mart360

Just found the full video,

jeez even lower flying and check out the takeoffs at the end!!!


YouTube - Low level

Mart

gingerboy

flumping heck, wouldn't want to be a navigator / co-pilot. My pants would be well and truly soiled .

Those wonderful men and their flying machines.

GB

Dazza01

bet there no good in the twisties tho

CrisPDuk

Most of that was in Mirage single seaters, ze crazy french.

I'm liking a lot the 'safe altitude' pass over the helicopter base

CrisPDuk

Check this for scary flying

YouTube - Sukhoi 30 Jet over Russia

Leslie

It is not as difficult as it looks but you do need 100% concentration to avoid the hard bits in the way. It was what we would have had to do to achieve a successful war sortie anyway.

The turn off the runway was one I used to do in the Vulcan flying display followed by a right hand wing over. You had to remember that you had a half wing span of 50 odd feet so it had to be a climb which was coordinated with the down going wing so you did not touch the ground with the wing tip.

Another trick was a low approach and fly down the runway with the wheels 2 feet above the ground, You then selected the wheels up and then allowed the aircraft to sink about another 4 feet. That used to bring the crowds to their feet!

Les

SirFozzalot

Flatcapdriver

How did you judge that? Surely, you'd be in ground effect?

CrisPDuk

Which could just about ruin a guy's day, I reckon

Leslie

No argument that is was a difficult judgement Flatcapdriver but careful practice a bit at a time with an external observer during rehearsals made it safe enough. No different to judging your height above touchdown during the roundout. Yes you were in ground effect which was pretty marked on the Vulcan but it did not make any difference to the manoeuvre. It did happen once I remember Crispduck, not to me I am glad to say, but luckily it was a light scrape with a meaningful good listening to his boss

The Vulcan was such an above average aircraft, especially in the handling department that you could safely do things which looked much hairier than they really were as long as you took care.

Les

TopBanana

I love this stuff!

Milamber

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youtube is blocked at work, is there a google video equivalent?

powerwrx

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superb

Dunk

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Leslie,
Stop teasing us with your modest chat, for the benefit of the those of us who still run around the garden with our arms horizontal screaming neeeeaaaooowwww, what's your flying history ?

D

CrisPDuk

I bet it took more than a quick wipe over with T-cut to get rid of the evidence though

I reckon at least a couple of the chairs needed re-covering too

Leslie

Dunk,

I was lucky enough to join when the RAF was still well provided with aircraft. I have flown 29 different types and marks of aircraft from fighters to bombers and transport ones over the years. My flying was largely at low level which I loved in between instructing on Chipmunks, Canberras and Vulcans.

My favourites were the Vulcan of course and the Hunter which was by far the most precise aicraft I ever flew. I did enjoy my hooligan trip in the Lightning with the vertical climb out of Tengah in Singapore and a 1 v 1 fight with another Lightning just for fun.

I have never forgotten my early fright as a student in a Vampire, known generally as the "clockwork mouse" when I pulled up at 1000 feet from max speed to do a vertical roll and the nose went down due to the tail booms twisting and the controls reversing. Luckily I instinctively did the opposite with the control column and the nose came back up. It was ok again when I slowed down. When I recovered from the shakes I told my instructor and he said the equivalent of "they all do that!" Wish he had told me before though. I think their attitude towards students then was" We are bound to lose a few!"

I loved every miinute of my job and never regretted joining up in spite of a few bitter disappointments which we all get in life anyway.

I would still like to get my hands on the rebuilt Vulcan but I doubt that I will get the chance, I gather the bloke officially nominated wants to keep it to himself. But you never know.

Les

StickyMicky

fukcen beats cleaning cars for a living

Dunk

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Wow, that's boyhood dream terratory, you've done more planes than I've driven cars.
I went to a RBL event in the summer & spent the evening talking with some vets from bomber command, some incredible stories & so humbling. (Until they started chatting up the wife )

D

Leslie

Thats a risk which comes with that territory Dunk

Les

FlightMan

Great vid. Does anyone know the name of the music from 5:04 onwards? I've heard it before, but can't place it?

mart360

cant identify your piece of music, sorry

I,m after the bit from 4:15 until 5:04

Mart

Dr Hu

Mart360 - its Claire de Lune - by Debussy - a stunning piece of orchestral music.

It's the same used at the end of Ocean's Eleven, while they are watching the fountains at the Bellagio, and one by one they walk away. It's a brilliant ending piece of music for the film........

mart360

many thanks

you are a star

Mart

Leslie

Lovely bit of music that.

Les

FlightMan

Is that Mart360's bit or mine? Youtube blocked at work but that rings a bell with me!