There is a life sized statue of Paddy Hemingway at the Kent Battle of Britain Museum, Hawkinge, Kent.

The last time I went there, I was very unimpressed by how "kiddyfied" it had become. The Grahame White hangar was the only part I enjoyed and thought was an excellent display space. It will be quite a while before I visit again.

It's always nice to see SR-71 photos like these. In the mid-80's I worked at Eastern Radar (RAF Watton) when we conducted SR-71 ops from RAF Mildenhall and U2/TR-1 ops from RAF Alconbury. I recall the Tote Board in Eastern just showed the letter "S" (for Special) and a precise time. From that we kne...

A fairly well known personality was the passenger. Not sure he would want his name associated with the forced landing, so I won't be the first to publish the name.

@reaper493 Late to the party as usual, but I took some photos around 1986 to advertise my car for sale (Honda Quintet). I worked in Air Traffic Control at the time, so had access when it was quiet on a weekend. If I recall correctly, the jet was then parked on Alpha Dispersal, which later became ho...

@reaper493 Late to the party as usual, but I took some photos around 1986 to advertise my car for sale (Honda Quintet). I worked in Air Traffic Control at the time, so had access when it was quiet on a weekend. If I recall correctly, the jet was then parked on Alpha Dispersal, which later became hom...

Good to see some enthusiasm for the scheme, instead of the common, classic and tired "underwhelmed" comments.

Thunder wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:55 pm

The anniversary markings are typically RAF and so underwhelming.

What markings or scheme would YOU have put on the jets that wouldn't underwhelm anyone?

Excellent photos. Nice to see my favourite Lightning, XM135, now displayed at the IWM Duxford. This is the jet flown by Engineering Officer (the late) Taff Holden from and to RAF Lyneham. For anyone not familiar with what happened, it's well worth a Google search!

On a couple of sites I look in on, some people seem to use codes just to appear clever rather than the need to save space. I have no idea what MHZ is and don't intend to chase my tail looking it up. There is plenty of space available in the title line and text boxes to avoid abbreviations.

How about some of the scheme critics publishing their own artwork and ideas of what this retirement scheme should have been?

Nice photos, and it's good to see the Luftwaffe grey leather jackets are still around.

Superb photos of (in my aviation life time) the original "Growler", before the name was hijacked by the F-18.

That's going to be a challenging removal. Hopefully no injuries involved.

Vulcanone wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 08, 2022 9:25 am

Yes, its the USAF serial.

Thank you.

Very nice photos.

I've not caught up with any comments before about people selling their free tickets before. It's a shame, especially if it could affect future events.
On the C-17, is the number 060205 below the British serial number an American reference?

Embarrassing is a good word to describe the Red Arrows at the moment. I feel strong and effective leadership is the only way they can recover their reputation.

Just in case it wasn't obvious in the "above two posts" I will repeat my opinion here... I'm finding it increasingly difficult to believe there is sufficient 'Good News'to warrant this Topic Thread? :roll: Just repeat your comment but put it in bold why don't you It will escalate when the comments ...

Nice photographs of the best display team in the World by a long way.

I can only speculate that the squadron has suffered a massive and chronic failure of leadership, management and direction for them to arrive in this state. I am not so sure management style causes romantic and or sexual relationships to form. P. Of course the management style doesn't cause the rela...