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Wow a 4 hour ground run must of been boring as sin!! Although tonkas are a bit more intresting than an old pongo carrier...

I've helped out with a 2 hour ground run before and that was fairly boring but its times like that when morale breaks out. God help us if that jets black box was listened to once we were finished because after we had gotten bored we were asking each other really rather ridiculous questions over the headsets

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I don't think anyone wet themselves when a Churchill tank roared by, or at the sight of a half-track. THAT'S what you get when you hear the howl of the Vulcan, or the sound of a Rolls-Royce Merlin, or

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Personally I would have like to have heard a TSR2

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I like the classic jet fighters, I have an older relative who flew DH Venoms, then Javelins. My Dads best friend was a Lightning pilot and my Dad was an engineer in the RAF working on Valiants, Vulcans then working on F6 Lightnings before he left the force. I'm a big fan of piston power too and not necessarily military either, favourite piston driven aircraft are the Zlin Trener Master, Pitts Special S2B, Antonov An2, Grumman Goose and my all time favourite, the Lockheed Constellation. I was in Amsterdam the day the Netherland's Aviodrome 'Connie' came home and saw it fly overhead at fairly low level. It was escorted in by two turboprop aircraft, I'm never ever going to forget the sight or sound :sun:

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True the typhoon is still getting up to speed on the ground attack front but it will destroy just about anything in a dog fight. Typhoon may well have dropped paveway's in elemy but they were guided by a tonka flying alongside it. Just don't mention that to any typhoon lads as they get a bit tetchy when you mention it :giggle:

It is a sight to see a tornado lumber along the runway trying its best to get off the ground making a right racket while doing it. Its mad just how much fuel it uses doing it as well. One fin full of fuel later and its in the air (just) Its not as bad as the jaguar tho. It may as well have used the curvature of the earth to take off.

Typoon was desadating for its self in ellamy. I loaded plenty of paveways and lightning pods to them. We even at times had to send two typhoons up to make up for tonkas missing tgeir slotts with all jets gabed.

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The downside being that you can locate a Wokka (range and bearing) at 2 miles over a car engine and stereo.

You'd be surprised.....

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Typoon was desadating for its self in ellamy. I loaded plenty of paveways and lightning pods to them. We even at times had to send two typhoons up to make up for tonkas missing tgeir slotts with all jets gabed.

 

I know that some Typhoons were getting help from the tonka's and as for the tornado's missing their slots, thats a standard tornado for you. Unreliable bags of bolts that should have been retired ages ago.

 

Have you ever see the video of 25 paveways hitting the same target within 5 seconds of each other in ellamy? I've never seen it but I want to. At first I thought that someone was having me on but a few people have mentioned it to me so I think that it might be true.

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I know that some Typhoons were getting help from the tonka's and as for the tornado's missing their slots, thats a standard tornado for you. Unreliable bags of bolts that should have been retired ages ago.

Have you ever see the video of 25 paveways hitting the same target within 5 seconds of each other in ellamy? I've never seen it but I want to. At first I thought that someone was having me on but a few people have mentioned it to me so I think that it might be true.

I have seen that video I beleive it was to atack a major amo store. One minute you saw a compond next a hole in the floor. Major armouer porn that haha.

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I have seen that video I beleive it was to atack a major amo store. One minute you saw a compond next a hole in the floor. Major armouer porn that haha.

 

 I wouldn't mind seeing it but I dunno where to look/who on camp would have the video. Must have ruined someone's day :giggle:

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I wouldn't mind seeing it but I dunno where to look/who on camp would have the video. Must have ruined someone's day :giggle:

Ill try track it down for you stu. Im sure some of my fellow armourers at coningsby have access to it.

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Ill try track it down for you stu. Im sure some of my fellow armourers at coningsby have access to it.

Child of St Barbara just like me then.....

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I know that some Typhoons were getting help from the tonka's and as for the tornado's missing their slots, thats a standard tornado for you. Unreliable bags of bolts that should have been retired ages ago.

 

Hehe - CSAS glitches, by any chance!!  I was on the service team for the last GR1 leaving Honnington to go to Lossiemouth.

 

I do like the Typhoon (Eurofighter) - spent a long time helping on the airfield grab brake chutes (alongside F15's and F16's pottering about).

 

As for the fascination with aircraft?  Boats have been around since Pontious was a pilot.  Light/medium armour vehicles and MBT's just trundle around - but they are still impressive - nothin like beiong near an MBT when it lets off a shot!).  Aircraft - they go anywhere.  Noisy, fast, agile and highly technical.  Let;s face it, being close to the back-end of a turbojet/turbofan on full reheat is just something that you never forget and always want to be exposed to again (with fingers in ears as appropriate). :rock:

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Hehe - CSAS glitches, by any chance!!  I was on the service team for the last GR1 leaving Honnington to go to Lossiemouth.

 

I do like the Typhoon (Eurofighter) - spent a long time helping on the airfield grab brake chutes (alongside F15's and F16's pottering about).

 

As for the fascination with aircraft?  Boats have been around since Pontious was a pilot.  Light/medium armour vehicles and MBT's just trundle around - but they are still impressive - nothin like beiong near an MBT when it lets off a shot!).  Aircraft - they go anywhere.  Noisy, fast, agile and highly technical.  Let;s face it, being close to the back-end of a turbojet/turbofan on full reheat is just something that you never forget and always want to be exposed to again (with fingers in ears as appropriate).

Reheat in a Phantom in a HAS at night now that was a spectacular if slightly naughty sight :)

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Ill try track it down for you stu. Im sure some of my fellow armourers at coningsby have access to it.

 

looking through this post and saw the above, my step-brother was an armourer in Coningsby, did you know Dave Robinson..

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Purely reading this thread, the TSR2 is that the white prototype jet, I think they have the cockput fuselage at Brooklands still I could be wrong

 

Yes, indeed it is, and yes there is a fragment at Brooklands.

Also two air-frames, one at Cosford and one at Duxford. The Duxford one is indoors now, almost nestled under the wing of Concorde. Quite poetic really.

 

Sadly the other remains were directly destroyed or used to see the effects of weapons fire on air-frames of the day, and then destoryed. :( :(

 

Enough to make you cry........

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It seems that there was a model made by Hornby (I think). There's one at the Hornby museum in Margate.

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