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Aircav

January 29, 2013, 02:00:16 PM
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Cliffy B

#1
January 29, 2013, 02:34:30 PM
Nice!!!!  Got to see one close-up at an airshow last year.  Words can not describe it!  My favorite jet ever and I count myself very fortunate to have had a chance to see one close-up.  The sound...... :wub: :wub: :wub:  You have to see it in real life to appreciate the sound.  If you think Hornets are loud  ;D
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rickshaw

#2
January 31, 2013, 10:24:48 PM
Why didn't they ever develop a cleaner burning version of the J79?  That thing looks like it's on fire!  :blink:
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Go4fun

#3
February 01, 2013, 12:44:42 AM
rickshaw: "Why didn't they ever develop a cleaner burning version of the J79?  That thing looks like it's on fire!   :blink:"

It looked like he was spray for mosquitos in some of those passes!  :o And it is when the fire goes out you get worried!  ;D

Cliffy B "Nice!!!!  Got to see one close-up at an airshow last year.  Words can not describe it!  My favorite jet ever and I count myself very fortunate to have had a chance to see one close-up.  The sound......   :wub: :wub: :wub:   You have to see it in real life to appreciate the sound.  If you think Hornets are loud   ;D"

As loud as a Harrier in a vertical decent? :blink:  I loved that but then I remember... I have hearing aides now! :angry: "Youth is wasted on the young and they do it so well"! George Burns (I think).
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dumaniac

#4
February 01, 2013, 01:08:54 AM
nice footage - beaut to see the relatively new juxta posed over the very old

JayBee

#5
February 01, 2013, 01:35:47 AM
Quote from: rickshaw on January 31, 2013, 10:24:48 PM
Why didn't they ever develop a cleaner burning version of the J79?  That thing looks like it's on fire!  :blink:

They did in a manner of speaking. One of the design requirements for the F-15 was an engine that gave almost no smoke, unlike the J-79, to make the aircraft harder to see with the naked eye.
Thus was born the P&W F100.
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#6
February 01, 2013, 01:54:46 AM
Quote from: rickshaw on January 31, 2013, 10:24:48 PM
That thing looks like it's on fire!  :blink:

It wasn't called the Air Defence Diesel for nothing you know  ;D

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#7
February 01, 2013, 04:32:03 AM
Sweet footage - cheers! :thumbsup:

Noise-wise, it's hard to beat two Lightnings doing an opposed pass down the Woodford runway then going straight up in full 'burner at the ends.... :blink: It's the kind of noise that goes right through every definition of "loud" you can think of and out the other side, still accelerating. You don't so much hear it as feel it with your whole body.....
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#8
February 01, 2013, 08:03:48 AM
Have fond memories of a Hawaian ANG F.4 giving Wakiki Beach holiday makers a early morning wake up call  ;D Flew along the tide line at about 100 ft and at full blast. I was standing with the pilots wife and 5 year old. Pilot was a good friend and as a USAF Col was just keeping his hand in whilst on hols and decided to give his daughter a treat  ;D The evening editions of the Honolulu Advertiser were interesting  :bow:
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#9
February 01, 2013, 09:54:51 AM
Nice ! That would have been an awesome display. And that sight you saw would have been awesome Chris ! I love the old F-4...really hope to see one at a show this summer.

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#10
February 01, 2013, 10:02:09 PM
I was on a hilltop helping to control airstrikes on the range one day when I saw an ANG F-4D coming straight at us. All I saw was the black nose getting bigger and bigger. Almost took the antenna off the jeep. Louder than you could ever imagine. Took 5 minutes for the army guys watching us to crawl out from under their truck!
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ChernayaAkula

#11
February 08, 2013, 01:29:20 PM
They're slated to go out of service this year! 

Have a look at the first five minutes or so of this documentary (LINK) for some really beautiful A2A footage of German Phantoms.

Quote from: rickshaw on January 31, 2013, 10:24:48 PM
Why didn't they ever develop a cleaner burning version of the J79?  That thing looks like it's on fire!  :blink:

They did, but the Luftwaffe didn't adopt it. Apparently only a rather simple upgrade (some electronic components, resulting in higher burn temperatures), it has the side effect of a reduced engine life. The Luftwaffe probably felt it wasn't worth the cost. See the last paragraph of page 49 of THIS ARTICLE.
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#12
February 12, 2013, 03:13:27 AM
That reminds me of childhood holidays at the North Sea, when the low flying limits had not been so strict. I remember an F-104 passing the beach at really low altitude, and F-4's passing the coast line in just 1km distance. Those were the days...

Rheged

#13
February 12, 2013, 03:33:32 AM
Quote from: Dizzyfugu on February 12, 2013, 03:13:27 AM
That reminds me of childhood holidays at the North Sea, when the low flying limits had not been so strict. I remember an F-104 passing the beach at really low altitude, and F-4's passing the coast line in just 1km distance. Those were the days...

...........and on the beach at Crail, in Fife,  when the Leuchars  Lightings had come out to play. Eastwards along the beach line and then vertical with everything lit directly above the North Carr  lightship..
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#14
February 12, 2013, 03:56:12 AM
....and while working on the world's largest wave-maker at Vollenhove in Holland when the RNLAF F-104Gs used to howl across heading for the north end of the Zuider Zee at Vmax! We were below sea level by quite a bit there so I guess their altimeters were reading zero!
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