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Xpajun Mud Obsessed
Joined: 22 Sep 2008 Odometer: 3245
1988 Mitsubishi Shogun
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Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 4:30 pm Post subject: Yes Please...
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Mike's post on the Concorde and Ian's comment got me looking for a EE Lightning taking off at dusk - one of the most amazing I've witnessed...
Anyway I found this site:
Click the Lightning to see the page...
No prices though
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. Difflock Royalty
Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Odometer: 40007 Location: Northern Ireland's Gold Coast
2009 Land Rover 110 CSW
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Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 4:51 pm Post subject:
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When I was a kid I spent a very enjoyable summer at RAF Wattisham, home to the Lightning QRA, where my Uncle was based.
A memory that will always stay with me was lying on the grass at the end of the runway with the camp kids as the lightnings took off over the top of us!
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Xpajun Mud Obsessed
Joined: 22 Sep 2008 Odometer: 3245
1988 Mitsubishi Shogun
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Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2013 9:37 pm Post subject:
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. wrote: | When I was a kid I spent a very enjoyable summer at RAF Wattisham, home to the Lightning QRA, where my Uncle was based.
A memory that will always stay with me was lying on the grass at the end of the runway with the camp kids as the lightnings took off over the top of us! |
Wattisham - I was trying to remember that name - it was there one evening when I watched that lightning take off...
It was halfway down the runway (wheels off the ground of course) when it changed course to straight up with after burners on - what a sight - wished I could have photographed it
Not sure when it was I visited but they were flying Phantoms, probably F4Js, at the time I remember visiting the QRA hangers and noticing the chewed down fingernails of the pilots
Ahhhh.... the cold war...
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jojo Mud Obsessed
Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Odometer: 5422
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Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 10:39 am Post subject:
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Nice pics - all superb aircraft but the best for me is the Buccaneer although I may be a little bias as I used to drive one.
J
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diff22000 Neil Diamond lookalike
Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Odometer: 9291 Location: Luton Beds
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Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 4:17 pm Post subject:
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jojo wrote: | Nice pics - all superb aircraft but the best for me is the Buccaneer although I may be a little bias as I used to drive one.
J |
I saw one up close a while ago and it suprised me how big it was.
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Wilbert Robinson Articulating
Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Odometer: 685
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Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 4:54 pm Post subject:
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Remember, many years ago transiting up the channel and they were doing low level attack practice across the channel and a bucaneer was flying towards us at the same level as the ship's bridge, we all dropped to the deck as it popped up and over the top of us. Ship was a 36 000 ton loaded liquid sulphur carrier.
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dxmedia Mud Obsessed
Joined: 10 Dec 2008 Odometer: 2185
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Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 4:57 pm Post subject:
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jojo wrote: | Nice pics - all superb aircraft but the best for me is the Buccaneer although I may be a little bias as I used to drive one.
J |
And the local petrol station to lossie still has one as a gardian!
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jojo Mud Obsessed
Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Odometer: 5422
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Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2013 10:46 pm Post subject:
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diff22000 wrote: | jojo wrote: | Nice pics - all superb aircraft but the best for me is the Buccaneer although I may be a little bias as I used to drive one.
J |
I saw one up close a while ago and it suprised me how big it was. |
Try landing one on the deck of an aircraft carrier and you will really know how big they are!
J
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w3526602 Difflock Royalty
Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Odometer: 10758 Location: Glynneath, South Wales
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Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 1:27 pm Post subject:
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Hi,
Can anybody post the picture of a Lightening going the other way ... straight down? It's on the Web somewhere.
Next questions, can you identify the pilot who has just ejected horizontally?
And the make and model of the tractor, and name of it's driver, that appear in the same photo?
I understand that the pilot survived. I'm amazed that his parachute had time to open. Was this the lowest eject ever?
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w3526602 Difflock Royalty
Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Odometer: 10758 Location: Glynneath, South Wales
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Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 1:33 pm Post subject:
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Hi again,
Yer tiz!
Google Images for lightning about to crash tractor
Can anybody post it here?
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. Difflock Royalty
Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Odometer: 40007 Location: Northern Ireland's Gold Coast
2009 Land Rover 110 CSW
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Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 1:44 pm Post subject:
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__________________________________ Bert the Defender 110 XS - because it's Cool (work it out yourself!)
Lolita the Lightweight
???? the V8 90 CSW
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Nightbar Difflock Royalty
Joined: 30 Sep 2003 Odometer: 20799 Location: In a state of anticipation...
1999 Land Rover Defender
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Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 10:37 pm Post subject:
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New underpants pse Matron...
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Raker Just got MTs
Joined: 16 Sep 2011 Odometer: 127 Location: North Coast
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