Covert Intel photo of Stealth Workers Building a Spy plane...

( Lockheed A12 C.I.A. spy plane. Precursor to the famous SR 71 Blackbird )

Viva La Biplanes!

Sssh; secret's out...

Bear baiting...

Remember the good ol' days? 

When bear baiting was legal..?

( Tu 142 Bear chased away from UK airspace by Lightning F6 )

Beautiful plane on a beautiful day.

Tally ho for an awesome holiday fly-past!

Pimp my Plane (2)

( Colourful Canadian Air Force McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet )

R.I.P.

Pimp my Plane

Hawker Hunter with spiffing paint job.

Goodbye Ark Royal 1981 - 2013

Sold to Turkish scrap dealers for £2.9 million after various plans to keep her as a museum. tourist attraction, city heli-pad, casino, and even an artificial reef, sadly fell through.

The Mighty Ark leaves Pompey for the final time, May 20th 2013


HMS Ark Royal's keel was laid by Swan Hunter at Wallsend on the on the River Tyne 7 December 1978. 

She was originally named HMS Indomitable in keeping with the rest of the "I" class, but her name was changed because of public sentiment of the scrapping in 1980 of the previous Ark Royal after 30 years loyal service.    

The third and final vessel of the Invincible class,  she was launched in 1981 and completed and commissioned in 1985 at a cost of £320 million.

Nicknamed "The Mighty Ark," she was the fifth Royal Navy ship to have been named after the flagship that defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588. 

Her home port was H.M. Dockyard Porstmouth.

Slightly larger than her sister ships, and with a steeper "ski-jump, Ark Royal 5 carried the STOVL (Short Take Off and Vertical Landing) Harrier aircraft, as well as various helicopters. 

HMS Ark Royal 1981 - 2013
Displacement:	22,000 tons
Length:	210 m (689 ft)
Beam:	36 m
Draught:	7.5 m
Propulsion:	4 × Rolls-Royce Olympus TM3B gas turbines providing 97,000 hp (75 MW) 8 Paxman Valenta diesel generators.
Speed:	30+ knots,
Range:	5,000 nautical miles at 18 knots (9,300 km at 33 km/h)
Complement:	685 crew 366 Fleet Air Arm
Armament:	3 × Mark 15 Phalanx CIWS 2 × GAM-B01 20 mm guns
Aircraft carried:	Until December 2010, 22 aircraft; Multi Mission - Strike, ASuW andASW 12 x Harrier GR.7/9 10 x Sea King ASaC, and Merlin HM Mk.1 helicopters Multi Mission - Strike and ASuW 18 x Harrier GR.7/9 4 x Sea King ASaC, and Merlin HM Mk.1 helicopters

With a crew complement of over 1,000 sailors and aviators, she saw action  in the 1990's Bosnia War and the Iraq war in 2003.

Originally due to be retired in 2016, the old girl was instead decommissioned on Friday 11 March 2011, as part of the RN "restructuring"  - M.O.D. speak for savage defence cuts to save money, allegedly £100 million over her proposed next 5 years. 

Good bye, proud ship.

Vulcan good photo!

The DAMBUSTERS Movie posters

The DAMBUSTERS ( Associated British Picture Corporation, 1955 )

Cinema lobby card set



Richard Todd as Squadron Leader Guy Gibson

Recovered Unexploded Dambuster Bomb

From the Top Secret Classified Intel photo Vault : -

German Officers examine an unexploded Dambuster "Upkeep" bouncing bomb after the famous 617 raid.

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My F 14

My personal F14 Tomcat. Me gorgeous Carruthers flies in t'back.

After hard and exhilarating flight we fly back home to our Top Secret Nuclear Bunker at Biggin Hill

RAF "Tiffy" Typhoon

A brace of WW2 RAF Typhoon fighter/ground attack "Tank busters"

Nicknamed "Tiffy" in RAF slang. The Typhoon, originally designed as a medium to high altitude fighter, ironically became the only RAF interceptor that could kill the formidable Focke-Wulf 190 (its German lookalike - watch out for friendly fire chaps!) at low altitude. 

It found its greatest success as ground attack aircraft firing its four under wing RP3 rockets and dropping its two devastating 1,000lb (454kg in new money) bombs.

More than 3,300 were built between 1941 - 1945.



Wonder if the second Chappie in is one of our former colonial cousins?

Rare 1943 Intel Photo of Pilot and Typhoon. Note the stripe markings (later copied on all allied aircraft for D-Day) to differentiate it from FW190's 

Not forgetting of course, the new chaps...

First RAF Typhoon Euro-fighter diamond nine formation. 

( 3,  17, and-29-Squadrons from RAF Coningsby )

SE5's WW1 France

For your viewing pleasure, my fellow Aviators: -

Just declassified - 'cos, by jove, we do love our secrets here in the UK - Official R.A.F. WW1 photo of a gagle of 85 Squadron's  Royal Aircraft Factory SE5's

Declassified: Official U.S.M.C. photo (1945)

 Official  U.S.M.C.  August '45 photo

Released from the Royal Air Farce photo recon security vaults: A now declassified Official U.S. Marine Corps photo taken August 1945 shot down Zero in the centre of a surrender message. 

Rare Covert Intel Photo

Just thought I'd share a very rare covert Intel photo I took whilst serving as one of the Baker Street Very Irregulars during WW2.  Actually, sometime before actual hostilities. Ahem.


It is their state of the art, very latest, (then) ME109 fighter during Top Secret wind tunnel trials.

But these Fokkers were Messerschmidts...

Don't mention the war, Basil

Rule Britannia...







A GREAT BRITISH BEER

I think we're gonna need a bigger boat...

Top hole landing, chaps but how the hell is he gonna take orf again?

CLASSIFIED: BEYOND TOP SECRET: EYES ONLY

May Day!   May Day!  May Day!

M.O.D.  TOP SECRET: EYES ONLY

What ho, Chaps & Chappettes!

I am Wing Co,  I  run  H.M.  M.O.D.'s  most Top Secret covert unit, code named: The Royal Air Farce.

With an unlimited budget, this elite Special Force operates from Great Britain's only Top Secret Nuclear Bunker, deep under the historic and unassuming Biggin Hill Airbase.

Aided, as always, by my simply stunning Second in Command, Lt Carruthers,

we are charged with keeping the Entire World safe from any and every nefarious baddie.

Hidden deep within the awesome images, funny photo re-cons and exciting Classified Intel Reports, if you know how to decipher the slyly leaked truths from the deliberately confusing sub-text, these seemingly random journals will enrich you with all  the forbidden knowledge they try to keep from your reach.

So, Tally Ho and Toodle Pip -

 - but always remember: Stay Aware, Be safe, Fly the Flag, and Keep the Faith!

T.T.F.N.

Royal Air Farce Blog Re-launch

The Royal Air Farce blog re-launch is GO!