Great photos of a sad retirement witha very dull colour scheme IMHO 🙁
Would be the right place to post some image of the much prettier training command scheme (red-white-gray)
Fabio
Certainly the best scheme. Great photos Moondance, and great minds obviously think alike as I dug the old scanner out when the Dominie retired a couple of weeks ago:
Brize Norton, 2000:
Chivenor 1992:
St Mawgan 1993:
Brize Norton, 1993:
St Mawgan, 1998:
I didn’t attend the 1990 show, but was at 88 and 89 and can say your photos are from neither of them. I have a couple of scans which I have added to Air Britain which shows the Buccaneer at the 1989 show was XV168:
And the Sharks were there in 1989 if that helps; unfortunately I can’t get to my other photos and lists as there is a christmas tree in the way of the cupboard at the moment!
Spitfireman – Many thanks for those, must have been quite a thing to have that lot drop in! I saw them up our way a couple of times, this one (31AG14) came to our ATC Squadron at Camelford in 1978 to check the fire extinguishers and another one was at Tintagel when the Hunter crashed in 1979.
Tornado detachment, but not sure when??
That’s the second 14 Squadron multi launch photo on this thread, first Steve’s Jaguars and now these Tornados. 14 Squadron must have liked visiting! Nice photo’s!!!
I was sorting out a cupboard last weekend and found one of Spitfiremans paintings of a Nimrod and a print of the Fire Section. I’ve heard lots of mention of Twin Rigs and Land Rovers, but the Fire section were a common sight on the airfield so I thought I would post these taken during the 1980s. Have any of you chaps got any pictures of these in action, eg the Bucc incident.
I remember Pagen saying he liked the period when everthing was painted green and surrounded with barbed wire, this one was taken in 1985 (the red Mark 9 belongs to Culdrose);
This was one of two TACR2s that had been around for 11 years when this was taken in 1988. They were about to be replaced by a pair of new TACR2as. I have heard stories that one ‘rolled’ on the airfield (poss this one looking at the state of it); any photos out there?
A variety of these Mark 9s served at St Mawgan for around 25 Years. This one had recently been repainted from toned down green to red in 1988.
Perhaps this should have gone on the Nimrod Farewell thread? This one is from Treloy Line, 1991; a year before the Nimrods left.
Both those Phantom’s are ex-892Sqn (FAA) examples aren’t they?
All gone now sadly…:( Didn’t realise it at the time, but we were actually quite spoilt for aircraft types back in the 1980’s weren’t we?
How times have changed…
Re. your video – would love to see Mike Thompson’s Lightning display again.
I believe they were both ex FAA Phantoms. 111 Squadron provided the Phantom display for both 1983 and 1984, I’ve posted this photo elsewhere recently but it shows the lovely camouflaged example they brought to St Mawgan in 1983.
Mike Thompson’s Lightning is in the background, I did get one (not very good) photo of the Lightning. I couldn’t believe what happened to him a few days later, very sad.
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