Lossie 77-78 part 2
Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2024 8:18 pm
More from my time at Lossie. Again not the greatest quality and also not helped that they are printed on textured paper. All processed by Elena Mae in Elgin. Wonder if they are still on the go.
A wee bit of background, back in the day VASS was based in half of 4 hangar and the VASS pan was between 3 and 4 hangars. I was a ground equipment electrician and our section shared the other half of 4 hangar at the time, so I got to see a lot of visiting aircraft, so in between photographing airyplanes I did the odd bit of electrical work.
I'll stick with posting the RAF aircraft for now, these are in order of registration numbers. Again, info is from what I had written on the back so apologies for any errors. The dates are good, though I don't appear to have the dates for any of the Whirlwinds.
XM705-10-T1-4-FTS-770809
XN643-26-T4-770721
XN817-817-C1-BOSC-770808
XN938-S1-12-SQN-780223
XP299-HAR10-202-SQN-D-FLT
XP352-HAR10-202-D-FLT
XP353-HAR10-202-SQN-D-FLT
XP361-HAR10-202-SQN-D-FLT.
XP532-35 XR535-05 4 FTS-770506
XP540-40 XR504-04 4 FTS-770810
XP542-42-T1-4-FTS-770809
XR457-HAR10-202-SQN-D-FLT
XR541-61-T1-CFS-770809
XR769-B F6 11-SQN-780508
XR769-B F6 11-SQN-780508
XS104-44-T1-4-FTS-770809
XS105-35-XR574-24-T1-4-FTS
XS235 4C-RAE-770809
XS603 E3-115-SQN-780207
XS639 E3-115-SQN-770503
XS641 E3-115-SQN-770713
XS675-HAR2-22-SQN-780221
XS765-CC2-ETPS-780329
XS929-E F6 11-SQN-780508
XS929-E F6 11-SQN-780508
XT278-S2A-208-SQN-770706
XT892-D FGR2 111-SQN-780331
XV156-S2A-208-SQN-770706
XV221-221-C1-780307
XV354-S2-A-208-SQN-770704
We still had some desert cammed aircraft back then, but it wouldn't be long before those schemes went. Lightnings were very rare visitors when I was there. For the Phantom lovers XT892 is the first Toom to make an appearance in this series of posts, but all the XV reggied Tooms I have will be first up in part 3.
A wee bit of background, back in the day VASS was based in half of 4 hangar and the VASS pan was between 3 and 4 hangars. I was a ground equipment electrician and our section shared the other half of 4 hangar at the time, so I got to see a lot of visiting aircraft, so in between photographing airyplanes I did the odd bit of electrical work.
I'll stick with posting the RAF aircraft for now, these are in order of registration numbers. Again, info is from what I had written on the back so apologies for any errors. The dates are good, though I don't appear to have the dates for any of the Whirlwinds.
XM705-10-T1-4-FTS-770809
XN643-26-T4-770721
XN817-817-C1-BOSC-770808
XN938-S1-12-SQN-780223
XP299-HAR10-202-SQN-D-FLT
XP352-HAR10-202-D-FLT
XP353-HAR10-202-SQN-D-FLT
XP361-HAR10-202-SQN-D-FLT.
XP532-35 XR535-05 4 FTS-770506
XP540-40 XR504-04 4 FTS-770810
XP542-42-T1-4-FTS-770809
XR457-HAR10-202-SQN-D-FLT
XR541-61-T1-CFS-770809
XR769-B F6 11-SQN-780508
XR769-B F6 11-SQN-780508
XS104-44-T1-4-FTS-770809
XS105-35-XR574-24-T1-4-FTS
XS235 4C-RAE-770809
XS603 E3-115-SQN-780207
XS639 E3-115-SQN-770503
XS641 E3-115-SQN-770713
XS675-HAR2-22-SQN-780221
XS765-CC2-ETPS-780329
XS929-E F6 11-SQN-780508
XS929-E F6 11-SQN-780508
XT278-S2A-208-SQN-770706
XT892-D FGR2 111-SQN-780331
XV156-S2A-208-SQN-770706
XV221-221-C1-780307
XV354-S2-A-208-SQN-770704
We still had some desert cammed aircraft back then, but it wouldn't be long before those schemes went. Lightnings were very rare visitors when I was there. For the Phantom lovers XT892 is the first Toom to make an appearance in this series of posts, but all the XV reggied Tooms I have will be first up in part 3.
