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Speaking of arrows, what's with the constant use of >>>? Nothing against it, just noticed it is a regular feature in your posts.
In this time of tight purse strings they should be disbanded and sent back to proper squadrons and not just performing for the public
I prefer the Italians tbh. The Frecce Trivolori. Proper nut jobs they are. They proved it a few years back over Ramstein too. They do a good show though and I'm lucky enough to see them over my house every summer.BobG
As a Rosso lad, I used to love the RAF Finningley Air Show. Your post brought it all flooding back, John. Remember sitting in a Lightning on the ground once. Awesome when you are 10 years old. And the noise those Vulcans made. Absolutely deafening.
I lived in Hatfield and we seemed to be under the flypath for Finningley. The noise of the Vulcans coming over was a regular occurrence. They were a magnificent sight though.Some time ago I remember watching a fascinating documentary about how a Vulcan bombed the runway at Port Stanley during the Falklands War. Probably the last truly operational mission by a Vulcan and carried out very successfully. The Argentinians were unable to use the runway as a result.
We all know that the Vulcan bombers were the UKs answer during the Cold War conflict the the great bear .The vulcans were set up to fly out to Russia and drop its load all over whatever target .Iam sure that I read somewhere that on these missions to bomb Russia there was no way the aircraft was getting back to the U.K.Pretty daunting to be a Crew member trained for one of those missions of no return.
Quote from: not on facebook on February 12, 2017, 09:20:18 pmWe all know that the Vulcan bombers were the UKs answer during the Cold War conflict the the great bear .The vulcans were set up to fly out to Russia and drop its load all over whatever target .Iam sure that I read somewhere that on these missions to bomb Russia there was no way the aircraft was getting back to the U.K.Pretty daunting to be a Crew member trained for one of those missions of no return.Although had we been bombing Russia, at that stage, there would have most likely been nothing left to come back to!
I remember seeing Lightnings at Finningley as a kid too. I can still one of the buggers pootling along low, level and not all that fast when it suddenly went straight through 90 degrees, stood right on its tail and decided to spear a hole in the sky. Bloody awesome thing! Is it still the only aeroplane that can or could accelerate absolutely vertically? I remember too though that if it set off after the Russkies over the North Sea it only had about 20 minutes to get there - and back!Bob