RAF 10 Squadron Association

Go to The Events Menu to get the Information Sheet and an Application Form for this year’s 10 Sqn Association Reunion Dinner, to be held on 17 May at Blunsdon, near Swindon.

STOP PRESS:  The hiccup with the Menu Choices  has now been resolved so please submit your choices on the forms in the 'EVENTS' menu.    The amended Choices are available to see on the Information Sheet 2.

23 March 2024

 There is now a possibility of a 2-4 hour Voyager flight earlier that day from RAF Brize Norton.  Those interested should read the Info Sheet and complete the Flight 'YES' form as soon as possible and send it to Sandy Butler by post.

Both the Info Sheet and the 'Yes' Form are available to print from the EVENTS Menu.

      .........  To Make a 10 Sqn-linked Investment

Sqn Ldr Craig Harvey, whose email address has been given to our Members in a Mass Mailing to you all today, has been one of the 10 Sqn executives for a number of years.  He has mow kindly asked us if any of our members might like to share in a limited-edition investment project which he is coordinating.  This will soon become available to present-day 10 Sqn Members, past 10 Sqn personnel, Association Members and also family members of 10 Sqn Veterans. The offer will also be open to similar applicants from 101 Sqn, it being 10 Sqn's sister Voyager aircraft operator.

Bremont Watches of Henley on Thames are proud manufacturers in the UK and the Company is now offering a personal variation on one of their executive aviator chronometer watch models, designed specifically for the RAF's two Voyager squadrons, at a highly discounted price.  The 'Voyager' watch model will feature either a 10 Sqn or 101 Sqn badge and have Voyager aircraft images on its three smaller dials as well as a mandatory engraving of up to 8 characters showing the purchaser’s name or initials on the rear. 

The leather strap is available in varying lengths but may be replaced by a metal strap; either of these two options will incur an additional charge.   (See the Application Form below for these prices.). Incorporation of either the 10 or 101 Sqn Badges has been approved by the MoD.

The watch is powered either by winding or physical movement and is accurate enough not to require a radio time check facility.

Enabling the watch to remain unique and sustain its value for at least three years after purchase, no resale of it will be allowed during that time without incurring the penalty of a complete invalidation of the guarantee, thereby ensuring that only bona-fide, recorded purchasers will own one of these unique products for at least three years.   – (See Ts & Cs file.)

Should you consider investing in one of the watches and want more information additional to that given in the accompanying Information given in the pdfs below, please contact Sqn Ldr Harvey direct.  The chronometers will only become available once all the numbers of the proposed limited-edition total have been achieved and paid for.

The watch will look like this: 

INFORMATION may be found in the 4 x pdf files below

See - MORE info

   Now Click Here to see the:

Bremont Application Form -   this version of the Form is for info only as it highlights the price and other salient points associated with the purchase requirements

To download the APPLICATION FORM without these highlit points

                               Click here :  ORDER FORM

                      And Now Click below for the:

Bremont Terms & Conditions   of purchase.

Please contact Sqn Ldr Craig Harvey direct if you seek any further information about this unique project.

15 February 2024 

 Irvin Hanson joined the Association a couple of years ago, in an attempt to learn more about his father Ronald Hanson's activities during WW2.

After training, Ron flew as a wireless operator and air gunner on 10 Squadron’s Whitley bombers, early in WW2, just as those two trades had been officially designated as warranting ‘sergeant aircrew’ rank.  Before joining 10 Sqn he had been forced to bale out from an aircraft over the UK and for a second time again, whilst on 10 Sqn. Following his Whitley being shot down over the North Sea, Ronald then spent the rest of the war as a PoW, mainly in Poland, before undertaking the Long March, in the winter months just before the European war's end.

 Irvin has compiled his father’s WW2 history so that the Hanson family will have a lasting record of his father's war and this has been written and self-published by Irvin to now become available from YorkBookshop.com

A few questions about 'clandestine ops' are as yet still unanswered and maybe provide the possibility of a future sequel. 

Priced at £12.99 and entitled ‘Third Time Lucky’, the book is not available from high street sources but may be easily bought by on-line purchase from  YorkBookshop.com to whom an additional P&P charge would be payable. To obtain more details and your copy, visit this link for all the details:

Third Time Lucky (yorkbookshop.com)

WHO OWNS THIS VOLVO ?

_{December 2023}

It seems that Taff Warren in the earlier article [3 x below] about car registration plates joined a fashionable group of enthusiasts.  The photo above was apparently taken at Elvington near York, outside the Yorkshire Air Museum buildings, a year or so ago.  It was recently sent to one of our members with a query asking if the Volvo owner was a member of the Association.

Purely because we’re inquisitive, we’d like to know to whom the car belongs and possibly get in touch.  We're not suggesting that anyone should hack into the DVLA or Police computers but we'd love to know about its owner.  If it’s yours or you know whose it is, please get in touch with us. 

Could the owner be an ex-Victor, VC10 or even a Voyager navigator before the ‘Nav’ name disappeared a few years ago and they subsequently became MSOs?

Note: MSOs (mission systems operators) as they are called today, no longer contribute to the aircraft’s navigation but they coordinate and control air-to-air refuelling activities from the tanker’s flight deck; the Voyager’s navigation being controlled by the two pilots through computerised nav systems and GPS.

 However, it seems that the RAF has run out of abbreviations because that of ‘MSO’ is also used to refer to ‘Medical Support Officers’ who provide essential Health Service Support (HSS) to both the RAF Medical Services and the wider Defence Medical Services

So, one presumes that on occasions, on long flights that require air-to-air refuelling and which also have aeromedical patients on board, there might be an MSO ‘up front’ and others ‘down the back’?