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A few pictures from work:
Had a professional photographer along for this one. He only just got his legs in the cockpit.
Some pretty shoddy line-astern from me. Good pic though.
The only time I've had an aircraft with my name below the cockpit
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On the break.
Not mine, unfortunately, but taken by a mate from the back seat of a FRADU Hawk, playing chicken with a Type 42 destroyer at well over 400 knots during a Thursday War. Another mate was doing similar and went through the exhaust plume of the warship at low-level and max chat, which caused an engine flameout on the Hawk. Zoom climb to 6000', a "Prepare to Eject" from the front-seat, followed by a couple of relight attempts in the glide before they ran out of height and ideas. Matey was understandably completely s
tting himself at this point, but the last go at a relight was successful. They returned to Culdrose for tea, medals and fresh underwear.
Had a professional photographer along for this one. He only just got his legs in the cockpit.
Some pretty shoddy line-astern from me. Good pic though.
The only time I've had an aircraft with my name below the cockpit
.On the break.
Not mine, unfortunately, but taken by a mate from the back seat of a FRADU Hawk, playing chicken with a Type 42 destroyer at well over 400 knots during a Thursday War. Another mate was doing similar and went through the exhaust plume of the warship at low-level and max chat, which caused an engine flameout on the Hawk. Zoom climb to 6000', a "Prepare to Eject" from the front-seat, followed by a couple of relight attempts in the glide before they ran out of height and ideas. Matey was understandably completely s
tting himself at this point, but the last go at a relight was successful. They returned to Culdrose for tea, medals and fresh underwear. 
OK, I'll bite 
As the camera ship we'd broken out and stepped back and down to get the pic using the fish-eye. The other two stayed in echelon as we manouevered around them to get pics.
Those were 160hp Fireflies. If you were on the outside of a turn or at the back on a tailchase it was always 'Buster'!
As the camera ship we'd broken out and stepped back and down to get the pic using the fish-eye. The other two stayed in echelon as we manouevered around them to get pics.
Those were 160hp Fireflies. If you were on the outside of a turn or at the back on a tailchase it was always 'Buster'!
I've never flown a Firefly, so it would be interesting to come up to Barkston to see what they are like and how EFTS (or whatever it is called now) operate.
My (limited) experience of formation on Trainers in a prop was on the Bulldog (and I'm guessing it was a wee bit better owing to the superior power) followed by the JP (easy) followed by the Hawk (uber easy).
Hawk was easy apart from the 'Flat Turns' - I still have nightmares about them!
My (limited) experience of formation on Trainers in a prop was on the Bulldog (and I'm guessing it was a wee bit better owing to the superior power) followed by the JP (easy) followed by the Hawk (uber easy).
Hawk was easy apart from the 'Flat Turns' - I still have nightmares about them!
G15 Girl
Fireflies all gone (and sitting at Leicester as pointed out). Das Teutor at Barkston now, which with its Earth-shattering 180hp is only just adequate as a trainer. The Firefly 160 was only used at Army Flying Grading, and was pretty underpowered. EFT Fireflies as used at Barkston had a 260hp flat-six and 3-bladed VP prop. Plenty for formation/aeros, and had quite a bit more poke than the Bulldog. A lightly-fuelled one-up Firefly M260 had around the same power/weight as an original Brazilian Tucano at MTOW, so it went pretty well.
Trying to do a 3-ship tailchase in the Firefly 160 was occasionally eye-watering for the no3. You'd get to the top of a loop and just run out of energy, and we eventually binned the idea and stuck to 2-ships until the Grob came along.
Fireflies all gone (and sitting at Leicester as pointed out). Das Teutor at Barkston now, which with its Earth-shattering 180hp is only just adequate as a trainer. The Firefly 160 was only used at Army Flying Grading, and was pretty underpowered. EFT Fireflies as used at Barkston had a 260hp flat-six and 3-bladed VP prop. Plenty for formation/aeros, and had quite a bit more poke than the Bulldog. A lightly-fuelled one-up Firefly M260 had around the same power/weight as an original Brazilian Tucano at MTOW, so it went pretty well.
Trying to do a 3-ship tailchase in the Firefly 160 was occasionally eye-watering for the no3. You'd get to the top of a loop and just run out of energy, and we eventually binned the idea and stuck to 2-ships until the Grob came along.
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