DOH! I must stop making up lies! Apologies Pagen!
Maybe silly questions but did all of those 3 Nimrods have the AIM-9 sidewinder self defence mod or did that come after the war? and if so did the mod stay on or was it taken off at a later date?
curlyboy
If memory serves, all the Nimrods the went south had the sidewinder mod, Just incase they happened across the Argentine sigint bird (which was a 707 of some shape or form) in their travels. I think the capability was due to be carried across to the ill fated MRA4 also.
OT but my father was on 1 Sqn at the time (Groundcrew), they were recalled from Cold Lake in Canada rather sharpish to go south and meet the Atlantic Conveyor. I’m going out to Spain to see my folks later this year, I’ll have a root through his old pics and see what I can unearth. Also, there’s a chap in my building who was an AE on Hercs during the war, he’s still serving now, i’ll ask him about pics too, see if anythign nice can be unearthed.
Intriging to know how many people are still serving that wear the South Atlantic medal too.
It would appear i was wrong! 🙂
You can pick out 3 of the tails in this pic, (crown copyright) I see to think that 8 went south in total, something in the back of my brain, could be wrong though!
Lovely pics Keith, thanks for throwing them up!
One hanging from the roof at Duxford
Curlyboy

Wonderful pics and insight into the RAF back then! More pics would be great to see!
I’d love to if I lived closer, suggesting we move wouldn’t go down well with wifey though!
Prior to scrapping i think mate.
Hello and welcome mate!
Had a little visit to your museum back in October. I was the only person there except the staff! Plenty of interesting stuff to look at. Had a butchers in the Vulcan cockpit too, which was nice!
Sadly i’d been at a funeral just up the road so i didn’t have my camera with me.
I’ll be back at some point!
Only just changed hands earlier this year didn’t she?
As robbo said DP, it’s Tom Hill. Some of his Harrier pics can be seen here.. As you said, he’s damn good behind the camera.
Didn’t make Marham either I don’t think.
All 16 are up.