Step by step at a pace hopefully lower than your actual computing skills!! Also assuming you have a photobucket account and have photos uploaded into your ‘library’ and are a member of The Aviation forum.
Set computer up with two internet windows active, one open on Keyforum thread and ‘post reply’ box open, other open in your Photobucket account.
In your Photobucket ‘Library’ of thumb-nail images, locate and click once over image selected. To the right of the enlarged single image, there are 4 options. Select ‘Direct Link’ and left click over once, shows briefly in yellow as ‘copied’.
Swop over onto Forum window. In the ‘Post reply’ window type in ] (only one square bracket, if I do that here correctly, part of the message disappears!). On this forum, IMG can be in capitals or lower case img.
Repeat as often as is required to complete post.
When I remember to, I always use ‘Review Post’ option on completion to check my links have actually worked and the post is as I desire it. When satisfied all is well, then ‘post’.
There is a more direct way by selecting from the options above the ‘Post reply’ window – the one that looks like a picture postcard with a yellow mountain scene and stamp. This brings up another little window in which you copy & paste the image code. However when I do it that way (which works well on another forum I’m involved with) on this forum it introduces into the code an extra http//: so the image link does not work.
Thats how I do it, anyone use a different method? – there are frequently two ways of doing many windows tasks. I’m on Windows 7, as I suspect many are, don’t know if other operating programmes differ.
OK, all this seems long-winded, but after a few posts and the actions become second-nature, loading photos is a routine task.
Look forward to viewing your images – hopefully might encourages others to post photos too!!
BAe.167 Strikemaster Mk.84, customer’s serial number 314, built by BAe. at Warton (Preston) 1970.
Built as Strikemaster plane set PS.151 (sequence started at PS101), on the production line known as line number S.15 (ie 15th aircraft for Singapore). The number ‘Mexicanbob’ quotes EEP/JP/1934 translates as ‘English Electric Preston’ (the factory name prior to amalgamation into British Aerospace),the JP as ‘Jet Provost’ (the type the Strikemaster was developed from), ‘1934’ a number which is likely just a fuselage assembly number (the wings or tail could in theory have a different EEP number!). Anyone explain the significance of the number 1934? The BAe factory at Warton still produces aircraft today assembling the UK Typhoon FGR.4 for the R.A.F. and before that the Tornado and more recently the Hawk T.2.
Line number S.15 first flew in late July 1970, or more likely early August 1970, from the airfield at BAe. Warton (north bank of the River Ribble between Preston and Blackpool). For the first flight, almost certainly still in construction line ‘yellow’ protective primer coating, the aircraft was marked as G-27-143 (a British ‘B’ conditions, manufacturer’s test registration). G-27 being allocated to BAe. at Warton, -143 being the sequence number reached at that time.
At that time I was a student studying in the Blackpool area and a regular term-time visitor to the boundary fence at Warton – however due exams and holidays was at home July to September at the time G-27-143 was test flying, so cannot tie down roll-out or first flight down with any greater certainty. As a ‘poor’ student I had no camera at that time either.
After initial test flying the aircraft was sprayed at Warton in camouflage scheme as 314, in full Singapore Defence Force colours. On 22.7.70 (purely a ‘paperwork’ date), this aircraft was unusually allocated the UK full civil registration G-AYHS (and Singapore 315 as G-AYHT). Interestingly BAe. used ‘314’ as a constructor’s number (which it isn’t) on the paperwork, not the more correct EEP or PS number. It required a full civilian (or British military) serial to make it legal for the manufacturer to demonstrate it at a public air display.
Wearing full customer colours, national markings and serial, dual marked with the civil registration, both aircraft appeared at the major S.B.A.C. display at Farnborough, exhibited by British Aerospace, throughout the second week of September 1970. G-AYHT was in the static park, while G-AYHS was flown by BAe. in the air display each day. In theory there should be plenty photos around of G-AYHS/314 – indeed I’m surprised no one has found (other than ‘AMB’) or posted one yet, to add to those great links posted by ‘Hunterxf382’. Any other Singapore Strikemaster and we would be really struggling for a pre-delivery photo, so you are very fortunate!
Following Farnborough week, the UK civil registration was removed, and despite what it says on the CAA paperwork, I’m unsure that it returned to G-27-143. The aircraft set out on the long delivery flight across Europe and Asia, departing from Bournemouth/Hurn Airport on 28th September 1970 as Singapore 314. Once in Singapore the aircraft acquired the individual aircraft code ‘P’. At some stage while in service the simple national ’roundel’ (as on the Farnborough photos) will have been replaced with the current complex Singapore national insignia.
There my knowledge of this aircraft ends. However I do have several ’70s and ’80s articles about Strikemaster production in general and the Singapore aircraft which I will copy and e-mail if you let me have an e-mail address privately using the ‘PM’ facility on this forum.
If British forumites feel I’ve been long winded about this reply I’ve deliberately explained British short-hand, abbreviations and locations at some length!
OK, probably not 314, but a BAe. publicity photo of a Singapore Strikemaster fresh out of the paint shop, on a pre-delivery flight over the UK with range extending tanks fitted underwing (the tip tanks are standard fit).
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