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Got a few pics. from a very gloopy TLP at St.Mawgan in Feb.93 (I think). I have lost my notes

I have brightened & tidied to the best of my abilily, so here's the best (or least poor).

The launch

st.mawgan feb93. a by eds555, on Flickr


St.mawgan feb93. b by eds555, on Flickr


st.mawgan feb 93.c by eds555, on Flickr


st.mawgan feb93. d by eds555, on Flickr


st.mawgan feb93. 4a by eds555, on Flickr


st.mawgan feb93. e by eds555, on Flickr


st.mawgan feb 93.f by eds555, on Flickr


st.mawgan feb93. g by eds555, on Flickr

the recovery

st.mawgan feb93. by eds555, on Flickr


st.mawgan feb93. 5sqdn by eds555, on Flickr

Nice selection mate, loving those 800NAS Shars.........

bluming heck!! you couldn't have been standing in the field to fare away from me on that day!!
here's one of mine of the same GR1!!

and the F3 about to depart!

one of the best couple of days spotting! if only it was like that now

buzzer wrote:bluming heck!! you couldn't have been standing in the field to fare away from me on that day!!(

Likewise .
It would have been Feb or early March 1993. I have also lost my notes, but still have the prints which include the mass F3 / Bucc launches and the anniversary marked 899 Sqn Sea Harrier.

Victor5 wrote:but still have the prints which include the mass F3 / Bucc launches and the anniversary marked 899 Sqn Sea Harrier.

PLEASE can we see them then!

here's mine if you like
the harriers.


and like above the mass F3 take off,the GR1, buccs and harriers did the same..
all with in the space of 1/2 hour!!




then we had the mass return! think i must have banged of couple of rolls of film in the space of a morning..
happy days



seem to remember (but might be wrong?) the FRADU hunter were part of the days fun as well??


think i snapped these 2 and not the others taking part because first was there PR11 and the other was a T7.. not there normal T8/GA11's

hope you don't mind me sticking my photos here as well eds555??

These are great Buzzer.........think this should be a contineous thread.......

Great to see camo GR1s, camo Bucc's, and the FRS1 SHARs

I presume this was a mass exercise? Not sure what TLP means. Would anyone know where they mainly headed to on exercise?

TLP= Tactical leadership Programe.....

looks like I was standing next to Buzzer:

radical99 wrote:I presume this was a mass exercise? Not sure what TLP means. Would anyone know where they mainly headed to on exercise?

TLP is Tactical Leadership Programme AKA TLC Tactical Leadership Course.
If memory serves me correctly they operated not far from the location of yourself.
I also seem to remember, during this course, a light civil being turned away from St.Mawgan because they "....are expecting to recover sixty-plus fast-jets within the next forty minutes." Days like those are now sadly history! Mass launches, mass recoveries equals happy spotters!

[quote="Victor5"]looks like I was standing next to Buzzer:


so was i!

Blimey, o'riley! Small wonder I had bruised toes

These are great guys. You've just gotta love the Shar.
Keep on posting away please

TLP= Tactical Leadership Programme

Malfatron Malkovic wrote: I also seem to remember, during this course, a light civil being turned away from St.Mawgan because they "....are expecting to recover sixty-plus fast-jets within the next forty minutes." Days like those are now sadly history! Mass launches, mass recoveries equals happy spotters!

yeap.. your right.. heard it on the box.. and remember us all being rather pleased at the thought!! allso one of the bucc called a PAN with an engine fire warning(or something similar!)light on.. made a very low pass of the tower, then a rather short landing seem to remember the canopy was open and back seat-er was half out before it had rolled to a stop!!!
i say again.. HAPPY DAYS

can't believe we were all standing on that wall!! question is will we ever meet on that wall again??? i very much doubt it!

buzzer wrote:can't believe we were all standing on that wall!! question is would we ever meet on that wall again??? i very much doubt it!

Not with that blinking great fence in the way

All of you should have a 20th anniversary reunion next year on that wall! I was 14 in Feb '93, wish i'd taken more interest back then on what was flying round here! It was pretty relentless at times. Depressingly quiet these days.

I was on holiday in that very Area in the Summer of 1993 just before IAT'93 and all we got were RAF SAR Helicopters and a Do.228 or summit, got more movements at Culdrose. Now those movements would have been the Spotting Highlights apart from IAT and Yeovilton Visits.

20 years ago!! wise I could find my log books! Must have " disposed" off them Years ago.. Did well to keep some of my photos!. Anyone else got a log for it?

buzzer wrote:20 years ago!! wise I could find my log books! Must have " disposed" off them Years ago.. Did well to keep some of my photos!. Anyone else got a log for it?

I reckon we were all stood in that field that day ! I have loads of similar shots too !
Wont be able to scan them for a while though , getting married in two days time and then away , so kinda busy at the moment !
My log for March 4th and 5th has the following .............

899 sqn Sea Harrier FRS1 ZD691/713 , ZA175/717
20 sqn Harrier T4 ZB600/Z
20 sqn Harrier GR7 ZD407/B
F3OEU Tornado F3 ZG793, ZE889, ZE756, ZE968
5sqn Tornado F3 ZG753/CH, ZE734/CX, ZG772/CN, ZG730/CC, ZG728/CI,
TOEU Tornado GR1 ZD749/U, ZD716/O, ZG706/E
17 sqn Tornado GR1 ZA446/CJ
27 sqn Tornado GR1 ZA490/JM, ZA450/JC
617 sqn Tonado GR1 ?????/AJK
208 sqn Buccaneer S2B XX892, XX895, XV332,
12 sqn Buccaneer S2B XX893, XX899, XV361/361
Hawk T1 XX338, XX158, XX256, XX236

There must have been others over the course of the week such as the other 2 Sea Harriers and 27sqn Tornado JH as in the pics above .

Cheers, Mark