No this is not a thread for RAF Phantoms news but iam after some help and I hope the Phantom fans can help
Iam after photos of the 1991 September Photoshoot that was at Wattisham
XV408 FGR.2 Z 92Sqn Overall Blue
XT899 FGR.2 B 19Sqn Overall Blue
69-0263 F.4G SP 52TFW
69-0253 F.4G SP 52TFW
XT597 FG.1 N/A A&AEE N/A
35+72 RF.4E
37+23 F.4F
XT914 FGR.2 Z 74Sqn Black
XT895 FGR.2 Q 74Sqn Black
XV426 FGR.2 P 56Sqn Red
XV398 FGR.2 CI 64/228 Ocu N/A
XV490 FGR.2 N/A 1435Flt N/A
XT902 FGR.2 K 19Sqn Blue
XV488 FGR.2 O 92Sqn N/A
XV430 FGR.2 S 92Sqn Red
XT874 FG.1 BE 111Sqn N/A
XV581 FG.1 AE 43Sqn N/A
XV393 FGR.2 T 74Sqn Black
XV498 FGR.2 U 92Sqn Blue
Plus I need help on how the line up of the Phantoms from 56 Sqn & 74 Sqn from the 1992 photoshoot
Am I right the 56 Sqn
was ;-
XV426 FGR.2 P 56Sqn
XV468 FGR.2 H 56Sqn
XV494 FGR.2 O 56Sqn
XV415 FGR.2 E 56Sqn
XV473 FGR.2 N 56Sqn
XV424 FGR.2 I 56Sqn
XT903 FGR.2 X 56Sqn
XV467 FGR.2 F 56Sqn
XV422 FGR.2 T 56Sqn
XV460 FGR.2 R 56Sqn
Iam after the 74 Sqn line up how they were lined up ?
Plus iam after photos from both photoshoots and the scrap dump at Wattisham
By: RMR - 11th October 2014 at 16:32
I have finally found a couple of shots of the dumped phantoms in 1992.
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By: whalebone - 11th October 2014 at 01:59
Not brilliant, not mine (father in laws) (now ex) but, scanned from prints in the pre digital days. Stuck these up a while ago
2005 in fact ! :rolleyes: http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?47172-Wattisham-photo-call&highlight=
By: Lazy8 - 10th October 2014 at 23:19
That’s in 74’s line-up at the July 1992 ‘Phantom Pharewell’ bash at Wattisham.
Dunno what ‘it’ is, but I understand the ‘shiver’. 🙂
By: Arabella-Cox - 10th October 2014 at 23:12
Thanks for that Lazy8. Nice – where was that shot taken?
What is it about the Phantom? It gives me a shiver down my spine every time I see one – especially the Brit or US Navy ones.
Anon.
By: Lazy8 - 10th October 2014 at 19:23
XV490
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By: Arabella-Cox - 10th October 2014 at 17:37
Nice pics, Tony.
Also nice to see my (cockpit only) Phantom, XV490, present in two of the line-ups at different times in different schemes.
Anon.
By: rgb - 10th October 2014 at 15:28
Hope you don’t mind, I had a play with cleaning up one of the pics..
By: Wyvernfan - 10th October 2014 at 13:19
Nice photos TonyT.
Rob
By: Lazy8 - 10th October 2014 at 12:10
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Ta da!
By: Dakotaman - 10th October 2014 at 11:19
Thankyou to both of you.
Tony T do u have Photoshop to sort them pics out ?? Id love to have copies.
Now were the 74 Sqn ones harder to take that day as I cant find much photos of them and the only one I can never find is XV497
By: TonyT - 10th October 2014 at 10:36
I went to a Sqn families day by Puma in the 70’s and took these, not the greatest but I thought you might like to see them
By: Lazy8 - 10th October 2014 at 10:31
[ATTACH=CONFIG]232254[/ATTACH] Ah. There you go. For some reason that wouldn’t attach to my first post.
Elsewhere on the apron were 56’s Y and Z (XT897 and XT910) and D (aka BD – XV470, with sharkmouth) and 74’s P (XT905), along with another ‘P’ (XT906, bereft of squadron insignia, apart from some NATO zaps on one wing tank).
By: Lazy8 - 10th October 2014 at 10:21
74 weren’t as creative. The line up was:
XV465 S
XV497 W
XV433 E
XV474 T (big tiger head on the fin)
XV423 Y (commemorative badge with insignia of all phantom operating countries. ‘TIGER MEET’ below the fin flash)
XT892 J
XV490 R
XT896 V
I wait for someone to enlighten me with the in-joke behind ‘SWETYJRV’. I can’t see it…
By: Goldilocks - 10th October 2014 at 10:06
Dakotaman
You are correct with your line-up of 56-Sqn at the 1992 photoshoot – all red fins spelling PHOENIXFTR. I did not record the sequence for 74-Sqn but I probably have a (non-digital) print somewhere if I knew where to look.
Hope that helps
Goldilocks
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