I was present with Keith Fidler,Ken Whitfield Ian Hudson, Geoff Warwick and Peter Nicholson all Thursday Boys as I recall there was a flight of 4 or 5 tj All in escelon formation the first four were able to turn on to the target the 5th missed the turn but dropped his practice 💣 which flew over our...

Sorry to jump on this but it may be connected with these exercises. Does anyone remember C-130's about a dozen of them at a time, going through the Lichfield Corridor ? Similar date, quite a regular occurance. Also had the sight of A10's very low level along the dove valley. Neal I have a vague mem...

Talking about bad bombs..... I think it's time I dug out my "I was bombed by a buccaneer" story !! :Wow: ( hopefully....some of you here were there to confirm it's true ;) ) T'was a normal FAC exercise at Spadeadam, a bit further down the road than the usual place at WileySike me thinks ?? The rang...

Heard the Bucc story before and can understand how it happened. There was an old 50's style bin lorry on the range that was one of the targets. It was usually the main target and it was painted in large black and white checks. Unfortunately the FAC's caravan was also painted in large black and whit...

Ive put up a short video of Jags dodging smokey sams at wiley sike and setting the moor on fire here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVNRmjPQpRA

Was it only 30 aircraft only allowed into an LFA at any one time ? I remember just after New Year’s Day when I was kid & seeing 25 aircraft of all RAF types all over the place in my local area in the southern part of LFA7 during 2 minutes, they came from every direction ! You’re lucky to see that m...

Dont know about F-111s the A-10s always got slaughtered first :-) The last Heyford jets I saw got battered on Ros Hill. Leuchars F3s nailed everything coming off the sea there. I remember someone (probably you?) asking an F3 crew why they didn't just dial in Newcastle LARS to find out what was comi...

Schawbby is a legend, and regarded as the finest Sea Harrier pilot in the types history... Proper legend. If you spoke to any pilot around that time RAF or Navy and said do you know Schwabby they not only knew him but they all had great tales about him to share as well. I was down Sth Wales once pr...

I'm sure I remember jets making it into the "valley within the valley", where the flagpole was ?? Jets flying through there lower than the level of the flagpole ?? I remember thinking what a sight and sound that must have been for the people who stayed down near the flagpole !! :Wow: Yes that was o...

Not Mallet blow but around that time I was up near Orton / Tebay in the Appleby valley with Andy and we saw a good fight between F3s and Harriers with one of the harriers hanging back and appearing from nowhere behind an F3 and called a kill on the radio. The F3 had to do a wing waggle and slope of...

Not Mallet blow but around that time I was up near Orton / Tebay in the Appleby valley with Andy and we saw a good fight between F3s and Harriers with one of the harriers hanging back and appearing from nowhere behind an F3 and called a kill on the radio. The F3 had to do a wing waggle and slope off...

I found a clip thats was ready to post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt_Z26NmpGA yep the man is a legend!

lmgaylard wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:51 am

Schawbby is a legend, and regarded as the finest Sea Harrier pilot in the types history...

And a really nice guy as well. Always had time for us mad spotters and I heard for his students and others in his Sqn as well. We had some great days on bleak hills thanks to him.

Andyph wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 04, 2023 9:28 pm

Just to start the thread going.

Crazy man in a T8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4fnwTy4C0o

taken by my mate Paul Jackson...

I will be posting more of Schwabby soon

And that Harrier shot of Colin Tomlins at Cadair is still the dogs Meat and two veg! No cropping either he used to be so upset if he chopped a wing nose or tail or had to crop his shots down

There are a few Alwinton photos hiding in here too https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53376264525_d9d00d1b28.jpg odznrkF3vF1If6rl by Andy Heap , on Flickr I found the CDs for that 1998 one and the 2001 version today and realised some of the stuff Ive posted to You Tube was already on my HDD becaus...

Andy To get us back on track and lose the horrible quoting cock ups above remind me was it you that hit the deck on the lower hill with the red flag when the red tailed Tonka went through at about 5 feet off the deck? I remember it happening and us lot on the big hill were all laughing. I seem to re...

Hi Paul, Good to see you on here :) As you will have seen on here, I used to go up to Alwinton for Mallet Blow and I'm trying to get some pics of it put in the public domain. Seems everyone, including me, have them languishing away on film, negatives or slides but not haven't digitised them :'( I'v...

[/quote] Hi Paul, Good to see you on here :) As you will have seen on here, I used to go up to Alwinton for Mallet Blow and I'm trying to get some pics of it put in the public domain. Seems everyone, including me, have them languishing away on film, negatives or slides but not haven't digitised them...

Thanks Andy for pointing me to this thread. Im Paul Jackson the other half of the Lowdown double act :-) I didnt do video or photos back then just radio. It was hard work keeping up there was so many squadrons flying everyday. Everything was word of mouth or magazines. We really needed the internet ...