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This event happened whist I was doing MY flying training!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntn0lhxgkL4

In 1968, an RAF pilot was so furious at his own government gutting the
Air Force that he buzzed Parliament at rooftop level and then flew a
Hawker Hunter straight through Tower Bridge. They didn't court-martial
him. That's the part nobody tells you. They locked him in a psychiatric
ward instead rCo because a court-martial would've given him a microphone,
and what he had to say was too dangerous to let the public hear. The RAF quietly exonerated him roughly fourteen years later. And the thing he
was protesting? It never stopped. Not for a single year.His name was
Alan Pollock. Born 1936. And before anyone writes him off as some
hothead who snapped rCo before the word "reckless" enters the conversation
rCo you need to understand who this man actually was.Pollock joined the
RAF in the mid-1950s and trained as a fighter pilot during the last
great era of British aviation supremacy, when Britain still designed and
built some of the finest military aircraft on earth and the RAF still
flew them in numbers that could darken a sky. He served with No. 4
Squadron, then deployed to Aden rCo the British protectorate in what's now Yemen rCo where an insurgency was tearing through the Radfan mountains and Hunters were flying ground attack missions in support of British troops
on the ground. This was not peacetime flying. This was combat. Low-level strafing runs into mountain valleys where ground fire came up at you
from ridgelines, and the spares were always short, and the airframes
were being pushed harder than peacetime maintenance schedules ever
intended. Pollock flew operationally in that theatre, and it taught him something no amount of formation flying over the English countryside
ever could: he understood, in his bones, what happened when politicians
in London promised defence capability and then didn't provide the
aircraft, the spare parts, or the squadron strength to back those
promises up.
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Kind regards,
David

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On Aug 26, 2026 at 2:40:40rC>PM MST, ""David B."" wrote <nf94qoFsg9vU1@mid.individual.net>:

This event happened whist I was doing MY flying training!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntn0lhxgkL4

In 1968, an RAF pilot was so furious at his own government gutting the
Air Force that he buzzed Parliament at rooftop level and then flew a
Hawker Hunter straight through Tower Bridge. They didn't court-martial
him. That's the part nobody tells you. They locked him in a psychiatric
ward instead rCo because a court-martial would've given him a microphone,
and what he had to say was too dangerous to let the public hear. The RAF quietly exonerated him roughly fourteen years later. And the thing he
was protesting? It never stopped. Not for a single year.His name was
Alan Pollock. Born 1936. And before anyone writes him off as some
hothead who snapped rCo before the word "reckless" enters the conversation rCo you need to understand who this man actually was.Pollock joined the
RAF in the mid-1950s and trained as a fighter pilot during the last
great era of British aviation supremacy, when Britain still designed and built some of the finest military aircraft on earth and the RAF still
flew them in numbers that could darken a sky. He served with No. 4
Squadron, then deployed to Aden rCo the British protectorate in what's now Yemen rCo where an insurgency was tearing through the Radfan mountains and Hunters were flying ground attack missions in support of British troops
on the ground. This was not peacetime flying. This was combat. Low-level strafing runs into mountain valleys where ground fire came up at you
from ridgelines, and the spares were always short, and the airframes
were being pushed harder than peacetime maintenance schedules ever
intended. Pollock flew operationally in that theatre, and it taught him something no amount of formation flying over the English countryside
ever could: he understood, in his bones, what happened when politicians
in London promised defence capability and then didn't provide the
aircraft, the spare parts, or the squadron strength to back those
promises up.

When the elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
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On 27/08/2026 00:41, Brock McNuggets wrote:

When the elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

I can't recall having heard that proverb before.

I like it! EfyA
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Kind regards,
David
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On 27 Aug 2026 at 07:39:14 BST, ""David B."" <David@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

On 27/08/2026 00:41, Brock McNuggets wrote:

When the elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

I can't recall having heard that proverb before.

I like it! EfyA

So do I!
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On 27/08/2026 08:10, Old John wrote:

On 27 Aug 2026 at 07:39:14 BST, ""David B."" <David@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

On 27/08/2026 00:41, Brock McNuggets wrote:

When the elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

I can't recall having heard that proverb before.

I like it! EfyA

So do I!

Haha! Efya

Did you watch the video, John?


(posted to ucsm only)
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Kind regards,
David
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On Aug 26, 2026 at 11:39:14rC>PM MST, ""David B."" wrote <nfa4cjF2p7hU1@mid.individual.net>:

On 27/08/2026 00:41, Brock McNuggets wrote:

When the elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

I can't recall having heard that proverb before.

I like it! EfyA

Happy to hear. I have used that one for years.
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On Aug 27, 2026 at 12:10:24rC>AM MST, "Old John" wrote <116ont0$18o0j$1@dont-email.me>:

On 27 Aug 2026 at 07:39:14 BST, ""David B."" <David@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:

On 27/08/2026 00:41, Brock McNuggets wrote:

When the elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

I can't recall having heard that proverb before.

I like it! EfyA

So do I!

Glad to bring some joy to the group.
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