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Weapons load for Phantom FGR 2 in the 70s


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2 hours ago, canberra kid said:

Two drawings one of no real use, other than it's a very nice drawing of the strike camera, and an illustration from a McD brochure showing the position of the Mk.57 

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John  

 

2 hours ago, canberra kid said:

Two drawings one of no real use, other than it's a very nice drawing of the strike camera, and an illustration from a McD brochure showing the position of the Mk.57 

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John  

Very interesting, John. It seems that Phantoms were loaded with B57's as you said, so my memory was playing tricks on me. Seeing the drawing of the strike camera pod brought back memories of fitting them on many an occasion !  

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On 12/9/2019 at 10:37 PM, Starfighter said:

In the final phase of the exercise we would generate as many serviceable aircraft and load them with dummy special weapons before  doing a mass launch, which was quite impressive.

Hi

 

I’ve only just spotted this thread and it is a gold nugget on information. 
Regarding the QRA duties which squadrons did these duties? 
 

Thanks

 

Neal

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During my time at Bruggen ( 1971 - 74 ) there were three aircraft on QRA, one each from 17, 31 and 14 squadrons. I was an armourer on 17, and I did QRA duty a lot. HTH:cheers:

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