Best RAF photo!

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The Best Falkland Tour Sunrise Photo......

The Best Falkland Tour Sunrise Photo......

......is taken from the Cockpit of the Timmy just before the descent into BZN!!!! Almost Home.

Falklands Phantom Low and Slow.

 

[DrunkenMonki]

I've got some kewel photos at home. I'll get em' on when work finishes interfereing with my social life!

love all the Tonka ones.

 

[MAINJAFAD]

One of my favourite bits of kit.....

One of my favourite bits of kit.....

.....and I've only got one photo of an operational one at a Training School, Boo Hoo.

One of the Bloodhound Mk2s at Newton, taken during a Battle of Britain at Home day.

 

[monobrow]

I've got some kewel photos at home. I'll get em' on when work finishes interfereing with my social life!

love all the Tonka ones.

Nice one chap. Unfortunately there are a few here that get all misty eyed about those "yesteryear" aircraft!

DT_Xtremez_30: DT_Xtremez_31: DT_Xtremez_42:

 

[T93]

Side lobes

Side lobes

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.




Make it a sticky then M8.

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MJD,

Your correct in your thinking. The T95 wasnt exactly directional. I remember seeing some polar diagrams, and the side lobes were excessive.

 

[T93]

This is the one.

This is the one.

.....and I've only got one photo of an operational one at a Training School, Boo Hoo.

One of the Bloodhound Mk2s at Newton, taken during a Battle of Britain at Home day.

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This is the one I remember. Sat next to the MT hangar. Very close to the entrance/exit of the MT hangar if memory serves me right.

 

[Norman the Storeman]

Wookie trying to squash me

Aaah, Camp Alpha at East Wretham. NITAT was it? Great days! How come it was sunny? Did you have to book that with the range warden? I must have forgot to do that.

 

[BAWBAG]

How about these?

How about these?

These any good?

 

[BAWBAG]

And these?

And these?

 

[Past Engineering]

Gibralter Hunters from Nimrod Galley Window

 

[Former Albert Sooty]

Managed to snap this beauty from the para door of Albert as we were bombing around the Falklands.

 

[MAINJAFAD]

RAF wagon towing a weapon with a difference

RAF wagon towing a weapon with a difference

Bet not many people have seen this!!!! (the Rocket motor is a live one as well).

 

[jack brew]

......is taken from the Cockpit of the Timmy just before the descent into BZN!!!! Almost Home.

Falklands Phantom Low and Slow.

Is this the photo where the Pilot said "and all you WRAFs on board, you are now fat and ugly again!"

 

[MAINJAFAD]

Is this the photo where the Pilot said "and all you WRAFs on board, you are now fat and ugly again!"

Nope, this was taken a good few years before that incident, though if it was the same joker who did the Blues Brothers on take off from ASI last time I came back from there (1999), I may have been driven home by him. (I was told the story by a long time mate who was on the aircraft when the Falklands Queen line was broadcast on the intercom (he was on the Type 94 3rd line team at Locking, so he was down south quite a bit and was most likely not telling porkies)).

 

[jack brew]

When I was at Al Udeid waiting for a lift to Basra - we got on the Herc to the loadie fella playing Ride of the Valkyries on his stereo!! Reminded me of 'Nam

Anyway; Who is going to admit to having taken part in these......

 

[rugby then work]

Looking down on a Herc from Alice.

 

[MAINJAFAD]

Time for a bit more Desperation

 

[MAINJAFAD]

Golden Wokka

and Timmy landing (taken from a Brintel S-61N)

 

[tommo9999]

A piccie from the Falklands.

 

[tommo9999]

Now that I've worked out how to do it, a few more from MPA: