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RoverP6B said:
I heard that the word was from the display organisers rather than the CAA, who did not investigate.
That's why I wrote 'quiet word', as opposed to 'stern word'
RoverP6B said:
I also understand that it was quite standard for a different crew to fly on Sunday to the Saturday crew
Yep.RoverP6B said:
and you could always tell when Kev Rumens was in charge as he tended to fly it like he stole it!
True.Others may be able to put me straight, but am I correct in thinking that our Kev is an Essex boy? There's definitely something a bit Basildon about his look and accent; I can just picture him hanging out the driver's window of someone else's Capri, Cortina, or maybe a Sapphire Cosworth, yelling "oi oi" at some "well fit birds" thirty-odd years ago...
...but by God could he fly the Tin Triangle. Not many display pilots you could identify a mile away just by their flying style... he and the late, great Ray Hanna were about it.
...but by God could he fly the Tin Triangle. Not many display pilots you could identify a mile away just by their flying style... he and the late, great Ray Hanna were about it.
RoverP6B said:
Others may be able to put me straight, but am I correct in thinking that our Kev is an Essex boy? There's definitely something a bit Basildon about his look and accent; I can just picture him hanging out the driver's window of someone else's Capri, Cortina, or maybe a Sapphire Cosworth, yelling "oi oi" at some "well fit birds" thirty-odd years ago...
...but by God could he fly the Tin Triangle. Not many display pilots you could identify a mile away just by their flying style... he and the late, great Ray Hanna were about it.
You could add Don Bullock to that list, although you may equally choose not to....but by God could he fly the Tin Triangle. Not many display pilots you could identify a mile away just by their flying style... he and the late, great Ray Hanna were about it.
Don't know how to do the preview to the YT vid, but the 'wheelie' at the end.... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWgbCjm1TQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWgbCjm1TQM
It must have been an incredibly sad day when the pilots landed for that final time, taxied to wherever the aircraft was going to be parked knowing they had a perfectly airworthy aircraft in their hands that would never fly again 
And now 4 years later it's outside in the open with an uncertain future.
And now 4 years later it's outside in the open with an uncertain future.
Yertis said:
RoverP6B said:
Others may be able to put me straight, but am I correct in thinking that our Kev is an Essex boy? There's definitely something a bit Basildon about his look and accent; I can just picture him hanging out the driver's window of someone else's Capri, Cortina, or maybe a Sapphire Cosworth, yelling "oi oi" at some "well fit birds" thirty-odd years ago...
...but by God could he fly the Tin Triangle. Not many display pilots you could identify a mile away just by their flying style... he and the late, great Ray Hanna were about it.
You could add Don Bullock to that list, although you may equally choose not to....but by God could he fly the Tin Triangle. Not many display pilots you could identify a mile away just by their flying style... he and the late, great Ray Hanna were about it.
Although, there are plenty of others had a distinctive display style (while not be an arse like Bullock) and I can think of the still much missed legend that was Stefan Kowalski, who was just unmistakable what ever he was flying, and probably the same could have been said about Neil Williams as well.
aeropilot said:
Fair point...............
In that case, Kev R still has to sit further down the list of Vulcan display pilots behind Uncle Joe and even Paul Milliken perhaps.........IMHO.
-In that case, Kev R still has to sit further down the list of Vulcan display pilots behind Uncle Joe and even Paul Milliken perhaps.........IMHO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeJ9e31PcaM
HoHoHo said:
It must have been an incredibly sad day when the pilots landed for that final time, taxied to wherever the aircraft was going to be parked knowing they had a perfectly airworthy aircraft in their hands that would never fly again
And now 4 years later it's outside in the open with an uncertain future.
It’s just the way it is. Pretty much every aircraft gets parked up one last time. And now 4 years later it's outside in the open with an uncertain future.
I’m typing this sat in a line hut at Wattisham. I work with plenty of guys who were here while Phantoms were being landed, parked, cut up and taken away. There’s no feeling spared for the guys who lived to keep them flying. They’re just chopped up and melted down.
chunder27 said:
I wonder if on the quiet he did a prototype and rolled the bugger!
Allegedly on one of its last flights............https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-lincolnsh...
I still remember watching her appear over the a303 and roll on down over the airbase at Yeovilton arrivals day 2015 - the weather and sun were perfect, much better than on air day itself.
My video from the garden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19rHL-V9ewU
A video of the same run in taken head on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA90LQylEX4
Still hard to believe that was her last air day down here, nothing else quite cuts it.
My video from the garden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19rHL-V9ewU
A video of the same run in taken head on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA90LQylEX4
Still hard to believe that was her last air day down here, nothing else quite cuts it.
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