DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
It's a 55 Squadron Victor K1 at RAF Gutersloh (at a guess).
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It's a 55 Squadron Victor K1 at RAF Gutersloh (at a guess).
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
wasn't it a bit odd to base tankers so far forward?
(i did a rather brilliant cadet camp at RAF Gutersloh, i think it was £30 for the week - including flights...)
High Voltage
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existentialist
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I was assuming that the tankers were regarded as pretty much as expendable as the bombers - presumably, they all took off roughly the same time, and either topped off the bombers there and then, or did it nearer the target? When did they switch from high-level flying to nap of the earth stuff?
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
i hadn't thought about the tankers supporting the V force, more about them supporting the tacticals. i think low level came in the mid-60's, were the v-force based in Germany then, or where they in the UK?
The Vickers Valiant. The first of the V Bombers. Used to drop bombs in the Suez Crisis in 1956. It too was utilised as a tanker before being withdrawn from service in 1964. Corrosion was found in the wing spars and refits were too costly. Though by then the RAF had the Victors and Vulcans in service.
This was the only V-Bomber to actually drop armed nuclear bombs.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Probably to support the 19/92 Lightnings who would otherwise bingo before they got 50km down the road to Hanover.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Refuelling them half way down the runway must be quite a fine art...
existentialist
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Better stay away from the Grey Funnel Line, too, then...
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
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I wasn't sure so didn't say but looks like it's all been cleared up now.
A380
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DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
There were two other Corsairs before that one.
O2U:
SBU:
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
There is a mint one for sale here in Australia:
1951 Chance Vought F4U-5N For Sale
1951 Chance Vought F4U-5N "Corsair" For Sale. Bu. Num. 123168 has been the subject of a 17 year restoration to concourse standards. Currenlty licensed and flying in Australia. | Platinum Fighter Sales: Photo copyright Rob Fox
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It wasn't called the "Ensign Eliminator" for nothing...
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
There is a mint one for sale here in Australia:
1951 Chance Vought F4U-5N For Sale
1951 Chance Vought F4U-5N "Corsair" For Sale. Bu. Num. 123168 has been the subject of a 17 year restoration to concourse standards. Currenlty licensed and flying in Australia. | Platinum Fighter Sales: Photo copyright Rob Fox
It wasn't called the "Ensign Eliminator" for nothing...
Tricky to fly were they?
Sorry for slight derail everyone but look at this. Only $3.4m...It is a 1951 model so technically Cold War.
I'll stop now.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Better stay away from the Grey Funnel Line, too, then...
Like being in prison, but with the chance of drowning....
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
And extra Golden Rivets
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
There is a mint one for sale here in Australia:
1951 Chance Vought F4U-5N For Sale
1951 Chance Vought F4U-5N "Corsair" For Sale. Bu. Num. 123168 has been the subject of a 17 year restoration to concourse standards. Currenlty licensed and flying in Australia. | Platinum Fighter Sales: Photo copyright Rob Fox
It wasn't called the "Ensign Eliminator" for nothing...
Tiny bit out of my price bracket, but shitting hell, I need this one, it'd look lovely in grey. Anyone fancy chipping in and we can start a gun running business? Only the good guys supplied.
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kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Tiny bit out of my price bracket, but shitting hell, I need this one, it'd look lovely in grey. Anyone fancy chipping in and we can start a gun running business? Only the good guys supplied.
Platinum Fighter Sales | Warbirds
Platinum Fighter Sales | Warbird Inventory | Vintage Aircraft for sale | THE WORLD'S PREMIER WARBIRD AND CLASSIC AIRCRAFT BROKER
Good guys are cheap - fuck'em, I've got ex-wives to support!
I like that DC-3. I think it would look cool running poppy seed cakes through the Caucasus with a GPMG on a bungy sticking out the door...
one of the most beautiful airplanes ever made
Lancman
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In November 1959 we were homeward bound from a Christmas Island detachment with a Hastings transport aircraft when we were diverted to Harmon USAF base in Newfoundland due to bad weather at Goose Bay and I was surprised to see a very long line of KC-97 in-flight refuelling aircraft parked there. We night-stopped, and chatting with some of the KC-97 crews in the Club that evening we were told that their role in the event of the Cold War turning hot was to get airborne immediately and head north-east out over the Atlantic until the B-57 nuclear strike force overtook them and picked up extra fuel. They were to offload until they were down to absolute minima themselves and then to turn back westwards and ditch.
They had loads of arctic sea survival gear in the upper lobes of their fuselages but I didn’t really envy them their task.
They had loads of arctic sea survival gear in the upper lobes of their fuselages but I didn’t really envy them their task.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
They were supposed to be quite difficult to land due to poor visibility. Obviously not ideal for a carrier based aircraft.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
I thought that may be the case, the old warbirds do have long bonnets and the F4 is particularly lengthy.
"Our" Spitfire lands in much the same way Lancman describes so it can see the runway till the last moment, maybe not as severe as the Seafire as he's only landing in a field in Cambridgeshire rather than a carrier.
sleaterkinney
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De Havilland Sea Vixen
