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Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: CrazyFrog on January 30, 2020, 05:30:02 PM
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I spotted this in a back garden in Haxey, North Lincs when stopping with my Sister in law over the new year. You can just imagine the conversation with his Mrs - "it's just a small aviation souvenir I thought would make a nice garden ornament darling"....
(https://i.ibb.co/bmZHX4d/IMG-20200101-140917371-HDR.jpg)
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On Yes !!!! I want one
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I’d be happy with just the ejector seat 🤣🤣
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I’d be happy with just the ejector seat 🤣🤣
Hahahaha 😂😂
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There is a house in Wragby that has a life size 10 foot high fibreglass Moa bird in the front garden!
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And what a fantastic aircraft the lightning was, made mincemeat of the opposition, even thrashed the phantom (American replacement) in trials , I know , I was there .... only reason the phantom got the job was, it was a better weapons platform ....
And don’t get me started on the TSR2 ....
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Now that's the kind of modern art installation I can appreciate!
I seem to recall seeing some kind of jet in a field on the way to last year's rally venue The Red Lion.
There's a lad not far from where I live with a large collection of military memorabilia who has a replica WW1 tank outside his house. Someone else has a couple of ex-Northern Ireland Railway carriages in his garden in the middle of the countryside - no idea how he got them there!
Regards
Tony
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A wonderfully impressive bit of kit when operational.
Halton air show 1958 and again at Mildenhall open day 1972. Low level beat up down the runway, get to the end, stick it on it's tail, pour the fuel in through the afterburners and climb vertically until lost in the great blue yonder. WONDERFULL! ;D
Yes, I would have one in the garden for the Zen zone!
Regards, Bill
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In my mind I can still hear the wonderful sound from airshows back in the day. As you say Bill, a low pass over the runway, pull the nose up at the same time as sticking the afterburners on and go up like a fncking rocket. AFAIK, lightning still hold some records for rate of climb to this day...
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Give this a wee watch on YouTube. ;D
Lightning_flying_South_Africa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-4wuvw_5GM)
Regards,Bill
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And don’t get me started on the TSR2 ....
TSR2?
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Mthee, don't get Steve started. The plane or what remains of it is in RAF Cosford museum. Google it and find out how stupid politicians really can be 🙄
PS.
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Many years ago when returning from my first long distance bike trip (to Greece) I was for some reason in East Anglia where there was an air show in progress. One of the planes was a Vulcan which was banking almost vertical as it made a tight turn. It was going so slowly that it seemed inevitable it would fall out of the sky, and the sound was absolutely bloodcurdling.
Having said that I hold no brief for the destruction that these things could unleash although I suppose that is dwarfed by what is around nowadays.
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whilst playing golf at Craigie Hill Perth with my cousins in the 60's a Vulcan flew over us. Great noise and it seemed so low that we could have hitit with our T shots!
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lightnings used to take off for test flights from bae salmsebury near preston, they were quickly banned from doing the take off and vertical climb because they were melting the tarmac on the end of the runway!
theres a garage near preston on the road to kirkham, and behind it is a business whos owners hobby is classic aircraft, he runs a vietnam huey chopper as his runaround, but parked in the corner of the car park is a wessex air sea rscue helecopter and a complete lightning plane, he also has some armoured vehicles as well as artillery pieces.
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hole in one Ian ....
my working life has been defined by the TSR2 (tactical Strike & reconnaissance 2) ... I joined Vickers Armstrong aircraft manufacturer straight from school into their Apprentice school in weybridge surrey (the whole of vickers was built inside the old brooklands racing circuit) .. it was a 3 year apprenticeship, to cut a long story short, i left the apprentice scheme and joined the RAF apprentice scheme within 9 months, as the government of the time bowed it's knee to the americans and opted for the phantom, within weeks all TSR2 research documents, tools, jigs etc were destroyed ... a criminal event. the aircraft had the first 'head up' display, the first terrain following radar, and the first digital computer operating on all control surfaces ...
the act of scrapping TSR2 .. the demise of the weybridge factory ... and a lot of my school mates redundant.
I said don't get me started ..
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All sounds very typical of any given British government. I think the words are “short sighted “
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Short sighted is very much an understatement.....try "blind as a bat" 😠
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My first Airfix model was an English Electric Lightning. I never did get round to painting it. Don't know why you needed to know that, but now you do.
ian
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Short sighted is very much an understatement.....try "blind as a bat" 😠
Sadly typical of governments of all colours since the 2nd world war.
Being a cycling buff, I can give you another example. Back sometime in the 90's I think, Raleigh Industries were beginning to struggle, and as they owned Sturmey Archer at the time, they decided to sell it off as a going concern. It was sold to an American company at a knockdown price due to their business plan. They promised to sell the existing factory in Nottingham for housing development, and move production to a brand new factory unit on the edge of town. What actually happened was that the American company sold the factory for housing development, threw all the workers on the dole, and sold the intellectual rights and machine tools to Sun Life (I think) in Taiwan. Predictably, the govt. at the time lifted not a finger to stop this from happening :o >:( :'(
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No doubt the EU got the blame......
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No doubt the EU got the blame......
Hahaha, not this time I don't think Ian! Our own homegrown politicians have always had their own full quota of indifference and incompetence sadly. :-\
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Prat’s
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I think this has turned into a rant.....and rightly so. How do we do something about it?
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In my mind I can still hear the wonderful sound from airshows back in the day. As you say Bill, a low pass over the runway, pull the nose up at the same time as sticking the afterburners on and go up like a fncking rocket. AFAIK, lightning still hold some records for rate of climb to this day...
Could go supersonic in a vertical climb. Not many aircraft can do that nowadays.
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I think this has turned into a rant.....and rightly so. How do we do something about it?
Guy Fawkes was thinking along the right lines imho. ;D
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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it wasn't unusual for the jocks (jockeys = pilots) , to leave the aircraft with blood trickling from their ears and nose because of the huge G forces they pulled.
And, the Martin Baker ejector seat had to be modified to get the seat clear of the huge tail in the event of the pilot ejecting.
the end result being, if a lightning pilot used his 'bang seat', he was pretty much guaranteed spinal compression injuries of some degree...
having said that the pilots loved flying the lightning, with a top speed (officially) of Mach 2.23, it was the fastest aircraft during the cold war period .... and it's rate of climb has only been matched in recent years by 3 aircraft. wonderful bit of british design and british engineering ...