The 81st Entry
RAF Halton Aircraft Apprentices
Sept 1955 - July 1958
ISSUE No. 18 - FEBRUARY 2009
The Journal of the 81st Entry
Editor: Mike Stanley
Welcome to the eighteenth edition of The Journal.
New Articles
The Memories of my time at Halton by Ken Williams (sometimes known as Taff)
The Further Adventures of Alan Lowther (Armourer) by Alan Lowther
"Three Little Tales from Gib are we…..!" by Brian Spurway
A Brief CV of Herb/Hutch Hutchinson by Herbert Hutchinson
Whilst at Duxford (or back to Halton) by Tod Slaughter (681187)
The Adventures, or Trials and Tribulations, of... by Alan England Airframe Fitter, Part 4
Planes to Trains by Arthur Hague
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Some mothers do 'ave 'em!
sent in by Alan England
Early this year (2008) some Boeing employees on the airfield
decided to steal a life raft from one of the 747s. They were successful in getting it out of the plane and home.
Shortly after they took it for a float on the river, they noticed a Coast Guard helicopter coming toward them.
It turned out that the chopper was homing in on the emergency
locater beacon that activated when the raft was inflated.
They are no longer employed at Boeing.
