It looks like that it was a conglomerate that bought the photo – maybe the two magazines and a few more serious collectors who shlled out 50-100 Europs to get that photo.. good deal, in the end all the collectors and the mags would have shlled out a token amount (in the case of mags, probably what they would have paid a contributor anyway) and they get thier hands on a very rare photo. The seller is a happy man, I agree, but if this was a cartel of buyers, then no one ‘loses’ out – and everyone can get a digital copy..

The value of it I think is in knowing no one ever seen one of those before. I am sure that much more have been paid to the papparazi for photos of celebraties doing crazy things.. so why not for that rare and only existing photo of a prototype that no one has? (yet).

I just finished reading a scanned article from latest Vayu the IAFs internal magazine on
the Cope India 04.

it says the vast majority of the 9:1 victories against the F-15s were chalked up by the Mirages and not the Su30s. says the US hyping the russian machines maybe because US and France are usally in direct competition for sales, not so with russia.

also says FrAF Mirages have been defeating the F-15 quite easily in their own US-France exercises.

for a few days u can download the pdf here(Shiv BR webmaster has put it):

http://sr2.mytempdir.com/59515

Psst… Vayu is not the IAF’s internal mag…..

The Me-109E from India had its original paint scheme on when I last saw it :D… Ofcourse I bet now all the skins are removed and replaced with fresh aluminium…

A Red Spitfire flying almost inverted? 😀 (ah well worth a try)

did anyone make a guess on the Supermarine Stanraer

Starfighter?

Stormovik ? 🙂

Starwars X Wing?

“Lord, when I said I dont want to live and asked you to send the most powerful vehicle to run over me… I didn’t expect a Spitfire…”