I have been trying to locate a copy of a publicity photo I once saw (around the mid sixties). I think it was on the cover of one of the older aviation magazines. I thought it was Air Pictorial but not obviously from the list of old publications.
It featured members of the No 56 Sqn Firebirds team walking from their Lightnings and always sticks in my mind as being the inspiration for my joining the RAF and flying the mighty beast myself.
If anyone has, or knows of a copy of either the magazine in question or the photo itself I’d be most interested to hear from them.
By: SADSACK - 8th December 2012 at 11:48
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lovely pictures
By: Deskpilot - 7th December 2012 at 00:41
I recall something similar, but in colour, and with a big line up of the squadron Lightnings.
Or is that all a false memory syndrome?
Perhaps a photo-shoot on the same day?
Not thinking of this are you. hope not ’cause it’s 19 Sqdn.
By: BSG-75 - 6th December 2012 at 18:29
It featured members of the No 56 Sqn Firebirds team walking from their Lightnings and always sticks in my mind as being the inspiration for my joining the RAF and flying the mighty beast myself.
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Not the images you are looking for, but the beer and the ladies may also have given you the inspiration to join up ? 😉
I like the brochure, home addresses of pilots etc !
Scans from the late, lamented (at least by me) Wings Of Fame (Volume one)
By: Wokka Bob - 6th December 2012 at 18:03
Lightning article in Jul 1964 Flying Review. Firebird in the vertical on the front cover.
http://www.payhost.net/aviation/acatalog/Fly_Rev_1964.html
Sold Out:mad:
By: ianwoodward9 - 5th December 2012 at 23:14
I, too, seem to think it was on the cover of a Flying Review. I recall I mentioned it another thread about a year ago. I also think I still have that issue in question but, sadly from the point of view of the original enquiry, it is boxed up with a lot of other magazines at the moment and not easy to get at.
By: Pads100 - 5th December 2012 at 19:02
Firebirds Publicity
Thanks Charlie but I looked at that site originally without success hence my forum query – just waiting to hear back from pistonrob.
P
By: charliehunt - 5th December 2012 at 15:17
I recall something similar, but in colour, and with a big line up of the squadron Lightnings.
Or is that all a false memory syndrome?
Perhaps a photo-shoot on the same day?
There is one of those with many others here: http://aerobaticteams.net/firebirds.html
By: Pads100 - 5th December 2012 at 15:06
56 Sqn Firebirds Photo
THIS???
Did you have any luck with a colour version or a bigger line up of the 56 Sqn photo at all?
Pads
By: AMB - 3rd December 2012 at 15:39
No!
So let’s see the one you have Dave? We are all in suspence!
By: Wokka Bob - 26th November 2012 at 18:59
IIRC, Flying Review had a colour photo on the front cover of a 56 Sqn Mk 1A (XM171?) going down in the vertical. Loverly photo:D
By: Discendo Duces - 26th November 2012 at 18:24
I seem to recall that Flying Review had the most colour in those days.
DD
By: RAFRochford - 26th November 2012 at 17:52
Andy;
No! certainly not false memory syndrome!
The photo I recall was in colour too, and has a line up of 56 Squadron Lightnings in the background. I know I have this image on an old magazine cover somewhere…I’m just trying to think where. I do have a massive stash of old Airfix Magazines, so it might be amongst those. I’ll have a rummage! Then again, it might be with my stash of Flying Review…
I’ll start digging!
Regards;
Steve
By: Arabella-Cox - 26th November 2012 at 17:28
I recall something similar, but in colour, and with a big line up of the squadron Lightnings.
Or is that all a false memory syndrome?
Perhaps a photo-shoot on the same day?
By: pistonrob - 26th November 2012 at 17:18
THIS???
By: vampiredave - 26th November 2012 at 14:54
No!
By: AMB - 26th November 2012 at 14:50
Is this the photo?
By: vampiredave - 26th November 2012 at 14:25
Such a photograph exists and is in my collection. If you care to email me then will send it to you tomorrow ( I have a hospital appointment this afternoon) That is, unless someone beats me to it?
By: Arabella-Cox - 26th November 2012 at 10:49
I have a kind of feeling that it once appeared on the front cover of Airfix Magazine, back in the days of Aviation News?
I know the picture. It was a wow-factor for me, too!
By: AMB - 26th November 2012 at 10:48
As an aerobatic teams specialist and historian, I don’t recall any photo of the Firebirds pilots on the ground as described. The Firebirds only formed for the one year, 1963, so if it was in any mag it would have been that year or possibly the following year. I think maybe this was an RAF recruiting ad picture taken with a 56 Sqn. Lightning in the background before the Firebirds were formed, but will check my archives and see if I can locate it.
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