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Very true, very interesting. I'll ask my dad about it! They don't have emblems on the tails either, but the cover clearly states 311. Notice these don't have the white rectangle on the nose like the Eindhoven Streaks had in the later years.bingo20 wrote:Security at Volkel was indeed very tight in the Streak-days and i can remember that i made this photo under rather difficult circumstances in September of 1964 : it proofs also, that 311 squadron Streaks not always flew with only one pylon-tank !
I think Hans meant "alert" in the sense of "being awake" at this time; However, EHEH DID have a QRA in those days; it was seldom used but it was there, nicknamed "de schaapskooi" ("sheep's shed") and -if memory serves me correctly- it was half way between the tower and the threshold of Runway 24.Mickey312 wrote:Hans,bingo20 wrote:Let's continue with this nice and tidy one : two Streaks , one asleep but the other one alert !
Hans
I don't think it is on alert, as I think Eindhoven's tasks (CAS and conventional bombing) didn't require QRA. Mickey
You're right, of course; got it mixed up with the 06/24 at nearby Schiphol, my current "home station" as spotter. Ah, the famous "fietspad"... and the fence at the 08 end where you could stick your camera through the lines of barbed wire without the need for stepladders...bingo20 wrote:I must correct you when you talk of runway 24 : EHEH had two runways in use at the time : 08 and 26 and , later on , when the main-runway
was not usable anymore the parallel taxi-track was used as 08 Right and 26 Left.
Hans
Yep, the same... ahh, the memories...bingo20 wrote:these two Streaks are taxying on "het fietspad"at EHEH before take-off from runway 08 in 1966 ; that's the place you refer to , Frank , I believe?
Hans
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