Andrew Renshaw

May 65 - Apr 66      303 Entry RAF Cosford.

Apr 66 - Dec 67       RAF Kinloss - SAC - 201 Sqn Shakletons - detached to Changi, Hong Kong, Bodo, Norfolk Virginia, Luqa, Machrihannish, etc,.

Dec 67 - Dec 69      RAF Laarbruch - SAC - No 3 Mobile Field Photographic Unit (MFPU) in support of 31 Sqn Canberras.

Dec 69 - Jun 70      Air Camera Fitters (No 7) Course RAF Cosford.

Nov 70                   

OCTU Henlow - Commissioned Nov 70.

Dec 71 - Dec 73      Photographic Officers' Course RAF Cosford.

Feb 73 - May 74     RAF Wyton - Fg Off - Film Processing and 39 Sqn air cameras.

Sep 74 - Jul 75        RAF College Cranwell Elect Eng Maint Course.

Jul 75 - Jul 77         RAF Aldergrove (RIC NI) Flt Lt - Photo Eng. Awarded Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air.

Jul 77 - Jan 80        RAF Waddington - Flt Lt - JEngO 44( R ) Sqn Vulcans - got married to Cherry Dec 77.

Jan 80 - Oct 80       MOD (PE) London - Responsibility for procurement of all RAF photographic paper, films and chemicals.

Oct 80 - Jan 83       MOD London Air Eng Directorate - Sqn Ldr - Electro-optics -Tornado recce, NI sensors, lasers, NVGs, etc,.

Jan 83 - Jan 86       RAF Laarbruch - Sqn Ldr - SEngO for first 6 months on 16 Sqn Buccaneers and then on XV Sqn Tornado GR1s  - detachments to Goose Bay, Decimomanu, etc,. Third son born at Wegberg.

Jan 86 - Aug 89      MOD London Directorate of Tornado Eng & Supply. Avionics desk responsible for computing sub-system,         software OFPs, Software Teams, etc.

Aug 89 - Aug 91      RAF Cottesmore (Tri-National Tornado Training Est) - Sqn Ldr - Eng Co-ord and Plans.

Aug 91 - Sep 94      RAF Cosford - Wg Cdr - OC Technical Training Wing. Offshore Day Skipper qualified.

Sep 94 - Jan 97       RAF Innsworth - Wg Cdr Eng for Training Cmd (HQ PTC) - responsible for Hawk, Tucano, Jetstreams, etc,.

Jan 97 - Dec 98      Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Al Yamahma project supporting RSAF Tornado, Hawk, PC9 etc. Staff Officer to RSAF    Chief Engineer. Spent spare time exploring desert.

Dec 98 - May 00    Khamis Mushayt, Saudi Arabia (King Khalid Air Base (close to Yemen border)) UK MOD rep and support of     Tornado, Watchman Radar, etc. Diving in Red Sea most weekends.

May 00 - Nov 01    HQ STC - Wg Cdr (LPS 3) staff officer manpower planning, establishments, contingency planning based on   hypothetical war scenarios. (not the best job I've had!)

Nov 01                   

Retired from the RAF one year early as I found a job at Boscombe Down.

Nov 01 - Dec 02     Boscombe Down - Airworthiness consultant project managing test and evaluation of new main computer and software language for Tornado GR4.

Jan 03 - May 03     Presently unemployed looking for a job, helping Cherry to run our Post Office and Store, building a shed and gardening.

8 May 03 (today)      My wife Cherry and I live in a small village on the A30 near to Shaftesbury above the Ludwell Post Office and Stores, which we bought when I retired from the RAF. We have four children Ted, Rory, Harry and Elly. Cherry runs the shop and employs 6 part-time staff to run the Post Office and help in the shop. It's a full time, but rewarding, job and I help where possible such as entering the accounts into Sage Accounting software, going to the cash and carry and stacking shelves. However, with our youngest at boarding school, with another year to go, and two sons at Edinburgh University (as well as our expensive tastes!) I need to find a job as well.