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Post by phil82 on Dec 8, 2007 14:27:17 GMT 12
Discovered a few photos from way....back! Though based at Tengah, 14 Sqn detached to places like Labuan and Gong Kedah, the latter an ex-Japanese strip built very close to where they landed, just south of the Thailand border. We arrive courtesy of an RAF Beverly, up tents, then down to the beach with large quantities of ice for the beer! On the beach, we watched a localised thunderstorm with torrential rain, pleased that we weren't in it, till we got back to Gong Kedah and found a [flattened tent  |
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Post by phil82 on Dec 8, 2007 14:35:52 GMT 12
This is real rain.......  |
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Post by phil82 on Dec 8, 2007 14:37:33 GMT 12
Canberra at Labuan,  |
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Post by flyjoe180 on Dec 8, 2007 14:40:49 GMT 12
Great photos, I bet that rain could cause your head to bleed!
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Post by phil82 on Dec 8, 2007 14:40:51 GMT 12
This one overran the runway at Korat in Thailand, and the 'mericans turned up with a bulldozer, but our trusty lineys told them to take a walk involving sex, and got her back on her feet. Flown back to Singapore with the wheels down, but repaired.  |
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Post by phil82 on Dec 8, 2007 14:43:28 GMT 12
A Nice air-to-air of a B12  |
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Post by phil82 on Dec 8, 2007 14:49:37 GMT 12
Great photos, I bet that rain could cause your head to bleed! Actually, we didn't mind the rain because it was a great air-freshener and cooled tings down for a short while. You didn't really need to stand out in it though! These are RAF Javelins at Tengah, just across from us.  |
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Post by phil82 on Dec 8, 2007 14:53:24 GMT 12
A 74 Sqn Lightning seconds from touchdown at Tengah  |
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Post by FlyNavy on Dec 8, 2007 15:19:10 GMT 12
Phil82, Is that Lightning above 'seconds from flameout' also? ;D
RAN A4G 887 inadvertently/inadvertantly through misadventure dropped its wheels at 450 KIAS at the pullout from a weapons delivery. Mangled the wheels somewhat. After the successful arrest on droptanks at NAS Barbers Point (late in 1971) the USN wanted to just take it away and not have us repair it. I guess the Vietnam War had had an effect on this kind of thing - you mention them wanting to bulldoze a perfectly (almost) good Canberra earlier. Anyway 887 was repaired with some new U/C bits and back in service within a week or so.
Phil.
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Post by skyhawkdon on Dec 9, 2007 8:29:39 GMT 12
Great photos. Keep em coming if you have more!  I can relate to the tropical rain. Not so great if you are working on the aircraft at the time, but good for cooling things down and flushing all the crap out of the monny drains! |
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Post by phil82 on Dec 9, 2007 10:26:34 GMT 12
Great photos. Keep em coming if you have more! I can relate to the tropical rain. Not so great if you are working on the aircraft at the time, but good for cooling things down and flushing all the crap out of the monny drains! Righto Don, there seems to be a bit of interest, so here goes...This is not the 14 Sqn pan, It was wher 60 used to park their Javelins so must be after 1966, but there are four Vulcans in the line-up!  |
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Post by phil82 on Dec 9, 2007 10:31:29 GMT 12
This is an ANZUK photo, which incl;udes , believe it or not , two Meteor target tugs., four Lightnings, four Mirages  |
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Post by phil82 on Dec 9, 2007 10:35:59 GMT 12
The B12 and the A4, bosom buddies!  |
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Post by phil82 on Dec 9, 2007 10:42:10 GMT 12
 Tengah flight line. Lineys having their usual chat about who brought the beer money! |
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Post by flyjoe180 on Dec 9, 2007 12:22:33 GMT 12
These are magnificent photos Phil. They seem to have survived time quite well, not much fading in them. Keep them coming, great stuff.
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Post by phil82 on Dec 9, 2007 15:31:47 GMT 12
This is Gavin Trethewey, who was the Canberra display pilot at the time, performing a final display at Ohakea before delivereing the bird to Woodbourne for the Indian Air Force  |
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Post by phil82 on Dec 9, 2007 15:37:20 GMT 12
And this is Gavin Trethewey on that same display doing a very low fast run down 09 at Ohakea. Gavin ended up a 747 Captain on ANZ and is still on the warbird circuit. There is daylight under him, but not much! I think that area behind is the bomb dump escarpment, which means when he cleared it he would have been under 50 feet!  |
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Post by phil82 on Dec 9, 2007 15:41:28 GMT 12
These are magnificent photos Phil. They seem to have survived time quite well, not much fading in them. Keep them coming, great stuff. The fading is all me I'm afraid!  ;D |
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Post by mcmaster on Dec 9, 2007 15:58:14 GMT 12
Thanks for posting these great images Phil
so much interesting hardware around in that era! vulcans, javelins, lightnings, canberras etc.
Didn't the indonesians have badger bombers then?
BTW, Are they RAAF mirages from 75 sqn "magpies" at the back in that tengah flight line pic?
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Post by phil82 on Dec 9, 2007 18:27:58 GMT 12
Thanks for posting these great images Phil so much interesting hardware around in that era! vulcans, javelins, lightnings, canberras etc. Didn't the indonesians have badger bombers then? BTW, Are they RAAF mirages from 75 sqn "magpies" at the back in that tengah flight line pic? Yes , they are Aussie Mirages, normally based at Butterworth. And yes, the Indonesians did have Badgers, but they never showed up for any party. The RAF had the PR9 at Tengah which flew high level sorties over Indonesia on a regular basis, so we knew exactly what they were doing. The Javelins were all-weather fighters armed with missiles, plus there was an RAF Sqn of Hunters at Tengah, and a Badger would have been easy meat for the Aussie Mirages, so they were prudent not to try anything in the air. The Indonesians did lose a Herc to a Javelin, which was kept very quiet. It was tracked over north Borneo dropping Indonesian troops who were subsequently cleaned up by Ghurkas in the area, and the Herc was downed on the way out. The RAF lost at least four Javelins that I was aware of in accidents, two of which I was involved in. |
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I can relate to the tropical rain. Not so great if you are working on the aircraft at the time, but good for cooling things down and flushing all the crap out of the monny drains!
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