Do you remember how many exercises we used to have in the early 80's? Mystic, who was the fairy chief we used to have in MSF called 'Stan ???, and where did the Rooney fella go?

"Fool on the Hill" played on national radio dedicated to the Staish for those lovely call outs. Asked for by one of the Squadron lineys.

Wasn't it 26 in 1 year "no notice" call outs?

A beatiful and evocative photograph. Kudos to the artist.

A point or an observation if you like, do any of the more romantic posters who criticize political leaders past and present ever wonder what our national air threats are now?

How many Lighting, Phantoms, Typhoons do we need now?

Who is the air threat to the UK now?

I know that this is an emotive and subjective subject.

But sometimes I wonder where the sense of perspective has gone.

There are no fleets of Migs and Sukhoi's threatening our sky's any more.

Acker,

They don't give up easily.

http://www.armedforces-int.com/news/...pace-again.asp

Regards

'Feel's' last trip...
 

...can you elaborate please? Sounds interesting ;)

The Staish's surname led to Binbrook personnel being known as "Cowleys Commandos"

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That is one stunning picture! Bloody well done:ok:!
I spent many a teenage hour in the sixties watching Lightnings doing their stuff across the river at Leconfield and can still hear and almost feel the noise.Magnificent! Then used to pop down to Binbrook when I returned to the area in the eighties, just to take me back in time!
3D

Harrogate
 

Totally agree with all others congratulating you on a stunning photo. I would also like a Hi Res version and think the idea of a donation to a charity is a great idea and I will certainly contribute. How about the ' Help for Heroes' campaign set up for our injured servicemen and women with the aim of improving the facilities at Headley Court?

Excellent photo, was XR728 visible? I assume it's undercover in one of the buildings (or am I getting my XRs mixed up?)

Active Edge
 

You know, there were so many exercises, the Facists even called an Active Edge on the night of my Leaving do at the Rugby Club. Fortunately, I had the good sense to book leave: I headed for Block 7 in me toga, and everyone else headed the other way in DPM :{:{:{

A minor muddle Mike.

XR728 lives with the Lighting Preservation Group at Bruntingthorpe. Still very visible: http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/sho....php?p=1243498

And to add something to the history trip....

This Wednesday, 30/4 marks the 20th anniversary of 11 Sqn standing down on the Lightning at Binbrook.

V1

Sad day - 7 years on A Flt, 11 Sqn

How many other Lightning pilots are still out there, that read this little forum???


V1

Apologies for not fulfilling any of my early promises on this thread.

I've been stacked with work this week, but I WILL post a link to a hi-res version of the photo, I WILL scan the HDR article I mentioned and I WILL reply to the maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany PMs I've received.

Apologies, bear with me, hold the line, hang in there, etc, etc...

Harrogate

Pleeeeease do it .
Thanks in anticipation

:ok:

Hi.

Apologies for the delay with this - been waiting for my chum to give me access to his Flickr account again.

I'm not familiar with Flickr, so try this for size and let me know if it's OK:

Binbrook - take your pick from the sizes at the top

Regarding charity donations for use of the image, it's completely up to you. However, if you do wish to make a donation, then please consider this small charity which is of very personal siginifcance to me...

JustGiving

To help us keep a rough track of where our donations are coming from on the JustGiving web page, please can you just put 'For photograph 1' in the comments section, when prompted.

Feel free to see how you get on with the image (printing, etc) before donating. PM me here if you've got any probs - please don't send messages to the Flickr account, although comments underneath the pic on Flickr are always welcome.

PS - the promised scanned article is on its way soon too.

Smashing.

Thanks very much Harrogate,

Seeing that image again at a larger scale makes one notice the remarkable way the clouds have formed themselves as to frame the top of the tail so (unless there's some jiggery-pokery going on there; beautiful, in any regard!)

:ok:

It's just a bit of haloing. It's an undesirable side effect you get when creating an HDR image, but I quite liked how it looked here so I left it alone.

Like you say, it gives a nice framing effect.

PS - if anyone has trouble downloading the hi res version from Flickr, please send me a PM.