845 NACS at SBAC Farnborough airshow 1968
HMS Arethusa encounters a little touch of stormy weather, Iceland 1972
A couple of days before these photos were taken, I was flying around in my Wasp at 400 feet when suddenly I was astonished to see an RAF Nimrod appear from underneath me. It was flying at its normal MAD search height of 200 feet and as we'd removed our radar reflectors (a bit like the ones in your photos of the Whirlwind earlier) to render us less visible to the Icelandic coastguard gunboats, he hadn't seen me. The next time a Nimrod came by a slight swell made us disinclined to fly, so he took these photos of us emulating a submarine and the crew of the original Nimrod were kind enough to drop them off in the next mail container.