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Ended up with a free MiG 21? Got no idea what to do with it?

Simple, bury it in a park...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p065fpn2

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joshua said:
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I remember watching a flight of four Lightnings being scrambled for the benefit of some passing dignitary.

1, Wouldn't start.

2, Started, but had an 'event' on the taxi run to the runway, was shut down and towed back.

3, Took off, but went straight round and back down again.

4, Took off and managed to stay in the air.
 
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Gramaisc said:
I remember watching a flight of four Lightnings being scrambled for the benefit of some passing dignitary.

1, Wouldn't start.

2, Started, but had an 'event' on the taxi run to the runway, was shut down and towed back.

3, Took off, but went straight round and back down again.

4, Took off and managed to stay in the air.
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(called fuel priority after 90 secs)
 
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Lightnings claimed a lot of lives, but did have some entertaining "events" too.

http://www.historicracer.com/aviation/accidental-fighter-pilot/

And XM188's demolition of the Coltishall Squadron Office - "Failed to take a bend in the taxiway and ran into the side of a squadron office at Coltishall, Norfolk after the brake failure. The throttles were jammed and the aircraft proceeded to suck out the entire contents of the office paper trays. The local Rolls Royce representative crawled beneath the aircraft to shut down the engines and the pilot escaped by climbing onto the roof of the office"

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The engines were running at 70%ish for about half an hour, allegedly.

The Firestreak just lying there on the path is worthy of note!
 
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Entropy said:
haha!!

Priorities to rescue the tea and biscuits first before the Firestreak.
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Dress optional - asbestos helmet or shirt sleeves rolled up.

I presume that is the driver there on the extreme left, Flt Lt Arthur Tyldesley, wondering how long it's going to take to fill all the forms in.

It is alleged that a lot of the paperwork that was destroyed was actually old flight safety magazines.

There was only one engine running for the taxi run in, but stopping that involved getting underneath and dismantling the throttle connection to shut it manually at the engine, the electrical fuel valves were disabled by the impact. All this whilst it was running at about three-quarters of full dry thrust, whilst hoping that the remains of the building weren't going to give way totally.
 
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The 'straight' B57s had a lot of use in Vietnam, though they seem to be rarely mentioned - and by the Pakistani air force. Much more so than the home-grown ones did.

The RB57s were a strange thing - 120 foot span...

I think there's only those three WBs left flying now.
 
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They are huge in their wing span..I'm sure the Argentine airforce were suing them during the early parts of the Falklands war too?
 
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