Summer 2005 - Contents

Editorial - A few words from our editor Stu Clarke.

Great Wall of China Trek - Charity begins at home…well it does for Jenny Thompson! Her efforts are more than rewarded….read on!

Ashes to more Ashes - Ex Busch Baby - Sqn Ldr Paul Haywood ‘Eh! Exercise Busch Baby! Where ever can that be going?’ This was my first thought as I browsed the SROs for RAF Henlow in my office at RAF Stanbridge. Firstly it looked like a spelling mistake and secondly it sounded likely to involve ape chasing in Africa which would have been novel.’

Calpe Run – Morocco - Gibraltar Garrison take a trip south. By Capt Katherine Prudhoe

Swing with Ease! - Flt Lt Stu Clarke and Chf Tech Dave Marshall provide some useful guidance For those thinking about starting golf

Fencing - Doesn’t everyone wish they could fence? It is violence refined into beauty; it has associations with love, honour and suicidal pride. We think of great fencers – unlike great footballers or great junk-bond salesmen - as superior beings; air and fire, rather than earth and water. We think of Cyrano, Zorro and the 3 Musketeers". – James Traub GQ 1994 - by SAC Kat Jolly

RAF Corporate Challenge Karting - Daytona International – Milton Keynes, Provided by Flt Lt John Idles

Windsurfing - By Flt Lt Gow, “Wear your Rip-Curl for real!”

Inter- Services Tennis - Inter Service Report 2004 - ‘Life in the old dogs yet!’

Ex Swiss Legends - Flt Lt Brian Wills, RAF Valley was once again the lead station in a multi-unit mountaineering expedition to the Swiss Alps

Ex High Jinx (Reprinted from Wycombe World Summer 2003) by SAC Caroline Chaplin

Boscombe Down Freefall & Pentathlon - 2 articles from RAF Boscombe Down personnel. ..”I cant believe I’m going to do this but here I am getting into my parachute gear!

RAF Judo – Dave Cooper & Sam Smithson lead the way in this most competitive of fighting sports

End to End Cycle Ride –‘ The whole event had been a resounding success and our adopted slogan ‘Ride Above the Rest’ was corny but very apt’ – 1138 mile cycle ride!

Ex. Pyrenees Plod – ‘One comical moment included a yodelling competition, won by Chris Owens (he of the incredibly loud voice)’. 7 go wild in the Pyrenees.

AFCO Gorilla /Sport Relief – Monkey Business or serious money business? London Armed Forces Careers Office Report from Taff Davies

Ferrari - ‘The red Ferrari accelerated like a jet ac, 3rd, 4th, 5th gear engaging as we shot around the Southern Track at Silverstone’. Our Editor-in-Chief presents a very thrilling tale of his time in charge of a supercar.

Kick out of Keeping Fit - Edited by Sgt Kev Frisby, RAF Active Fighting Sports Editor, this article explains the opportunities for martial arts in the RAF…..even if you are frequently moving.

RAF CANOE ASSOCIATION SCOTTISH RIVERS MEET by Sqn Ldr Clare Sharp

Blue Vixen 2005 – Here we go again, up-hill skiing showing the way to combine exercise, sun and snow in one great Exercise

Ex Aphrodite Maori - LCpl 'Jimmy' Luton reports on 12 members of a Cyprus Communications Unit expedition who travelled to the North Island of New Zealand