Does anyone recognise themselves?
 

Just stumbled across these, does anyone recognise themselves, or their steed?

A perspective from the other side..........

http://forums.airforce.ru/attachment...0&d=1183574119

http://forums.airforce.ru/attachment...1&d=1183574171

http://forums.airforce.ru/attachment...3&d=1183574386

http://forums.airforce.ru/attachment...8&d=1183574690

http://forums.airforce.ru/attachment...5&d=1183575089

http://forums.airforce.ru/attachment...7&d=1183575153

http://forums.airforce.ru/attachment...2&d=1187727124

http://forums.airforce.ru/attachment...3&d=1187727133

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...1&d=1146219929

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...5&d=1147122226

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...3&d=1151763782

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/att...4&d=1151763782

More importantly; how did a Soviet photographer get on board the lead? :cool:

And since when did MR1's have tip tanks?:confused:;)

Kokpit,
The first six are from a Russian perspective, but the rest are not.

And their dumb Int people seem to think pics 1-6 are all PybLEBs....sheesh :rolleyes:

One from the loft..
 

I wondered that after I'd posted them, bloody intardnet, you just cannot trust them! :}

Great pic sidevalve :D

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.

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!!

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

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!

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!

Only in photoshop?

Apparently, this is what 'you' looked like in 1961:

http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/p...g?t=1231445697

Did it ever have 2 pitots, I don't recall one off the radome bullet?

The Russki pic clearly states P1B - and here is one of our pics which shows the double pitot

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c9...ghtningP1B.jpg

Bloomin' 'ell, them Ruskis (oops, a PC transgression) weren't as daft as others would have us believe then!

Ruskis! Careful, you might cop some fallout from the Prince Harry thread if you're not careful!:}

Pontius - total respect! Not many Navs could pull out a K2 from a Kiev in that murk. You'd do well in the current Stasi recce test, the example above would be one of the easier ones! Anyway, just for you, one from the archives - bonus marks for the oiler and the Captains name.

You can put your hand down, Mr Muttit.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/s...NSN8606934.JPG

Boris Chilikin. Can't remember the Captain's name, sorry.:}

The Chilikin will be Dnestr, it was always Dnestr.:cool:

Top Knot and Vee Cone... Kiev, Kiev:confused:

As for the Kresta II :sad:

I must go and lie down now.

One for the Rotary Lads. (very post cold-war!!)

http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/p...e/DSC00569.jpg

The Victor is 55sqn XH650.
Probably taken on Sept 22 1972.
Was a single Bear D.

We had 2 Bears on July 17th same year in XH587.
No photo's.

Cheers.

I hesitate to ask what the bloke in the Bear is engaged in. Whatever it is, it seems to involve him grimacing in pain and being pressed firmly against the plexiglass. How bizarre.

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n...e/a7593911.jpg

Just yammed a Ginsters "Export" pie..?

Trying to pass one more like.

Falklands between Oct 90 to Jan 91

http://www.asmh37.dsl.pipex.com/p1.jpg