Close call for Typhoon pilot at RAF Fairford
more like 25ft! 
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any lower and he would have grass staines on the underside.
20 July 2005, 04:01 PM
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Leslie will be on in a bit saying how they used to do this as part of the display in his Vulcan 
It's nice to see the RAF has actually got a genuine fighter aircraft again though after an absence of nearly twenty years
It's nice to see the RAF has actually got a genuine fighter aircraft again though after an absence of nearly twenty years
21 July 2005, 12:37 PM
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Ha ha Daz34,
Yes you are quite right and I don't see why evryone is making such a fuss about it. Those display anoraks in that net were very quick to criticise anyway.
On a good day the Vulcan would come off the runway into the true vertical up to 3000 feet. Another little trick on an airfield where you were not allowed to land was to make a really low approach with the wheels a couple of feet above the runway and then retract the wheels! The trick then was to let the aircraft sink just a little bit. That used to make everyone suck their teeth
That a good shot of the Typhoon though. The angle of attack of the canards on the nose shows he was not that close to the mark anyway.
Les
Yes you are quite right and I don't see why evryone is making such a fuss about it. Those display anoraks in that net were very quick to criticise anyway.
On a good day the Vulcan would come off the runway into the true vertical up to 3000 feet. Another little trick on an airfield where you were not allowed to land was to make a really low approach with the wheels a couple of feet above the runway and then retract the wheels! The trick then was to let the aircraft sink just a little bit. That used to make everyone suck their teeth
That a good shot of the Typhoon though. The angle of attack of the canards on the nose shows he was not that close to the mark anyway.
Les
21 July 2005, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Leslie
Ha ha Daz34,
Yes you are quite right and I don't see why evryone is making such a fuss about it. Those display anoraks in that net were very quick to criticise anyway.
On a good day the Vulcan would come off the runway into the true vertical up to 3000 feet. Another little trick on an airfield where you were not allowed to land was to make a really low approach with the wheels a couple of feet above the runway and then retract the wheels! The trick then was to let the aircraft sink just a little bit. That used to make everyone suck their teeth
That a good shot of the Typhoon though. The angle of attack of the canards on the nose shows he was not that close to the mark anyway.
Les
Yes you are quite right and I don't see why evryone is making such a fuss about it. Those display anoraks in that net were very quick to criticise anyway.
On a good day the Vulcan would come off the runway into the true vertical up to 3000 feet. Another little trick on an airfield where you were not allowed to land was to make a really low approach with the wheels a couple of feet above the runway and then retract the wheels! The trick then was to let the aircraft sink just a little bit. That used to make everyone suck their teeth
That a good shot of the Typhoon though. The angle of attack of the canards on the nose shows he was not that close to the mark anyway.
Les
and commenting its angle of climb!!!
whens it gonna go again!!!!
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22 July 2005, 02:41 PM
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I saw a harrier pilot bounce his harrier off the dirt at Farnbourough once he came in dropped his wheels down hit the dirt just enough to cause it to spray up and then hit the gas and lifted his wheels!!! most amazing flying I have ever seen.
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