dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
No time in pumas then. Useless things.
General aviation/airplane news and chat
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spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Ooh, I'll have to have a look when I'm in the area next. Best preserved in UK according to wiki.
ffsear
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Yes, still loads of concreate air rad shelters there and bomb blast bays they used to keep the fighters in.
Lancman
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Not much to tell really, we were gliding down to Ballykelly from a longish cross country and the engine failed to respond when the throttle was opened approaching circuit height. Leaving us with not a lot of time in which to sort things out. The only suitable field had a thin power cable slung between trees across it’s downwind edge which was totally invisible until too late. No room to go under and barely enough speed to go over it. The undercarriage just caught the wire and arrested us very effectively, as you can see. And yes, we did still have plenty of fuel left in the tank.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
weltweit
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I haven't done any flying, never could afford it and preferred motorbikes which can be had for less pennies, but I did have an hour or two in a two seat microlight which was great fun. In many ways it was just a motorbike with a propeller and wing. We dive bombed beaches etc during the flight and I was allowed to take over for a while, really enjoyed it. 
Lancman
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Sorry kk, I seem to have missed that honour. The date was 11 March 1954 and the Tiger was DE 574.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Found this today whilst looking for old Wii games...
Might have missed out on the cash back offer though...
And will have to check that my PC is up to spec...
As real as it gets
Might have missed out on the cash back offer though...
And will have to check that my PC is up to spec...
As real as it gets
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
...As real as it gets
Well, I imagine you won't be able to find a laptop with a CD drive and it probably wouldn't run on a current system. So no flying then, so pretty real for now...
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
I once brought my brother a flight simulator game of the F16. Back when they came with thick manuals.
It was very a very realistic simulation 5 minutes at the controls the plane was a smoking crater in the ground.
Having watched this another major concern of mine would be the incident when
They cut through a titanium bulkhead with oxyacetylene at altitude. As anyone with experience of putting a cutting torch to any metal that ends in ium will know, mishap is never far away.
For the first time in weeks I’ve noticed aircraft departing and arriving at Doncaster. All freight I surmise.
But six in the last four hours.
Our house is directly under the flight path from the main runway, about four miles as the 747 flies.
The most recent according to Flightradar24 is an Air Atlanta Icelandic 747 from Nairobi to Cairo via Doncaster. How exciting that must be for the crew!
But six in the last four hours.
Our house is directly under the flight path from the main runway, about four miles as the 747 flies.
The most recent according to Flightradar24 is an Air Atlanta Icelandic 747 from Nairobi to Cairo via Doncaster. How exciting that must be for the crew!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
clicker
nanook rubs it....
Are they lost ?
It was just what the app stated on Flightradar24, Though Doncaster handles more freight than passengers. The second longest runway in Europe.
In normal times we see an Antonov fly into there twice a week. I surmised fly produce from Nairobi up here and then taking supplies to Cairo.
Or Greggs is open, there is one in the airport!!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
The six engined Antonov?
Yep, big bugger, shakes the house when it goes over.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Jealous, would love to see that!
We see a four engined one regularly too.
There are videos of them landing here on YouTube.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Not a plane fanatic, but totally having a look for that. Never knew it was much a big runway.
It was the base for the V-Bombers.
Four Vulcans on constant standby to deliver a reprisal against the Soviet Union.
Through the sixties as kids we marvelled every time they scrambled.
That was noisy.
My dad, ex-RAF said not to worry because we wouldn’t know anything about it. He was a laugh.
Dad told me and my mates that over the hill at RAF Bawtry was Strike Command HQ. He said that was the second priority target after RAF Fylingdales. And of course RAF Finningley (now Doncaster airport) is next door to Bawtry. He told us, two birds with one bomb. Laughing all the time. Better than ghost stories.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
I had a 757 engine failure climbing out of DSS heavy. After a very long and slow turn over the Atlantic I walked away from the subsequent landing on shaky legs. Still counts as a good landing.
I also had a Harrier GR7 'reboot' on me coming off the range at Cape Wrath. Everything went dark and the engine shut down. At this point I thought I was in for a bracing swim to Stornaway but it came back to life and I got it restarted. ISTR 35 steps in the procedure to start a Harrier... Great stuff.
T & P
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First BA now Virgin... if the trend continues LGW will end up as a low cost airline airport- though of course it still be infinitely preferable to the shitholes that are Luton and Stansted.
Not keen on all these job losses but some sort of rationalisation of London's airports will hopefully come out of this. The piecemeal approach does not serve the city / country well. As long as the 3rd runway is kicked into the long grass for a couple of generations I'll be happy.
