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Old 26th Nov 2007, 20:04
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Exrigger
 
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LFT thanks for those pictures, reminds of three incidents:

Honington early 90s Tornado GR1 took off, pre-selected U/C as per your F3 picce, aircraft dropped and then developed PIO, quite frightening but recovered well (could not believe that the pilot was supposed to let go of the stick and let the computers sort it out).

Honington again, 9 Sqn had a display for a film crew when they went operational, had it all set up for a few explosions, Tornado came screaming over the airfield towards the HAS site and waiting film crews, explosions duly went off, pilot must of looked where he was going and pulled up sharply to avoid HAS roof, again a case of PIO and some distance out instead of the expected parachutes
he managed to recover and land shortly after.

St Athan was the next one with a 15 Sqn crew who came to pick up a 17 Sqn aircraft post 16 FI wing change, Saints had banned fly bys and fancy take offs (mainly because of the VC10 maintenance hangar personnel), but these guys decided they would show us an impressive take off, they taxied onto the runway kept rolling, in came reheat, pre selected U/C as per the first guys, aircraft dropped (no PIO this time), only just cleared the fence at the golf club end of runway and some distance out was seen to climb and arrived back at Bruggen for a one sided chat with the boss apparently as Saints ATC had complained.

Quite impressive even though they are not stricly display c*ck ups.
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