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by Motormouse
30 Aug 2006, 22:00
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Three more IRIS Phantoms
Replies: 8
Views: 1247

, and XV424 didnt have a fin top marconi RWR, so that rules two off the list :lol: Not for the Alcock and Brown run, no, but..... ...wait for it.... it did later in life after I fitted it :lol: Paint it up as it is now in 56 colours preserved at Hendon http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/phanto...
by Motormouse
30 Aug 2006, 20:17
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Three more IRIS Phantoms
Replies: 8
Views: 1247

phantom_fgr2 wrote:i think im gonna have to see that list pete! i think it'll keep me busy for a bit!
Well you just need to add this lot to finish :lol:

XT596
XT899
XT914
XV409
XV412
XV423
XV424==> Done in the Alcock and Brown scheme by Igorski for the AS model


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Pete
by Motormouse
30 Aug 2006, 20:04
Forum: Gallery
Topic: For a change...
Replies: 13
Views: 2991

VEGAS wrote:
jonesey2k wrote:I love the add-on GPS :lol:
I thought it was a TomTom! :lol:
by Microsoft!

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Pete
by Motormouse
29 Aug 2006, 20:35
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Three more IRIS Phantoms
Replies: 8
Views: 1247

Thats' another one off my list Ben! XV438 :wink:

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Pete
by Motormouse
29 Aug 2006, 05:15
Forum: Gallery
Topic: XV400, XV408, XV500, XV501 New Releases
Replies: 14
Views: 3146

phantom_fgr2 wrote:hey pete check this one out http://www.airsceneuk.org.uk/oldstuff/wow/wow.htm
Yep, same photo....lots of us had a copy....but the phacts are a definitely a bit 'blurred'...I know better :lol:

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Pete
by Motormouse
28 Aug 2006, 21:42
Forum: Gallery
Topic: XV400, XV408, XV500, XV501 New Releases
Replies: 14
Views: 3146

Here you go Ben, All the UK Phantom histories on one site......... http://www.thephantomshrine.co.uk/menu.htm The last Phantom I worked on,was XT 596, the YF-4K that is now preserved at Yeovilton museum,prior to its last overhaul it had been Bae's trials plane based at Holme-on-Spalding Moor, then l...
by Motormouse
28 Aug 2006, 19:47
Forum: Gallery
Topic: XV400, XV408, XV500, XV501 New Releases
Replies: 14
Views: 3146

it was on 23 sqn and not 1435 flt lol, god knows why it has dual insignias. That's because it was a 23 Sqn bird, Ben......I'll explain..... Originally, Falklands air defence was provided by 23 Sqn, when it deployed en-masse to Port Stanley from Coningsby after the war; (This left a gap in UK air de...
by Motormouse
27 Aug 2006, 21:53
Forum: Gallery
Topic: XV400, XV408, XV500, XV501 New Releases
Replies: 14
Views: 3146

motormouse, Great photo Pete! Cheers Here's another taken at same location (not by me), although I was probably there when this was taken http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b193/motormouse/low5.jpg flying between the hangars (St Athan, 76 hangar behind the jet, where we did the Phantom overhauls, an...
by Motormouse
27 Aug 2006, 21:18
Forum: Gallery
Topic: XV400, XV408, XV500, XV501 New Releases
Replies: 14
Views: 3146

Well thats' another two I've worked on crossed off the list (XV501 and XV408), mind you,501 didn't have the fin cap back in Spring '81 when this photo was taken, 501 on the left, XV420 on the right. http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b193/motormouse/4_shed_cut.jpg And here's the full version which is...
by Motormouse
26 Aug 2006, 01:20
Forum: Repaint Hangar
Topic: one eleven 'house'? private?
Replies: 16
Views: 3889

S'ok Garry, just pulling yer chain!

I take it you've seen this gallery then

http://www.bac1-11jet.co.uk/bac1-11jet. ... allery.htm

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Pete