Totally off topic: who likes fast jets?

Kieran_Burns

http://youtu.be/y7bmv4xptFA?hd=1

A mate took this vid. You would not believe how loud these things are. I've actually stood behind a Tornado when it does this and it is utterly, utterly mind blowing.

(listen to all the car alarms going off as it takes off!!!)

SmellTheGlove

I like. Especially the bit where it swallows the ground crew whole.
And what a paint job.
How it stays on the ground is itself a minor miracle (I believe this beast can't get a ticket to fly because the avionics are obsolete and likely to be scrambled by someone's wifi router or some such)

jejv

Vulcan at Marshalls 100th anniversary was loud.


But 20' from F86 warming up at Duxford was louder.

optimisticbiker

vulcan inside is even louder and bloody uncomfortable

mudcow007

OptimisticBiker wrote:

vulcan inside is even louder and bloody uncomfortable

my old boss would agree with you

he was a squadron leader many, many moons ago

optimisticbiker

mudcow007 wrote:

OptimisticBiker wrote:

vulcan inside is even louder and bloody uncomfortable

my old boss would agree with you

he was a squadron leader many, many moons ago

It was many many moons and several employers ago, but I was team lead on the approval testing for new ground to air comms equipment and we had a Vulcan as a test bed (we had a Jaguar too, but thats another story)... a long ways up North, in the middle of winter, working outdoors in several feet of snow (despite the ploughs and blowers) because the hanger was full of broken ones... horrible, but more than made up for by the test flights out over the North Atlantic

the uncomfortable bit was that all the seating in the 'engineering bay' ( a posh description for a minimally refitted bomb bay) was just a steel shelf with seat belts and the cushions were your parachute

Kieran_Burns

This was fairly hair raising...



I couldn't get the smell of jet fuel out of my clothing for weeks I LOVED it!

gtvlusso

Ah- the good ol' Lightning....

My dad was a draftman and designer back in the day, you have him to thank for the lightning nose cone!

He used to tell stories of how they got lightnings to balance correctly on their landing gear by loading the wings with lead - they were quite literally built by blokes with hacksaws and files.

I always wanted to fly helicopters - I am very jealous of ITB for this reason!

jedster

I did some work up at BAE Wharton when the first three or four Typhoons were being tested. I remember being shown the footage off a sony handicam pointing backwards out of the cockpit when it took off. You saw the hanger nice and big then just disappear into the distance. Then it took off and the pilot pointed the plane straight up - at forst you could only see tarmac runway then it just turned into a thin strip of grey - the speed was crazy.

aeon

http://www.fromtheinside.us/thinking/Gr ... _Check.htm

http://tailspinstales.blogspot.co.uk/20 ... kbird.html

aeon

:::double post:::

gtvlusso

Vulcan and Concorde are the 2 loudest jets I have ever heard.....funnily enough they share the same powerplant, the rather magnificent Rolls Royce Olympus...

I was working at Aberdeen coastguard the same week that a Tornado from Lossiemouth called in a May Day whilst coming in from a training exercise.....F*cking Scary, the whole control room was on the highest alert, there was silence, the radio chatter was on loud speaker. A pilot really earns their corn when they have a problem....

My favourite jet is the rather slow A10 Warthog - it is just ridiculous looking; it is a totally practical shape and design for what it does....fly slow, be very resilient to attack and be absolutely devastating when unleashing it's armoury.

However, After goin in a Seaking helicopter when I was a kid; thats what I wanted to fly. Sea King, Puma or any other big badass helicopter - but not a Chinook, I don't have a death wish.

greg66_tri_v2.0

There can be only one.

mudcow007

Greg66 wrote:

There can be only one.

+100,000

J58-P4 with a v8 petrol engine to start them, thats cool!

neiltb

gtvlusso wrote:

Ah- the good ol' Lightning....

