Well done to all involved!!
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Well done to all involved!!
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Station Commander at RAF Linton-on-Ouse, Gp Capt Mark Hopkins, said: "The Royal Air Force has the best pilots and air traffic controllers in the world.
Nice rescue by the way.
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Or did he "drift" up to 15,000 in the interval between the initial call and the Tucano arriving, in the absence of any awarenes cues? I think, personally, I'd rather risk hypoxia than unity with the scenery.
Top marks to both aviators.
Top marks to both aviators.
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Re Chuck Yeager
You will note that the quotation from the Stn Cdr was present tense - Chuck Yeager fought in WW2 and was a Brigadier General in 1969. I was not aware that the USAF employs pilots who are more than 80 years old.
Re Chuck Yeager
You will note that the quotation from the Stn Cdr was present tense - Chuck Yeager fought in WW2 and was a Brigadier General in 1969. I was not aware that the USAF employs pilots who are more than 80 years old.
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A job very well done indeed to the rescue pilot.
Glad the victim was smart enough to call for help when he did and the back up was there when he needed it.
This calls for a gong at least, IMHO.
Glad the victim was smart enough to call for help when he did and the back up was there when he needed it.
This calls for a gong at least, IMHO.
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T-182T Turbo Skylane
Capable of 20,000'
Cessna T182T Turbo-Skylane (2003) Aircraft performance and specifications
Capable of 20,000'
Cessna T182T Turbo-Skylane (2003) Aircraft performance and specifications
Not that I read the "People" (honest guv) but I was surprised it stated that the a/c involved was a "4 seater Cessna Jet" with a picture of a biz jet and a Tornado on the page.
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The collective achievement in this instance should not be likened in any sense to the inadvertent Lightning flight in th 60's by the Wg Cdr Eng. In this case outstanding airmanship and ATC resulted in a safe landing. In the case of the Lightning the cause of the incident and the recovery of the aircraft was the sole responsibility of the good Wg Cdr.
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The parallel I was making between this incident and the Lightning episode was that while both situations were ones in which the person flying the aeroplane must've thought - this can't be happening to me - the cause of each and the way they were resolved are clearly different.
Not sure which one would be worse - flying blind (literally) or sat on a safe ejection seat, with no comms, in a Lightning..
The parallel I was making between this incident and the Lightning episode was that while both situations were ones in which the person flying the aeroplane must've thought - this can't be happening to me - the cause of each and the way they were resolved are clearly different.
Not sure which one would be worse - flying blind (literally) or sat on a safe ejection seat, with no comms, in a Lightning..
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Not sure which one would be worse - flying blind (literally) or sat on a safe ejection seat, with no comms, in a Lightning..
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Good Show - Or What?