Originally Posted by zoosh
By the way...could anyone give the history of how Flight Deck Crew came to be nicknamed "Nigels"?
I think it came from the military. At Sandhurst, officer cadets were either "Rodneys" (who joined after school.... possibly from Grammar schools) or "Ruperts" (who joined after university ......probably came from public schools originally) . The RAF were considered slightly techie, so were named "Nigels"