My dad was a draftman and designer back in the day, you have him to thank for the lightning nose cone!

well you can thank him from me, love the lightning.

rick_chasey

gtvlusso wrote:

My favourite jet is the rather slow A10 Warthog - it is just ridiculous looking; it is a totally practical shape and design for what it does....fly slow, be very resilient to attack and be absolutely devastating when unleashing it's armoury..

Pretty sure there's a computer game about that.

gtvlusso

Rick Chasey wrote:

gtvlusso wrote:

My favourite jet is the rather slow A10 Warthog - it is just ridiculous looking; it is a totally practical shape and design for what it does....fly slow, be very resilient to attack and be absolutely devastating when unleashing it's armoury..

Pretty sure there's a computer game about that.

Absolutely terrifying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riqu8hmPHd0

You would think that rolling around in a tank would be fairly safe in a theatre of war.

MonkeyMonster

gtvlusso wrote:

My favourite jet is the rather slow A10 Warthog - it is just ridiculous looking; it is a totally practical shape and design for what it does....fly slow, be very resilient to attack and be absolutely devastating when unleashing it's armoury.

It fires milkbottle sized shells - what isn't there to love about it

walkingbootweather

I love a nice fast jet.

rjsterry

gtvlusso wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

gtvlusso wrote:

My favourite jet is the rather slow A10 Warthog - it is just ridiculous looking; it is a totally practical shape and design for what it does....fly slow, be very resilient to attack and be absolutely devastating when unleashing it's armoury..

Pretty sure there's a computer game about that.

Absolutely terrifying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riqu8hmPHd0

You would think that rolling around in a tank would be fairly safe in a theatre of war.

Um, no, not really. Wouldn't be my first choice of places for a quiet night

Kieran_Burns

When I was at Uni in Stafford (actually a Poly back then) there was a massive exercise based on RAF Stafford - there were attack choppers and fast jets and all sorts of hardware tearing around the sky - I almost fell off my bike when a Warthog suddenly appeared over the trees in front of me, coming straight at me!

Bloody amazing sight though.

gtvlusso

MonkeyMonster wrote:

gtvlusso wrote:

My favourite jet is the rather slow A10 Warthog - it is just ridiculous looking; it is a totally practical shape and design for what it does....fly slow, be very resilient to attack and be absolutely devastating when unleashing it's armoury.

It fires milkbottle sized shells - what isn't there to love about it

Nothing say's 'I kill you to death' quite as well as depleted uranium.....

diplomacy

Kieran_Burns wrote:

When I was at Uni in Stafford (actually a Poly back then) there was a massive exercise based on RAF Stafford - there were attack choppers and fast jets and all sorts of hardware tearing around the sky - I almost fell off my bike when a Warthog suddenly appeared over the trees in front of me, coming straight at me!

Bloody amazing sight though.

we would sometimes get A10s doing practice runs on my school when i was young, which was pretty much the highlight of everything. they worked in pairs, one would circle slowly off to the side and the other would barrel in low and straight across the fields, then break off sharply at the last minute. i guess they were strafing. it's good to know that we were prepared for the day when the soviets might unleash an army of comprehensive secondaries across europe.

in the rotary world - since i started working by the thames in SE1 i've been amazed at the parade of helicopters you get. merlins, pumas, apaches, lynxes and chinooks are pretty regular, plus occasional sea kings and hueys and every now and then a hughes 500 or a pair of blackhawks. where do they come from? where do they go? i have no idea.

madtam

I was a bit dissappointed with the Lightning vid. I remember watching them at the airshows when after a short take off run they pulled the carriage up, pointed the nose straight up and just shrank to a dot in seconds.
I seem to recall they had a flight time of about 4 minutes on full reheat before they ran out of fuel. Must have been fun to fly !

roger_merriman

Kieran_Burns wrote:

When I was at Uni in Stafford (actually a Poly back then) there was a massive exercise based on RAF Stafford - there were attack choppers and fast jets and all sorts of hardware tearing around the sky - I almost fell off my bike when a Warthog suddenly appeared over the trees in front of me, coming straight at me!

