View Full Version : Streaked Lightning - another video to enjoy
thowman
27th Nov 2012, 08:50
Just seen a link to this on another site - a bit cheesy, but jolly, nevertheless.
This 1960s Fighter Jet Ad Is Hilariously British (http://jalopnik.com/5955228/this-1960s-fighter-jet-ad-is-hilariously-british)
green granite
27th Nov 2012, 09:13
Love the quick engine change between sorties. :)
1.3VStall
27th Nov 2012, 19:47
Oh come on chaps, this has been posted here before.
(However, I do admit that, as a hairy-blue-wearing ATC Cadet, in the mid '60s, this film was a significant part of the driving factors that led me to join the RAF!).;)
Dengue_Dude
27th Nov 2012, 20:09
Bizarre . . . completely bizarre
As an engineer,
I know what a bustard it was on the ground - but in the air there was nothing like it - what a machine!
Rgds SOS
Rigga
27th Nov 2012, 22:09
Wow.
A world before FOD was invented...
Big and chunky Rubber Buttons on blue denim Denims. Brown Dust Coats on the Line and Arm-Band Stripes. Blue Crew Steps and Blue Chocks.
Yes, a very Austin Powers moment.
oldmansquipper
28th Nov 2012, 18:55
Ahhh. the Frightning:
Baxter Taylor Woodhouse? Partial Pressure helmet (AKA: E ytype??)
The worst `drag bag` arrangement known to man (before the Jaguar noddy capped variety was released into an unsuspecting world of Squippery...)
I recall it often took longer to service & repack the brake chute than the length of sortie the jet could accomplish. This lead to a difficult turn round situation due to the laws of diminishing returns. :eek:
The logistical nightmare of supplying sufficient repacked chutes to support the programme led to the infamous scenario on the SNCO Trade Management Training courses `RAF Little Snoring` and the solution was "don`t send your packing tables to lunch" - those who did the course in the 80s will know what I am rambling on about...;)
Lightning Mate
29th Nov 2012, 07:57
"Want to fly a Lightning?"
"Want to land a Lightning?"
Clearly one had to be able to do both, as well as a take-off.
Pity "Want to service a Lightning" didn't appear!
LM (F1A, T4, F3, T5, F6)
oldmansquipper
29th Nov 2012, 08:15
LM.
I assume the "want to LAND a Lightning?" excludes those placed in the Spurn Head underwater repository? ;)
Clearly one had to be able to do both, as well as a take-off.
- Hmm - quite a few failed there, and the odd one didn't even manage No 1!
lasernigel
29th Nov 2012, 08:33
(However, I do admit that, as a hairy-blue-wearing ATC Cadet, in the mid '60s, this film was a significant part of the driving factors that led me to join the RAF!)
Was one of those as well. ATC camp in 1965 was at 226(?)OCU at Coltishall.
Really exciting seeing those Lightnings do go arounds.:ok:
Also was taught how to right a bomber type life raft in the swimming pool.
Overnighted in a tent near Cromer for the roughie toughie bit. Cooking was described by a Flt Lt as "Fecking awful". I now pride myself on my culinary arts!
BTW got a brown uniform at 18 1/2 yrs.
Lightning Mate
29th Nov 2012, 10:50
Morning BOAC - I wondered how long it would be before you pitched up. :)
Hmm - quite a few failed there, and the odd one didn't even manage No 1!
You're right there.
I wondered how long it would be before you pitched up. - well, on a thread about the finest fighter built?........................
the odd one didn't even manage No 1 - we are talking, of course, about the junior 'training' squadrons in the south that almost made an artform of it.:)
Lightning Mate
29th Nov 2012, 11:26
That will be enough!
....unless by "south" you mean the flying GCA caravans or the tiger-stripe hooligans.
edit: is it not time we had a guest appearance from Newt?
sisemen
29th Nov 2012, 11:34
One of my SNCOs when on recruiting was a Frightening Eng Tech. He told me that to remove an engine required a spanner with a 6.5 ft extension to get to the critical bolt.
I believed him.
Lightning Mate
29th Nov 2012, 11:47
Which engine - no.1 or no.2. :E
Why have 2 when you can have four?
Short Sperrin S.A.4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sperrin)
http://prototypes.free.fr/sperrin/images/sperrin_03.jpg
http://prototypes.free.fr/sperrin/images/sperrin_04.jpg
Lightning Mate
29th Nov 2012, 12:14
Or even twelve!
http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/uu82/Lightning_29/Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-12963_Flugboot.jpg
Yeah, but the Sperrin was effectively two Lightnings flying in formation. :cool:
Blacksheep
29th Nov 2012, 12:58
The engine change on a turn-round wasn't half as funny as the pilot patting the ventral tank on his walk around, just to make sure it was bolted on nice and tight. :suspect:
Fitter2
29th Nov 2012, 13:58
Or to check there wasn't a hollow boom from an empty tank? The crews all used to do it on the walk round, I'm sure they had their reasons.
Lightning Mate
29th Nov 2012, 14:03
Or to check there wasn't a hollow boom from an empty tank?
That is exactly why we did it.
We also did likewise with Jaguar drop tanks.
Shack37
29th Nov 2012, 16:59
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No wonder Britain got it's ass kicked in Vietnam.
Is this guy for real? Far as I remember we weren't in Vietnam back then cos the North didn't ask us.
Shack37
29th Nov 2012, 17:08
Quote:
Clearly one had to be able to do both, as well as a take-off. -
Hmm - quite a few failed there, and the odd one didn't even manage No 1!
Was there not a Wg.Cmdr. Eng.O. who managed both, albeit unintentionally.
RAFEngO74to09
29th Nov 2012, 18:40
Shack 37,
Correct - first hand account here:
Oops - accidental lightning pilot - PistonHeads (http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=191&t=676440&nmt=Oops%20-%20accidental%20lightning%20pilot)
Aerials
30th Nov 2012, 12:07
Here is the first-hand account by The Man himself, post number 8: http://www.pprune.org/dg-p-general-aviation-questions/234781-lightning-engineer-flight.html
Fantastic :ok: And that Valiant tribute is :D Great to see footage shot at Wisley.....if only we'd pressed on with that B2 :{
Newts in Thailand on some R & R but still keeping an eye on you LM!!
Its sooooo hot I had better get another beer!!:ok::ok::ok::ok:
as funny as the pilot patting the ventral tank on his walk around. - as previously explained, that is not 'funny', that is dead serious. I take it you have never regularly flown an a/c with external tanks that always takes off with insufficient fuel?:)