Your best warbird seen flying?
Discussion
Eric Mc said:
skirk said:
I fondly remember a pair of F4's flying out of MPA in the Falklands doing an ADEX against us on HMS York.........they were very very good APD's.....so low....could see them coming for miles though...you didnt need radar....
MPA?ADEX?
APD?
I do know what an F-4 is
I guess MPA means "Mount Pleasant Airfield".
The others - I haven't a clue.
It's bit like a game this.
Yertis said:
EPAR – Eric's Predictable Acronym Rant.
Weren't you curious?If people are going to use them, at least they should explain them to the rest of us.
After all, isn't the point of such discussions to communicate something?
What's the point in talking in some sort of secret code.
It really, really, really annoys me.
Eric Mc said:
Weren't you curious?
If people are going to use them, at least they should explain them to the rest of us.
After all, isn't the point of such discussions to communicate something?
What's the point in talking in some sort of secret code.
It really, really, really annoys me.
So I'd gathered. I don't disagree with you either but in general I think "oh that's a new one on me" and Google it, so I know for next time.If people are going to use them, at least they should explain them to the rest of us.
After all, isn't the point of such discussions to communicate something?
What's the point in talking in some sort of secret code.
It really, really, really annoys me.
The one that got me the other day was RAFAT. I literally never hear them referred to anything other than the Red Arrows or more usually just "The Reds".
Back on topic.
Back in the early 1980s there used to be a regular secondment of US Air National Guard A7 Corsairs to RAF Cottesmore (I think). They used to bring all their paraphernalia with them in Starlifters and Galaxies. Even though we lived 20+ miles away, the air would be simply full of noise on the busy days of arrival and departure.
Secondly Paul Morgan's ill-fated Sea Fury and his Corsair together and low over my in-laws back garden near Sywell one summer afternoon. Two of the best radial fighters.
Also B2 with 2 x F15 escort high above same location.
More recently B52s and B1B as posted elsewhere. Also saw a high-speed Rafale fly straight under our BA A319 en route across France to Sicily this summer. Bit naughty?
Back in the early 1980s there used to be a regular secondment of US Air National Guard A7 Corsairs to RAF Cottesmore (I think). They used to bring all their paraphernalia with them in Starlifters and Galaxies. Even though we lived 20+ miles away, the air would be simply full of noise on the busy days of arrival and departure.
Secondly Paul Morgan's ill-fated Sea Fury and his Corsair together and low over my in-laws back garden near Sywell one summer afternoon. Two of the best radial fighters.
Also B2 with 2 x F15 escort high above same location.
More recently B52s and B1B as posted elsewhere. Also saw a high-speed Rafale fly straight under our BA A319 en route across France to Sicily this summer. Bit naughty?
We were talking about Vulcans. Others had mentioned serials. I just mentioned another.
It's all about context (like a lot of things in life).
Some ex service people (not by any means all) just rabbit on in their secret language of acronyms. I actually think they DON'T want people to understand what they are saying. It's like a little club they want to keep all to themselves.
Just be blooming considerate. It's not much to ask, is it?
It's all about context (like a lot of things in life).
Some ex service people (not by any means all) just rabbit on in their secret language of acronyms. I actually think they DON'T want people to understand what they are saying. It's like a little club they want to keep all to themselves.
Just be blooming considerate. It's not much to ask, is it?
LotusOmega375D said:
Back on topic.
Back in the early 1980s there used to be a regular secondment of US Air National Guard A7 Corsairs to RAF Cottesmore (I think). They used to bring all their paraphernalia with them in Starlifters and Galaxies. Even though we lived 20+ miles away, the air would be simply full of noise on the busy days of arrival and departure.
Secondly Paul Morgan's ill-fated Sea Fury and his Corsair together and low over my in-laws back garden near Sywell one summer afternoon. Two of the best radial fighters.
Also B2 with 2 x F15 escort high above same location.
More recently B52s and B1B as posted elsewhere. Also saw a high-speed Rafale fly straight under our BA A319 en route across France to Sicily this summer. Bit naughty?
In 1978 a section of the Irish Army were airlifted out to the Lebanon as part of a UN Peace Keeping Force. They were ferried out over the course of a week in May that year in USAF C-5 Galaxies and C-141 Starlifters. The officers went out in a Trans International DC-10 Back in the early 1980s there used to be a regular secondment of US Air National Guard A7 Corsairs to RAF Cottesmore (I think). They used to bring all their paraphernalia with them in Starlifters and Galaxies. Even though we lived 20+ miles away, the air would be simply full of noise on the busy days of arrival and departure.
Secondly Paul Morgan's ill-fated Sea Fury and his Corsair together and low over my in-laws back garden near Sywell one summer afternoon. Two of the best radial fighters.
Also B2 with 2 x F15 escort high above same location.
