Top Gear...

[dave_perry]

Clarkson and his pals at Coningsby tonight. Typhoon vs Bugatti. Should be good :cool:.

http://www.raf.mod.uk//news/index.cfm?storyid=935ECCFF-1143-EC82-2E867C3FE38073DF

[TEEEJ]

For those that can't wait!

Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X7V7LMNF5Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3z1L0YMglo

[High_lander]

:ooh::ooh: nice.



Wowee. Looks impressive.


Quite agree with the comments on the first one, can't wait to see the footage from the camera car!

[Green Flash]

Typhoon.
Cold War dinosaur, not what is needed, waste of money etc etc; Yes, I can see some points of view.




But .....








- ITS STILL BLEEDIN' AWESOME!

[Lamenting Navigator]

Oh man, that's good... can't wait to see that in widescreen when I get back!

[Seldomfitforpurpose]

Just watched it...........very impressive :D

[Ops and Mops]

Nice one Oz! Good to see you promoted too...a good year all round then? :ok:

[High_lander]

WOW- just seeing the Typhoon turn in full afterburner. Just incredible.
V. incredible

[vecvechookattack]

Great show...... and no doubt some jumped up MP will now be on the phone or writing to CAS to complain about the cost of such a venture and to question how an Air Force which proclaims to be at full stretch can spare an expensive aircraft and an entire active runway to perform such a trick.....Good show though

[Monkey Madness]

Supposedly the BBC picked up the tab.

[nice castle]

Awesome photography of it all (as always on TG - definately one of the best programmes on TV).

Well done Jim:D

[JagRigger]

Did anyone else notice the one Hammond was walking down the wing on? Looked like it was missing the front end.

I assume this was the one that suffered the accident on landing - but I'm still surprised it's not gone back to BAe by now.

[critical winge]

Has there been any comparison with the Tyhpoon and the F35? Any sites?

[Al R]

I thought that it was one of the best episodes in a long, long time, probably a good 2 or 3 years. The BBC piece was very well done; the sight of the car driving behind the news readers desk made me choke on my drink. They managed last night, to keep enthusiasts happy while keeping it mainstream, they seemed to have lost the knack of getting that balance right.

The RR piece was almost as good as JC's Phantom piece, the star in a reasonably priced car only made a passing reference to his book, the 599 looked subliminal and Ken Livingstone got a half decent mauling, which is always good. As much as I like the Fifth Gear crew, they'll be wondering what on earth they have to do, to catch up. Apart from getting 5 times the production budget. The general camera work has to change though, those moody filtered skies and cropped long shots have been done to death. The Typhoon photography was fantastic though.

[GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU]

F 35 ( http://www.race-cars.com/carsales/crossle/1114531675/1114531675ss ) v Typhoon? I'm not sure Top Gear would be interested but they may want to compare it to the Lagonda.

[MadsDad]

One thing I noticed was that after Typhoon had crossed the finish line it went away doing a Victory Roll ('....and if you EVER do that again....') and I thought that if the car had won he couldn't have done that.

Then I thought; 'but Hammond is driving and it's on a runway. Maybe.......'. :E

[ZH875]

MadsDad, thats another monitor/coffee incident for Pprune. :p

[Green Flash]

I noticed he blipped the burners as he swept over the Hamstermobile. I presume this was the Typhoon version of a certain hand gesture :E

[BattlerBritain]

I liked the way Hammond described the RAF as "...a bunch of airplane enthusiasts.."

[Runaway Gun]

That's an obvious lie for the majority of the RAF.

[SirToppamHat]

Try this link for the actual piece itself:

Top Gear Typhoon Veyron Item 28 Oct 07 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYhd_N01fLg)

Unfortunately, it doesn't include the inevitable post-sketch banter.

STH

[Al R]

If anyone missed the Peel P50 sketch..

Watch and shoot, watch and shoot.


http://i23.tinypic.com/25k67hv.gif

[Al R]

In fact, why wait for the repeat..?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYtro7PnBA8

Brilliant stuff.

[dave_perry]

Yeh I have to agree. Well done to the BBC and TG guys, you pulled it off. Absolutely fantastic. :)

[Alber Ratman]

Jag Rigger


It was not ...........:ugh::ugh:

[West Coast]

"Supposedly the BBC picked up the tab"

Which means you picked up the tab.

[Seldomfitforpurpose]

Green Flash,

One of the blighters "blipped" the burners as he flew over our offsprings pass out a couple of months back..........scared the cr@p out of Mrs SFFP and the mother in law..................outstanding:D

Edited to add money well spent Westie :ok:

[ZH875]

"Supposedly the BBC picked up the tab"

Which means you picked up the tab.


And worth every penny, unlike MPs "Extra's"

[Lamenting Navigator]

Somedays I envy Hamster. The day they filmed that was one of those days.

[BEagle]

"That's Fiona Bruce, the newsreader....."

"She has got.....quite a nice bottom"

"I said that out loud, didn't I?"

Brilliant show! And the pi$$-take of the ethnocentric enviro-fundamentalists was excellent.

[F34NZ]

'Above Enemy Lines' aside, possibly the best bit of PR the RAF's had this year. Not sure if that says more about the TG team, the Typhoon or the people who think that RAF PR means selling pyjamas with the roundel on them.

[airborne_artist]

"That's Fiona Bruce, the newsreader....."

"She has got.....quite a nice bottom"


And she looks like she's very happy to have JC make such comments :}