Truro Model Builder Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Superb flying: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/aviation/11682534/British-pilots-fly-through-hangar-25ft-high-at-185mph.html 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Delta 210 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Not a word that I tend to overuse, but here goes - AWESOME! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 That's superb! Wonder if they'd consider doing it again in a couple of Hunters? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truro Model Builder Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 I'm reminded of the well known after dinner speech by David Gunson; You can tell the passengers anything you like. They're so blind drunk by this stage but they're bound to notice if we go through a hangar on take-off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stringbag Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 James Bond did it years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B (Sc) Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 James Bond did it years ago. So did the Fleet Air Arm early in the war - up at the station at Wick. Two, possibly three, Skuas flew through a hangar there while the airfield was still being completed. Legend has it they flew through two hangars which were facing one another. The workmen inside completing them were not amused. John B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truro Model Builder Posted June 27, 2015 Author Share Posted June 27, 2015 The workmen inside completing them were not amused. There is a tale concerning RAF Predannack during the war, when the runway was being extended. Much of the work was being done by navvies brought over from neutral Ireland. Word reached the ear of the CO of a Coastal Command Wellington squadron then based at the airfield that the navvies were receiving a hefty danger money bonus for working on a military airfield during wartime, even though Predannack had never been attacked by the Luftwaffe. The CO was somewhat miffed, particularly in light of the dangers he and his crews faced on a daily basis out in the Western Approaches, and he called his crews together and instructed them in the Squadron's new take-off procedure. From then on, every time a Wellington took off from Predannack the aircraft did not climb until after it had passed over the airfield perimeter fence. This had the effect of scattering the labouring navvies every time they looked up to see a Wellington bearing down on them at little more than fifty feet off the deck. As the CO remarked, the navvies needed to earn that danger money somehow. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 fabulous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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