Brings a tear to the eye!!!!!

A fascinating account. I remember the day well as I was at school a few miles away in Camelford. After hearing about the crash at Lunchtime and being in the 6th form with no lessons that afternoon I went over to Tintagel but obviously wasn’t able to see much.
I remember a 202 Sqn Sea King landing in the Car Park and a 41 Squadron Jaguar doing a few low level photo passes over the scene, and was glad to hear from a Delabole Fireman that no one had been hurt.

If you are talking about 2013, why not consider Culdrose? Apparently it should be back on the calender next year. Travel would not be much of an issue, the sun (when it shines;)) is always behind you and the crowd line is close to the runway.
Yeovilton is just a two hour drive from mid Cornwall, easily done in a day and enclosure packages are available.
Along the coast you have Dawlish and Bournemouth, a bit further along you have Shoreham and Eastbourne where you could book a hotel and make a weekend of it.

Halfway through ‘Down South’ by Chris Parry (the Observer on HMS Antrim’s Wessex HAS3 ‘Humphrey’).

hello buzzer.

Nice photos by the way.

The Upper Heyford F111 with fireman in attendance looks like a classic ‘hot brakes’ deployment

Noticed with the G91 and the P.3 photos the translucent apex to the hangar, never noticed them before. I once punched a hole in the roof of 402 with the L32, knocking down Jackdaws. We were later issued with a Sirroco .22 which was more than adequate. I know 402 was reclad at some point as I have a photo with all the skin removed.

Do you know what year you took the photo?

cheers

Baz

Definately ‘hot brakes’, coincidentally these crews attended a Tornado GR1 with a similar problem within an hour or so of the F-111E.

Re the translucent apex to the hangar, if you look at Buzzers photo of the Lakenheath F-111F you can see the Hangar surrounded by scaffolding, I assume this is when it was re-cladded and the ‘apex’ added? The year is 1990.

Arriving:

With RAF St Mawgan and RNAS Culdrose fire crew in attendance:

Always looked good on the Hawk:

I feel a bit dubious about dipping my toe in the water with this one as I never got the chance to photograph these aircraft when they were at Culdrose. During the 1970’s I lived in North Cornwall, not far from Tintagel; this must have been a regular route for 750 Squadron as they flew overhead on an almost daily basis. Apart from the wonderful noise I do remember the dayglo patches which always seemed orange to me.

The only two colour photo’s I have to hand at the moment are:
A Mike Hall image published recently (may have been this site or UKAR?) showing a Sea Prince at St Mawgan Air Day (1976)…definately dayglo orange.

A lovely photo in the colour centre section of Geoff Wakehams Culdrose book showing a Sea Prince flying next to a Jetstream, here the orange shows out really well against the red of the Jetstream.

One thing I do remember when passing Culdrose one day was seeing a Landrover TACR1 Crash truck next to a Sea Prince, back in the 70’s these vehicles were painted dayglo orange and it was the same shade (although slightly faded) as that on the Sea Prince.