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80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 4:55 pm
by F3
Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 5:01 pm
by steved
Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 5:03 pm
by gkeeley
Luv those 104's. Thanks for posting
Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 5:04 pm
by Sparts99
Wow, that first shot, and then Starfighter, Lightning and Phantom all in the same frame.
Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 5:05 pm
by michael
Rare a F111 with Pylon-Tanks .
Great pics

Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 6:40 pm
by The Phantom
Cracking assortment of aircraft
We'll never see the like again
....so just as well we have great images like this to look at now and again

Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 7:02 pm
by timb
Great stuff !!
Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 8:26 pm
by paulh
Binbrook at it's very best - great post
Paul.
Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:15 pm
by Knife 04
Mallet Blow and Elder Forest - now you are talking! Airfield attacks under full battle conditions on base! - Great times
Great post - always good looking back at these times. Nice shot of the F-111 with the tanks
All the best
Darren
Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 9:22 pm
by Ridge Runner
Very, very nice

Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 1:03 pm
by 3Greens
Fantastic post F3, you're making me 'well up'

looking back over these.
Great viewing from both ends but the Thorganby end crashgate for taxi shots when these beauties departed
Thanks for posting, great memories
3Greens

Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:00 pm
by paddyboy
What an awesome post
You
HAVE to love a Hooter
Thanks for posting
Paddyboy

Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 7:26 pm
by LM47
Superb!
Thanks for posting
Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:13 pm
by TankBuster
Glory days

.
Thanks for sharing these!
TankBuster
Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 9:40 pm
by TS010
I was based at Binbrook 83-87 and saw a huge variety of visiting aircraft. During exercises if I wasn't on a Squadron doing OTR'S I'd be out on guard with the best place to be being the top of the water tower, which gave you a grandstand view of the air raids.
The best raid I witnessed was 18 Luftwaffe F-4F's, a sight I will never forget!
Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:40 am
by slogen51
Like these a lot
A group of us used to get out and about to Mallet Blow etc in the 80's but not often enough - there was only so much skiving I could get away with!
Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 6:08 pm
by Petepilot
Wowwwwww,

my kind of nostalgia (ah, the memories!). Can anyone advise what the 104 in pic 5 is carrying?
Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:24 pm
by TS010
Can anyone advise what the 104 in pic 5 is carrying?
A pair of Sidewinders. You can just make them out if you zoom in.
Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:37 pm
by david14
Very good nostalgic stuff - I remember MB from the 80s too, great stuff
Re: 80s Air Exercises @ Binbrook
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 11:48 am
by F3
The two Danish F104s are each carrying a single Sidewinder acquisition round which enable the pilot to lock on to an adversary and on getting the right 'tone' could thereby claim a kill. On one notable occasion on an exercise in RAF Germany a Phantom crew went a stage further and inadvertently pulled the lever releasing a missile and downed a Jaguar, which led to a much publicized court martial!