spike7451 Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Some excellent images,some real & some faked.. http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Sto...-Wagon-Rut.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirfixAndy Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 WOW !! Hunters ,Jags , and that Tonka !! Thanks for posting Spike Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radleigh Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I'd say they was all real tbh?? Love the Betty's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pte1643 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 That B-52!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 The RAF Phantom is taken at St Athan, and would have been on its delivery back to unit after major, and the whole hangar would stop work and come out to watch. I worked there just after this pilot left and from what I have been told this is quite high as you would usually have to duck as the plane passed over. The pilot that took over from him was very tame in comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike H Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 The RAF Phantom is taken at St Athan, and would have been on its delivery back to unit after major, and the whole hangar would stop work and come out to watch. I worked there just after this pilot left and from what I have been told this is quite high as you would usually have to duck as the plane passed over. The pilot that took over from him was very tame in comparison. Quite right Jabba. It's St Athan in the early 1980's and if my memory serves me right, the pilot was one Sqn. Ldr. Guy Pearce. I was working on the other side of the airfield at the time on Harriers and witnessed a few low fly-bys by Phantoms, Harriers & Buccaneers - all of which had their major servicings carried out at the base. One summer I spent a week helping out with the Air Cadet's air experience flights & was given a trip in a Chipmunk by the aforementioned Guy Pearce. I made the mistake of asking him to do some aerobatics. I have never felt so ill then or since! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 That is him. I have also heard that he flew between the chimneys at the local Aberthaw power station. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike H Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 That is him. I have also heard that he flew between the chimneys at the local Aberthaw power station. I heard that as well...and the story of him getting a telling off cos' the jetwash from a Phantom he stuck on it's tail with full burners at the end of the runway knocked a lady off her bike. Just getting my grey matter working...I believe the pilot who test flew our Harriers was a Sdn. Ldr. Timms. Not sure who test flew the Buccaneers but remember one flying between the D-hangars at West Orchard and the weird swooshing sounds of the air after it had passed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 Absolutely superb shots, never seen the Canberra one before! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 great post some fantastic shots, great site, i like the tornado, almost looks like its scraping the wing, and i bet the guy filming the spit needed a change of underwear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExRAF Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 About twenty something years ago I attended a lecture given by the late Wg Cdr Roland Beamont in Swindon on the subject of his Canberra test flying. he showed a photo of a Canberra, flown by himself, turning left during a display flypast at Farnborough. He said that the technicians in the photo section estimated that his lower wingtip was four feet from the surface! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basosz Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 The B-52 below the deck of that carrier is amazing! Below the deck is always pretty low but it gets exponentially cooler with a BUFF rather than a Scooter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrvr6 Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 some cracking pics iv some some (pics/vids) even lower than them a buc flying between hangers/buildings at what looks like pretty substantial rate of knots! a lightning that thinks its a bucaneer (even more impressive/mental considering where the fuel tank is) and a few others iv forgotten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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