On Oct 22, 7:59*pm, Frank Reid © 2010 wrote:
*can ANYBODY help me find the famous photograph of the airplane (i
THINK it was an f-104) with all its armaments arrayed on the tarmac in
front of it, and which served as the model for the photo on the back
of one of pink floyd's albums (meddle?) which showed their presumably
private jet with all of the band's musical paraphernalia arrayed in
similar fashion?


AHA! Wasn't "Meddle". It was "Ummagumma"!

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ummagumma#Cover_art

"On the rear cover, roadies Alan Stiles (who also appears in Alan's
Psychedelic Breakfast) and Peter Watts are shown with the band's
equipment laid out on a runway at Biggin Hill Airport; a concept
proposed by Nick Mason, with the intention of replicating the
"exploded" drawings of military aircraft and their payloads, which
were popular at the time."

And so, evidently, it wasn't necessarily inspired specifically by the
photo I remember, but by any one or more similar photos!

Well.....damn.

giles
who would still like to find the one he remembers, and remains certain
(well, tolerably confident, anyway) that he would recognize it.