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COLIN SHIPTON-KNIGHT Moderator Posts: 1,059	Photo Recon Jun 2, 2006 18:58:06 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by COLIN SHIPTON-KNIGHT on Jun 2, 2006 18:58:06 GMT Rob Monfea, Cheers, thank you for your support, as you can probably see I'm going for It, lets see how things go! Christ how are you set ,to tackle Nimrods and TSR 2's..................?

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Photo Recon Jun 2, 2006 19:06:46 GMT

Post by COLIN SHIPTON-KNIGHT on Jun 2, 2006 19:06:46 GMT

Anyone else interested in Recce aircraft?

? I'm concious that I may have started this but I don't want to dominate or control, it's not me! As regards it being a potential new SIG I'm happy to start things off and see how it goes, to me its the subject and what the aircraft and aircrew did and do that are important. I have heard it much quoted that fighters do what they do, but it is bombers that win conflicts, HELL none of them know where to go without recce efforts, and it strikes me that is getting even more obvious nowadays, question-anyone do a predadator or global hawk model....?

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Photo Recon Jun 2, 2006 19:13:56 GMT

Post by MikeC on Jun 2, 2006 19:13:56 GMT

colin said:

Mike C, can I count on you? are you interested? despite my preference for cameras in an aircraft, I do readily accept your point about the wider field of recce aircraft that don't have them, hell its still all about a subject that has little publicity, and I feel it needs it???Are you in?

Yes, I'm in: perhaps I'll even dig out that Testors SR-71 soon.

A few examples in my collection from memory: U-2C; F-6B Mustang; F-6C Mustang; RF-4C; Hurricane PRIIb (yes really!); Spitfire FRXIV; Spitfire PRVII. In the stash: F-3; SR-71; ...

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Photo Recon Jun 2, 2006 19:16:31 GMT

Post by MikeC on Jun 2, 2006 19:16:31 GMT

colin said:

... to me its the subject and what the aircraft and aircrew did and do that are important. I have heard it much quoted that fighters do what they do, but it is bombers that win conflicts, HELL none of them know where to go without recce efforts, and it strikes me that is getting even more obvious nowadays, question-anyone do a predadator or global hawk model....?

Agreed: to see "over the hill" was the raison d'etre of military aviation in the first place.

I think there is a resin Global Hawk somewhere - who'll be the first to market a cockpit detail set? :-)

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MikeC Moderator Too many SIGs for my own good! Posts: 804	Photo Recon Jun 2, 2006 19:50:00 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by MikeC on Jun 2, 2006 19:50:00 GMT Incidentally, talking of Predators, check out www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/02/wpred02.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/06/02/ixnews.html
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Rob Monfea Compulsive Poster Posts: 1,362	Photo Recon Jun 2, 2006 19:58:35 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rob Monfea on Jun 2, 2006 19:58:35 GMT colin said: how are you set ,to tackle Nimrods and TSR 2's..................? Have a PRU Blue TSR2 already built, and an Airfix Nimrod on order. Plus another 3 TSR2s in the stash, one in mid build! Cheers, Rob M.
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Thunderjug Established Member If God had intended us to fly, he wouldn't have invented Spanish air traffic control. Posts: 609	Photo Recon Jun 3, 2006 9:06:20 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Thunderjug on Jun 3, 2006 9:06:20 GMT No problem Colin ;D As a matter of fact put me down as a member.
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COLIN SHIPTON-KNIGHT Moderator Posts: 1,059	Photo Recon Jun 3, 2006 19:19:32 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by COLIN SHIPTON-KNIGHT on Jun 3, 2006 19:19:32 GMT Mike C, looking forward to clapping eyes on a Hurricane PR II B, done one myself, never knew they existed until I looked, nice to see the rest. Thank you.

COLIN SHIPTON-KNIGHT Moderator Posts: 1,059	Photo Recon Jun 3, 2006 19:22:05 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by COLIN SHIPTON-KNIGHT on Jun 3, 2006 19:22:05 GMT Rob Monfea, a PRU Blue TSR 2 I have to see, the world seems to have gone crazy over TSR 2's, but a PRU blue one I HAVE TOO see, Thank you.

COLIN SHIPTON-KNIGHT Moderator Posts: 1,059	Photo Recon Jun 3, 2006 19:23:23 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by COLIN SHIPTON-KNIGHT on Jun 3, 2006 19:23:23 GMT Chris.N Thank you, look forward to when we meet............

Julien Scratch Builder Posts: 290	Photo Recon Jun 10, 2006 8:51:04 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Julien on Jun 10, 2006 8:51:04 GMT colin said: JulienD, can I count you as in! most interesting prospect, nice aircraft (RF8), quote] Yes you count me in. Julien
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Photo Recon Jun 11, 2006 18:49:24 GMT

Post by COLIN SHIPTON-KNIGHT on Jun 11, 2006 18:49:24 GMT

Julien thank you for your support!

Well I have just sent off a message to Chris Norfolk officially asking to form the new "Recce SIG", and hopefully that will go through the due processes over the coming weeks, and hopefully we will get back a positive reply! Assuming we do, where do we go from here? Do we need a badge? a motto? Do we want to get together and get to know each other, swap war stories etc.

A few personal preferences,,, I would like to try and get together, although I notice we live all over the place, Lincoln, Bolton, Avon, Keighley, Ipswich and Doncaster......any thoughts???

I would like to get some kind of "identity" for the SIG, although I am not sure what. Reading Edward Leafs excellent book on the RAF PRU/Sqns I am taken by the title, which seems to sum things up quite well, "ABOVE ALL UNSEEN"

I don't know maybe this will spark off some thought and debate, I look forward to your replies.....

Colin

Biggles Scratch Builder Posts: 212	Photo Recon Jun 12, 2006 12:59:31 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Biggles on Jun 12, 2006 12:59:31 GMT "ABOVE ALL UNSEEN" is good, but I would echo Mike, in that "OVER THE HILL" allows a variety of interpretations! Ian
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Photo Recon Jun 12, 2006 19:24:10 GMT

Post by MikeC on Jun 12, 2006 19:24:10 GMT

biggles said:

"ABOVE ALL UNSEEN" is good, but I would echo Mike, in that "OVER THE HILL" allows a variety of interpretations!

Ian

Considering that MrsC and I have been informed that we are grandparents as of 19:00 today, you're not wrong there!!!

Now which would be the best Airfix starter set???

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Biggles Scratch Builder Posts: 212	Photo Recon Jun 12, 2006 22:26:37 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Biggles on Jun 12, 2006 22:26:37 GMT Congratulations, Grandpa! Ian
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