Hah! Cynric Of Wessex! (With an ‘H’ after the ‘N’?)
The clue came from the ‘O’ below the top name and the ‘WE’ below that.
I’m surprised the crew left the aircraft without someone switching the mags off to stop the engines.
I think that impression is down to editing because after the engines stop you see a crewman opening the top hatch then there’s a cut, whereas the earlier footage seems to continue on from that and then abruptly cuts back to just after the crash-landing with the engines running down. Why insert that part of the film reel there is a mystery.
Anyone enlighten me as to why the portholes on the last Heron pic are blacked out?
More great shots, btw, this is a brilliant thread.
Concur.
Sweet Jesus! As the guy says after TO, awesome, isn’t it? The sound, the location, the flying.
Last week on TV Top Gear upwards of 30 plus various model Migs rotting in Albania.Filmed last September apparantly.
Alan Clark posted the co-ordinates for Google Earth; 40 46’28.31″N 19 55’54.79″E
Would love a day there! Vintage jet heaven!
Enough dawdling, back to work! That chopper’s not going to land itself, y’know.
So lovely, yet so sad.
Four jets…. four here too, but not bothered moving. And an interloper…
Another helo, this time lending a helping hand…
And yet another display of the deviousness of politicians.
Not an in depth article – but an unusual photo of N.17
Intersting, the first shot shows the Spit before the streamlined canopy was fitted, the other two after so good before and after images there..
Some scans on this thread on an art forum and here’s an earlier thread here.
Should be a start. I’m sure other members here will be along shortly to supply more stuff..
Take that ladder away… we have royalty on board…
HM The Queen and Prince Philip in Khartoum in the mid sixties. Oh, and a DH.