More recently B52s and B1B as posted elsewhere. Also saw a high-speed Rafale fly straight under our BA A319 en route across France to Sicily this summer. Bit naughty?
.It was quite noisy in and around Dublin Airport that week.
As far as I can remember were all airshows....
F14 D at Air Fete 92,as a very excited 9 year old finally seeing my all time favorite aircraft
Air Tattoo at Cottesmore in 2000,being airside standing out near the runway on departures day,a Backfire at take off power in close proximity is fairly eye opening 😃
F14 D at Air Fete 92,as a very excited 9 year old finally seeing my all time favorite aircraft
Air Tattoo at Cottesmore in 2000,being airside standing out near the runway on departures day,a Backfire at take off power in close proximity is fairly eye opening 😃
A couple for me - my better half, who couldn't give a fig about aircraft casually saying - what's that and pointing? (XH588 heading slow and low on her way to Silverstone for a display).
Another, whilst at a barbecue at a good friends MQs at RAF Fairford, hearing and seeing a U2 climb out just as it was getting dark in late summer was pretty special.
Finally, a pair of Chinooks (one dark) practising troop deployment in the paddock across the road from our old house... So loud, I thought they were landing in my back garden.
Another, whilst at a barbecue at a good friends MQs at RAF Fairford, hearing and seeing a U2 climb out just as it was getting dark in late summer was pretty special.
Finally, a pair of Chinooks (one dark) practising troop deployment in the paddock across the road from our old house... So loud, I thought they were landing in my back garden.
Either the 3rd or 4th of August, 2013. Really nice sunny summer's morning, lying in bed wondering what to do with my day. Hear a plane (we're right under the final part of most flights to Manchester) but this is no 737/A320! Sounded like it was almost in the garden. Excitedly jumped up and ran to a window just in time to see XH558 fly directly over our house, VERY low and loud. Until this moment I'd only had a passing interest in aviation, I've always been interested but never really knew a great deal. Ran through to the front bedroom to watch her approach Oulton Park and do a display at Carfest. I'll never, ever forget that. Managed to get a grainy iPhone pic amid all the excitement!
That moment started an unhealthy obsession with the V-force, and Cold War planes in general. Through 2014 and 15 I went to as many airshows featuring the Vulcan as I could. Especially so in 2015, as it was announced at this point that it'd be the last year of flight.
September 2015, sat in the middle of JAE (4 day Jap car festival in Newark) fairly hungover, talking about the Vulcan that was a few hundred metres away at Newark Air Museum (XM594) when 2-3 people simultaneously shout my name and point up. It's 558 flying high this time, dipping her wings as she passes 594. One of the last times I saw her fly and it was totally unexpected and within (almost literally) a stones throw of another Vulcan.
Reading through some of these posts I'm gutted I never got to see some of the older stuff fly. Lightnings, Victors, Phantoms etc. Hopefully the Greek Phantoms will turn up to RIAT again this year, and I'll make sure I go for more than just one day this time...
That moment started an unhealthy obsession with the V-force, and Cold War planes in general. Through 2014 and 15 I went to as many airshows featuring the Vulcan as I could. Especially so in 2015, as it was announced at this point that it'd be the last year of flight.
September 2015, sat in the middle of JAE (4 day Jap car festival in Newark) fairly hungover, talking about the Vulcan that was a few hundred metres away at Newark Air Museum (XM594) when 2-3 people simultaneously shout my name and point up. It's 558 flying high this time, dipping her wings as she passes 594. One of the last times I saw her fly and it was totally unexpected and within (almost literally) a stones throw of another Vulcan.
Reading through some of these posts I'm gutted I never got to see some of the older stuff fly. Lightnings, Victors, Phantoms etc. Hopefully the Greek Phantoms will turn up to RIAT again this year, and I'll make sure I go for more than just one day this time...
Old stuff I would say sally b the b17 or the Catalina
Whatever happened to them two?
Newer stuff I would say after Milldenhall two lightnings took off together and went straight up verticallly and then levelled our at a good 30000 feet, I can still remember the vibration in my clothes and in the ground , it was a clear day they levelled out and disappeared.
The pair of star fighters that used to display was good as well
Jordanian Tristan with the raf as well
Whatever happened to them two?
Newer stuff I would say after Milldenhall two lightnings took off together and went straight up verticallly and then levelled our at a good 30000 feet, I can still remember the vibration in my clothes and in the ground , it was a clear day they levelled out and disappeared.
The pair of star fighters that used to display was good as well
Jordanian Tristan with the raf as well
j4ckos mate said:
Old stuff I would say sally b the b17 or the Catalina
Whatever happened to them two?
Sally B is still flying, though rarely strays far from Duxford these days.Whatever happened to them two?
The Catalina was involved in a fatal accident during a water landing. It was not seriously damaged, and was sold but I believe got scrapped a few years later.
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