Spinners

I don't think Mr. Dassault would allow it but that's a neat idea.

My first thought would be that It would need a new name but 'Scimitar' is such a good name and it does still have the overall look of the Scimitar so go with how you feel.

P.1154 (RAF) ?? Forget that, it's the Supermarine Supersonic Scimitar.

Great work - Thank You! It's one of favourite Mirage schemes.

Feline Groovy

Kitchen Sink

Finally got to grips with it!

Quality assured - why pay more?

Chapeau to all concerned.

Zapped and snapped!

BAe Sea Kestrel FRS.1 - 899 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy, 2002 The cancellation of the proposed CVA-01 in 1966 left the Royal Navy with no replacements in sight for both HMS Eagle and HMS Ark Royal and thus began a slow and painful run down in the Fleet Air Arm's fixed-wing capability. But in April 1973 the Admiralty were given a glimmer of hope by being allowed to procure three 'anti-submarine warfare' carriers of the Invincible class. Whilst primarily designed to take large numbers of medium sized ASW helicopters the Admiralty allowed for the deployment of the V/STOL Harrier and quickly followed up the order for the carriers with an initial order for 24 Sea Harriers (later increased to 34). Entering service in 1978 (but not declared operational until 1981) the small Sea Harrier force performed remarkably well in the 1982 Falklands Conflict and with confidence high the Admiralty immediately planned for the attrition replacement of the six Sea Harriers lost, the speedy introduction of an improved version and also the design and development of a supersonic V/STOL successor. The first two elements of this plan were immediately approved but, in January 1983, the Admiralty were informed that the Sea Harrier replacement would have to be part of the RAF's Air Staff Target 403 (AST403) essentially for a planned successor for the Jaguar and Harrier in RAF service. During this time the British Aerospace (BAe) design team at Kingston (formerly the Hawker design team) had been sketching advanced V/STOL designs to meet AST403 and could see that the involvement of the Royal Navy would lead to a larger UK programme and also open up a larger export market for an aircraft designed for land-based and carrier-based use. By March 1983 the Kingston design team had dusted off their P.1214 project and offered several versions to the UK Ministry of Defence. The build-up to the 1983 British General Election saw the Conservative Party, led by Margaret Thatcher, make capital of the UK's victory in the previous year's Falklands War and on the promise of 'strong defence' they announced the decision to procure a successor to the Sea Harrier on June 2nd, 1983 with an order for 50 P.1214's for the Fleet Air Arm and a further 150 P.1214's for the RAF with initial deliveries going to the Royal Navy. Development moved smoothly and, as a nod towards the P.1214's lineage, the BAe design team renamed the aircraft Kestrel II. Entering service in May 1988 with the newly reformed 892 Naval Air Squadron the Sea Kestrel FRS.1 served with four frontline Fleet Air Arm squadrons seeing service in both Gulf Wars and also the Second Falklands War of 2002. Thank you Cocas!

Something borrowed...

No problem mate. It does make you wonder why the good work of the cast and crew can just be pushed aside and left virtually unseen. Another example is 'The Night Walker' - scared me 5hitless when I was a kid!

Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer Mk.52 - HävLLv 31, Ilmavoimat, 1972

Welcome to the what if section.

Grumman F-14H Tomcat - 340 Mira, Hellenic Air Force, 1986 The 1979 Islamic Revolution saw the abrupt cessation of deliveries of the third batch of 60 F-14A fighters intended for Iran leaving Grumman with 44 unwanted Tomcats on their production line. Whilst payment for the aircraft was essentially underwritten by the US Government, Grumman were given permission to offer the aircraft to the export market and duly approached Canada, Israel and the United Kingdom but received only lukewarm interest. However, the Hellenic Air Force expressed strong interest in the aircraft and asked for a downgraded version (essentially without the AIM-54A Phoenix missile) to supplement it's F-4E interceptor force. In January 1980 an order was placed by Greece for 50 Tomcats comprising of 6 additional aircraft tagged onto the 44 Iranian aircraft on the production line and designated F-14H. Details of the deal were not officially disclosed at the time but are now known to have involved substantial offsets associated with the extension of leases on US bases in Greece. My mate Mario (ValAstur) has beaten to it by making a splendid Greek F-14H but this was like an itch I just had to scratch!

Early days

Back to Binbrook...

Triple-X Rated

The Lucky Star http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081083/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Looks like a rare film - nothing on ebay, Amazon or Play : ( BTW found it using this http://www.filmsandtv.com/advsearch.php

Cutlass 2 FTW!

G-Force

BAe Boreas FG.3 - No.17 Squadron, RAF 'Operation Granby' 1991

Only thing about 'Privateer' is that Consolidated used it so it would be about the same as McDonnell using 'Mustang' for the F4H-1. BTW I am aware that Brigand was used by Bristol for their little-known attack aircraft but that's on the other side of the pond.

Point Defense