Gutersloh Spotters website

Thanks for that, some great photographs.

Don’t think I have ever seen a picture of Newark Air Museum’s Swift in service before.

http://www.sg-etuo.de/index.php?n=Main.VisitorsUK?p=1

You’ve obviously not purchased the last three editions of the Guide Book Joe! 😉

That shot is in the Archive along with some nice flying shots as well!! 😀

It has to be said that there are some fantastic pictures on that site, even if you are not into that airfield. The photographers must have been well privaledged to have had those opportunities on a German airfield at the height of the cold war.

For a nostalgic browse through RAF history…

http://www.sg-etuo.de/

What a fantastic collection of photosgraphs! Amazing site!

Peter

🙂 Thank you all. We are doing our best with this website. Feels good to see that so many people enjoy it. There is a lot more to come in the future. If anybody here has something to contribute (photos, infos or anything else about RAF Gütersloh) feel free to contact us via the contact form on www.sg-etuo.de.

Great site! Any more Fouga shots?

Great site! Any more Fouga shots?

Hi Fouga,

I’ve been chatting to them about putting some 25 photos on their site that were taken by a friend during his time in air traffic in ’59/60. There are indeed some Fougas amongst them, for example AA-216, AA-257 and SC-603. Can’t scan until I get an ok, and am trying to get in touch with him as I write.
Will be happy to advise as soon as I get a go-ahead.

brgds
Alan

Nice! 😀

If anybody here has something to contribute feel free to contact us.

Can’t contribute unfortunately, but do you have anymore pics of Harrier XZ993 (besides the great one on your site) or any of the arctic painted Harriers at all?

Can’t contribute unfortunately, but do you have anymore pics of Harrier XZ993 (besides the great one on your site) or any of the arctic painted Harriers at all?

There are two Harrier T4 of 4Sqn in arctic scheme on our site: XZ146 and ZB600. There is also an unidentified Harrier GR3 of 4Sqn in arctic scheme and a picture of XV808/W of 3Sqn will be published within the next few days.

@Fouga23:
I just looked through the next 50 pictures waiting to be published. There is no Magister amongst those. But as the Fougas were regular visitors in Gutersloh I bet there are more to come.

@battle_damaged
Sounds great! We do not have too many german Magisters yet.

Many thanks psychnaut, fantastic pictures – the best I’ve seen of ‘tin’ Harriers.
I will have to try and get in contact with one of your contributors, Wilfred Zetsche, as he seems to have taken at least a couple of pictures of XZ993, including one in the excellent ‘British Harriers GR.1 – T.4’ book I will try and do that through your site.

WOW!! There are some ‘holy grails’ of Harrier schemes in your site!!

And check out the GR.3 testing a GR.5 colour scheme idea!

There are two Harrier T4 of 4Sqn in arctic scheme on our site: XZ146 and ZB600. There is also an unidentified Harrier GR3 of 4Sqn in arctic scheme and a picture of XV808/W of 3Sqn will be published within the next few days.
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WOW!! There are some ‘holy grails’ of Harrier schemes in your site!! I’ve never seen the coloured tails on 3Sqn aircraft illustrated before for example!

BTW, the T4s with the ‘incomplete’ 3 Squadron badge may actually be carrying the short lived ‘Station Flight’ marking!!

And check out the GR.3 testing a GR.5 colour scheme idea!

Funniest thing about that is the ‘losing’ colour scheme (The grey 4 Squadron one) is more or less the colour that Harriers have flown in for the last 15 years!!

WOW!! There are some ‘holy grails’ of Harrier schemes in your site!! I’ve never seen the coloured tails on 3Sqn aircraft illustrated before for example!

As far as I remember there were two 3Sqn GR3s with white tails and two with red/orange tails. This was a test by RAFG (some Tornados got the same coloured tails) to make aircraft more visible during low level flying after some months earlier in 1989 a RAF Tornado from Bruggen collided with two GAF Alphajets near Wittmund.

As far as I remember there were two 3Sqn GR3s with white tails and two with red/orange tails. This was a test by RAFG (some Tornados got the same coloured tails) to make aircraft more visible during low level flying after some months earlier in 1989 a RAF Tornado from Bruggen collided with two GAF Alphajets near Wittmund.

That’s right. I’ve known about them for 20 years, but never seen a photograph of the 3 Sqn Harriers (Quite a few of the Tornados, and of course 4 Sqn ‘adopted’ their marking

Funniest thing about that is the ‘losing’ colour scheme (The grey 4 Squadron one) is more or less the colour that Harriers have flown in for the last 15 years!!

That occurred to me after going to bed last night, darned if I was going to flick the computer back on though!:o

That’s right. I’ve known about them for 20 years, but never seen a photograph of the 3 Sqn Harriers (Quite a few of the Tornados, and of course 4 Sqn ‘adopted’ their marking

I cannot remember how long “our” Harriers flew with these coloured tails but as there are no pictures made by our photographers with access to the base I think they did not fly for very long. I re-uploaded pictures of XV738/B in grey and XV758/V with a red tail to our site. If you click on the pictures they open in bigger size.

I cannot remember how long “our” Harriers flew with these coloured tails but as there are no pictures made by our photographers with access to the base I think they did not fly for very long. I re-uploaded pictures of XV738/B in grey and XV758/V with a red tail to our site. If you click on the pictures they open in bigger size.

Fantastic! And the first pic I see is a 3 Sqn aircraft in ‘snow’ camouflage!!!

never seen that before either!!!

Was the main reason for the colourful tales on the late period 4 sqn GR.3s to make the aircraft more visible?