Run in with Tornado

[OUAQUKGF Ops]

Thanks very much chaps - I see you have cleared off home for a cuppa.

Very much enjoyed your dummy on to my massive bonfire at 1525z.

Come again - between Trimingham Radar and Southrepps. Any snaps?

[Darvan]

Do you really expect to get an answer to this post. I sincerely hope not!!

[BEagle]

Very much enjoyed your dummy on to my massive bonfire at 1525z.


What was it - a witch burning?

Or perhaps some six-fingered wicker man ceremony?

[500N]

Darvan

Someone put a thank you from, I think the Falklands for a C-130 fly over.

One of the crew actually replied a day or so later !

[Wander00]

I got a reply a couple of years ago after a Wokksa flew over our village in SE Vendee

[CoffmanStarter]

I got a reply a couple of years ago after a Wokka flew over our village in SE Vendee

RAF Odiham's circuit pattern a bit excessive then :ok:

[OUAQUKGF Ops]

Hello Darvan - No I don't expect a reply. I was merely thanking the chaps for livening up a chilly winter afternoon's work in the garden and all the boredom that comes with it. It was actually a beautiful bit of flying and probably made a bit of a change for them after attacking the Radar Station. You could tell they were Gentlemen because unlike another airforce around here they didn't kick in the afterburners right over my house but waited until they reached the coast a mile or so away.

Beagle - You don't want to know what goes on my Bonfires - I couldn't possibly say!

[Darvan]

My concern was for the crew who may have been under pressure by you to acknowledge the [possibly unauthorised] fly-by. Flying discipline and flight safety are issues that make it increasingly difficult to perform impromptu air displays for Joe Public et al. For all they know you may have had a stud farm next door worth thousands waiting for a name to litigate against.

[glad rag]

It must be great being the life and soul of the party Darvan.

[MPN11]

OK ... I'll admit it. My Piper Cherokee has been modified a bit, paint scheme and that sort of thing. And I have these loudspeakers and flare generators stuck on the back end. Looks cr@p but sounds cool, like my Mk 2 Ford Escort.

But I was legal, honest. And the afterburner kit costs £23 an hour to operate, so you got lucky that it was your location.

Not a scoobie who the other bloke was, though. I had my head in the cockpit playing with the display switchgear.

:cool:

[Darvan]

Glad Rag. No issue with fly bys at all. I've done plenty myself, fast and v low, but anonymity helps to keep the legal vultures at bay.

[OUAQUKGF Ops]

Point taken. However low-flying military aircraft are not uncommon in this part of Norfolk and on this occasion the aircraft pulled out of its descent at about 500 feet.

I would never dream of landing a crew in the ****e. My dog also agrees with me despite being being scared out of his skin by a heavy military helicopter which was also going walkies earlier this year at approx 75ft agl like a bat out of hell.

Incidentally my wife calls the C130s 'Tractors' because the two are so easily confused in these parts.

[strake]

I also had a very good response from a Wattisham crew who tended to lurk around the tree line close to the house some years back.
I think young Darvan should tell us at least something about his many 'fast and very low fly-bys'.
Start with a/c type perhaps..that's nice and confidential.

[Darvan]

I'm **, I'm not young.

And before you say: "Come and see the violence inherent in the system, help, help, I'm,being repressed."

The only clue I will proffer is Bananas!