The Aviation Historian — Issue 21 (October 2017)

30 THE AVIATION HISTORIAN Issue No 21

ABOVE Taken during No 249 Sqn’s Canberra visit in November 1962, this photo shows a crew member posing

with the severed tail of one of the Sabres lost in the “Crossroads of Death” manœuvre at Tehran in October 1961.

Note the ancient Persian lion and sun symbol painted on the fin, the lion brandishing a shamshir (curved sabre).

ABOVE A Golden Crown team line-up poses with its seven Northrop F-5Es, painted with Western Arabic numerals

on the fins, in 1976. From left to right: Maj Manuchehr Khalili (leader); 1st Lt Aminollah Bolghand; Capt Nosrat

Dehkhargani; 1st Lt Masoud Kakwan; Capt Ghassem Golparvar; Capt Kazem Zarifkhadem; Capt Masoud Mostofi.

TOMMY CULLEN VIA AUTHOR

AUTHOR’S COLLECTION