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Old 10th Jan 2009, 21:22
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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..........























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Christ! 3 Nimrods in formation! Can we still do that?
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More importantly; how did a Soviet photographer get on board the lead?
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Old 10th Jan 2009, 23:46
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And since when did MR1's have tip tanks?
 
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Kokpit,
The first six are from a Russian perspective, but the rest are not.
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And their dumb Int people seem to think pics 1-6 are all PybLEBs....sheesh
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One from the loft..
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Old 11th Jan 2009, 09:53
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The first six are from a Russian perspective, but the rest are not.
I wondered that after I'd posted them, bloody intardnet, you just cannot trust them!

Great pic sidevalve
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Old 11th Jan 2009, 10:02
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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.

Edited to add:

On looking again it looks like the Kiev's escort.
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Has that Sovremenny-class got its forward 130mm trained on the Buccaneer?
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And since when did MR1's have tip tanks?
Always.....

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!!
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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
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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!
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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!
 
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3 Nimrods in formation! Can we still do that?
Only in photoshop?
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Apparently, this is what 'you' looked like in 1961:



Did it ever have 2 pitots, I don't recall one off the radome bullet?
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Artist's impression - lifted from the Eagle Book of Aircraft 1959?
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The Russki pic clearly states P1B - and here is one of our pics which shows the double pitot

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Bloomin' 'ell, them Ruskis (oops, a PC transgression) weren't as daft as others would have us believe then!
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Ruskis! Careful, you might cop some fallout from the Prince Harry thread if you're not careful!
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