Best RAF photo!

[Downsizer]

A few more ...

Napalm sticks to all the little children..

 

[MontyPlumbs]

Oh my god "Christine" is in one of the pics!!!!!

 

[Downsizer]

Oh my god "Christine" is in one of the pics!!!!!

Who is Christine??

 

[MontyPlumbs]

Who is Christine??

Aircraft 59 - the liney killer.

 

[fat lazy techie]

How about these little beauts from darn sarf?

 

[Soupdragon]

enough with all these airyplanes.........

 

[MontyPlumbs]

Now that is old school!! Fly Navy? Sail Air Force!!!!

 

[Soupdragon]

for those of you that ever had the good fortune to visit Gan

 

[MrMasher]

More Falklands stuff!DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[Max]

for those of you that ever had the good fortune to visit Gan

Now that's more like it if only they still had ASR launches but unfortunately they were gone before I was old enough to join up DT_Xtremez_21:

 

[tats]

MrMasher, that sky in the second shot is amazing DT_Xtremez_30:

 

[MrMasher]

MrMasher, that sky in the second shot is amazing DT_Xtremez_30:

I have a few more. Stacker1195 should remember going out the front of work to take some of these!!
It was one of the few times we got him out of his office! DT_Xtremez_30:

The sunsets and dawns down the Falklands are spectacular. I spent a fair bit of time out with my camera at sunset if we werent busy..........

 

[Former Albert Sooty]

A few more sunset / night shots from MPA.

 

[tommo9999]

The photo section at MPA have produced a CD with loads of pictures on - Wildlife, Planes, Personnel, Clouds, Landscapes etc etc. I have a copy if anyone wants one, just make a wee donation to the charity here on the goat for a copy, PM me, and I'll send it on.

 

[Past Engineering]

Mr Masher thanks for those. No. 1 bought back lots of memories from when I was working on the chinooks down there. The view of the Timmie pan reminds of one of our aircraft that dropped from the 100 ft hover onto that pan and turned onto its side, if the aircraft had been delayed by approx 20 minutes I would have been in it as well. I will have to see what photos I can find from down there.

 

[wobbly]

Great thread lads and lasses. How about you adding some of these to the goat RAF of Yesteryear gallery?

 

[stacker1195]

I have a few more. Stacker1195 should remember going out the front of work to take some of these!!
It was one of the few times we got him out of his office! DT_Xtremez_30:

The sunsets and dawns down the Falklands are spectacular. I spent a fair bit of time out with my camera at sunset if we werent busy..........

Err, you're forgetting the food as well Masher. Anyhoo, heres my pick of the hundreds of pics I took down there. (Including a couple taken the same time as MrM)

 

[R_Squared]

 

[Former Albert Sooty]

Basrah 2004

 

[MAINJAFAD]

Not just JAFs! As an AF - if thats the thing that used to be at PPQ! I can remember standing up to my ankles in dirty water in the equipment cabin trying to get the fcuker turned on!

Photo was taken at Byron Heights when it was still 7SU, The Kit being deployed from 303SU on Mt Kent (long before it went to PPQ), via a Stint on Mt Alice by Wokka (Last Sortie was as it was getting quite dark, hence I was able to get the Dusk shot of the Chinook on the main Helipad in the sodium lights (2 second exposure if memory serves)). Radar was a Marconni S259, better known in RAF service as the Radar Type 95, though to the guys on Kent, it was the Flying Pig. It was a scopie nightmare in that it lacked most of the nice to have computer driven display stuff that the Type 94s and 97 had, plus massive side lobes (1/3 of its transmitted power didn't go forward was a figure I heard once), along with huge Sausage shape returns on long range targets.


The T95 was the first RAF radar on the Falklands, one being set up in Ajax Bay in late May/Early Jun 1982.

Great thread lads and lasses. How about you adding some of these to the goat RAF of Yesteryear gallery?

Make it a sticky then M8.