The Gunnery Team taken at Sylt during the work-up of the 1960 RAF Germany Gunnery Team, and so it's an assorted collection of RAFG squadrons.   L to R: Sylt resident Armament Officer Fg Off Isham; Flt Lt Mike Davis (26 Sqn); Flt Lt John 'Whisky' Walker (4 Sqn); Fg Off Duncan Robinson (?Sqn Gutersloh); Wg Cdr Pete Thorne (OC APS Sylt and Team Manager); Flt Lt Chris Stone (Team Captain 93 Sqn); Flt Lt Peter Highton (?Sqn Gutersloh); Flt Lt Chas Hopkins (4 Sqn and Team Eng Off) - about 24Aug60.   They are standing in front of Hunter F.6 XG263 G from 4 Sqn. Brief History Nine pilots from various RAFG Hunter squadrons were selected (for their past gunnery expertise), and were initially assembled at Sylt for the work-up which began on 3 August 1960.   After three weeks of concentrated operational air firing, the selection team was narrowed down to the final five pilots seen in this photo.   As I recall, the four pilots that narrowly missed the cut were: Bill Dodd, John Bredenkamp, Ken Petrie (all from Gutersloh), and Peter Jarvis from 4 Sqn.   We had six aircraft - all drawn from 4 Squadron - for the duration.   (Your notes elsewhere mention that during this period, 4 Sqn pilots moved temporarily to 93 Sqn at Jever to share aircraft for their continuation training. (Click to see.)).   Gunnery and Cine Weave training continued at Sylt until September 12 when the team flew down to the French Air Force base at Cazeaux (near Bordeaux) for the five day AFCENT Gunnery Competition.   The operational gunnery shoots, by the way, were just two passes against the banner when all 100 rounds carried were counted as though fired.   The clock started clicking when the leader called "in live", and all four aircraft flying in trail had to get as many hits as possible on the banner during the two passes.   These were the competition rules, and whatever number of rounds you fired - they were counted as being the full load of 100.   No practice passes or aborts were allowed.   The onus was on the leader to get all four aircraft placed perfectly in loose trail coming up to the 'perch' position.   Just imagine the embarrassment of my first operational shoot in the competition at Cazeaux.   On the very first pass, only one round fired when an electrical stoppage prevented the rest from firing.   We all thought the the armament NCO i/c of my particular aircraft was going to commit suicide when he discovered his error in missing out an electrical connection during the loading of the gun pack.   The competition was pretty intense.   That one round did hit the target though - but just 1% and not 100%!   Fortunately, I had two more trouble-free competition shoots to help bring our overall team average up to win the USAFE Trophy.   (Thanks to Chris Stone.)