Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
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james_tigerwoods said:
Eric Mc said:
Before they turned over completely to ejection systems they did go ahead with this beauty -
What's the hump at the bottom?The ram air is then heated by the radiator and produces extra thrust out the back offsetting the drag from the inlet.
Other than when a 92 Squadron Phantom FGR.2 XV422 shot down Jaguar GR.1 XX963 from 14 Squadron over Germany in 1982. 
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king-mazing!!
MartG said:
Laarbruch - pic of everyone on the base ( sorry, no idea of the date )
Early to mid 1980s, surely. The first RAF Squadron to go "operational" with the GR1 was in 1982.101" FC Land Rovers
109" Series III Land Rover Ambulance
Sherpa Crew Bus
Carmichael 6x6 Fire Tender
Bedford TK Refueling Truck
Royal Engineers' kit in there too - a Michigan 275 tractor (left) and an Aveling Barford (690?) tipper truck (right) behind the fire engines. Definitely in service in 1982, and the Michigan 275 was, as far as I can remember, gone by the time i got to a field unit in early 1989. I can't make out what the two plant vehicles are at the back, but the one on the right might be a 5 ton compactor (folded up). Used to drop a big weight to compact a crater repair prior to surfacing over it with a Class 60 Bomb Mat. Haulamatic Dump Trucks started replacing the Aveling Barfords in the late 1970s, and it was Haulamatics which went to the Falkland Islands for Op Corporate in 1982. If that's a MkIII Escort (in front of the first Tornado on the left) then they were produced between 1980 and 1986.
Maybe a 'plane spotter' could help date the picture more accurately if there are any under wing stores on the aircraft that have more specific service dates. As it is it's hard to make out some of the kit in the picture. I recall a similar photo of 33 Engineer Regiment (EOD) taken in about 1993 on the old runways at RAF Debden (Carver barracks). They must have been "a thing" back then, but I don't recall such photos being taken very often. Too difficult to get all the blokes and kit herded into the same place at the same time really.
Eric Mc said:
They are. The removal of the air scoop under the fuselage on Galloping Ghost was a contributory factor to the buckling of the fuselage which led to loss of control.
Incorrect.................the fuselage survived at least 12Gs and was still pulling 12gs at the time of impact.We also have an almost identical event in 1998 with the only difference being that the plane ended up at altitude instead of crashing.
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