Lardyboy's Patch Collection
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2015 12:50 am
Hey, look, there's a bandwagon! Best I jump on it! 
A few from my Service career. About 90% are patches from units I've worked with over 22 years, or blagged off crews during my 13 RIATs on the Aircaft Engineering Team. The other 10% are bought patches from various airshows since I "retired" and some from shows attended as a punter while I was in.
So to business.....apologies for the quality, they're off my phone.
First tour at TTTE Cottesmore 85-88. If anyone has a B Sqn patch they're willing to part with, I'll pay a decent price......
Various RIAT Theme & personal patches
Various RAF patches
Tonka Toys
Royal Danish - Starfighter patch is a personal favourite
Dutch.....oh, yesh....
Irish & Aussie, blagged at RIAT
L'Armee d'Hair (think I bought these at Waddo)
Aeronavale - a RIAT blag, one Sunday evening during a Hangar party, I seem to recall, it's a bit hazy.....
Italians - the Frecce patch was from one of the crew at a Families Day at Cottesmore, the week before the Ramstein incident. RIP.
Canucks - all from my second tour in Gibraltar 88-91 - I've rude patch from 405, but that's on my flying jacket......I've more PAX flying hours on CP-140's than any other aircraft!
Turks. Blagged.
Polish - from a detachment with the mighty 41 Sqn back in 2005 - I was the UK Range Controller at Nadarzyce for them during the exercise. The Su-22 bits and bobs are from the resident squadron at Miroslawiec where the Jags were flying out of - the centre one ia a RIAT blag.
Spanish - RIAT blag. German Navy - Atlantique detachemnt in Gib. Saudi patch is a RIAT blag.
Slavic selection - all RIAT.
Lakenheath selection - worked with these fine gents many times over the years, so a mixture of F-111 & F-15 patches.
Mixture of other East Anglian patches - as many PAX hours in KC-135s as CP-140s! It's not what you know......
Finally, a few USAF/USN/USMC patches - a fair spread of "work" patches from Gib (Patron 8 patch from a P-3C flight - notice a pattern forming here?), the rest from crews at 13 RIAT's.
Hope these are of interest.
A few from my Service career. About 90% are patches from units I've worked with over 22 years, or blagged off crews during my 13 RIATs on the Aircaft Engineering Team. The other 10% are bought patches from various airshows since I "retired" and some from shows attended as a punter while I was in.
So to business.....apologies for the quality, they're off my phone.
First tour at TTTE Cottesmore 85-88. If anyone has a B Sqn patch they're willing to part with, I'll pay a decent price......
Various RIAT Theme & personal patches
Various RAF patches
Tonka Toys
Royal Danish - Starfighter patch is a personal favourite
Dutch.....oh, yesh....
Irish & Aussie, blagged at RIAT
L'Armee d'Hair (think I bought these at Waddo)
Aeronavale - a RIAT blag, one Sunday evening during a Hangar party, I seem to recall, it's a bit hazy.....
Italians - the Frecce patch was from one of the crew at a Families Day at Cottesmore, the week before the Ramstein incident. RIP.
Canucks - all from my second tour in Gibraltar 88-91 - I've rude patch from 405, but that's on my flying jacket......I've more PAX flying hours on CP-140's than any other aircraft!
Turks. Blagged.
Polish - from a detachment with the mighty 41 Sqn back in 2005 - I was the UK Range Controller at Nadarzyce for them during the exercise. The Su-22 bits and bobs are from the resident squadron at Miroslawiec where the Jags were flying out of - the centre one ia a RIAT blag.
Spanish - RIAT blag. German Navy - Atlantique detachemnt in Gib. Saudi patch is a RIAT blag.
Slavic selection - all RIAT.
Lakenheath selection - worked with these fine gents many times over the years, so a mixture of F-111 & F-15 patches.
Mixture of other East Anglian patches - as many PAX hours in KC-135s as CP-140s! It's not what you know......
Finally, a few USAF/USN/USMC patches - a fair spread of "work" patches from Gib (Patron 8 patch from a P-3C flight - notice a pattern forming here?), the rest from crews at 13 RIAT's.
Hope these are of interest.
was it an ebay job?
I used to be a Shuttle fan, lost a little interest when they retired. Hopefully my passion will be reignited when Orion starts flying.
I bought four of the French silhouettes at RIAT and have had to resist buying more from the squadrons 
