Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 1)

Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 1)

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FourWheelDrift

88,382 posts

283 months

Friday 30th July 2010
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The real Apache said:
Eric Mc said:
I wionder are you recalling the Buccaneer footage from the 1979 or 1980 Red Flag exercises?
Methinks so too, the Buccs came in so fast and so low it took em by surprise
They were probably hiding under the wing of the Vulcan smile

RizzoTheRat

25,085 posts

191 months

Friday 30th July 2010
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munroman said:
Was it not the case that very late in the day the USAF detected a Vulcan flying at 50ft or so, it had come in from Canada, when the USAF detected it the Vulcan pulled up and there were 2 Bucaneers underneath it!
Didn't nearly all the Vulcan's that took part in an exercise to penetrate the US air defences back in the '60s reach thier targets?

SMKurt

2,856 posts

193 months

Friday 30th July 2010
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I'm not sure if my picture is interesting or not, i'll post anyway. I've got more upon request smile


NSXKeith

190 posts

211 months

Friday 30th July 2010
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I took my best ever picture in a F3. Here's me on a trip in Cyprus flying in the rear aircraft of a diamond formation - I didn't realise that the reflection in the visor would come out like this!!!! Quite proud of it



Since we are lovin' the F3 at the minute, here are a couple of pictures I took of a 111Sqn jet a few months ago during a air-air refuelling trip in a VC10





And here's one of the other VC10 we formated out with - fanatastic aircraft - soon to be no morefrown


M-J-B

14,980 posts

249 months

Friday 30th July 2010
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Good pictures thumbup

Edited by M-J-B on Friday 30th July 22:37

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

278 months

Friday 30th July 2010
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NSXKeith said:
111Sqn jet
You probably know my brother in law, he flew F3s with that lot.

NSXKeith

190 posts

211 months

Friday 30th July 2010
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Ayahuasca said:
NSXKeith said:
111Sqn jet
You probably know my brother in law, he flew F3s with that lot.
Doubt it mate; I was on 25 Sqn between 1991 and 1996 - haven't been back on the F3 fleet since. That photo was taken during A-A refuelling, it just happened to to take some fuel while we were up there.

Cheers

perdu

4,884 posts

198 months

Saturday 31st July 2010
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NSXKeith said:
I took my best ever picture in a F3. Here's me on a trip in Cyprus flying in the rear aircraft of a diamond formation - I didn't realise that the reflection in the visor would come out like this!!!! Quite proud of it



Since we are lovin' the F3 at the minute, here are a couple of pictures I took of a 111Sqn jet a few months ago during a air-air refuelling trip in a VC10





And here's one of the other VC10 we formated out with - fanatastic aircraft - soon to be no morefrown

Blimey Keith that's really you!

and a very good picture

I hope you have sold it on

SlipStream77

2,153 posts

190 months

Saturday 31st July 2010
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I remember reading about a test pilot that reckoned if he could drag it down low enough, he could defeat an F16 using an F3.

NSXKeith

190 posts

211 months

Saturday 31st July 2010
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perdu said:
NSXKeith said:
I took my best ever picture in a F3. Here's me on a trip in Cyprus flying in the rear aircraft of a diamond formation - I didn't realise that the reflection in the visor would come out like this!!!! Quite proud of it

Blimey Keith that's really you!

and a very good picture

I hope you have sold it on
To be honest I think this is the first time I have shown it on a forum - I haven't sold it and don't think I would get anything for it anyway - it is an old-fashioned photo, but I still have the negative (this was scanned in).

Thanks for the comments though.

Mojocvh

16,837 posts

261 months

Saturday 31st July 2010
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SlipStream77 said:
I remember reading about a test pilot that reckoned if he could drag it down low enough, he could defeat an F16 using an F3.
Yeah JTIDS can really bugger up someones day smile

We had an "event" during one cope thunder where the home team (F15/16) got themselves completely done over by the "donkeys".
Just goes to prove that when they start believing their own BS the only way is down and out!! Tactics Tactics Tactics. yes

It's like the Jag, an aircraft that has had it's avionice capacity multiplied, however long in the tooth, suddeny is transformed. Real shame they never fitted the HMS and/or wiring out for the asraams on both aircraft, such a force multiplier.

