Nowra 1999 - 15 A-4 line up photo

[lesterpk]

Hi all, the attached pic was taken during FCP99 at Nowra, photographer unknown.
I got a print of it from the Sqn when I left and it was damaged in the move to Perth. I had it scanned and fixed by a photographic shop down the road from work, got it reprinted/framed etc and back in pride of place on the wall.
They also gave me a CD with the scanned image on, I've fixed up a few extra bits they missed and have saved the image as a PNG file of around 50MB. Pixels are 6000x4400 and its looks great printed as a 10x14" photo.
Anyone know who the photographer is/was and whats a good file sharing place I could put the original up at for people to download and have their own printed off if the photographer is happy for that to happen.

Les.

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[skyhawkdon]

There were a number of us up there that day taking them, so it could be any of us as our photos all look the same! Delwyn Blondel (ex RNZAF Photographer) was up there with me as was Calum Gibson (I think)? It was a memorable day! The night shift had worked really hard to get the last (15th) aircraft fixed to make the 15 ship formation (it had a fuel quantity indication fault from memory).

[flyjoe180]

Amazing photo, it is great to see them all lined up like that. Cheers.

[davel]

Great shot! Heres 11 of them in the hangar at Woodbourne post Helen doing her thing..

Took this photo during what must have been the 2002ish ATC national aviation course. 11 was the most I could fit in one frame.

[Calum]

Mar 13, 2012 6:34:55 GMT 12 skyhawkdon said:

There were a number of us up there that day taking them, so it could be any of us as our photos all look the same! Delwyn Blondel (ex RNZAF Photographer) was up there with me as was Calum Gibson (I think)? It was a memorable day! The night shift had worked really hard to get the last (15th) aircraft fixed to make the 15 ship formation (it had a fuel quantity indication fault from memory).

Yup I was there, working for BAe at the time.

Not sure I was up the tower in 1999 though.

I have some shots from 1992/1993 when 75 were tranisting that are similar though

[lesterpk]

Mar 13, 2012 6:34:55 GMT 12 skyhawkdon said:

It was a memorable day! The night shift had worked really hard to get the last (15th) aircraft fixed to make the 15 ship formation (it had a fuel quantity indication fault from memory).

Yeah, my shift started not long before they landed so we got 15 drag chutes dumped on us to keep us amused. As the LAC they were generally my job.

[strikemaster]

If the fighter wing wasn't scrapped I don't think I would find these pics half as depressing. Spectacular as they are.

[Dave Homewood]

That's a great photo Les. It's interesting to see the mix of colour schemes.