Great site. I can remember having the pleasure of watching some practice
bombing at Faraid Head while on a geology field trip there. It was very
impressive if not completely accurate! I would imagine seeing live
bombing on Cape Wrath would have been even more impressive (from afar
that is). I wish I'd taken my camera.
All the best,
Gareth.
Chris Barker wrote:
> This is OT, I know.
>
> I have been searching for news of a pilot, a black man, whom I knew in
> the RAF around 25 years ago and whom I should like to find out about.
> We went to the same school, a Catholic public school (private school to
> the uninitiated ;-)) run by the Benedictines called Downside.
>
> Well, in my travels I came across Mike Rondot's website. Mike is an
> aviation artist and I have one of his prints (a Tornado on a night
> takeoff in the first Gulf War; it's excellent. Well he now has a
> painting called "Concorde Farewell" available for sale. Mike has flown
> huge numbers of hours in Canberra and Jaguar (I knew him briefly when
> he was on one of the squadrons at RAF Bruggen during the Cold War.
>
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/andrewbrooks1/rondot.htm
>
> One of the most evocative pictures, for me, is the one of the pair of
> Jaguars on their way to Cape Wrath. That area of Scotland, the
> northern part nicknamed "Moon Country" is utterly gorgeous for low
> flying, with sparse populations and rugged terrain. I converted to the
> Jaguar in winter, so the light was always low and soft while zotting
> around (technical term!) this wonderful area. Garvie (Garvaigh?)
> Island was pretty well the only place where we were allowed to drop
> full-size HE bombs, guided or not. Well, this picture reminds me of
> the wonderful time I had in charge of a war machine in my younger days.
>
> Chris
>
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