Happy Birthday Firebirds.
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Splendid pictures EngO. Somehow though, the F3 just doesn't cut the mustard alongside the Lightning and Phantom; it looks too delicate. The F4 is just brutal in comparison. In a good way 
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Bernoulli - I agree ref the Phantom and Lightning.
LJ - really - depends which unit is flying it perhaps !
Not photoshopped. I remember getting the original put on the back cover of a Flight Safety magazine back in the day.
Nevertheless, Happy Birthday "Firebirds".
Bernoulli - I agree ref the Phantom and Lightning.
LJ - really - depends which unit is flying it perhaps !
Not photoshopped. I remember getting the original put on the back cover of a Flight Safety magazine back in the day.
Nevertheless, Happy Birthday "Firebirds".
Firebirds Lightning Display Team - videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn1DtoKV69U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGkpHyeGUnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn1DtoKV69U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGkpHyeGUnk
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My grandfather Sgt WS Appleton joined at London Colney in the August and at one time was Albert Ball VC's fitter/armourer. He earned a Meritorious Service gong for his work on interrupter gear. The family donated some of his memorabilia to 56 at Wattisham on their 75th anniversary.
Alcock & Brown(e) 60th Anniversary Commemorative Transatlantic Crossing 21 Jun 79 - 5 hours 40 minutes Goose Bay to the UK.
XV424 was allotted to 56(F) Sqn at the time.
Sqn Ldr AJN Alcock MBE was a 56 Sqn Flt Cdr.
Flt Lt Norman Browne was an ex-Phantom nav brought back from a Buccaneer sqn for the flight.
XV486 Backup Aircraft
XV424 Primary Aircraft
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/document...FGR2-XV424.pdf
XV424 was allotted to 56(F) Sqn at the time.
Sqn Ldr AJN Alcock MBE was a 56 Sqn Flt Cdr.
Flt Lt Norman Browne was an ex-Phantom nav brought back from a Buccaneer sqn for the flight.
XV486 Backup Aircraft
XV424 Primary Aircraft
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/document...FGR2-XV424.pdf
Last edited by RAFEngO74to09; 8th Jun 2016 at 22:23.
Excuse a spotter butting in here.....
Is't the jet in post 9 from 92 (East India Sqn? It looks very much like a Cobra on the tail to these ancient eyes of mine.......
...anyway, it's still a great picture of a great machine!
...anyway, it's still a great picture of a great machine!
