Good things to do to a Tornado, and this was not one of them..

[NutLoose]

Pictures posted on Britmodeller by Plastic Bonsia......

OOPs :D


http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff347/Plastic_Bonsai/t1.jpg

http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff347/Plastic_Bonsai/t2.jpg

http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff347/Plastic_Bonsai/t3.jpg

[KeepItTidy]

heheheheh serves the saudis rights for being evil to the west , fecking no sympathy

[WhatsaLizad?]

It's the Allah's will. He intended it to happen, so their was the no mistake, no harm, no foul.

Now carry on. :ugh:

[KeepItTidy]

all made from paper as well , brillaint :ok:

[L J R]

So who gets to claim the kill, the F-3 or the Crane? - A Kill is a Kill!

[KeepItTidy]

I just realised how drunk i was last night and removed this comment :ok:

Drinking and typo is not my good point

[dallas]

Someone's for the chop...

[antipodean alligator]

As good as use as any other for an ADV....

[Lurking123]

Obviously one of the early Blue Circle radar versions.

[The PM]

I quite like this as an example of modern sculpture.

[Fortyodd2]

If Damian Hirst had done it he'd be up for prize and selling the thing for squillions - and some muppet would buy it!!! :ugh:

[Ali Barber]

Years ago, when the Saudis got rid of the Lightning, they put one on the roundabout outside Tabuk airbase, complete with mannequin in the cockpit. It was the only time I ever saw a Lightning with all the external lights working.

[2muchROSO]

What a waste! Looked like such a nice crane... :D

[Booger]

Holy Shiite Moslem Militia Men - you owe me a new keyboard Fish..!! (I just spat my beer over this one).

Funniest. Comment. Ever.:}

[brakedwell]

Plenty more from where that came from!

[Beatriz Fontana]

You have to repost on the caption competition thread! :D

[peppermint_jam]

Don't suppose someone would be kind enough to attach them to the thread, can't view them as they are now, Thanks to this wonderful IGS we have!

[Diedtrying]

Love the third photo with the guy in the blue boilers suit, shades and a smirk on his face whilst pointing at his mate. So with that in mind who do you think was the crane operator. :}

[Gainesy]

Cue Michael Caine:"Ang on a minute lads, I've got a plan"...

[NutLoose]

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Don't suppose someone would be kind enough to attach them to the thread, can't view them as they are now, Thanks to this wonderful IGS we have!


As far as I can tell I have, or have I missed something?

[cornish-stormrider]

yes you have... I think.

[Globemeister]

Force=Massxlever length

Local crane driver or will a westerner/immigrant be in for the chop?

[AR1]

Come on fellows - two pages, and no speculation about how it all happened?

[peppermint_jam]

Must just be my IGS that's too sensitive then!! Just see boxes with the red cross in instead of the pictures.

[NutLoose]

Try copying these then paste them in the browser window and click return, it should then convert the XX and load it, if not replace the XX with a tt.

Or just click on them and see if it opens them in another window.

hXXp://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff347/Plastic_Bonsai/t1.jpg (http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff347/Plastic_Bonsai/t1.jpg)

hXXp://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff347/Plastic_Bonsai/t2.jpg (http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff347/Plastic_Bonsai/t2.jpg)

hXXp://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff347/Plastic_Bonsai/t3.jpg (http://i538.photobucket.com/albums/ff347/Plastic_Bonsai/t3.jpg)

[My T Hunter]

Love the third photo with the guy in the blue boilers suit, shades and a smirk on his face whilst pointing at his mate. So with that in mind who do you think was the crane operator.

Could it be the guy just out of shot on the right, being pointed and laughed at, with possible blood stains on his elbow?

[hurn]

They should have used a Tonka.

[nacluv]

Come on fellows - two pages, and no speculation about how it all happened?


OK - here's my opening gambit:

"Biggles turns final without gear. Caravan controller too busy reading Heat/Cosmopolitan/porn magazine and Biggles lands wheels up having not got a red flare. Pi$$ed off with ATC for not doing their job, Biggles dabs in a bit of left rudder, takes aim and then jumps out."

With apologies to the OP of this prose from a different but recent thread... The Tonka and the crane have both definitely made a wheels-up landing there. :E

[gar170]

can't beleve nobody blamed a mover yet you lot must be getting slow.

