A few pics

The first Strat flaring? with gear down looks a little worrying:)…I’m not sure if BOAC Connies had Speedpaks…I’ll try to find out

Don’t worry, it’s a flight simulator! – you can only kill yourself in a ‘virtual’ sense.
It doesn’t usually cause any lasting damage to the aircraft either:D

The first Strat flaring? with gear down looks a little worrying:)…I’m not sure if BOAC Connies had Speedpaks…I’ll try to find out

Don’t worry, it’s a flight simulator! – you can only kill yourself in a ‘virtual’ sense.
It doesn’t usually cause any lasting damage to the aircraft either:D

They look so realistic

I agree .. Very Nice

Rob
🙂

They look so realistic

I agree .. Very Nice

Rob
🙂

The first Strat flaring? with gear down looks a little worrying:)…I’m not sure if BOAC Connies had Speedpaks…I’ll try to find out

The first Strat flaring? with gear down looks a little worrying:)…I’m not sure if BOAC Connies had Speedpaks…I’ll try to find out

They look so realistic

They look so realistic

Hi Pimpernel.
I was using Fraps. The Vulcan is over Hucknall in Notts U.K. And is a combination of … …

FSX + Acceleration
Just Flights R.A.F. Vulcan + FSX patch
Horizon VFR Scenery
UK 2000 Central England + Mid Wales VFR Airfields
and REX.

some GA shots will hopefully be on their way when I get a mo…….

Hi Pimpernel.
I was using Fraps. The Vulcan is over Hucknall in Notts U.K. And is a combination of … …

FSX + Acceleration
Just Flights R.A.F. Vulcan + FSX patch
Horizon VFR Scenery
UK 2000 Central England + Mid Wales VFR Airfields
and REX.

some GA shots will hopefully be on their way when I get a mo…….

Nice pictures Tim.

What programe were you using when you took these screen grabs please?

The Vulcan shot seems to have very good graphics.

Brian.

Nice pictures Tim.

What programe were you using when you took these screen grabs please?

The Vulcan shot seems to have very good graphics.

Brian.

One or two pictures. I do not know who took them, where or when. Perhaps you can fill in some of the details.

1 Hunter GA11 XF365
2 Gannet AS1 WN346
3 Sea Vixen FAW2 XP924
4 VC-47D 43-49409
5 Nimrod MR1 XV247

Glyn

The Vixen is Definitly NOT XP924 (G-CVIX). XP924 is a new build FAW 2 not a FAW 1 conversion to FAW 2 standard as the vixen in the picture appears to be. The biggest give-away that the pictured vixen is a FAW 1 conversion, is the pilots canopy, which on FAW 2 Aircraft is a complete blown canopy, not a frame and panel one as the FAW 1 and the aircraft pictured. Another difference was the observers hatch, which on the FAW 2 was all perspex whilst the FAW 1 was metal with a very small perspex window. to convert a FAW 1 to FAW 2 standard all that was done was the addition of the overwing pylon booms that allowed for extra fuel tanks and additional electronic equipment.

Just realised that I had not posted any pics this year so here are some to keep you going.

Glyn

1 Beverley C1 XB289 of 47 squadron coded V at Abingdon and taken by R. Walker.
2 Beaver AL1 XP805
3 Belvedere HC1 XG456 in the far East
4 Argosy C1 XP448
5 MB-326M impala 480 of SAAF
6 CF-100 Canuck 4B 18364 of RCAF

Albert,

Many thanks for all the information. With both the Hercules and the Stratotanker I made the error of giving the mark they finished as rather than what they were in the photographs.

J-21 is the Yugaslav AF designation for the Jastreb.

Glyn

Another six to keep the nostalgia flowing.

1 Auster T10 VX942 coded N at Old Warden?
2 WC-130H Hercules 64-14866
3 Aermacchi (Atlas) MB-326M Impala 1 537
4 CM-170 Magisters of Patrouille de France
5 EC-135E Stratotanker 61-0326
6 J-21 Jastreb 24003 at Farnboro

Glyn

A few notes on these:

1. Yes, definately looks like Old Warden but how long ago….’50s?
2. This is actually a HC-130H and I wouldn’t mind betting it was taken at
Lakenheath Armed Forces Day 6th June 1970 as I have this in colour.
5. This is a EC-135N
6. Don’t know where J-21 comes from but this Soko Jastreb was at Farnborough in september 1968.

Another six to keep the nostalgia flowing.

1 Auster T10 VX942 coded N at Old Warden?
2 WC-130H Hercules 64-14866
3 Aermacchi (Atlas) MB-326M Impala 1 537
4 CM-170 Magisters of Patrouille de France
5 EC-135E Stratotanker 61-0326
6 J-21 Jastreb 24003 at Farnboro

Glyn

A goodly number of great pictures have been posted over the last few days. So a little bit more nostalgia.

I have taken DHFAN’s advice and posted these as jpegs so they should load faster.

1 Noratlass 172 coded 61-NV
2 T-33A 51-4415 coded TR-415 (was in scrapyard at Lasham 09/67)
3 C-141A Starlifter
4 B-66 Destroyer 54-0520 coded BB-520
5 RF-101G Voodoo 54-1455
6 C-54E-15-DO Skymaster 44-9146

If the C141 is parked beside a NAC DC3 then it must be the Opening of Auckland International Airport in the southern suburb of Mangare about January 29th to 31st 1966. Shame I didn’t have a camera then, but that Starlifter put on what seemed to me as a young boy an unbelievable display. I recall that the take off and climb seemed to be at an impossibly steep angle and the size of it dwarfed everything else at the show. By the way my other abiding memory of the show was how noisy the BAC111 was.

Funny thing is I can not remember much else from that show, one of the first I went to. I know there were Harvard’s, Vampires and Canberra’s of the RNZAF, along with Bristol Freighters and maybe the Hastings were still about too. However I do recall the Hercules putting on a show to match the Starlifter but it could have been a US aircraft. Maybe someone has a list of what was at that show. It would be 1980 at Biggin Hill before I would see an other gathering of aircraft to match that of the Auckland opening.

I can’t figure out that Hunter.

Although it appears to be in FRADU colours it’s certainly not a GA.11 (it has guns, no arrestor hook, straight leading edges etc.). Looks like an F.4 to me but with blast deflectors and link collectors fitted.

Even the colour scheme looks weird – the cheat line on the forward fuselage is very high for a Hunter and there are no tail markings at all.

On top of that all the records show XF365 as having been converted from an F.4 to a Swiss F.58A – which would explain the configuration in the photograph but not the colour scheme.

As stated it is an unconverted GA11, so therefore an F4, used for instruction at Lee On Solent; but the high dividing line is very similar to that scheme used in the early 1960s by Sea Hawks, Sea Venoms, and Scimitars. Maybe it was given a familiar paint scheme based on whichever of these aircraft types the spray crew had most recently been repainting…?

The Gannet looks like it has the COs house behind its nose, which makes sense judging from where the hangers for the instruction airframes were.

Flood

The Whirlwind picture posted on 28/08/05 intrigues me. The background looks like Cottesmore to me (and I know Whirlwind XL853 ’19’ took part in the flying display at Cottesmore 18/09/65). Can anyone confirm this one way or the other?