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Cold War Aviation Porn

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That seems to be the other position that they adopted, the more popular one being to go in the other directionEnglish-Electric-Lightning.png
 
I know lots of blokes - and me - who's kids have got dads because of quiet, calm blokes (and blokesses) sat in the back of Nimrods. They may have had pies and tea on tap, but they took big risks for us, and the kipper fleet memorials are full of their names.

The little RAF cemetery at Kinloss is a sobering experience - Many of the graves (@20-25?) are Nimrod crew.


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This is the last Nimrod I saw flying.
 
Always struck me as slightly incongruous that you'd take a state of the art fighter and stick a bunch of unaimed rockets on it.

Though I don't suppose the people in the target zone felt the same way.
 
Inaccurate they might be, but let's be honest, a barrage of unguided rockets being fired looks far more impressive than a (admittedly far more deadly and accurate) singled guided misile

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I got a terrier puppy in '82 as The Falklands was going on, and I was adamant on wanting to call her 'Harrier Jump Jet'. Luckily my rather more sensible mother vetoed that idea.
 
Bob Hoover's autobiography has some great yarns about the Sabre. He was the North American sales rep/test pilot who went to Korea to see the F-86 in action and ended up flying combat missions in it wearing a suit and tie.
And was he clutching a martini in one hand at the same time? ;)
 
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