Very nice pictures! Does anyone know the nickname for the CAF’s Dash 8? It’s something to do with its probiscus nose… 🙂

Todd

Pinoccio!

Wonderful reliable plane, the Herk. Shame that the RIAT 50th Anniversary Meet wasn’t anywhere near the 25th celebrations! Have flown in many RAF examples all over the world from Lyneham, have done tanking with Phantoms in the Falklands, have tanked from Herks, Victors and VC-10s and have flown to air shows many times with the Falcons. Watched this workhorse put through its paces in so many rough strips with such ease.
Here is a shot I took of XV292 in its special scheme to commemorate 25 Years of RAF Service, taken over RAF Lyneham in May 1992 from the open ramp of another Herk. I left the RAF in 1993 and dearly missing my flights in these.

Great stuff Tony! I didn’t know you could get that close at that end. I’ve always risked stopping on the A38 when they are landing over the top and got some good shots before getting moved on! Just for any nostalgia freaks viewing, here is one of those shots, a SPANTAX DC-7….which just skimmed a double-decker bus on the A38 taken in June 1967.

I’ll have to fire the old scanner up to properly contribute to this thread. Damn digital world we live in.

In the meantime, here’s a photo from a USO dance a few years back with my oldest daughter. Amazing what you can buy on ebay!

Cheers,

Steve

…but where is the aircraft, as per the theme of this thread, eh Flt.Lt, :rolleyes: :confused: Sir?

These drawings are from Profile Publications and this particular artist had a habit of interpreting b/w photos incorrectly and several errors have occurred within this series and the AIRCAM books. I would be extremely sceptical about these camouflage colours and treat any artwork with caution and believe nothing without colour photographs or other proof. I do most of the research for the Corgi Aviation Archive models and I have nothing to do with models ,if I do not have any colour photographs. One person’s artwork interpretation of a b/w photo is not enough!

Great pic Mark, I agree with David’s comments, fascinating, now I’m waiting for the other 13 pics Mark.

Any pics Steve ?, Staravia at Lasham was before my time & I had never heard of their Church Crookham yard, but I did visit their Ascot & Finchampstead yards. P-39 drop tanks still in crates in Ascot in the late ’70s ! Managed to ‘rescue a RCAF F-86 tail resplendent with its Tigers head Sqd motif. I also ‘found’ a new P-80 (yes P & not F) U/C door at Finchampstead amongst 1000’s of other brand new parts just before it was all lost in a fire 10 years ago.I was told that they also had a yard in Wales, but that had been raided & cleared out for scrap by gipsies

Thought I would help Steve out with a couple of photos I took at Lasham on a cold wintery day there on 8th February 1969, showing a line up of ex-RCAF Canadair Sabres and the tail of an RCAF T-33A. I nearly took the tail home with me, but it wouldn’t quite fit in my Mini!

Well, here’s the basic template in old BA colours.

I’ll be adding lots more detail over the coming days as I collect a database of photos that show me all the nooks and crannies

Getting all excited as this progressed, only to find you have done it in BA colours, instead of the BEA scheme she’s in! Any reason? 🙁