Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 3)
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Some of those guys must have had some amazing stories to tell.
We used to have a visiting lecturer at uni, Darrol Stinton, who was an ETPS and then RAE test pilot. Fascinating bloke to talk to. Apparently at one point he had the record for the most G puled in an aircraft and survived after being the first person to survive a Vampire breaking up.
We used to have a visiting lecturer at uni, Darrol Stinton, who was an ETPS and then RAE test pilot. Fascinating bloke to talk to. Apparently at one point he had the record for the most G puled in an aircraft and survived after being the first person to survive a Vampire breaking up.
hidetheelephants said:
Short of marrying Kermit Weeks attending the ETPS is probably the best way to have an logbook full of interesting planes.
I think Steve Hinton has more types in his logbook than Kermit does, when it comes to US pilots.Steve Hinton has logged over 150 types now IIRC.
Eric Mc said:
Was he on secondment to the Italians?
No had retired from the Airforce and was writing for Flight International at the time, but got invited to fly all sorts of things. The RAF invited him back to fly Hawk, Harrier, Harrier on the ski jump, Jaguar. He turned down Tornado because they only offered him a passenger flight not at the controls! Mr Dendrite said:
No had retired from the Airforce and was writing for Flight International at the time, but got invited to fly all sorts of things. The RAF invited him back to fly Hawk, Harrier, Harrier on the ski jump, Jaguar. He turned down Tornado because they only offered him a passenger flight not at the controls!
Stingy. I'm sure the Italians would have given him a go. Not a photograph, rather a video, but chuffin impressive none the less.
USMC C-53 helo with a underslung F-35, while AAR with a KC-130 tanker....
https://twitter.com/Roberto05246129/status/1783760...
USMC C-53 helo with a underslung F-35, while AAR with a KC-130 tanker....
https://twitter.com/Roberto05246129/status/1783760...
LotusOmega375D said:
Err, why?
Because you might need to remove a F-35 from a carrier which can't be repaired on board, and for operational reasons the carrier might be otherwise beyond range of the 53, so needed to AAR while F-35 is underslung.They might never need to do, but they know they can.
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