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The way the RAF used to be...

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rickshaw

May 23, 2020, 11:24:12 PM
How to reduce carbon emissions - Tip #1 - Walk to the Bar for drinks.

AeroplaneDriver

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May 24, 2020, 12:17:38 AM
So I got that going for me...which is nice....

Rheged

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May 24, 2020, 01:23:06 AM
Summer holiday near Leuchars when I was just a little Rheged, you could park off the road near the end of the runway.  I've watched Lightnings setting off like that on several occasions.............I assume they were going on a Bear hunt.
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet

PR19_Kit

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May 24, 2020, 05:48:28 AM
THANK you Brian!  :thumbsup:

I'd forgotten about that programme, but I can remember the original broadcast now, with my mate Raymond Baxter's refined tones telling it all like it was.  ;D

My ex-boss, now sadly passed on, was a backsteater in one of the 54 Sqdn. Phantoms in that show too.
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

rickshaw

#4
May 24, 2020, 06:15:12 AM
There is also apparently a longer version of this programme.  I remember watching a Farnborough show on the TV downunder when I was a wee lad.  I was most impressed by the Lightning hurtling down the runway and breaking the speed barrier as it entered a vertical climb to disappear in the cloud layer.  Most impressed.   :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
How to reduce carbon emissions - Tip #1 - Walk to the Bar for drinks.

PR19_Kit

#5
May 24, 2020, 08:04:57 AM
I went to RAF Coltishall's BoB Display in September 1965 when 74 Sqdn were working their Lightnings up to speed, 'Speed' being the operative word.  :o

Their display was MIND boggling, the entire squadron did the '90-degree-turn-on-lift-off-and-climb-vertically' thing, one after the other. The noise level was HORRENDOUS!

Even my new wife (of one week, as we were on our honeymoon.... ;)) was impressed and she wasn't really a Complete Aviation Person, unlike me. That was Mrs_PR19 #1, not the late #2 version.
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

rickshaw

#6
May 24, 2020, 11:28:55 PM
The longer version of the same programme including weapons dropping over Salisbury Plain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gHwsnBeHUs

Magic!   :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
How to reduce carbon emissions - Tip #1 - Walk to the Bar for drinks.

zenrat

#7
May 25, 2020, 03:31:55 AM
Watched this last night and then found myself building a Hasegawa Jaguar today.

The two may be connected.
Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere...for your convenience..

PR19_Kit

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May 25, 2020, 04:24:17 AM
Quote from: rickshaw on May 24, 2020, 11:28:55 PM

The longer version of the same programme including weapons dropping over Salisbury Plain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gHwsnBeHUs

Magic!   :thumbsup: :thumbsup:


As you say Brian, MAGIC!  :thumbsup:

Thanks so much for finding it.  ;D
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

rickshaw

#9
May 25, 2020, 05:41:12 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on May 25, 2020, 04:24:17 AM
Quote from: rickshaw on May 24, 2020, 11:28:55 PM

The longer version of the same programme including weapons dropping over Salisbury Plain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gHwsnBeHUs

Magic!   :thumbsup: :thumbsup:


As you say Brian, MAGIC!  :thumbsup:

Thanks so much for finding it.  ;D

Anytime, mate.   :thumbsup:
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