Gnat photos

Marvellous thread! Wonderful little things, Gnats. Super dooper little pocket rockets. I need one. 😀

One from Elvington 2002.

Tom.

A few pictures from the days of black and white with a poor quality camera 🙂

Enough of all these museum shots, let’s have more operational Gnat photos.

And it would appear to be down to us older f*rts to supply them. First one taken by my Dad at a very murky Acklington Battle of Britain show in 1967, remainder mainly at Finningley in the 1970s.

Here’s a few more recent ones. Mostly at Kemble but a couple from Waddington.

Enough of all these museum shots, let’s have more operational Gnat photos.
Here’s a very early shot of a CFS Gnat that my father took at Kemble in August 1964.(yes, behind it are a Meteor T.7, Pembroke and Valetta). The second shot of an Indian Gnat, I took from the open doorway of an RAE Hastings over Farnborough in September 1972, on arrival for the air show.

Science Museum, Wroughton

I couple of very enjoyable hours at Wroughton over Easter.
Kilvy

oh, and this one I nearly forgot.
Sorry about the ‘dummies’ who got in the way! 😀

and I’ll chuck my three-penny-worth in…

A few old b&w pictures taken at RAF Wildenrath (Germany) July 1970 in rather rainy weather.

I drove past the Gnat, T.1 XM693, at BAE-Systems Hamble a couple of months ago, and it looked in good condition.

A couple more from Cosford 🙂
Phil.

The cramped store limited the scope for a good shot – but I hope you find this interesting. It shows the camera ports on Finnish Gnat FR1 (GN-112) at Vesivehmaa. It shares the hangar with gems such as a Blackburn Ripon.

The Finns and Indians – they knew what the Gnat was for!

Roger Smith.

Rob Ant,

More like 10 to 20ft……In any case, Bl@@dy l@w!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely right, I guessed about 10′ at the time. Either way, I’m glad I wasn’t stood IN FRONT of the ATC tower!

Rob Ant,

More like 10 to 20ft……In any case, Bl@@dy l@w!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I bet you overestimate the size of other things too!!) :diablo:

That looks like 50′

😀

Here are some of my ‘in service’ shots:

XP530 + line-up of 4FTS Gnats detached to Fairford May 1972.

The rarest Red Arrows shot ever – roll out of an experimental scheme at Kemble in January 1973, which was never used.

My first ever Red Arrow in colour…and without a telephoto lens!!! I took this from the balcony of Fairford’s control tower in August 1966, when the Reds first formed there. Think I had brown trousers after they all did this past the tower!! 😮

Finnish FR version

The cramped store limited the scope for a good shot – but I hope you find this interesting. It shows the camera ports on Finnish Gnat FR1 (GN-112) at Vesivehmaa. It shares the hangar with gems such as a Blackburn Ripon.

Very nice photos everyone.

Low flying or ‘not quite so wide load’?

The departure from Cranfileld of G-BOXO