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Subject: [OM] Re: OT, painting of Concorde
From: "Gareth.J.Martin" <g.j.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:03:43 +0000
Brilliant! I must admit I've always found the Jaguar the more appealing 
aircraft. It always looks the business whereas the Tornado looks a bit 
corpulent.

I know what you mean about it being cold up there. The day I was there 
the weather was really sunny but it must have been near freezing with a 
gale force wind blowing. The amount of geology being done was minimal 
due to the weather (and then the bombing began and work stopped 
completely!). It was October though!

Not sure how interesting you find Cold War structures but there is an 
old Rotor station at Faraid Head. There are some good pictures of this 
site here:

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/f/faraid_head/index.html

There was also a link to this website too:

http://www.durness.org/Military.htm

Best wishes,
Gareth.

Chris Barker wrote:
> That's the place Gareth.  The range is Garvie Island, off Faraid Head.  
> The title "Cape Wrath" is just an indication as it's not too far from 
> the target.  We used Cape Wrath as a fix to find the target when I was 
> on Tornados (with the radar, it's called offset bombing), but when I 
> was on Jaguars we accepted whatever the IN system told us and bombed 
> the rock!
> 
> It would be a great place for photography, but my wife wants to go 
> somewhere warm for our hols ...
> 
> Chris
> 
> On 2 Dec 2004, at 7:46, Gareth.J.Martin wrote:
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
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