Lancaster Flypast: Ladybower/Derwent/Howden, May 2013?

[perdu]

looks LAG here too

[perdu]

And for relevance, how's about this?

[Mutley]

BBC did a piece on the last flights of the 617 Tornados this morning.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25951180

Doc, any help on colours?

[dr_gn]

Mutley said:

BBC did a piece on the last flights of the 617 Tornados this morning.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25951180

Doc, any help on colours?

Yeah, all good stuff, thanks for posting.

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frodo_monkey said:

Centreline pylon area - DMS Brimstone on the left, Paveway IV on the right as you look at it:

Does anyone know what the thing is between the two fuselage pylons? Looks like a smaller pylon. Was it fitted for the Dams flypasts?

Also, just to confirm:

No Linescan unit under cockpit fitted (unless that's what the central "thing" is in the photo)?

Gun port removed from port side?

Thanks.

[frodo_monkey]

Hi again,

Can't tell you what it is I'm afraid - think it lives there permanently? And no idea if it would have been there for the flypast...

I'm not familiar with what you mean by the linescan unit? Presume you mean the recce kit that used to be fitted behind the faded red panel on the recce jets? Either way the recce kit is no longer fitted. No left cannon on a GR4, it was removed when the GR1 became GR4. No cannon at all on a recce jet!

Edited by frodo_monkey on Sunday 20th July 13:03

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frodo_monkey said:

Hi again,

Can't tell you what it is I'm afraid - think it lives there permanently? And no idea if it would have been there for the flypast...

I'm not familiar with what you mean by the linescan unit? Presume you mean the recce kit that used to be fitted behind the faded red panel on the recce jets? Either way the recce kit is no longer fitted. No left cannon on a GR4, it was removed when the GR1 became GR4. No cannon at all on a recce jet!

Edited by frodo_monkey on Sunday 20th July 13:03

Thanks a lot for all that - very helpful.

The thing in the middle here is described as a "Linescan - GR4A only" :



Then again it says remove the gun port on GR4A only. Is the anniversary aircraft a GR4 or a GR4A ??

[frodo_monkey]

Both were GR4 - one trainer (dual controls), one strike. That linescan bit of kit is long-gone from GR4 AFAIK. GR4s have a cannon on the forward right hand side only, no cannon on a GR4A.

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frodo_monkey said:

Both were GR4 - one trainer (dual controls), one strike. That linescan bit of kit is long-gone from GR4 AFAIK. GR4s have a cannon on the forward right hand side only, no cannon on a GR4A.

Thanks for that. Problem is I've only got the non-trainer cockpit, and decals for ZA492.

I've almost given up on trying to find out which aircraft was which via Google, but I think ZA412 is a GR4(T) which presumably is the dual control version, and ZA492 is a GR4, which would have the standard rear cockpit with the small central joystick? If this is the case than I'm OK.

[frodo_monkey]

I can confirm you have it correct - ZA412 is a T-bird, ZA492 is a strike. We have a flying stats program which tells me these things...

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frodo_monkey said:

I can confirm you have it correct - ZA412 is a T-bird, ZA492 is a strike. We have a flying stats program which tells me these things...

Ta very much.

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One other thing: Been looking through my pics of the flypast again: Did ZA492 really only have one missile rail fitted to the port inner wing pylon, or was something fitted in the stbd. rail's place, or is it just the angle playing tricks on me?

[frodo_monkey]

Looks like nothing on the RH inboard, but normally there would be a launcher with a RAIDS pod there.

[Mutley]

dr_gn said:

One other thing: Been looking through my pics of the flypast again: Did ZA492 really only have one missile rail fitted to the port inner wing pylon, or was something fitted in the stbd. rail's place, or is it just the angle playing tricks on me?

Doc, not sure which aircraft this is, but hope it can answer for you

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Mutley said:

dr_gn said:

One other thing: Been looking through my pics of the flypast again: Did ZA492 really only have one missile rail fitted to the port inner wing pylon, or was something fitted in the stbd. rail's place, or is it just the angle playing tricks on me?

Doc, not sure which aircraft this is, but hope it can answer for you

Ta, yes that's the same one as my pic (and the one I'm modelling). Definitely no missile rail there.

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frodo_monkey said:

Looks like nothing on the RH inboard, but normally there would be a launcher with a RAIDS pod there.

Thanks for that.

[Mutley]

dr_gn said:

One other thing: Been looking through my pics of the flypast again: Did ZA492 really only have one missile rail fitted to the port inner wing pylon, or was something fitted in the stbd. rail's place, or is it just the angle playing tricks on me?

Doc, not sure which aircraft this is, but hope it can answer for you

[dr_gn]

Apologies for the thread bump - I finished my 1:72 model today; thanks to everyone who helped with information on the aircraft. Here are some pics:











Build thread here:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Cheers!

[mybrainhurts]

You're getting good at this, doc....

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mybrainhurts said:

You're getting good at this, doc....

Still some daft mistakes, but thanks very much.