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RAAF Canberra Low Flying... Did This Happen?
Aeronautics Magazine Sept (Not April 1st) 1956 - I`ve seen this picture published elsewhere... Is this a genuine photograph? Seen here at the end of a very accurate V D F ` let-down ' is an Australian-built Canberra bomber of 82 Bomber Wing, R A A F. Taken whilst the Wing were on exercise at the Townville base, this pilot cut taxying time to the maintenance bay to a minimum. Although the pilots do this kind of thing every day, the mechanic seen here still feels prudence is the better part of valour. He had been newly posted |
You're joking, right?
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Hope the doors at the other end were open.
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Ah, I can just hear the nay-sayers screaming "Ye olde Photoshoppe"... :}
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Yes, of course it is true. Daily occurrance in the RAAF. Canberras were recently replaced with our new Stealth bombers:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...lthFighter.jpg And would you believe - the RAAF can't find three aircraft already!! :} |
"Ye olde Photoshoppe"... |
The caption suggests a spoof "Seen here at the end of a very accurate V D F ` let-down" - I seem to remember a good VDF letdown was one where you ended up in the right county.
Whilst I never really thought it was a genuine picture... it is notable that it appeared in more than one mainstream publication in the news sections without subsequent comment.. hence the posting |
It makes you wonder though..
What is the largest aircraft that has been flown through a hangar? |
In 1950 Swede Ralston flew through a dirigible hanger at the Tillamook Naval Air Station in a N.A. AT-6A aircraft (650 HP Pratt-Whitney engine) at an altitude of 50 feet and a speed of 250 miles per hour(?!). While flying through the hanger, Ralston and his aircraft executed a 180 degree roll and emerged upside down.
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Tillamook doesn't count. You could loop an aircraft in that hangar.. :8
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You could loop an aircraft in that hangar.. What the hell am I doing in history and nostalgia? I started out in D&G...:confused: |
Same here Howard...one minute I'm in Dunnunda then ...*POOF*... H&N!!!:confused:
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Saw this photo a lifetime ago ....
The aircraft was up on jacks and they just airbrushed the supports out of the picture....... N |
James Bond flew a BD-5 through a hangar
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My granny could fly a BD5 through a hangar.. :E:E
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The aircraft was up on jacks and they just airbrushed the supports out of the picture....... |
Originally Posted by jabberwok
Tillamook doesn't count. You could loop an aircraft in that hangar..
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Jabberwok,
Not this one, she couldn't. :eek: PPRuNe thread on it (of course). As for the original question - I reckon it's the sort of thing that Milt would know. |
This is real, however:
http://www.gchudleigh.com/images/santarosaproof.jpg "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963). |
George Formby did it first in a Magister about 1938.
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