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11 hours ago, Head in the clouds. said:

I have always thought that the Scimitar, in the fashion of the Hunter, was a very clean and elegant aeroplane

The Scimitar was an even portlier version of its already fat brother the Swift, the Hunter is a very svelte, clean and elegant aircraft in comparison.

 

The Scimitar features at number 9 in this list...

 

 

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35 minutes ago, Wez said:

The Scimitar features at number 9 in this list.

That just proves the saying Wez, " Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". If we all thought the same it would be a very monochrome world. The Sea Vixen above may not be a slick slip of a plane but it is big and powerful and that is maybe where it's beauty lay.

Portly, how dare you Sir...:winkgrin:

Out of curiosity, what is number 1?

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Gotta to say like the Scimitar but it wasnt a particulary safe aircraft .....then again not many of that vintage were.....meteors weren't called meatbox for nuffin'.....mind you I may have that wrong but they did crash a lot so seems apt.

Meanwhile there is a scimitar vid knocking about whilst you watch a pilot drown in the cockpit....not a spectator sport really

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On 12/02/2018 at 5:13 PM, junglierating said:

I may have that wrong but they did crash a lot

No,you're not wrong..76 built,39 written off.

I wish the film of Commander Russell's crash would be removed.

There are many reports on how the crash happened and what caused him to be trapped and drown as the aircraft sank but I see no need for anyone to watch it happen.

 

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On 2/11/2018 at 7:36 PM, Head in the clouds. said:

That just proves the saying Wez, " Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". If we all thought the same it would be a very monochrome world. The Sea Vixen above may not be a slick slip of a plane but it is big and powerful and that is maybe where it's beauty lay.

Portly, how dare you Sir...:winkgrin:

Out of curiosity, what is number 1?

 

 

That 'list' is full of biased nonsense and some serious distortions - and that is being kind to the author narrator.   Nasty sneering style too. Some of the aircraft he mentions were poor, some were designed and delivered to out of date or flawed  specifications. Some were modified heavily from their original purposes or overtaken by events. Very easy to criticise with hindsight, traditionally viewed as 20:20. 'Hushkit.net' seems to specialise in some weird stuff.

 

(Oh - and HitC, their no1 was the Blackburn Twin Blackburn. Not the prettiest of aeroplanes & one which few folk will have heard of.)

 

Thanks Pinback, and Scimitar. Excellent videos of happy days when we had a  fixed wing FAA of note!  

 

John B

 

 

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3 minutes ago, John B (Sc) said:

 

 

That 'list' is full of biased nonsense and some serious distortions - and that is being kind to the author narrator.   Nasty sneering style too. Some of the aircraft he mentions were poor, some were designed and delivered to out of date or flawed  specifications. Some were modified heavily from their original purposes or overtaken by events. Very easy to criticise with hindsight, traditionally viewed as 20:20. 'Hushkit.net' seems to specialise in this sort of weird and rather unpleasant stuff

 

Thanks Pinback, and Scimitar. Excellent videos of happy days when we had a  fixed wing FAA of note! 

I've seen that video.  It seems to be one of a number on which the commentary sounds as though it is generated rather than spoken.  You get some odd rhythms and pronunciations, e.g. meegee for MiG.  At least, they've always been migs to me.

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7 minutes ago, JosephLalor said:

I've seen that video.  It seems to be one of a number on which the commentary sounds as though it is generated rather than spoken.  You get some odd rhythms and pronunciations, e.g. meegee for MiG.  At least, they've always been migs to me.

 

True. A very odd voice, strange cadences!

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On 11/02/2018 at 6:52 PM, Wez said:

The Scimitar was an even portlier version of its already fat brother the Swift, the Hunter is a very svelte, clean and elegant aircraft in comparison.

 

The Scimitar features at number 9 in this list...

 

 

Tell me, where did you find this chunk of ill informed rubbish?

 

Selwyn

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2 minutes ago, Selwyn said:

Tell me, where did you find this chunk of ill informed rubbish?

Yooo choob!  There's all sorts of rubbish there!

 

I agree it's a load of tosh.  Being ex RAF and having worked with the navy (and currently working with a load of ex navy), I will take the opportunity to take the piddle.

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1 minute ago, Wez said:

Yooo choob!  There's all sorts of rubbish there!

 

I agree it's a load of tosh.  Being ex RAF and having worked with the navy (and currently working with a load of ex navy), I will take the opportunity to take the piddle.

If this idiot doesn't like British aircraft manufacturing he should be really worried about the F35, the rear fuselage  of which is manufactured in Lancashire!  BAE Systems  have delivered about 200 units so far if I recall correctly. :bleh:

 

Selwyn

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6 hours ago, Wez said:

Yooo choob!  There's all sorts of rubbish there!

 

I agree it's a load of tosh.  Being ex RAF and having worked with the navy (and currently working with a load of ex navy), I will take the opportunity to take the piddle.

Well dont suppose you get much oppprtunity at work lol:lol:

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36 minutes ago, junglierating said:

Well dont suppose you get much oppprtunity at work lol:lol:

Just all day, every day, never gets tiresome though, they always bite then drip on about the junior service not having any traditions like they think we care.

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