__________ 1955 BAC Jet Provost The instructors of No 1 Flying Training School, RAF Linton-on-Ouse, Yorkshire indulging in mirror formation practice in 1969

__________ 1954 Hawker Siddeley Gnat Gnats of the RAF Red Arrows aerobatic team, led by Squadron Leader Ray Hanna, perform at the 1968 Royal Review at RAF Abingdon. This highly manoeuvrable aircraft entered service in 1954 and for more than two decades it was the RAF's...

__________ 1954 Hawker Hunter A Hawker Hunter FGA9 from No 20 Squadron, the Far East Air Force, flies past a native settlement in Borneo during the mid-1960s. The Hunter was a superbly versatile combat machine that could be a fighter, bomber or reconnaissance aircraft

__________ 1953 Westland Whirlwind A British version of the American Sikorsky S-55, a Whirlwind HAR10 from 'D' Flight, No 22 Squadron based at RAF Manston, Kent on Search and Rescue Duties, picks up a survivor from a stricken yacht. The winchman is lowered by the navigator...

__________ 1953 Bristol Sycamore One of No 194 Squadron's Bristol Sycamore helicopters landing on an improvised pad high in the Malaysian mountains in 1955

__________ 1948 Handley Page Hastings Hastings from No 511 Squadron, Transport Command, drop the parachutists of the Third Batallion, Parachute Regiment over Port Said during the 1956 Suez Crisis. The Hastings was the RAF's standard transport plane for over a decade

PHOTOS: PHL - April 23, 2008 Photos Link: http://phlairline.com/spotter/042308.html Cheers, DV

"How'd I get all the cuts and bruises?..." http://youtube.com/watch?v=AWXxLWZYAYs

A somewhat surreal little oddity. Be warned - there's not much variation between pictures (but then that's what an index file is for).

Fat Albert took off and did two passes of the airfield before departing for New Orleans. I'm glad the haze burned off in time to get some pics.

__________ 1951 English Electric Canberra 2 An English Electric Canberra B(1)8, on detachment with No 59 Squadron in Cyprus, flies low over the moonlit castle at Kyrenia

__________ 1951 English Electric Canberra 1 A Canberra B2, serving with No 232 OCU up from Wyton in 1989, enjoys clear sky above a cloud covered East Anglia

__________ 1950 Gloster Meteor F8 Three Meteor F8s of No 601 (County of London) Squadron, RAuxAF based at RAF North Weald, practice aerobatics while on a summer camp in Malta before the RAuxAF disbanded in March 1957

__________ 1950 de Haviland (Canada) Chipmunk A trainee pilot put a de Haviland Chipmunk throught its paces. This two-seater trainer was a direct successor to the Tiger Moth

__________ 1950 Bristol Brigand Two Brigands from No 84 Squadron let loose a salvo of rockets at a terrorist position in Malaya in 1952. The Brigand had been developed from the Beaufighter, but was radically adapted into a three-seat ground-attack aircraft