word the corporal would be inclined to use, constructive.

How do you mean, I went there

Thanks, it`s a pity that I forgot to change the fpm from 24 to 60 but it`s still watchable. Hope everything is ok where you are.

I hope you have passed to CAA tests for your drone ?. I'm not being funny.....far from it, just trying to save you from prosecution if the police stop you. I gave up flying model aircraft because the Govt made it illegal. Stunning footage by the way......so sad to see another airfield being lost. I visited 276 disused airfields over the years.

Same hear FREND I was there in 1978 it was the start of the BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE SWINDERBY. IM NOW 63 AND SERVED 20 ODD YEARS WITH R.A.F. THANKS TO RAF SWINDERBY AND ALL THE NCO'S AND OFFICERS THAT MADE IT POSSIBLE AT THE VERY YOUNG AGE OF 17. IT'S SO SAD TO SEE HISTORY LIKE THIS TO BE GOBBLED UP BY MONEY MAKING PROFITS AND FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS NOT KNOWING WHAT SWINDERBY DID FOR OUR COUNTRY MAKE BOYS IN TO MEN AND SERVE THIS COUNTRY SO THAT THIS GENERATION CAN LIVE. AND MOSTLY NOT RESPECT WHAT SWINDERBY DID. FOR ALL YOU GUY'S THAT TRAINED AT SWINDERBY YOU WILL KNOW WHERE IM COMING FROM . ALL THE BEST GUY'S THAT STILL REMEMBER THOSES DAY'S.

Yip. Exactly 32 years ago to the day I was arriving to start my basic training. It was a huge life changing thing leaving home. Im not even sure I really knew what I was letting myself in for. Different times. Nowadays recruits turn up at Halton in their BMWs, on their mobile phones wearing designer clothes.