A friend of mine was recently involved in an air-to-air session with the Yeovilton Sea Fury and Sea Hawk, plus a Hunter T.7 and a pair of FRADU Hawks (he was in the back of one of them). He has kindly let me have copies of the photos and they are gorgeous.
I would love to share them with you, but they are all around the 1.5KB file size and I have no idea how to reduce them. Any offers?
By: Firebird - 25th October 2004 at 13:18
I don’t suppose anyone has a copy?
I have somewhere……
Might take a few days to dig it out of hibernation…. :rolleyes:
By: lauriebe - 25th October 2004 at 13:11
The one with the Gladiator was a Gloster effort, with a Meteor NF.14 and a Javelin.
Thanks Steve.
Forgot to say in first post excellent photo. Pity there isn’t a Seafire in there. 😉
BR
Laurie.
By: DGH - 25th October 2004 at 13:09
Excellent photo, good to see G-BWGL up and about again – hope we see more of her on the airshow circuit next year. 🙂
By: Steve Bond - 25th October 2004 at 13:07
The one with the Gladiator was a Gloster effort, with a Meteor NF.14 and a Javelin.
By: lauriebe - 25th October 2004 at 13:00
It reminds me of a similar photograph, Spitfire, Javalin, etc, etc.
I remember that photo. It appeared in a lot of recruiting material.
If memory serves it featured (bottom to top of photo), Spitfire, Hurricane, Meteor, Hunter, Javelin, Lightning.
Did a Gladiator also feature?
I don’t suppose anyone has a copy?
BR
Laurie.
By: Firebird - 25th October 2004 at 12:51
And of course if G-CVIX was painted in her Navy colours they could have had that in the shot as well…….. 😉
I’ll get me coat…. :p
By: stringbag - 25th October 2004 at 12:45
It also represents a FRADU flypast 🙂
By: snakeman - 25th October 2004 at 12:10
FLY NAVY !!!! 😀
By: Maarvin - 25th October 2004 at 11:35
Fantastic shot! Thanks for posting.
Maarvin
By: Steve Bond - 25th October 2004 at 10:58
They did try to get a Sea Harrier to join in, and several were flying in the area at the same time, but they were not able/willing to.
By: Manonthefence - 25th October 2004 at 10:33
Shame they couldnt get a Sea Harrier in as well. An awesome photo nonetheless.
By: Avro's Finest - 25th October 2004 at 10:31
Does it matter!!!!!!!
I don’t care what it looks like, that is one hell of a nice photograph.
This really is a “Historic Flight”. Congrats to all involved.
If you ignore the BAe, and just follow the link back through history, you could call it – “Hawkers Royal Navy Historic Flight”
It reminds me of a similar photograph, Spitfire, Javalin, etc, etc.
By: stringbag - 25th October 2004 at 10:27
Is that a Breitling Fighters crest on it?
Yes indeed it is. BWGL was flown at a few displays with OFMC in Europe when under their ownership.
HTH, Mark
By: stringbag - 25th October 2004 at 10:17
Being picky, that Hunter is in completely the wrong scheme, and it carries the wrong serial 😉
Otherwise a awesome photo 🙂
By: Manonthefence - 25th October 2004 at 09:51
Wonderful stuff
By: mmitch - 25th October 2004 at 09:25
Historic flight. Even the Hawk is 30 years old. 🙂
Excellent photo, any more?
mmitch
By: Dave Homewood - 25th October 2004 at 09:23
Gorgeous photo, thanks Steve and Robin
By: Steve Bond - 25th October 2004 at 09:12
Here we go. I have resized one of the shots and it appears here courtesy of the photographer, Robin Berry.
By: DazDaMan - 22nd October 2004 at 11:01
I had a problem on my PC where I could connect to the internet, but nothing would come up in the web browser. Guys at PC World said to do a system restore (where the computer restores itself back to a previous day when it worked properly), so I did and it worked fine. The same thing also cured a particularly nasty bit of spy-ware.
Dunno if that’s your problem, though :confused:
By: Flat 12x2 - 22nd October 2004 at 10:58
Ken, it’s IE 6, I think Java is enabled(it used to be, so should still be)
Daz, yes I have Norton, tried the ‘Ctrl’ still no go, turned off pop-up blocker, still no go .
I’ve got to get off to work now, so will check back later, thanks for your efforts so far
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