Saudi Lightning Stencil Data

Sorry for digging this thread up, but did somebody say they had the stencil data for a Saudi Lightning. I’m after the same to finish the attached profile off (bits that have been done are based on the Lightning at Norwich). Any info would be gratefully received.

Regards BigVern

Another factor that would mitigate against the use of Belgrano in and around the harbour is the same one that the Royal Navy were wary of – Exocet.

There were a lot of ships in the Task Force equipped with it, and a relatively static target could expect quite a bombardment.

And the attempts to put Martel on a Vulcan may have been rather more serious as well

AR Martel fit was trailed and worked on the Vulcan. I do believe that the big problem was that the missile only had a carriage live of about 25 hours before it had to be sent back to the Martel MSF at Marham for refurb. Hence the reason for the procurement of Shrikes, which didn’t suffer from the time on pylon limitation of the Martel. TV Martel with the data link pod should have been tried, as you could have done some real damage with it, however missions would have had to been flown in daylight.

Better bomb load as well.

almost 50 % better and the Victor was the only V-bomber to break Mach 1 (Mk1 over Radlett in 1958 (I think)).

Comparing JORN to NORAD is like comparing an apple to a grocery store. Jindalee is a single OTH-radar, NORAD is a multinational C4I system consisting of, amongst others, a number of OTH radars.

There is only one possible comparison to NORAD, and that one even comes short in some points until it was dissolved. That one was called PVO.

Ok, they didn’t have a BMEWS, But there is NADGE (may have another name now) in Europe and that had at least three national systems that can be tacked on like STRIDA (France), UKASACS (New name for UKADGE, UK) and even the Swiss had the capibility to feed their radar data into the system. Most definitly an international intergated Air defence system.

There was one for the old Amiga years ago. thought I’ve still got the code for a simple space shuttle sim I did for a ZX Spectrem 21 years ago, Nothing close to the above, though with only 48 k, thats not surprising.

It’s West Raynham – some serious thread creep going on here!

Don’t knock the guy, I’m interested in both as I lived at both WR 85-89 (my first section is in the aerial photo) and lived at Coltishall from 2001 to 2004 and will be there in 6 hours

2 F8 WH450

WH450 is a TT8 of Coltishall Station Flight, around 1960. Cheers for the posting the photo Glyn, as I’m doing a number of profiles of Coltishall aircraft and I wanted to do some of the station flight Meatboxes.

Edit – WH450 in colour