Originally Posted by
howiehowie93
I was at Coningsby when this subject resulted in the Award of the Wilkinson Sward of Peace to some one or other - Instructor on 228 OCU maybe ??.
As an LAC Linie at the time, told, along with a load of other Linies to get my Best Blue on and report to the Station Briefing Room.
MRAF Sir Micheal Beetham was there too - I thought he looked a bit bored with it all.
I believe it was a project for a QWI course. Maybe spring 81, maybe earlier. The studes did the pitch. Anything non-pulse doppler (e.g. Lightning) topping up an F-4 force that was a bit thin on availability.
The Hawk involvement: the Next Great Idea by some neddy at 11 Gp.
About ten years before an IWI course had proposed AiM-9s for the Lightning. Rejected as the aircraft would be out of service within 5 years.