ScoobyDriverWannabe

The Dogs B******s

super_ted

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lol

pslewis

Photoshop scaling tool .....

The Dogs B******s

Wrong, I was flying the Eurofighter

coupe_20vt

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And I know one of the loadmasters who was on the Herc

Saxo Boy

Surely either:

a) The lack of airflow through the engines would be a problem or,

b) The photographer and equipment would be sucked into the intakes at that distance.

I conclude this is probably a fake.

dazdavies

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Leslie, what are your thoughts?

Oldun

I am not saying that you need to trawl old threads to avoid duplication.


https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...he-albert.html

There is a link in there to the original RAF photos and a good discussion.

Leslie

Formation flying was one of my favouirite exercises and we used to fly very close indeed, as long as you felt you could trust the leader to remain very steady without sudden large movements. A couple of feet clearance or so was ok as long as you paid very close attention! So embarrassing to collide and very difficult to explain away!

I have to say that does look very close from the point of view of possible interference to the air entering the engine intakes. It may be that the slipstream from under the Herc is sufficient but if his intakes were over the top of the Herc lower rear hatch, he could be risking an engine surge. As far as the people in the Herc are concerned, as someone said above...don't get sucked in!

I did have a trip with the Arrows once at the Plymouth air display because one of my mates was in the team. I was allowed to fly the aircraft around some of the aerobatic manoeuvres and I can't tell you what a thrill that was!

Les

dazdavies

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I got pissed with the Blue Angels in Doncaster once the night before a display at Finningley. I kid you not we (and the pilots) were absolutely hammered. How they flew the next morning was beyond me.

Leslie

We used to do most of the same air displays where the Blue Angels were, in the USA as well.

We got to know them very well and what you say about their evenings before is dead accurate!

The time I flew with the Arrows proved that all those display teams seem to be the same! One of the two blokes who did the individual aerobatics fell up the stairs into the bus taking us to the aircraft.

Les

Boro

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With that level of detail on the pilots face, I'd think it was genuine. Surely PS would be almost impossible to identify the pilot if it was scaled and zoomed.