What’s this fighter jet?!
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Think it’s this one ZA355 at white Waltham?
https://www.planepictures.net/v3/show_en.php?id=16...
Looks like it arrived on a lorry
https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/001430...
https://www.planepictures.net/v3/show_en.php?id=16...
Looks like it arrived on a lorry
https://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/001430...
dogbucket said:
Tornado GR1
Google ZA355 and its been around a bit. Was trailered in there.
It's also not the real ex-Gulf War flown GR.1 'Mig-Eater' as it's painted up as...which was ZA447, and which was later converted to GR.4 spec and is now at RAF Cosford in use as an instructional airframe.Google ZA355 and its been around a bit. Was trailered in there.
Been a while since I was there, but there is a film outfit based by the large hangars on the other side of the airfield which has accumulated a number of interesting airframes - partial and complete - for filming projects over the years. I remember a Canadair Challenger appearing overnight which on closer inspection had wings that had been sawn off and then bolted back on again, there was the front end of a C-130 there a while ago as well - suspect this Tornado might be something to do with them.
It might have been placed there to discourage the local habitual noise complainers - I remember one Waltham Members Day display, 2003 I think, when one particular individual had been constantly on the phone all afternoon complaining about various of resident aircraft pootling around in the overhead, and then a Tornado turned up and ran down the display line at about 150 feet with the afterburners plugged in - the noise was stupendous, that visceral type of sound that you feel as much in your guts as your ears - and the Tornado departed the area directly over the complainant's house to the North, but not a peep was heard from him for the rest of the day.
There have been fast jet operations from the grass on at least one occasion - there's fading photograph on the wall of a Harrier at WW for the Queen's Silver Jubilee (I think), but it was still under RAF control back in those days.
It might have been placed there to discourage the local habitual noise complainers - I remember one Waltham Members Day display, 2003 I think, when one particular individual had been constantly on the phone all afternoon complaining about various of resident aircraft pootling around in the overhead, and then a Tornado turned up and ran down the display line at about 150 feet with the afterburners plugged in - the noise was stupendous, that visceral type of sound that you feel as much in your guts as your ears - and the Tornado departed the area directly over the complainant's house to the North, but not a peep was heard from him for the rest of the day.
There have been fast jet operations from the grass on at least one occasion - there's fading photograph on the wall of a Harrier at WW for the Queen's Silver Jubilee (I think), but it was still under RAF control back in those days.
eharding said:
There have been fast jet operations from the grass on at least one occasion - there's fading photograph on the wall of a Harrier at WW for the Queen's Silver Jubilee (I think), but it was still under RAF control back in those days.
Plus the Harrier GR.1/GR.3 were cleared for operation from grass and other non-tarmac surfaces as part of their RAFG forward deployment roles.Grass landing and blowing up the earth and dirt used to be part of a GR.1/GR.3 aero's routine at air displays back in the 70's and into the early 80's.
A Jaguar took off from the grass at the 1978 Farnborough Airshow -
2.42 into the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFCfI4EaD0E
PS - the Tornado GR1 was primarilly a ground attack aircraft
2.42 into the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFCfI4EaD0E
PS - the Tornado GR1 was primarilly a ground attack aircraft
Also featured on the most recent series of Taskmaster....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2abjxxZ8VU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2abjxxZ8VU
aeropilot said:
eharding said:
There have been fast jet operations from the grass on at least one occasion - there's fading photograph on the wall of a Harrier at WW for the Queen's Silver Jubilee (I think), but it was still under RAF control back in those days.
Plus the Harrier GR.1/GR.3 were cleared for operation from grass and other non-tarmac surfaces as part of their RAFG forward deployment roles.Grass landing and blowing up the earth and dirt used to be part of a GR.1/GR.3 aero's routine at air displays back in the 70's and into the early 80's.
eharding said:
There have been fast jet operations from the grass on at least one occasion - there's fading photograph on the wall of a Harrier at WW for the Queen's Silver Jubilee (I think), but it was still under RAF control back in those days.
I was there and remember the Harrier well!! Also an airliner coming in looking as if it was about to land with wheels down, before blasting off again just before touching down! Other highlights were aerobatics from the Rothmans Pitt’s Specials and dogfighting between Tiger Moths and the Red Barons Fokker! Great thrills for 10y/o me. There’s always been complainers. My parents have no truck with it, having grown up there when it was very active and lived happily with the jet tipped Rotodyne overhead on a daily basis. I used to work with a guy whose parents lived to the North of the runway. His Mum was an mega-complainer, but ironically his Dad worked for Heathrow and was in charge of trying to get T5 and additional flights approved by the planners. Arch Nimbyism!
Pippage said:
There’s always been complainers. My parents have no truck with it, having grown up there when it was very active and lived happily with the jet tipped Rotodyne overhead on a daily basis. I used to work with a guy whose parents lived to the North of the runway. His Mum was an mega-complainer, but ironically his Dad worked for Heathrow and was in charge of trying to get T5 and additional flights approved by the planners. Arch Nimbyism!
Back in 1943 people complained about the Dambusters practicing... eharding said:
I remember a Canadair Challenger appearing overnight which on closer inspection had wings that had been sawn off and then bolted back on again
Fun fact.That CL600 was at Oxford under the care of a PART 145 before it was dismembered and trucked away, they bought it for the Kingsman film and I did a bit of helping with maintenance manual data for them to bits of it apart ect for the filming.
Fun stuff.
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