When I wasn't on Lightnings....
 

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Still they are about and they had a photoshoot tonight, so instead I will bore you all to death posting a couple of my images... you have been warned :O





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Well, you flushed a WIWOL out, looks like XS904. My steed for some years.

Great, takes me back to my simulator days at Wattisham & Binbrook in the 70's.
Its a long way from Arizona for the photo shoot, the more images the merrier - thanks..

Now that is a jet.

Typical Nutty, all promises and no delivery.

Promises a couple and posts one.

Just joking, any more please?

Ok, a night shot of the cockpit of one the aircraft with all the cockpit lighting on. Handheld gulp! click on it a couple off times for the full size shot. Sorry for the delay, was processing / sleeping


Feel at home?
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Lightning Cockpit by Tony Taylor, on Flickr

Nutty, thank you, at home, no? I am with the thread title. Only had one trip.

The photo suggests that the Lightning was fitted with a RAD ALT (centre top of the glare shield).
Must have been when I wasn't on Lightnings, after 72.
What RA, when, where, how?

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QRA Lightning by Tony Taylor, on Flickr

There appears to be a remarkable lack of drip trays....and sundry / associated floor stains....;)

These guys stood perfectly still, this is a 30 second exposure!!


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https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/586/32...cd326fa6_c.jpg QRA Lightning and crew-1 by Tony Taylor, on Flickr

Bored yet?


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Lightnings-1 by Tony Taylor, on Flickr

NutLoose,
keep 'em coming . Great nostalgia trip for this ex 92 Air Radar Fitter.

The QRA sheds incidentally are the ones from Wattisham rebuilt at Bruntingthorpe.


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Nutloose,
Superb pictures of a superb beast. For Lightning spotters, do you know how to recognise XS904 by its camouflage alone? Answers please.

The Rad Alt was manfactured by Smiths Industries to a Honeywell design. They were being fitted when I was at Binbrook (79-85).

I had quite bit to do with this kit on various platforms when I was a Smiths Rep after leaving the RAF

QRA Shed
 

Just a question - in the hangar is a large yellow guide tray for the nose wheel - what is that there for ?

Guess: castoring nosewheel- yellow thingy stops the zoomie zooming off into the wall?

CG