jimbuna Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Harriers is next :-)F Thank you Sir. Buccaneers also if I'm not being too cheeky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTW Posted June 18, 2011 Author Share Posted June 18, 2011 (edited) HI all A few Harriers off to Gretna and Buccaneers later A poor shot to start with but it's a GR1 with the HOCU F Edited June 18, 2011 by FTW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisrope Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Those Monino pics are FAB Cheers Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTW Posted June 19, 2011 Author Share Posted June 19, 2011 Morning All Some Buccaneers as rquseted including a few from a Lossiemouth Open Day back in the 80s. Regards Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlstavros Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Fantastic pics, would love to see some old RAF Herk photos if you have any.. Cheers, Carl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTW Posted June 20, 2011 Author Share Posted June 20, 2011 Fantastic pics, would love to see some old RAF Herk photos if you have any..Cheers, Carl. I'll se what i can do F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango 1 Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Thank you so much for sharing these incredible photo's with us! A very enjoyable trip down memory lane-keep them coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin77 Posted June 24, 2011 Share Posted June 24, 2011 What fantastic set of photos. I thought i was going to have somekind of crisis then, Buccs, lightnings, phantoms, JP's, sea vixens, RN F4's. Oh dear i'm off again.lol Thanks for sharing those, truely excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Thanks for sharing these Frank, Some superb shots here and very nostalgic! My favourite so far (and it has been a hard choice) is the RAE Vickers Varsity because I remember seeing that one flying over the Aldershot training areas whilst I was slogging my guts out down below in the mud during P Company!!! The first time I saw it I was on my chinstraps and thought it was a Wellington!! I`m glad it has been preserved at Cosford but I feel old knowing that something which I remember so clearly as flying during my Army career is now a museum piece. Iwish the RAF would preserve one of their old Herk C.1/C.3`s rather than scrapping them or selling them off via Marshall`s, but thats another story. Some more RAF Germany pics would be nice if you have any? All the best Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 The way things were . . .F-104's, Lightnings, etc. . . .What's not to like? Those were the days, before everything turned "Grey" Please keep the pics coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hacker Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 those were the days when you had a great variety of jets,camo schemes and colours. Makes today's airshow pretty dull and grey don't they Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTW Posted July 5, 2011 Author Share Posted July 5, 2011 those were the days when you had a great variety of jets,camo schemes and colours. Makes today's airshow pretty dull and grey don't they [/quo I agree totally. Just back from Waddington via Bruntigthorpe and while I really did enjoy Waddington it was - and it's all relative - pretty bland by comparison to years gone by . But with progress , increased capability, cash cuts and many other competing attractions it's a wonder at all that we still have an Air Force and open days. I don't have the same enthusiasm for dashing around a display trying to get a shot of everything present and fretting in case I missed something - maybe I'm getting old - well I am getting old - and have been spoiled. I found the Thunderbirds riveting but I have seen the Arrows so many times I find just don't watch them. Will get back to psoting some more oldies in a few days Regards F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CobolMan Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Brilliant photos, they really do take me back to my childhood. I must admit that the old Gannets do have a very personal connection to me as my late dad used to fly them when he was in 849 B in the mid/late '60s - I know that he did fly XL500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murdo Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 Fascinating stuff, thanks very much. What is the strange looking Russian plane that looks like a duck on a tripod? Some kind of jet amphibian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Fascinating stuff, thanks very much.What is the strange looking Russian plane that looks like a duck on a tripod? Some kind of jet amphibian? I believe that is the MiG-105, one of the USSR test vehicles for lifting body research. Cheers, Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Frank, Sir.... Firstly I have to say that you certainly have taken a lot of your time to post these OLDIES BUT GOODIES. It must have take a lot of patience and your precious time to get these posted and that takes hours I guess.... So for that THANK YOU Sir... Secondly, These are simply OUTSTANDING ,STUNNING, AWESOME,SUPERB photos. Of course some of these must go back many many years seeing them ....some I have never seen in real life at all ! { some are BEAUTIFUL ! }...... Were you , or are you a AIR FORCE Photographer becasue I See that you also have gotten THE USA Shuttle..or part of it.. All I can say is THEY ARE JUST INCREDIBLE.... .... THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing your memories with US...I APPRECIATE them .... HOUSTON.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbuna Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Those Harriers and Buccaneers looked superb!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ancient mariner Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Its posts like this that make it so worth while coming to BM,Thank You. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FTW Posted July 9, 2011 Author Share Posted July 9, 2011 Hi Thanks for your kind comments I wasn't an RAF photographer but will likely do a photography course at the photographic school at Cosford - I currently hold a Reserve Commission and do Media Comms duties including news releases, articles and photogrpahy for the Air Cadets in Scotland and have done so for a few years now. Summer camps, help at displays and visits to RAF stations such as Spadeadam, Linton-on-Ouse and Boulmer offered the opportunity on a few occassions to get some good photos. A few articles and the odd picture have appeared in the RAF News in past years. In the 70s I used to write to RAF Bases asking for private visits to photograph the based aircraft and among the bases where I got permission to visit were Leuchars, Coningsby, Sculthorpe, Leconfield and Kinloss I do have a number of slides of CAF aircraft taken by friend who was a photographer in the Canadian Armed Forces incluidng T33, CF18 and a few other types - I'm still wiating for some shots of Somali MiGs he took on a visit there a while back. Thanks again for your comments Regards F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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