Does anyone recognise themselves?
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Does anyone recognise themselves?
Just stumbled across these, does anyone recognise themselves, or their steed?
A perspective from the other side..........
A perspective from the other side..........
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The first six are from a Russian perspective, but the rest are not.
Great pic sidevalve
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I was on one of the Nimrods.
Win Harris, staish, wanted a photo of a Nimrod over the Kiev, extreme left of picture (prob escort K2), and got special permission to have 2 MPA in the same patrol box.
The two Nimrods were doing their thing when a P3 out of Kef turned up so we had Nim-Nim together then Nim-P3 and then, not to be left out a Bear D pitched up so we had Nim-Nim-Bear and Nim-P3-Bear etc etc.
Don't know what happened to the Brit pics but nice to know the Bear ones surfaced.
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On looking again it looks like the Kiev's escort.
Win Harris, staish, wanted a photo of a Nimrod over the Kiev, extreme left of picture (prob escort K2), and got special permission to have 2 MPA in the same patrol box.
The two Nimrods were doing their thing when a P3 out of Kef turned up so we had Nim-Nim together then Nim-P3 and then, not to be left out a Bear D pitched up so we had Nim-Nim-Bear and Nim-P3-Bear etc etc.
Don't know what happened to the Brit pics but nice to know the Bear ones surfaced.
Edited to add:
On looking again it looks like the Kiev's escort.
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And since when did MR1's have tip tanks?
4A if I recall (and someone will be along in a jiffy if I've got that wrong)
The 4A are integral to the airframe and therefore (one assumes) the same on every variant.
For infor, the things hanging on the end of the MR2's wings are not fuel tanks.
As PN points out...not three Nimrods, but two chasing something Soviet.
PN must have been there...to pick Kiev up from that shot!!
Some more from a Soviet/Russian perspective
Norwegian F-16s and IL-38 May taken from IL-38 May
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...hmentid=123497
F-16 from Bear
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...hmentid=123498
Norwegian F-104
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...hmentid=123511
Norwegian F-16
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...hmentid=123581
F-15 and Tu-16 Badger
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...hmentid=125365
Japanese F-15
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...hmentid=125366
S-3 Viking
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...hmentid=125399
Norwegian F-16s and IL-38 May taken from IL-38 May
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...hmentid=123497
F-16 from Bear
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...hmentid=123498
Norwegian F-104
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...hmentid=123511
Norwegian F-16
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...hmentid=123581
F-15 and Tu-16 Badger
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...hmentid=125365
Japanese F-15
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...hmentid=125366
S-3 Viking
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...hmentid=125399
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Anyone remember the Chris B*****r/Dick H****n (Animal) photo of the Bear 'D' taken early 80's from a Tremblers F4 where the tail gunner is reading the Leuchars Contact (that month's edition if I remember correctly)?
I'd love to see that photo again. It was taken using a 110 camera and it fills the whole frame!
I'd love to see that photo again. It was taken using a 110 camera and it fills the whole frame!
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Thank you TOFO. However, my question was 'And since when did MR1's have tip tanks?' (A referenece to the aircraft from which the photo was taken; now that I don't know - anyone care to enlighten me please?) I am (very) well aware of what's on the end of the MR2 wings!