Falklands screenies

jamesstables · Post by **jamesstables** » 02 May 2007, 17:58

I've been having a go at some of this editing stuff the last few days, what do you think? :think:

'Black Buck'

'Operation Paraquet'

John · Post by **John** » 02 May 2007, 18:09

I think you should be proud of what you've done!

Both lovely shots and yet very different

Kind regards

John

Ps whose scenery is that with the Wessex on teh ground?

jamesstables · Post by **jamesstables** » 02 May 2007, 18:11

Just default microsoft and I copied another screenie of the HU.5 into the background.

The background on the Vulcan is google earth :-$

SkippyBing · Post by **SkippyBing** » 02 May 2007, 20:16

Nice work, like the smoke bursts you added to the runway in the first shot!

nazca_steve · Post by **nazca_steve** » 05 May 2007, 03:49

More please, these are very nice indeed. I love historical screenies like this. Maybe you could do a some of the A-4 or Canberra bombing runs aswell...these would make dramatic action scenes (at least the A-4 ones would). Nice usage of Google Earth too.

kit · Post by **kit** » 06 May 2007, 09:12

Steve,

Did the FAA Cans actually get as far as the Falklands?

Pretty early on in the conflict an inbound flight of them was intercepted by two SHARs and one shot down and the other damaged, and later crashed before landing apparently. I thought the FAA stopped using them on strike missions from then on.

jamesstables · Post by **jamesstables** » 06 May 2007, 10:48

Thanks for the comments guys. I'm planning to do one or two argentine ones, and maybe a harrier or two as well.
I'm finishing off this one first (and its taking longer than I thought!):

nazca_steve · Post by **nazca_steve** » 06 May 2007, 18:15

kit wrote:Steve,

Did the FAA Cans actually get as far as the Falklands?

Pretty early on in the conflict an inbound flight of them was intercepted by two SHARs and one shot down and the other damaged, and later crashed before landing apparently. I thought the FAA stopped using them on strike missions from then on.

Hello Kit,

I believe there were several strike missions by FAA Canberras aside from the ill-fated flight in which the Sea Harrier shot down that a/c. A later strike mission saw another B.62 (possibly B-110 or B-108 can't remember which) shot down by Sea Dart missile. This site:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... 84/DWF.htm

quotes: "As a result of the action on May 1, the Canberras, like
the Mirage III's, found the maneuvering against the Sea
Harriers to be beyond their capability. They changed
tactics, and were subsequently employed mostly at night
against the ships farthest from the islands dropping their
1,000 pound bombs from 500 feet.27 This tactic was, for
the most part, unsuccessful."

I can't remember the exact stats, but I know there were quite a few of these night-ops were flown, and in a book I have called' With 3 Para to the Falklands' the author, Graham Colbeck, recalls a Canberra bombing their positions near Mount Estancia.

If anyone else can shed more light on this subject that would be great.
Cheers all,

Steve[/url]

jamesstables · Post by **jamesstables** » 06 May 2007, 18:56

Afraid I can't help with the Canberras and no argie stuff yet but heres a sea harrier

kit · Post by **kit** » 06 May 2007, 22:15

Steve,

kit wrote: I thought the FAA stopped using them on strike missions from then on.

How wrong could I be????? :redface:

I looked into my literature, the Barry Jones Canberra book, 'Air War South Atlantic' and 'Falklands Air War' and was I ever wrong!

On that mission of May 1st Gruppo 2 lost B-110 to a Sidewinder from a SHAR and although the SHAR's wingman fired both his 'winders at the 2nd Canberra it was only damaged and managed a forced landing at San Julian. There were four more Cans on that raid but none got near their targets and returned to base.

Far from giving up with the Canberras Gruppo 2 flew over thirty more missions, mostly at night but not until the landings at San Carlos were in progress. As they had no radar bomb sights it seems they were pretty ineffective though and they flew their last mission on 13th June. On this occasion they flew at really high altitude, FL400, targetting Mt. Kent and one aircraft was downed by a Sea Dart launched from HMS Exeter, the pilot ejected OK and was blown ashore but the Nav was killed.

Reading the small print would probably glean more detailed information if there is anything specific you'd like to know.