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Working on another drawing so I needed to check some angles out .. So what better than the JustFlight Lightning MOST STRIKING

Wowser! There's nothing like the Lightning...

Thanks Dave , best thing is if the punters like the screens , love it, want it, and can't afford it, thing to do is get in this Months Screen Shot Competition , JUST FLIGHT Really have turned the Knobs up put the heat up and have ONE prize this month! < slight error in reading the gift but no excuse not to enter !

Scupper wrote:

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Wowser! There's nothing like the Lightning...

Especially the real thing. Hard to believe it's been more than 50yrs.

Steel, That's a F3 model , already drawn in the gun ports on the nose .. that is so freaky .. and so damn cool , the variant i recall from Avonhead primary school library book tho think that was 'Firebirds' ?

Ian Warren wrote:

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Thanks Dave , best thing is if the punters like the screens , love it, want it, and can't afford it, thing to do is get in this Months Screen Shot Competition , JUST FLIGHT Really have turned the Knobs up put the heat up and have THREE prizes! this month!

Ian you should read the December screenshot competition rules etc there is only ONE prize this month not three

BUGGER ! so much going on at the mo , waiting for some prints to come back from a shop and finding out some history .. .Ill re read the fine print

Ian Warren wrote:

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Steel, That's a F3 model , already drawn in the gun ports on the nose .. that is so freaky .. and so damn cool , the variant i recall from Avonhead primary school library book tho think that was 'Firebirds' ?

Firebirds were 56sqn This is my repaint for a Mk1. the model correctly shows no external ducts but is wrong in giving it a uhf blade.

Off course the Missile is another give away , but this is the squadron banner i planned and worked on , I went to a grounded drawing trying to capture the servicing pre flight and ready to roll , rather what i recalled those forty years ago .. those were airborne and captured my imagination - this brain case still recalls that .. the squadron banner was a Red - White checker board .. least that was what i thought i can remember , it was not a photo but a great painting from someone of the period .

Great screens, nothing like it on the planet.
Purpose-made: go up, fast.
A machine that inspires awe (different I think from awesome).
SO sorry I never got to Thunder City for the ride.

Oh yes ..... great screens Gents , and photo from steel . I have every(i think) Lightning available for fs and love them all.... but the two seaters from the alpha hanger still drop my flaps, as old as they are.
Still owe you a screen steel , must get onto it.

Hmmm thunder city... as much fun as going straight up fast in the lightning would have been, to me, the idea of going flat out at under 100 feet on a mission against a dam or industrial complex in the back of the buccaneer sounds much more fun

Marty , Kiwi , Charl , ... recall the beginning of the TV series "TEST PILOT" .. the gorgeous tail chase camera view as the Lightning climbs up and over an airfield and very quickly and thru the cloud !

Ian Warren wrote:

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Marty , Kiwi , Charl , ... recall the beginning of the TV series "TEST PILOT" .. the gorgeous tail chase camera view as the Lightning climbs up and over an airfield and very quickly and thru the cloud !

Yes i do ..... ive been looking for the series for years. Just bits and pieces on youtube now. I had it all on tape , but ex wifezilla dumped it , along with 99.9% of the rest of my photos and records ... some of which dated to back to Wigram full of harvards and devons ..... my freighter flight photos .... dak trips .... first andover arriving etc etc ...boring old fart stuff i guess.
Better stop there Im welling up here

Ian Warren wrote:

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Marty , Kiwi , Charl , ... recall the beginning of the TV series "TEST PILOT" .. the gorgeous tail chase camera view as the Lightning climbs up and over an airfield and very quickly and thru the cloud !

Splitpin wrote:

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Yes i do ..... ive been looking for the series for years. Just bits and pieces on youtube now. I had it all on tape , but ex wifezilla dumped it , along with 99.9% of the rest of my photos and records ... some of which dated to back to Wigram full of harvards and devons ..... my freighter flight photos .... dak trips .... first andover arriving etc etc ...boring old fart stuff i guess.
Better stop there Im welling up here

Ian, yes i do, a fantastic series.... and Splitpin, i found all 6 episodes in full on Youtube, search 'BBC Test Pilot', there is the full series on there

Splitpin wrote:

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Dec 30 2013,7:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes i do ..... ive been looking for the series for years. Just bits and pieces on youtube now. I had it all on tape , but ex wifezilla dumped it , along with 99.9% of the rest of my photos and records ... some of which dated to back to Wigram full of harvards and devons ..... my freighter flight photos .... dak trips .... first andover arriving etc etc ...boring old fart stuff i guess.
Better stop there Im welling up here

Bloody Hell .. WIFEZILLA ! .. now that is making me think pleased i never got married , "...boring old fart stuff i guess" I don't think so

Kiwia1spad wrote:

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Ian, yes i do, a fantastic series.... and Splitpin, i found all 6 episodes in full on Youtube, search 'BBC Test Pilot', there is the full series on there

Best I search for the series , don't forget - even had Kiwi RNZAF test pilot Steve Moore in there .. now i wonder what he is doing today.

Kiwia1spad wrote:

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Ian, yes i do, a fantastic series.... and Splitpin, i found all 6 episodes in full on Youtube, search 'BBC Test Pilot', there is the full series on there

.... god knows what i was searching for . Is it ok to keep stuff like that (BBC) from youtube ... i mean download and keep. Dont want the cyber feds on my tail .
Thanks K1S.

Ian Warren wrote:

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Bloody Hell .. WIFEZILLA ! .. now that is making me think pleased i never got married , "...boring old fart stuff i guess" I don't think so

Water under the bridge now Ian , but ... my whole Air Force history in pictures ..... gone . I would rather she burnt my car , hang on .... she got that too

Splitpin wrote:

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... my whole Air Force history in pictures ..... gone

I lost many family photo's and history ... that's the thing that can never be replaced , hence the .. my Museum and collection of archives

Ian Warren wrote:

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I lost many family photo's and history ... that's the thing that can never be replaced , hence the .. my Museum and collection of archives

MUST catch up soon I.W I have more things to add to the museum (yours) , just so damm busy at the mo , and not feeling to flash.