pDs rabble of random pictures...and crap...

[plan_D]

The Spitfire!

 

[plan_D]

Axis aircraft I only have one or two pictures of...

 

[plan_D]

I was at the Audioslave concert on Friday and it was FUCK-ING awesome! 2 and a half hours of being up front in the mosh pit was back breaking and it was amazing! Best night of my life, without a doubt. Cornell was spot on and Audioslave were loving it just as much as all 20,000 of the crowd were.

For anyone that cares they played; Cochise, Show Me How to Live, Gasoline, Like A Stone, Shadow On the Sun, I Am the Highway (Cornell did it solo). From Audioslave - Audioslave

Your Time Has Come, Out of Exile, Be Yourself, Doesn't Remind Me, Drown Me Slowly, The Worm, #1 Zero. From Audioslave - Out of Exile

Loud Love from Soundgarden - Louder than Love (Not been heard in Britain for over 10 years)
Spoonman, Fell on Black Days (Cornell, solo and accoustic), Black Hole Sun (Solo and accoustic) from Soundgarden - Superunknown.

Call Me a Dog (Solo and accoustic) - Temple of the Dog

Sleep Now in the Fire from Rage - Battle of Los Angeles
Bulls on Parade (instrumental) from Rage - Evil Empire
Killing in the Name from Rage - Rage Against the Machine.

I am awaiting the pictures my brother took because being so crazy I wasn't trusted with it, since I was crowd surfing and freaking out...

 

[lesofprimus]

ABSOULUTLY FRUCKING AWESOME!!!

I told u they were great live... Cant wait to see the pics Pd......

 

[plan_D]

Here are the pics! I wasn't where these were taken from, these are from my brother's position. I was more over to the left and foward, mid-center!

 

[lesofprimus]

The second one from the bottom is the best, but DAMN! what kinda camera was this again??? A phone cam?

 

[plan_D]

It's some dump one my brother has had for ages...he didn't want to take an expensive one, for obvious reasons.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I normally take disposable camaras with me to concerts, that way if I lose them or my wife washes them in the laundry the next morning....Oh well!

 

[plan_D]

Unfortunately, I have no pictures from my dad's time with the 11 Sqn Lightning but I have collecting quite a few pictures of Lightnings. Again, unfortunately, 11 Sqn are hardly out there...so I only have one picture of a 11 Sqn Lightning...and even that's got a 5 Sqn one in it...there's something SPECIAL about the 5 Sqn one...and if anyone can tell me what special about it, I'll give 'em a cookie....anyway, here they are...

 

[plan_D]

And I've just found some great pictures of 11 Sqn Lightnings...that bottom one, before anyone asks, has over-wing fuel tanks on...they used them for a while on ferrying to Cyprus...but decided it was more sensible to just use air-to-air refueling...

...and this first picture is from 226 Operational Conversion Unit...it's a T.4, used for converting F.1 and F.2 pilots to F.3s....the T.5 was for converting to F.6s...

 

[cheddar cheese]

Cool pics! 8)

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I like the Lightning pics up there.

 

[BlackWolf3945]

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?


Fade to Black...

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Nice guess, is as good as any I could come up with.

She really is a beautiful plane though.

 

[evangilder]

Great shots, d!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

To be honest I have never actually seen a Lightning, only in pics.

 

[cheddar cheese]

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.

 

[plan_D]

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.

 

[plan_D]

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.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i'm still not sure about your sighting CC