Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
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DJFish said:
Believe they nicknamed it 'R.A.F Dogger Bank' after all the planes that ended up parked on it.
RAF Dogger Bank, the 'Home' of the Lightning fleet. Allegedly more parked there than Binbrook !!!A quick check of Lightning airframe histories shows about 13 went into the drink between Spurn point and Scarbrough, with 3 going in just off Spurn point alone. The North Sea between Cromer and Harwich also claimed another 8, plus another 4 or 5 out of Leuchars ended up in the drink in either the North sea or the Forths of Eastern Scotland. (I went to Binbrook as Spacie in 82 and was told of the existence of RAF Spurn Point by one of the 5 Sqn guys while he was showing me how to seal the thermal shields on the gun pack on a F6). A big cause was known or suspected reheat fires or total hydraulics failures (most likely caused by a reheat bay fuel fire). Thus the reason the CAA will never allow the aircraft to fly in Civil hands.
ApOrbital said:
RAF Dogger Bank, the 'Home' of the Lightning fleet. Allegedly more parked there than Binbrook !!!
A quick check of Lightning airframe histories shows about 13 went into the drink between Spurn point and Scarbrough, with 3 going in just off Spurn point alone. The North Sea between Cromer and Harwich also claimed another 8, plus another 4 or 5 out of Leuchars ended up in the drink in either the North sea or the Forths of Eastern Scotland. (I went to Binbrook as Spacie in 82 and was told of the existence of RAF Spurn Point by one of the 5 Sqn guys while he was showing me how to seal the thermal shields on the gun pack on a F6). A big cause was known or suspected reheat fires or total hydraulics failures (most likely caused by a reheat bay fuel fire). Thus the reason the CAA will never allow the aircraft to fly in Civil hands.
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=5...A quick check of Lightning airframe histories shows about 13 went into the drink between Spurn point and Scarbrough, with 3 going in just off Spurn point alone. The North Sea between Cromer and Harwich also claimed another 8, plus another 4 or 5 out of Leuchars ended up in the drink in either the North sea or the Forths of Eastern Scotland. (I went to Binbrook as Spacie in 82 and was told of the existence of RAF Spurn Point by one of the 5 Sqn guys while he was showing me how to seal the thermal shields on the gun pack on a F6). A big cause was known or suspected reheat fires or total hydraulics failures (most likely caused by a reheat bay fuel fire). Thus the reason the CAA will never allow the aircraft to fly in Civil hands.
Was an interesting one. The whole scenario was played out live through the station tannoy. He had a wingman in the air who was describing the ever growing hole in the area just below the wing root, the ejection and the ultimate crash into the North Sea.
Avro Anson T Mk21 - WD413, built 1950.
Ex Air Atlantique/The Classic Air Force, sold at the 2015 Goodwood Revival auction by Bonhams... https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22725/lot/387/
Ex Air Atlantique/The Classic Air Force, sold at the 2015 Goodwood Revival auction by Bonhams... https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22725/lot/387/
C5 Arriving at Fairford over the weekend.
First time I've seen one in the air.
Note the man above the cockpit having a look around
IMG_9977 by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr
First time I've seen one in the air.
Note the man above the cockpit having a look around
IMG_9977 by Jim Pritchard, on FlickrTrevatanus said:
Note the man above the cockpit having a look around
This is what he was doing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eupIKc5Z1qU perk of the job.dodgepot said:
Big things - they brought the Pumas back from Rhodesia/Zimbabwe with minimal stripdown unlike the level we had to strip them down to get in a Herc to take them to and from Belize
I remember them turning up at Brize during GW1 and swallowing Pumas and Chinooks with ease, fold the blades and crack on. Probably a little more to it than that but they looked pretty whole.
Back to Fairford at the weekend, to see my first ever B1 launch.
Wow.
IMG_0129 by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr
Wow.
IMG_0129 by Jim Pritchard, on Flickr
Convair NC-131H Total In-Flight Simulator (TIFS)
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhi...
...a one-off conversion of the Convair C-131 Samaritan... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_C-131_Samari...
LotusOmega375D said:
The Holy Trinity together at Fairford yesterday. First time in Europe. USAF photo.
Really the first time they've all been here together, or just the first time they've been photographed together?
I'd have sworn they were all here for a Air Tattoo once, but happy to be wrong.
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