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07-04-2005, 01:47 PM
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#31 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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07-04-2005, 02:58 PM
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#32 | | Der Crewchief
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Country:  | I like the Lightning pics up there.
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07-09-2005, 01:24 AM
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#33 | | Banned
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Originally Posted by plan_D there's something SPECIAL about the 5 Sqn one... | Just a stab in the dark, but that photo is from what's come to be known as the 'Last Last Lightning Show' I think, yes? Could that 5 Sqn jet be the last operational Lightning with 5 Sqn?
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07-10-2005, 05:58 AM
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#34 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | Nice guess, is as good as any I could come up with.
She really is a beautiful plane though.
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07-10-2005, 08:45 AM
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#35 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | Great shots, d!
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07-10-2005, 02:56 PM
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#36 | | Der Crewchief
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Country: | To be honest I have never actually seen a Lightning, only in pics.
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07-11-2005, 02:09 PM
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#37 | | Konfused with a 'K'
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Country: | I saw one, briefly, a couple of weeks back. We was coming back from some army challenge thing and I saw one on a stand at the side of the road, totally randomly.
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07-11-2005, 02:31 PM
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#38 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | It probably was the last to fly from 5 Sqn. but that's not why it's special - also I've heard that this one I'm talking about is at the side of A-1 now. It's a complete wreck and a complete shame.
Here's one in Duxford that they're restoring. They're very big aircraft for a single seat fighter.
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07-11-2005, 02:39 PM
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Country: | Since I discovered this the other day I must share it. I've had this picture (attached) for a long time and I always just thought it was a Mosquito. Which it is but there's something special about that Mosquito [and picture] to me. It's in RAF Finningley! RAF Finningley is the reason I live where I do (a mile away from the ex-RAF base, now Doncaster Airport) as my dad was based there with SAR-HQ...the Mosquito is a NF.30 from 616 (South Yorkshire) Squadron - it moved to RAF Finningley in 1946 with the Mosquito NF.30.
During the war it was the first unit to receive the Meteor I - and was based in Doncaster. A section of the squadron moved to the continent in January 1945 and served on the continent with Meteors until the end of the war - when the squadron was disbanded...then reformed in 1946 as a night fighter unit in Finningley. It then got Meteor F.4s then F.8s...and that was why a Meteor used to be the Finningley gate guard ...I never knew Meteors were stationed there - so that always confused me. The Binbrook gate guard was a Lightning on a stand it looked really cool - my dad has a picture from his time with 11 Sqn. - that was a good ramble...but here's the picture.
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07-11-2005, 03:00 PM
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#40 | | Master of Ewes
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07-11-2005, 03:04 PM
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#41 | | Senior Member
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Country: | There's one next to the A-1 for anyone in Britain. I can't remember where abouts - it's somewhere between Duxford and Doncaster on the A-1.
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