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cat_with_no_tail

I'm sorry, I don't care who you are, or what you do, the Red Arrows are ALWAYS bIoody impressive!
Of all the jobs in the entire world, this is the one I have always wished I could do.
The word "awesome" is massively over-used (by me as much as anyone) but they really are awesome!

D-Cyph3r

Did you watched that little series they did.... awhile back (On BBC1 IIRC), about the whole application and training procedure? It's crazy, even as one of the best pilots in one of the best air forces your still very rarely good enough for them.

Pudseyp

some from Farnborough:

forcutty

Meh
Always thought they could do better with harriers :P

whyamihere

Where's the other one?

Gizmokev

Bloody crabs......amazing how the army always prefer the navy to collect and drop them off though (rather be at the LZ rather than 2K away coz of a bit of mist on the hills)....ffs follow the gradient in a hover taxi mode....Crabs are all show and no go...Navy gets you where you want when you want.....thats the motto that counts....

jpenno

I always wanted to go in the RAF as a fighter pilot, but in the summer between A'levels got a job in a solicitors office and the ££ turned me to law :?

Still wonder what would have been if I had followed my original plans

crazy88

Cat With No Tail wrote:

... but they really are awesome!

Agree completely! Saw them last down at Bournemouth air show a few years back and absolutely loved it.

spongtastic

This is one of the main reasons I miss the old military airshows like Mildenhall.

That and watching some muppet with a camera having his head caved in by MPs for jumping the fence and trying to get too close to the B-1B.

cat_with_no_tail

spongtastic wrote:

This is one of the main reasons I miss the old military airshows like Mildenhall.

That and watching some muppet with a camera having his head caved in by MPs for jumping the fence and trying to get too close to the B-1B.

Yeh, those Miliband brothers are nothing but thugs!

Wait...ohhhh.....those MPs

Chrissz

Gizmokev wrote:

Bloody crabs......amazing how the army always prefer the navy to collect and drop them off though (rather be at the LZ rather than 2K away coz of a bit of mist on the hills)....ffs follow the gradient in a hover taxi mode....Crabs are all show and no go...Navy gets you where you want when you want.....thats the motto that counts....

LOL too true - Jack pulled us out ofthe brown stuff a few times when the crabs couldn't/wouldn't fly!

bg13

They are a massive waste of money and keep me awake doing their training flights over my house when i am on night shift. MEH!!

FocusZing

Makes me proud to be British, also:



The Vulcan should be at the TT on Friday.

cat_with_no_tail

Yep, half 7 on friday night. Can't wait!

All this stuff has me now wishing I had a better camera to get these pics. Our little point-and-shoot doesn't really do them justice.

FocusZing

Cat With No Tail wrote:

Yep, half 7 on friday night. Can't wait!

All this stuff has me now wishing I had a better camera to get these pics. Our little point-and-shoot doesn't really do them justice.

You don't want to be arsing around with a camera, take it all in with your own eyes. Go on the net for the pics:-)

Gizmokev

With a Vulcan it all about the ears not the eyes.....

bg13

The Vulcan is absolutely fantastic, it had a purpose and will hopefully remain flying for a long time God bless her.

The red egos are a massive drain on a massively overstretched air force.

I thank you.

joshtp

seen them a few times.... Awesome is the ONLY word.


Would love to see all the retired Harriers (BTW, Why the Hell did they retire them?! Awesome plane...) used for a show too, those things are so nimble it's scary...

The loudest thing iv'e ever heard though has to be a Eurofighter flying low over Swansea bay at an air show a few years ago... my ears were ringing for hours afterward... those things are freaking monsters.

Anonymous

I thought this was going to be a thread about having the decorators in.

FocusZing

I watched one of these ponce about in the sky at Fairford last year, bloody impressive.

Gizmokev

FocusZing wrote:

I watched one of these ponce about in the sky at Fairford last year, bloody impressive.

Especially considering there is no pilot in there :eek:

Pudseyp

Others from various shows....

FocusZing

Pudseyp wrote:

Others from various shows....

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Vulcan! Vulcan! Vulcan! Vul, sorry!

Thewaylander

Vulcan used to live accross the road from me as a kid RAF St athan, great peice of gear, reckon that sucker could make you ears bleed.

As for the arrows there very impressive i know but as with most things these days, its an expense the coutnry just could with out for a few years...

Pudseyp

Thewaylander wrote:

As for the arrows there very impressive i know but as with most things these days, its an expense the coutnry just could with out for a few years...

Pretty much like the Royal Family and MP's ....oh and the English paying for the Welsh perscriptions

Anonymous

Pudseyp wrote:

oh and the English paying for the Welsh perscriptions

I thought you'd have been more annoyed about paying for our Welsh channel (which frankly is bang out of order)

FocusZing

Gizmokev wrote:

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I watched one of these ponce about in the sky at Fairford last year, bloody impressive.

Especially considering there is no pilot in there :eek:

If they did, bit of a nightmare if the communications broke down though.

FocusZing

Seeing one of these on a cruise ship would be a shock.

Pudseyp

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Pudseyp wrote:

oh and the English paying for the Welsh perscriptions

I thought you'd have been more annoyed about paying for our Welsh channel (which frankly is bang out of order)

I don't mind as living in Cheshire I can get in in my kitchen....don't understand a word but if I am paying for it its good to know I can get it....might start watching it now to get my monies worth !

Rich9

The Vulcan (the only one left??) is now stationed at Finningley I think. A few weeks ago it flew into Sherburn Aerodrome, which is next door to work. Bleedin awesome site. We also get Chinooks flying over now and again

FocusZing

Rich9 wrote:

The Vulcan (the only one left??) is now stationed at Finningley I think. A few weeks ago it flew into Sherburn Aerodrome, which is next door to work. Bleedin awesome site. We also get Chinooks flying over now and again

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