Here`s a few from a miss-spent middling age, last of the present crop...
Taken from the RHS in a C-130 and I don`t remember if I was poling or just instructing.
READY position, about 30-50yds behind the drogue, stabilised, increase power a bit.
Then the co starts the "mouth-music"to give corrections, flying up the line of the drogue.
"And now ,Bloggs, you can see if you are really smooth, you get in first-time".
Don`t look at the basket, otherwise------.
Sometimes with FJet guys, who invariably look, we would say
"We`ll just reel-in a `mo, and put some hair around it".
That got them all excited, and usually ended with them backing-off to try again!
Sunset over the Saudi wastelands, in GW1; sometimes we saw the following sunrise too.
Warmed-up and ready to do a display in a Harvard.
One of the most beautiful biplanes ever built, which I had the pleasure and privilege of flying at air-displays.
900hp, handles well, except on runways, but then, it wasn`t meant to, and especially on a fine summers day,
like sex in the afternoon..only lasts longer!!
Sorry, haven`t any Jetbox pics as there are plenty on here, so thats all for now, hope you enjoy..
Sycamore
