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BobClay

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♫♪ Planes planes everywhere there's planes
Blocking out the scenery, filling up the lanes
♪♫ :P:bum:

Fleet Air Arm museum, Yeovilton
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Gramaisc

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♫♪ Planes planes everywhere there's planes
Blocking out the scenery, filling up the lanes
♪♫
The two chaps on the right here got caught out in a blanket fog situation in Ukraine. With just the odd factory chimney poking above it. It became clear that they would run out of the means to stay airborne before they were at all likely to find any airfield, so they elected to trust to luck and land 'blind', hoping that they picked a reasonable bit of land, it being mostly enormous flat fields.

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They got away with that and could hear considerable traffic nearby, after they turned to engine off. Investigating, they found that they were next to a substantial road that actually led back to their base. Taking off again, even having a good idea of where they were, was going to put them back in the same position, so they decided to drive back along the road. The Ju87 is a large thing, but they managed about 25 miles, pulling over now and then when traffic made it necessary. Eventually, they reached a railway structure that prevented further passage of the plane, so they parked it at the side, thumbed a lift 'home' and came back for it when weather conditions were more suitable.

There is a photo of it parked at the side of the road, but I can't find that online.

One imagines that they would have got a few fixed penalties these days.
 

BobClay

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And after such dangerous and skilled flying I bet the CO said to the pilot on his return:

"Wo zum fukken seid ihr dummkopf gewesen ?"
 

joshua

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Probably a daft question but looking at some truly beautiful airframes there the TSR2 really does appear to have aerodynamics of a small country church, not a sleek line or flowing curve on it, did this represent a different mindset on lift/airflow/high speed low level
 

Gramaisc

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Probably a daft question but looking at some truly beautiful airframes there the TSR2 really does appear to have aerodynamics of a small country church, not a sleek line or flowing curve on it, did this represent a different mindset on lift/airflow/high speed low level
There's often almost a little 'current fashion' in the general layout. There was, perhaps, a wish to contain the larger stores within the structure, more so than having them all hanging out in the wind.

The Vigilante had a similar 'style' about it.

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There were a lot of 'straight' planes about then - MiG 25, EE Lightning, etc.
 

BobClay

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I see there's a bit of sabre rattling going on about the Falklands again, aggravated by China !! Can't help but think there's a whiff of the 1930's gathering on the horizon. :| (or maybe the 1960's.)
 

BobClay

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Given all the wonderful space craft that SciFi writers of novels, film and TV have given us over the years, who'd have thought we'd be going into space in a giant dick ??
There's a metaphor buried here somewhere ... :P

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Entropy

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Not quite the norm, but still well worth a watch of a bunch of lads flying the GTA V version of a MiG17 display team called the Red Sparrows


Well worth a watch
 

Gramaisc

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Of course, there was a 'prequel' in the bird themes, with the Red Pelicans in the early 60s, also operating out of Little Rissington, as did the Red Arrows in their original Gnats.


Quite oddly, for some reason, last night I felt the urge to remember the name of a lad I sat next to at school there in 1964. This report - .https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/56642 - refers to his father, who died some time after this unfortunate event.
 

Gramaisc

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There are, presumably, quite a few bird-themed aerobatic team names.

The Silver Swallows would have been quite a rare one to see, they never did much of it.


One of the planes was on display in Dublin a few years ago and I sent an agent to obtain pictures for me.

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He managed to get some clear pictures, without any members of the public in the way, by the simple expedient of completing his key task for the day before unlocking the doors.
 
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