Posted by Tom Napier on December 18, 2013 at 16:58:44 user Didymus.
In Reply to: GILES Cartoon - ERK posted by Dan Lind on December 18, 2013 at 16:27:28:
A little before my time but an Erk was an RAF slang term for an aircraft maintenance technician. I don't think it stands for anything, it was a slightly derogatory term used by the officers who actually flew the planes and got shot at. It was the Erks that kept the planes flying.