PM me – there was a view in an old Issue of Sacel Aircraft Modelling, and I have a few pictures in various publications

I’m sure it all makes perfect sense to someone in Whitehall…. take away the Navy’s dedicated purpose built Sea Harriers (which still had a good few years life in them)… and give them some old RAF Harriers which happen to be surplus to requirements…… but are somewhat well used…… :rolleyes:

yeah, but having to dump Amraams because you don’t have the thrust weight ratio to land back onboard in hot conditions does tend to po the bean counters

The only gossip I’ve ever come across about Mig 15s and Suez was that bits or a whole one was captured and brought back to Cyprus (and possibly on to Farnborough)

What happened to Sheffield Airport alongside the M1 – seems to have disappeared off the schedules?

King Air, Tucano, Griffin, Squirrel.

Lancaster, DC3, Spitfire, Hurricane 😀

Domine, BAE 146, Nimrod, Sentry, Sentinel R1, A109 Power, Airbus A400M in the future 🙂

Oh, and Predator UAVs

So much for 39 Sqn ‘only having one operational aircraft left’. Now which magazine said that………. 🙂

The last ‘official’ shoot down in combat by an RAF aircraft was an Egyptian Spitfire in 1948.

There are, however, rumours of ‘unofficial’ or ‘unconfirmed’ shootdowns. Three which surface from time to time:

(i) Hunter vs Yemen Mig15/17 – During the Oman squabbles in the late 60s, Yemen Migs would attack sites in Oman. RAF Hunters were sent to intercept, but were not allowed to pursue the MIgs back across the border. there are confirmed reports (Which were published in Flypast IIRC) of Hunters achieving gun strikes on the MIgs, but no confirmation of whether the MIgs made it back to base or not.

(ii) Javelins in Indonesia – There is one case where it is reported that ‘manopuvering’ by a Javelin caused an Indonesian Hercules (or was it a Badger?) to crash. However, there are also dark rumours of a/the Javelin returning to base with a ‘missing’ Firestreak.

(iii) There are also rumours about an RAF Phantom shooting down a USAF Hercules that had been ‘hijacked’ by a malcontent NCO

Needless to say Theft of Copyright is not only a civil offence under The Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988, 🙂

Breach of copyright is also a criminal offence (S.400 IIRC)