Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 1)
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MoleVision said:
Which are worth a look.... more about the planes they found.. bet the russkies were thrilled the americans now have examples of all these aircraft.
I shouldn't think they were too bothered, the MiG-25 was years old by the time they dug these up, and the US got their mitts on one in the height of the Cold War, when a Soviet pilot defected and landed in Japan in 1976:
They have found several Soviet aircraft in Iraq, including 21s and 23s:
Le TVR said:
Ray Hanna
Many many years ago we were leaving a Biggin Hill airshow (early to beat the traffic) and my dad stopped the car just before we should have ducked through the trees as the Arrows were due to start their display - the exit in question was right down at the N.E. end well beyond the general flight line - we then sat there (with about 4 or 5 other cars) and watched our own very different display of pass after pass just like this one - next year the Hawks arrived and things (for me anyway) would never be quite the same !Didn't think I'd ever see an image of it though !!
Tony
Almost on topic...
Does anyone remember the "Tonight Programme" with Cliff Michelmore? The reason behind the odd question is that my father constantly harps on about one show where the nice people from across the Atlantic were embarrassed at Red Flag when they tried to track a Buccaneer which was flicking in and out of the sand dunes. Apparently our cousins failed miserably to get a lock on the plane. Does anyone know where I could get a video / dvd of this just to shut him up?
Does anyone remember the "Tonight Programme" with Cliff Michelmore? The reason behind the odd question is that my father constantly harps on about one show where the nice people from across the Atlantic were embarrassed at Red Flag when they tried to track a Buccaneer which was flicking in and out of the sand dunes. Apparently our cousins failed miserably to get a lock on the plane. Does anyone know where I could get a video / dvd of this just to shut him up?
Snoggledog said:
Almost on topic...
Does anyone remember the "Tonight Programme" with Cliff Michelmore? The reason behind the odd question is that my father constantly harps on about one show where the nice people from across the Atlantic were embarrassed at Red Flag when they tried to track a Buccaneer which was flicking in and out of the sand dunes. Apparently our cousins failed miserably to get a lock on the plane. Does anyone know where I could get a video / dvd of this just to shut him up?
Reminds me of the one where the USAF were bragging how they had some pics taken of one of our planes from one of their U2s or similar, 30,000 feet higher up.Does anyone remember the "Tonight Programme" with Cliff Michelmore? The reason behind the odd question is that my father constantly harps on about one show where the nice people from across the Atlantic were embarrassed at Red Flag when they tried to track a Buccaneer which was flicking in and out of the sand dunes. Apparently our cousins failed miserably to get a lock on the plane. Does anyone know where I could get a video / dvd of this just to shut him up?
So the RAF produced a picture taken of the U2 by a Canberra, 30,000 feet higher still
...and the exercise where the USAF were suposed to track a Vulcan and several RAF fighters by radar, but lost the fighters. They had their planes looking everywhere for our boys... only to find they were flying along just underneath the Vulcan and hiding in its radar signature
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