Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 3)
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DodgyGeezer said:
Wasn't he also the guy dicking about in a B52 narrowly avoiding a big mess?
No, Bullock was British.You maybe thinking of Bud Holland, the reckless B-52 pilot who ended up trying to disprove the laws of physics by trying to fly a B-52 like a F-15 at Fairchild Airbase in the early 1990's and pilling it into the ground.
aeropilot said:
DodgyGeezer said:
Don Bullock in Sally-B at Biggin Hill....This is also Bullock flying Sally-B, the year before he perished in the A-26 Invader at Biggin Hill taking 5 others with him.
Flying Sally B like that back then was very risky. From what I can remember being told at the time her engines were very temperamental and one of them would cut out quite regularly, she was being run on a shoestring budget.
I could be wrong on all this as it was what I saw and overheard as a teenager, which rather a long time ago!
Mr Dendrite said:
I remember meeting Don Bullock numerous times at Duxford when Dad was displaying there. He was quite a character. It was between him and Ormond Hayden-Baille as to who was the craziest pilot. I remember my father not being impressed by some of their approach to flying.
Bullock wasn't as good as his ego thought it was, and had known psycholigical issues, that many at the time thought he should not have a pilots licence.On the other hand, OH-B while being a very 'punchy' pilot, was very skilled, being an ex-RCAF fighter and later test pilot, and had a good flying report with Ray Hanna, and Neil Williams, which says a lot, unlike Bullock who really shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near an aircraft.
Mr Dendrite said:
she was being run on a shoestring budget.
Still is......aeropilot said:
Mr Dendrite said:
I remember meeting Don Bullock numerous times at Duxford when Dad was displaying there. He was quite a character. It was between him and Ormond Hayden-Baille as to who was the craziest pilot. I remember my father not being impressed by some of their approach to flying.
Bullock wasn't as good as his ego thought it was, and had known psycholigical issues, that many at the time thought he should not have a pilots licence.On the other hand, OH-B while being a very 'punchy' pilot, was very skilled, being an ex-RCAF fighter and later test pilot, and had a good flying report with Ray Hanna, and Neil Williams, which says a lot, unlike Bullock who really shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near an aircraft.
Mr Dendrite said:
she was being run on a shoestring budget.
Still is......Mr Dendrite said:
aeropilot said:
Mr Dendrite said:
I remember meeting Don Bullock numerous times at Duxford when Dad was displaying there. He was quite a character. It was between him and Ormond Hayden-Baille as to who was the craziest pilot. I remember my father not being impressed by some of their approach to flying.
Bullock wasn't as good as his ego thought it was, and had known psycholigical issues, that many at the time thought he should not have a pilots licence.On the other hand, OH-B while being a very 'punchy' pilot, was very skilled, being an ex-RCAF fighter and later test pilot, and had a good flying report with Ray Hanna, and Neil Williams, which says a lot, unlike Bullock who really shouldn't have been allowed anywhere near an aircraft.
Mr Dendrite said:
she was being run on a shoestring budget.
Still is......The warbird ops at Duxford today is pretty much OH-B's legacy still, as he was pretty much the first of the big warbird operator/collectors in UK at the time, and was the first to get permission to use Duxford, from the then head of IWM, Noble Frankland (who was one of the men behind the legendary TV documentary World at War)
That OH-B connection still continues at Duxford in that his CF-100 is still there on display, and the connection with the Blenheim and John Romain still, as it was OH-B that found and brought to the UK the two Bollingbroke's that were then bought by Graham Warner after OH-B's death, and a then young John Romain fresh from his DeHavilland apprenticeship was one of the OH-B crew at Duxford looking after his aircraft.
mko9 said:
Baron Greenback said:
aeropilot said:
OH-B famously cutting the grass at Duxford with his T-33 lawn mower.......
crop dusting tanks on wing?
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