Mojocvh

16,837 posts

261 months

Saturday 31st July 2010
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NSXKeith said:
perdu said:
NSXKeith said:
I took my best ever picture in a F3. Here's me on a trip in Cyprus flying in the rear aircraft of a diamond formation - I didn't realise that the reflection in the visor would come out like this!!!! Quite proud of it

Blimey Keith that's really you!

and a very good picture

I hope you have sold it on
To be honest I think this is the first time I have shown it on a forum - I haven't sold it and don't think I would get anything for it anyway - it is an old-fashioned photo, but I still have the negative (this was scanned in).

Thanks for the comments though.
Smashing pictures, thanks for sharing.

Mo.

megy

2,429 posts

213 months

Saturday 31st July 2010
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NSXKeith said:
Ayahuasca said:
NSXKeith said:
111Sqn jet
You probably know my brother in law, he flew F3s with that lot.
Doubt it mate; I was on 25 Sqn between 1991 and 1996 - haven't been back on the F3 fleet since. That photo was taken during A-A refuelling, it just happened to to take some fuel while we were up there.

Cheers
I was on 25 Sqn from 89 to 92, what did you do there?

NSXKeith

190 posts

211 months

Saturday 31st July 2010
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megy said:
NSXKeith said:
Ayahuasca said:
NSXKeith said:
111Sqn jet
You probably know my brother in law, he flew F3s with that lot.
Doubt it mate; I was on 25 Sqn between 1991 and 1996 - haven't been back on the F3 fleet since. That photo was taken during A-A refuelling, it just happened to to take some fuel while we were up there.

Cheers
I was on 25 Sqn from 89 to 92, what did you do there?
I was an SAC (LAC for the first 3 months) avionics mechanic on A shift - you?

AlexC1981

4,904 posts

216 months

Saturday 31st July 2010
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PaulG40 said:
AlexC1981 said:
I'm using this as my desktop wallpaper at the moment.

Looks like a real workhorse.

Great Pic! Right Click, Save as. Use as Wallpaper!clap
There's a 1280x1024 version here. Photobucket has scaled down the one I posted.

http://www.topsir.com/desk/class114/7356/a7f8c40f3...

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

278 months

Monday 2nd August 2010
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Ewan S

1,295 posts

226 months

Monday 2nd August 2010
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left to right said:
munroman said:
Tootles the Taxi said:
Eric Mc said:
That was my point. The crews exceeded the aircraft.

As they did back in the days of the Strategic Air Command Giant Voice bombing competitions. Whenever the Vulcans took part - they tended to win (against the B-52s and F-111s that SAC put up).
Somewhere in the dusty recesses of my brain I recall a TV documentary that showed how RAF Vulcans took part in either Red Flag or some other wargame exercise and it was illustrated by footage of a Vulcan at zero feet twisting and turning through a valley "somewhere in Nevada" trying to evade "enemy AAA and radar". The footage was accompanied by the comments from USAF radar techs commenting on how those RAF chaps were flying and some wag then cuts in with "... you should see it from out here, its even better"

Wish I could get hold of that clip, it was simply awesome.
Was it not the case that very late in the day the USAF detected a Vulcan flying at 50ft or so, it had come in from Canada, when the USAF detected it the Vulcan pulled up and there were 2 Bucaneers underneath it!
I was told that the vulcan was flying a commercial airliner route with 2 Bucaneers very close making it look like one radar blip
The version I heard had 4 harriers underneath the wings of the vulcan and they'd flown in over the sea at such a low altitude radar couldn't pick them up.

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

278 months

Monday 2nd August 2010
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Tate museum exhibits. Different.

Edited by Ayahuasca on Monday 2nd August 14:42

sherman

13,071 posts

214 months

Monday 2nd August 2010
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Ayahuasca said:
The "Of course we can fit a plane in that room. It's not to narrow at the bottom at all" exhibit

perdu

4,884 posts

198 months

Monday 2nd August 2010
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It has to be me!

I cannot see any ART in posing great warplanes in stupid postures

Still, there's no chance of guvvmint throwing money at them in any other form is there?

frown
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