Did anything ever come of this?
Just wondering, when did Vulcans get the gray/green camo instead of white?
Mid/late 70s, but I don’t think that one is camo’d underneath
Re the Swifts – there is some nice film in the IWM (colour) and Pathe (B+W) collections showing them before and after the nuclear tests
The general opinion is the Canberras never made it to Chile, although the Nimrod R1 probably operated out of San Felix.
There now followed an extraordinary period duringwhich the US seemed to us in the British Embassy to be pursuing twodifferent policies: one public, originating in the State Department, and[FONT=sans-serif]the other more quietly, in the Pentagon.
Not unlike what happens in the UK between the FCO and the MOD[/FONT]
Don’t recall ever seeing it on an RAF aircraft (but pics of that area of Mitchell IIIs are rare) but it seems to have been fitted post war to Dutch B-25C/Ds
https://nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl/memorix/cda72b17-e388-d733-fd71-45d63ba58763
Tim is the only BoB era pilot I have ever corresponded with. We discussed his experience in India and the captured A6M5 he flew there. As others he have said he was an absolute genetleman of the old school, and I am sad I never got the chance to meet him in person.
Rest in Peace sir, your memory and memories will be remembered.
So were these Sea Heron C1s as a separate designator to Heron C1?
This chap has some very interesting photo albums https://www.facebook.com/brian.peter.spurr/media_set?set=a.10154010232706901&type=3
Must fall into the ‘rarest restorations’ at least as far as variant is concerned
The UK implementation of the Data Protection directive (general data Protection Regulations) will go past Brexit
People I know were respondents that night, both military and civil, and the stories they told me made my decision to stop the stupid attempting to travel up there all the more worthwhile, I remember watching the seakings and Chinook carry out their searches, but a few short miles from my home. Tragic, utterly tragic and such a waste of innocent lives.
A relative was one of the first motorway cops on the scene, and I knew some of the MRT guys involved in the search and recovery. You did the right thing.
I do wish they wouldn’t call it a disaster – it was an atrocity.
There was a thread about them on here a couple of years back (if the search is working!)
Direct link to photo
http://www.asahicom.jp/ajw/articles/images/AS20181113004675_comm.jpg
First recollection I have of a MVAF aircraft in camouflage