Idiot Tornado pilot

[kieranjholland]

I blame this thread for me spending the last hour looking up Vulcans - awesome

[Ranger 6]

eharding said:

This is the thread you want - there are used to be some better pictures of the car on the thread, but I suspect the links have expired over the years:

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/81053-low-l...

Thanks!! My old man was based at Izki/Seeb in the early 80s so spent some good holidays out there. Even managed to blag a ride-along when he flew out to the border gun positions at Sarfayt and Harbrut. That gave me much respect for the desert pilots, we only flew in a Defender but the landing strips were tiny and some still with wreckage at the sides.....

But to find this on that thread suggests that story was only the tip of the iceberg....



and this is downright scary!

[WorAl]

Photoshops

[Ranger 6]

Well, we could always just call this one a camel.....

[WorAl]

I hate threads like this because they always end up with awesome pictures posted (like above) and I get so pissed off because of such a stupid thing that stopped me joining the RAF. Even more so now because it was Jaguars which I wanted to fly, though they would have probably been out of service by the time I got to fly solo.

[Ranger 6]

I won't post this video compilation of those Jaguars then....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXeKV7dLeQ

I always wanted to be an AAC pilot but never got my act together in time and ended up a FOO instead. Still have yearnings to learn to fly.

[PaulG40]

pffft! 'Jag'boys.


Sorry, RAF insider joke.

[WorAl]

Ranger 6 said:

I won't post this video compilation of those Jaguars then....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXeKV7dLeQ

I always wanted to be an AAC pilot but never got my act together in time and ended up a FOO instead. Still have yearnings to learn to fly.

Farking hell, they were a bit low. Love it.

I got my act together, I was fit enough, educated enough and motivated enough, then I go and fail the medical because I have scars on my lungs from 2 x pneumonia cases when I was a child.

PaulG40 said:

pffft! 'Jag'boys.

Sorry, RAF insider joke.

It was those or the Tornado (I just wanted to go as fast as possible) and I preferred those for both the looks and the fact that they were single seaters so you didn't have to rely on anyone else looking after you.