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Lightning F3 XP753 5 Sqn Binbrook 26th August 1978



Lightning F6 XR723 5 Sqn Coningsby 20th July 1979


Lightning F3 XR718 LTF Binbrook 8th May 1980


Lightning F3 XP764 LTF Binbrook 8th May 1980


Lightning F3 XP751 5 Sqn Binbrook 16th July 1980

Nurse!

You're spoiling us every day! Thanks for sharing these.

These are getting better every day Dennis

Paul

Just brilliant..

Please stop posting Lightning shots. They make me come over all unnecessary.

No please continue to post - for the same reason as Blue Diamond

I’ll just echo what BD and Ian have said

Paddyboy

More superb images

Great scans, my favourite type, I wish I'd have got up to Binbrook before they'd gone more than just the one visit on a very wet August day in 1987!

More, more, more.

Hi, absolute stunners everyone of them sir!! Having lived so close to Binbrook whilst growing up these are fantastic memories.

Thanks again

Cheers Glenn

In a sad coincidence, XP753 in your first pic was lost with it's pilot (Flt/Lt Mike Thompson) exactly 5 years later on the 26th August 1983 at Scarborough. Only a month before, Mike Thompson had won the Superkings Jet Solo aeros trophy in XP753 at the IAT, RAF Greenham Common.

Fab pics by the way - thanks for posting.

Hope you don't mind, here's XP753 at Greenham Common as referenced earlier.

XP753 Lightning F.3 RAF July 1983 Greenham Common by Andy Bird, on Flickr

More brilliant shots Dennis Can never get enough of the Lightning !
Thanks for posting

Keith (3Greens)

mancman wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 24, 2022 3:21 pm

Hope you don't mind, here's XP753 at Greenham Common as referenced earlier.

XP753 Lightning F.3 RAF July 1983 Greenham Common by Andy Bird, on Flickr

Don't mind at all - the more the merrier!!

Dennis