[L1A2 discharged]

I reckon the movers did not deliver the ballast for the crane, which had not been DI'd properly by the MT driver, then the stacker had witheld the required anchoring as someone else might need it, the plods didn't close the road as they had less than 28 days notice of the requirement - and anyway were sleeping off shift, the riggers had left the wheels off as they had been robbed to keep the display jet flying, the sooties had left heavy engines in, the leckies (DFs) had not removed the fully charged [ and therefore heavier than flat] batteries, the fairy w***ers left all the heavy boxes and radar bits in, ATC denied involvement as the jet was not operating under its own power - that let OC Ops plus the SATCO and Fire Setion off the hook too, GEF said they were not multi skilled so didn't do cranes - chains and slings yes - big yellow cranes no, OC WRAFs said it was in an area where her girls were not allowed out of the compound so it wasn't them .....

must have been the JT armourers fault, always seemed to be the case in Germany :E

[Dan Winterland]

Inshallah!

[Biggles225]

I thought it was a star wars 'walker' undercarriage mod at first

[ARINC]

That bloke with the sunnies owes me 20 rats....:} and this wouldn't have happened at Dhahran...:ok:

[forget]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b270/cumpas/crane.jpg

[dead_pan]

Is the chap with the rims saying: "Move along please - there's nothing to see here" or "f*ck it - that'll do"

[tonker]

Sheesh

Even a crane can't get one of these things high enough:E

[Senior Pilot]

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb144/chch_01/t3.jpg

[Gaz ED]

If the driver was still in the cab of that crane, I'd presume he's reached orbital velocity by now....

INSHALLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[BEagle]

I reckon it was down to the dark-skinned chap in the white robes in the distance, seen behind the crane's rear tyres, who's trying to look nonchalant as he walks away as if nothing's happened....

[mlc]

Hope the crane driver didn't shout out 'Jesus Christ'!

(shamelessly stolen from another forum)

[dead_pan]

Long-shot on the cause of this little mishap: Crane falls out of back of low-flying C5, just happening to land end-on on said Tornado.

DP

[cockney steve]

"having moved the wreck to the centre of the roundabout, the new "Coles skyhook" prepared to launch to it's next mission."

[nice castle]

It's not just the RAF that suffers from the 'everything revolves around FJ' phenomena then!

[NutLoose]

This was posted over on Britmodeller by "Pete in Riyadh" in response to the Photos...

"I wondered when these pics would turn up on here. We saw them weeks ago.
Your basic Tonka, fuelled up but sans bombs etc comes in around 25 tons, if memory serves me right.
A display shell, minus engines, seats & 600 black boxes would still be 10 - 15 tons.
That piddly little crane, with the jib at full stretch would only do between 5 & 10 as a maximum.

The incident is from Dharan on the east coast. Word is, they who wanted it done were told it needed a
bigger crane, but wouldn't pay for an outside contractor & said their crane would do.

We lifted a Tonka in Germany donkeys years ago. What turned up looked like something out of Thunderbirds.
I've never seen so many wheels attatched to one chassis and a jib the diameter of a shipping container.
We asked the driver if he knew how much his load was worth (then around £23 million)
He countered by asking if we knew how much his crane was worth!

To sum up, If you ask for an expert opinion, listen to the answer!"

[Riskman]

So, in the end, either the strain guage was pinging away like a mad thing but they who wanted it done were told it needed a bigger crane, but wouldn't pay for an outside contractor & said their crane would do so the operator carried on,:ugh:
or,
the audible alarm was disconnected because it kept going off and distracting the operator at a critical moment.:ugh:

[aviate1138]

Why didn't they pour the readymix concrete in - after they lifted it into position? :rolleyes:

[racedo]

Saudi clearly has its own version of Scousers as the wheels are missing in 1st photo....

[A A Gruntpuddock]

"the audible alarm was disconnected because it kept going off and distracting the operator at a critical moment"

When I was at uni one of the lecturers was a frequent expert witness at crane accidents.

He said you could always tell the crane drivers on a site because they were the only ones on site wearing caps.

Apparently this was so they could jam them into the warning bells when they went off.

[Jumping_Jack]

Is there any particular reason why this 4 year old thread has been resurrected? :confused:

[hval]

Yes there is

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

"Insh'allah" is not a plan

[son of brommers]

indeed, it is not a plan. But it is slower than mañana...............

[Tashengurt]

"Told you we should have taken the Nav out first!"

If it's good enough to win the caption competition, it's good enough to post again!