Not as highly technical and loads of lead and angle v energy fights as the last posts..but a rather warming dit on the old Frightning.
Took the incumbant PUS of Def to Warton a few years back as a VIP sortie for signing up ceremony for the Tornado ADV (as it was then).
After Champers and Cucumber sarnies, whilst walking across the apron to the aircraft for the trip back to London..a BAe Company F6 and 1st edition ADV (the ones with ballast in the nose), admittidly flown by Company Test Pilots (but both late ETPS and Air Defender types), came in low up the estuary from the Irish Sea (from the West for the unfamiliar)..at about 100ft (ish)..for a "break"..
By way of a "catch me if you can" ADV, the F6 lead put the beast in the vertical at mid point with full burner and went ballistic. Much to the amazement of the PUS, with fingers in his ears. The ADV lit the fires, wallowed down the runway for about 200m, computers working overtime on the elevons and the wing, juddered over 20 odd back gardens, dried out a host of Greenhouses and tried in vain to get anywhere near the F6.
The PUS looked glumly at the ADV, looked at me and said very sheepishly..." Bloody hell, tell me that it was the 1st aircraft I just signed up for"
