Happy Days - Chivenor 1991 😎

Congratulations to our #KSBMotorSport team who came 1st in their class at RMB Chivenor earlier today. Well done to Barney and our new Driver, Hannah. Thank you to our sponsors.
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Just found this photo again while looking through an old album. Affil with a Tornado GR1 from 31 Sqn summer 1991 - gunsight camera from my Hawk. Chivenor - oh what fun we had 😁😁
#AvGeek #Pilot #aviation

Achtung Spitfires!
This bizarre photo was captioned as 17 Sqn Spitfires, painted up to play the Luftwaffe in a 1950 RAF Chivenor air show. However, I wonder if they might have been involved in making a war movie too? It seems a lot of work for a one day event. 🤔

Air show RAF Chivenor 1985
credit John Passingham

A week today 30th July is the Lundy Sunday Fly-In. A special guest aircraft Auster 5 TJ343 / G-AJXC that used to provide a charter service from Chivenor Airfield to Lundy in the 1950s is booked. Look out for it in its military marks as TJ343 #lundy #fly -in

The tragedy of the French trawler F/V Jeanne Gougy.
A Westland Whirlwind HAR.10 helicopter from No. 22 Squadron at RAF Chivenor. It was flown by F/Lt John Canham, D.F.C. and F/Lt John Egginton, with winch operator Sgt Eric Smith. Just four of the eighteen trawlermen were saved.

Anxious parents woke to find out what school their children would be attending in September.
We’re delighted with the number of families who chose to join our family and can’t wait to meet our new little Griffins very soon!
#griffinschoolstrust #WeAreFamily #littleGriffins

Ground crew work on a Hunter FGA.9 of 20 Squadron at RAF Tengah, Singapore.
Probably the first choice of graduates from the Hunter course at Chivenor. I was disappointed and endured the “sandpit” for 18 months

Getting booted sand spurred for my last trip at Chivenor, a 2v2 ACM sortie. What fun we had! Summer '91
#pilotlife #flying

RAF Chivenor's Meteors used for target towing early 70's.
T7 was WL349 and the F8's were WH291, WH286, WK941 and VZ467.
One of life’s challenges trying to get a good score firing 30mm Aden cannon from Hunter.

Happy Founders Day from all at Chivenor! On our 12th Founders Day, representatives from our 13 classes wish our family of 12 schools and beyond, a day of reflection and celebration of how far we’ve come and how much we’ve achieved!
#griffinschoolstrust #Family #FoundersDay #GST

Not very recently… Hunter F6 of 234 Sqn RAF Chivenor

In 1971 after completing my year long training to be an RN Communicator (Bunting),me & my oppo's left HMS Mercury in a Pusser's bus & got taken to RAF Chivenor where the following morning,we picked up our bag meals & boarded this Crabair Belvedere bound for RAF Luqa. Great days🙏

We now expect fighter jets to take off and land vertically. When they showed us a Harrier at Chivenor in August 1969, it seemed near-miraculous. The first had been delivered to the RAF only in April.

In May/June 1982 they were on the news every night, fighting in the Falklands

Hawk T1A/ Hunter F6A of No 1 TWU/79 Sqn 25 Nov 1981 part of No. 229 OCU at RAF Chivenor 1967, training pilots to fly Hunter until disbanded 1974, then reformed as No.1 Tactical Weapons Unit, flying Hunters then Hawk T.1 and Jet Provost T4 finally disbanded at RAF Brawdy Aug 1992.

Reception have been learning about the famous artist Wassily Kandinsky. Our Griffins artists recreated his famous painting, using squares with concentric circles and bright colours. #griffinschoolstrust #WideHorizons
#EveryChildsAnArtist #WassilyKandinsky

Our Reception Griffins have been learning about icebergs and how much ice can be found below the surface. They used art materials to create their own.
#WeAreArtists #WeAreScientists #Icebergs #GriffinSchoolsTrust

Great morning at the Greenpower Education Trust race at #Chivenor this morning. Good to see the West Buckland School team in action. STEM inspiration indeed … very well done to everyone involved 🏎️👏👏