Tasteful pictures for Gentlemen of a certain age ...
 

Humm ... Sorry if you've been disappointed :p

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Image Credits : Aeroplane Icons

Amongst the dross on Twitter there are occasionally one or two gems. Recently Aeroplane Icons have been publishing some cracking colour and B&W images of classic RAF Aircraft ... and thought other Members might like to enjoy them too :ok:

https://twitter.com/Aeroplaneicons

There are a couple of 43 Squadron F3's in "Ballistic" pose by Tim McL ... which should please Courtney ... along with more EE Lightning pics for the WIWOL community :ok:

Best ...

Coff.

Not disappointed at all Coff.
My dad was Cpl i/c the paint shop and painted those Lightnings.

Uffers.

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Hehehe, I wonder if they are posting them as the magazine has been sold to Flypast. They have a huge database

Re the Gnat 'mishap'..........

ASN Aircraft accident 28-SEP-1966 Folland Gnat T.1 XM704

:ooh:

Love the 'low vis' Lightning scheme there...hard to spot in the clouds.

CS, thanks for sharing.

I loved the image of the rocket launch from the F-15 cockpit.

That Gnat looks too delicate to be hardly capable of bending the grass. Nice shots. But the bloke in his flat cap and chippie's coat hasn't got a day-glo bib. :eek:

Although he does seem to have an arm band.

It does look like they could lift it onto their shoulders and double off the airfield though :)

Accident damaged Gnat image
 

Common lads, please stop 'lifting' other peoples' material and claiming it as your own. I took the photograph of the Gnat plus several others of the stricken aircraft and am willing to let others use them for publication as long as they are accredited properly. I would expect PPrune to have rules about this!


It makes me wonder if the two excellent shots of the Lightning and Meteor formations are the copyright of Coffmanstarter?

Nutty ... #3 ... I see you've been out playing with your new Aviation Tin Snips already :p

Ok, hands up all those who thought it would be pictures of a certain blonde actress in her frillies.....................

Wander00 :=:=:=:=

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"Did someone say Lightnings?"

The No2 in the Meteor shot is preserved at Cosford.

I too thought it would be pretty young fillies, obviously I haven't reach that stage in my life Coff has :p

There is a connection between 1 and 12 (well painted by the way, sir, son of the father). Those red, chequered fins remind me of the playing cards in Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' (oh, alright, 'Alice's Adventures in the RAF, and What She Found There'), with the Queen of Hearts crying, "off with their heads!" Gentlemen of a certain age have been known to lose their heads to the Queen of Hearts in 12 and similar ladies, have they not?

Not Coffman, but the Aeroplane Twitter feed which seems to be using all sorts of images that aren't their - I noticed one of 'Fred Martin's' on there (Fred being the pseudonym of a well known aviation journalist/photographer) and another of Adrian Blach's

I believe it's called 'liney porn', Nutty.

I have always been slightly irritated by the claims of credit and copyright by individuals for photographs which were only taken with the contribution of several or many other people. For instance, the 56 Sqn Lightning photograph required the cooperation of each pilot in the formation and the efforts of the groundcrew to prepare the aircraft and other essential aircraft operational support functions to be undertaken. Why is credit not given to them too.

I understand that the Gnat mishap photograph may not fall precisely into that category, but I expect that, for it to have been taken so close to the aircraft, the photographer was paid to be there to record the events for the subsequent inquiry. In which case, the copyright should lie with the crown.

Ray if you note Coff put

Image Credits : Aeroplane Icons