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globetrotter extraordinaire- my views - my images - my words! aviation guru photo guru ..my words do not represent any person or company dead or alive -

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Still hot 🔥- heading to loose off a live Red Top missile - thanks Andy for bringing life to an old slide - image is copyright of
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RT @aircrewtv: A great shot by @BlickyIan from the Falklands.
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Phantom Friday. > from an aerodynamic point of view I'm not sure this would have worked ? The large wing box might have been good for pylons. ~
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6 Sqn - can openers - Were the second RAF Squadron to get the FGR2 Phantom - They trialled the EMI recce pod and did Night ground attack using Lepus flares - Brave boys ! @CcibChris
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RT @AndreasKoureas_: In 1965 - after Sir Winston Churchill died - Lady Churchill naturally received many letters. One from the US stated,….
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Question - Do French ATC go on strike every year screwing the whole of European airspace ? I don't object to people having the right to strike but every year ???
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Time Machine 1969 enough to bring a tear to a chancellors eye - the RN won the Transatlantic air race - and re enacted the arrival at the Yeovilton air day - they even used the same winning Phantom
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Accidents do happen @BPAGofficial @CcibChris - during a touch and go . or a full stop RAF phantom XV495 burst both tyres and slewed off the runway - the crew stayed with it - lucky as the cockpit floor was damaged - the uk F-4 had a habit of nose wheel steering issues
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RT @JonA2i: What a trail he blazed! What a life! What courage! He makes today's drivers look two-dimensional and as dull as dishwater.
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I had the distinction of flying 4 Lightnings on their last flight - XP751 met its end due to an in flight fire - 🔥 luckily the fire was so intense it burnt through the fire wire and I was not aware of it -
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I was lucky 🍀- I managed a base visit to ⁦@RAF_Marham⁩ a few years ago writing the Haynes manual on the Tornado - learnt a lot that I didn't know despite 5 years and 1200 hours on the Air Defence Tornado - 41 Sqn have a long association as a trials unit -
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Phantom day - copyright
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I always wanted one these - heart says yes head and wallet says nooooo @SimonCarGuy
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RT @historyinmemes: The imprint of a Mitsubishi kamikaze Zero along the side of H.M.S. Sussex, 1945.
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Phantom on a cat - I guess there can have been few things more exhilarating than this @CcibChris
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Silver Machine - possibly the most fun you can have with your clothes on
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Standards are obviously dropping !!! 😳 prize for the closest rail strike
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US Air Force pilots inc Bud Anderson evaluated the Lightning in the late 1950s - seen with RPB and a civilian minder ! - they were impressed @thef35
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RT @gmwaterfall: great work!!.
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