Interesting Cold War RAF colour photos

[Mossie]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... 50-70.html

[seagull61785]

Thank you for the link Mossie.

Brought back lots of memories.

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[Lon Moer]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5174341/Incredible-images-Britains-Cold-War-RAF-1950-70.html

- but no Vamp.

[CAPFlyer]

All the aircraft in the picture were still in RAF service at the time of the photo. The Venoms had all been retired and none retained. The Hurricane and Spitfire are from BBMF, the Meteor is either a drone conversion or with Boscombe Down, the Hunter was still in service, the Javelin was in the process of being retired that year, and the Lightning was the "state of the art".

[Clifford Bossie]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5174341/Incredible-images-Britains-Cold-War-RAF-1950-70.html

- but no Vamp.

That is still an awesome picture: Lightning, Javelin, Hunter and Meteor F.8 are all representative of the RAF during the Cold War.

[Hunterfan]

[quote="CAPFlyer"]All the aircraft in the picture were still in RAF service at the time of the photo. The Venoms had all been retired and none retained. The Hurricane and Spitfire are from BBMF, the Meteor is either a drone conversion or with Boscombe Down, the Hunter was still in service, the Javelin was in the process of being retired that year, and the Lightning was the "state of the art". [/quote]


Not wishing to nit-pick, but that Meteor is a target tug.

[Firebird]

All the aircraft in the picture were still in RAF service at the time of the photo. The Venoms had all been retired and none retained. The Hurricane and Spitfire are from BBMF, the Meteor is either a drone conversion or with Boscombe Down, the Hunter was still in service, the Javelin was in the process of being retired that year, and the Lightning was the "state of the art".

That photo was taken in 1960......and certainly not a time that the Javelin was being in the process of being retired, as it was only the previous year that the RAF converted its final Meteor night-fighter squadron to the Javelin..!!
That Javelin in the photo is from 23 Sqn, which continued to operate the Javelin for another 4 years until converting to the Lightning F.3.
The Javelin remained in front line RAF service until 1968, when 60 Sqn, the last one to operate them, disbanded at RAF Tengah (Singapore)

[CAPFlyer]

My bad then, the caption says 1968, not 1960.

As the youngest of the armed services, the RAF was keen to promote its short yet distinguished heritage. At the parade to mark the disbanding of Fighter Command held at RAF Bentley Priory on 30 April 1968, Air Marshal Sir Frederick Rosier KCB CBE DSO ADC, the last Air Officer Commander-in-Chief (AOCinC) of the command stands with several of the most famous Second World War aces, from left to right: Air Vice Marshal ‘Johnny’ Johnson, Group Captain P. W. Townsend, Wing Commander R. R. S. Tuck (US), Air Commodore A. C. Deere (US) and Group Captain Douglas Bader

(my emphasis)