A Hornet FA 18 D off Payerne Hdg 350 . Maybe ?

B52 over York, hdg 360, what a sight!

Typhoon FGR 4 just completed what looks like a practice display o/h LoO. Good omen!!

Lincolnshire ? ?

XN974 is the first production Buccaneer S2, not a prototype. It spent at least half of its life at Holme on Spalding Moor in these attractive markings, where we used it on development work. When the RAF claimed 974 they painted it in camo, awful! By the way, S1 development a/c XK526 & 527 were first...

I think that is Swordfish Mk 1 W5856. LS326 has engine snags. Hope that I am correct.

Wonderful photo`s. No. 12 is a block 34 F.G.1. Note the slotted stabilator. Happy days !

Thanks for a fantastic set of photo`s! I can almost smell the Avtur & the hot brakes! XT870 was the last a/c to be catapulted off the Ark! I was lucky to spend 24 years on Phantom development & repair. Modded a few of these. esp. 412 & 574, happy days.

1979bree wrote:Come and live up here. Bog all now. If Fenton goes there will only be sleepy Leeming.

Church Fenton closed some time ago,Linton might close in 2020. Nothing set in concrete.

paddyboy wrote:Hi Mark

Sorry not to have replied before, but SWMBOs health comes first

What rarities you have spied there

Petlyakov PE-2, Illyushin Shturmovik, etc., etc

Thanks for sharing

Paddyboy

I can see a Tu- 2 , I think but not a Pe-2. Phantom II

Unknown74 wrote:That's probably what it is. I do remember the Black Saint Tornado at Leuchars that Year and it did have the pink drop tanks.

They are actually Ajax ECM pods. We did the development work at Holme on Spalding.

ZH881 Swaffham,Hdg 260. in your o/h in 5.On PP.

blakey wrote:This set of pics has everything, absolutely awesome

Brilliant!! I must return to Nellis!!

My post list,mil, has not updated since 8` May.The civil one has updated.Not complaining, but you asked for snags to be reported.

Hi Peeps :P Was over Shotesham (just south of Norwich) yesterday pm, and could swear I heard and saw (in the distance) what looked like a Mustang doing a few manoevres and tight turns :S Am I going insane (as Ozzy said) or can anyone shed any light :S Sure it was not a senior moment, but as I was r...

jem60 wrote:Phantom !!. Me too. Am I correct in thinking that the ejection might have been caused by a flexible map light catching in the firing equipment??

jem60, If you Google, "Harrier GR. 5 ZD325", you will find lots of gen.But it can only be theory as a/c is on bottom of Atlantic.

Not so much a good outcome either way, but the tale of the Harrier GR5 on test is quite interesting. The pilot was involuntarily ejected and sadly killed over Salisbury Plain, and the aircraft flew on, unmanned, for another 300 miles! It was intercepted by at least one F-15 and a C-5 Galaxy before ...

Daily Mail today : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2131324/MoD-buy-U-S-spy-planes-months-axing-4-1bn-fleet-Nimrods.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Rivet Joint is hardly 'off the shelf'. EDIT: opportunity for positive government spin here: http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/...

As you will be at Linton,Sabre F.4 XD753, 66 Sqn`s CO`s a/c,was based at Linton 1953-56.Look it up on line.Few spotters seem to know that two Sqns of Sabres were based there.

It's a RAF FG1 loaned back to FAA due to a shortage if memory serves.XT873 ? XT572 was also loaned also in RAF markings.I`ll try to check the serials.