planes- great stuff.
I love the warthog. Was given a tour at Donna Nooke - the shooting range up in Lincolnshire and spend an hour beforehand listening to a pilot telling us what a great fucking plane it was etc etc then we got to see a couple of bombing runs and they finished with a machine gun run. So the warthog comes in low and slow and the pilot unleashes the cannons at the front - very fucking impressive the damage they can do. However the recoil on them is huge nd the pilot fired for too long given the speed of the aircraft. Basically the recoil slowed it right down and it just dropped from about 40 feet striaght into the sand!! What I would have given to see the look on that pilots face
other planes - how about this one
initial rate of climb 50,000 per minute!! Seen a few on raw power going out from binbrook - the speed of them is amazing! They had a 2 seater one up there and I got picked for a ride in one. 5 minutes later it was cancelled because some local major was coming to visit and had decided he wanted a flight . c*nt - hope he threw up everywhere.
Last 2 -
hell of a noise this one made. really ground shaker. My gran finished her workign life at scampton and the display Vulcan was based there - they presented her with an autographed picture which I now have hanging up in my office.
Did I mention pictures? and Scamton? Well I have a picture of these guys flyign over the pyramids - signed by the lot of them. also have a few bits of info from a couple of years ago when my friend was Red number 8 for 2 years!
this one is from 2004 - my picture is a lot oler - and far better!