Bloody amazing sight though.

get what looks like war games over my folks place and area. jets engaging afterburners at night is fairly spectacular!

jets going supersonic at lowish levels is fairly erie since they are silent, until the sound catches up that is, and the jet can be out of sight at that point!

Blacktemplar

In the mid/late 70's I saw the F-15 Streak Eagle at Leuchars demonstrating it's phenomenal climb-to-altitude capabilities. It came along the runway at about 50 feet, then right in front of the crowd the pilot stood it on it's tail and lit the afterburners. He went supersonic in a vertical climb and the noise was awesome. As were the German display team in F-104 Starfighters who flew directly at each other along the runway at treetop hight then rolled in opposite directions at the last instant. I guess crowd safety wasn't uppermost in the organiser's minds in those days, as the aircraft were only a few hundred feet from the barriers.

The biggest pant-sh1tting moment I ever had was ridge-walking in the highlands, when a Buccaneer screamed up out of the glen below and we were almost knocked off our feet by the jet blast. Never heard the bugger until he was on top of us. Have also been above Yankee F-111's and so close you could see the pilots.

Oh and Vulcans are awesome, as are Lightnings (saw the last of 111-Squadron at Leuchars in 1974) and anything with a delta wing. The father of an old GF worked on the team that built the TSR2. Would love to have seen things like the Convair Delta Dart & Dagger.

SR71 is the daddy. That is all.

mrc1

diplomacy wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

When I was at Uni in Stafford (actually a Poly back then) there was a massive exercise based on RAF Stafford - there were attack choppers and fast jets and all sorts of hardware tearing around the sky - I almost fell off my bike when a Warthog suddenly appeared over the trees in front of me, coming straight at me!

Bloody amazing sight though.

in the rotary world - since i started working by the thames in SE1 i've been amazed at the parade of helicopters you get. merlins, pumas, apaches, lynxes and chinooks are pretty regular, plus occasional sea kings and hueys and every now and then a hughes 500 or a pair of blackhawks. where do they come from? where do they go? i have no idea.

Tell me about it! I used to work by the Mayor's building and we saw some really exotic stuff flying over. Chinook's were pretty regular but seeing an Apache was the highlight.

BelgianBeerGeek

Me, me! Love 'em. The Blackbird at an air show at Mildenhall when I were a lad was one of the most exciting things I have ever seen. Also at that show was a couple of French Mirage fighters and they were also pretty damn good, considering nothing too flashy was expected.

I have seen the Warthog on a few demos in my squaddie days and they are awesome. The way they can rip open a tank is quite fascinating, and made me very glad we're on the side of the septics.

Fave: the vulcan. Just properly exciting. Just seeing makes me feel like a kid again. And the noise from the olympic engines.

Rockhopper

gtvlusso wrote:

Vulcan and Concorde are the 2 loudest jets I have ever heard.....funnily enough they share the same powerplant, the rather magnificent Rolls Royce Olympus...

The significant difference is that Concorde has reheat (or afterburners if you are American) and the Vulcan does not so Concorde should be quite a bit louder.

el_presidente

Rockhopper wrote:

gtvlusso wrote:

Vulcan and Concorde are the 2 loudest jets I have ever heard.....funnily enough they share the same powerplant, the rather magnificent Rolls Royce Olympus...

The significant difference is that Concorde has reheat (or afterburners if you are American) and the Vulcan does not so Concorde should be quite a bit louder.

When I lived in Reading you couldn't hear the TV when it went over about 7pm every night on the evening flight to NYC

wac100

When I was in the Royal Navy one of my last postings was to the Falklands in 2001, during which time I was lucky enough to be nominated as a passenger in an RAF Tornado. We spent about 90 minutes in the air and did just about everything, even doing the attack routes the Argentinian jets took against the British Warships in San Carlos bay, which was pretty surreal as I was on one of those Warships during the Falklands War in 1982, HMS Antrim. It was absolutely amazing, thankfully I didn't need to use a sick bag, one of the best days of my life.