This thread inspired me to dig out my copy of 'Modern Combat Aircraft - the BAC Lightning' by Arthur Reed (pub. 1980) and I found these photos tucked inside. Taken from a Lightning G90 gun camera they show a successfull Redtop intercept on a flare towed behind a Jindivik. The pictures were taken in the mid-eighties at MPC.
Interestingly, we had one MPC where the first 6 Redtops all misfired - not one left the rail. That caused a lot of head scratching. I think that was the trip I had to do a torch test on a live Redtop...and I was the bloke holding the torch. Concentrates the mind, that does, standing about 20 feet in front of a live, armed, powered-up-and-ready-to-go missile and you're the target. Health & Safety must be a modern invention, cos we had none of that in the 80's.
