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TTTE Never flew with any pylons fitted.

Dont like to rain on your parade but is your doing a T5 the cockpit was grey The T4`s was black. F2 had a small ventral tank and didn't have the kink on the wing the F6`s have. now if your talking F2a these were F2 that were returned and modified so big ventral (and hook that came with the big ventral) they had the F6 wing too. Cockpit was black and the F2a couldn't carry Redtops this was due to the mod state/ mark of radar fitted to the 2a. From memory the red star marked T5 was a defecting aircraft for a station exercise.

This could so easily have been the tanker on standby for a QRA launch, these peoples actions could have compromised the nations security. in the 80-90s we had live armed guards on every station I served on its unfair to put these guys freedom at stake, The Guards commanders orders said if a firearm is discharged and some body dies the guy firing the shot is arrested and charged with Murder, his/her personal weapon is impounded as evidence and the civvie police called.

Solid head on the port side, Aqui missile on the stbd side this was for both missile types. The reason they didn't fly the Aqui Redtop with wings was fatigue issues with the Redtop missile wings.

Could this be used for supplying the Jet with Fuel. A bit like modern airports and many military airfields have a Pantograph system for refuelling the Aircraft post sortie.

Sorry if its been posted already but i knew id seen something before with regard The BL755 and the Bucc. bL755 Drops

at a guess 4x skyflash x4 Aim9L and a full gun ammo tank

Great build.

plumbers got the name from the water cooled Lewis guns from what I remember.

Leckies have a different nickname now its more k9 related

You done a great job on the x2 Fmk6`s and the Tmk5 but you need an FMk3 now.

I remember being at Binbrook, out on the flight line servicing a Lightning, I was topping up the Avpin so was on the top of the aircraft ear defenders on when I heard sound of engines spooling up, as looked up i was hit by the Vulcan howl 50-75 feet above me. Etched in my memory.

Flexain was a two part mix and like @jagrigger has said applied to the nose cone of the drop tanks. As for the other areas "I`m engines chief" but I remember the smell of the Tank bay.

Firestreak books are also Ian Black

When on QRA at Binbrook we serviced each aircraft daily one in the morning and one in the afternoon. All that happened was the Master Armaments safety break keY (MASBY) was fitted and your were a little more carfull doing switch checks. Tasks include Fuel top-ups and also refilling the Liquid oxygen. There`s only one real thing that would stop these taking place including armament work and that was a Lightning risk 1 or as "civvies" know it overheat thunderstorm.