Best in-Service UK military aircraft?
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TLAM anyone? Flys like an aeroplane any way. Would not want to be any where near where it lands, but the take off is always fun.
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Kennyr that's what I was asking - I wondered if you guys had merely gone-off at a tangent, or whether you actually weren't particularly interested in a serious discussion in the first place. It's just very difficult to work-out sometimes - methinks pprune ought to introduce "serious" and "banter" icons so we know what we're gonna be reading
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OK I'll end the debate........MERLIN MK3 or shall i leave the shift on and put MERLIN MK£
Quite simply the fastest, smoothest, and best looking aircraft in the world oh and its operated by, and this is backed up by an award, THE WORLDS BEST MILITARY SQUADRON!!!! I say no more and i thank you, good night
Quite simply the fastest, smoothest, and best looking aircraft in the world oh and its operated by, and this is backed up by an award, THE WORLDS BEST MILITARY SQUADRON!!!! I say no more and i thank you, good night
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Ah, the best TOYS I have been given to play with were:
Gnat - Superb fun (when it worked)
Gazelle - Aerial sports car
Squirrel - as good as the Gazelle but more accomplished.
My favourite front line ac:
Fast - Lightning (EEK)
Plodding - C130 Mk1 - 3 (=global party time in the 1970s)
Slow - Sea King 3 (Great to fly, challenging missions)
Had an absolute ball in all of these (and a few others too)
Gnat - Superb fun (when it worked)
Gazelle - Aerial sports car
Squirrel - as good as the Gazelle but more accomplished.
My favourite front line ac:
Fast - Lightning (EEK)
Plodding - C130 Mk1 - 3 (=global party time in the 1970s)
Slow - Sea King 3 (Great to fly, challenging missions)
Had an absolute ball in all of these (and a few others too)
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The thing is Tim M, what do you actually fly??? Come on tell us, dont tell us what you read in AFM last month, or what you have seen in Janes.....The thing is, this "pointless list" which you so claim is provided, I suspect in the most part by those who fly or have flown a specific type and have a great affinity to said aircraft. Why dont you just poke off to the "pointless" spotter thread and talk numbers there.
For my money it is the mighty Tonka F3, she is lovely isnt she.......
Flying yesterday's aircraft tomorrow
For my money it is the mighty Tonka F3, she is lovely isnt she.......
Flying yesterday's aircraft tomorrow
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It has to be the only MRCA in current service ohh and operational for all its frontline life - The MR2 Nimrod, she has looked after me and taken me to some very bad parties with some very bad people
. I now fly in the other one and it just does not have the same odour de Nim/curries/DCS/Dutch Roll/Artic Roll/Jam filled Roll, nor does it have the title ''The World's Biggest Fighter''. The f3s we have spanked
, imagine being a fighter pillock and being waxed by a modified airliner the shame of it
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Suppose at least I don't have to fly in an Atlantique
Charlie sends
. I now fly in the other one and it just does not have the same odour de Nim/curries/DCS/Dutch Roll/Artic Roll/Jam filled Roll, nor does it have the title ''The World's Biggest Fighter''. The f3s we have spanked, imagine being a fighter pillock and being waxed by a modified airliner the shame of it.Suppose at least I don't have to fly in an Atlantique
Charlie sends
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C'mon guys, gotta be a few more votes for the Mighty Punter:
Never have so many people thousands of miles from anywhere, in a dinghy or falling off a fishing boat, smiled so widely when 'boinged' by the sound of freedom - four Speys in max oil burning mode (Tracy Edwards and her de-masted yacht 2000 miles west of Cape Horn eg).
Maximum value in current role in sandy places, asked for regularly over and above ac owned by other Air Forces ... even by that same country's boss!
Ability to completely re-role in hours if needed, sometimes even in-flight if correct kit carried.
Shed loads of power (except when hot, high 'n' heavy), hugely reliable once airborne.
Have you ever seen the display? It's an airliner for god's sake!
What more can I say about the galley, eh?
Mega angles of bank allowed from 200' above the sea for hours on end (see above if you don't have a delicate stomach).
The most comfortable & spacious thing out there (go on then, compare it to a VC10, C130, FJ, in fact anything but a C17).
Proper Elsan loo (%&^!!?) with a door and sink.
Wing root gun pack & voice activated autopilot (only fitted when pax on board).
The ability to carry home just about the same as the personal allowance for the crew & pax for any given det - and no more ............................
Never have so many people thousands of miles from anywhere, in a dinghy or falling off a fishing boat, smiled so widely when 'boinged' by the sound of freedom - four Speys in max oil burning mode (Tracy Edwards and her de-masted yacht 2000 miles west of Cape Horn eg).
Maximum value in current role in sandy places, asked for regularly over and above ac owned by other Air Forces ... even by that same country's boss!
Ability to completely re-role in hours if needed, sometimes even in-flight if correct kit carried.
Shed loads of power (except when hot, high 'n' heavy), hugely reliable once airborne.
Have you ever seen the display? It's an airliner for god's sake!
What more can I say about the galley, eh?
Mega angles of bank allowed from 200' above the sea for hours on end (see above if you don't have a delicate stomach).
The most comfortable & spacious thing out there (go on then, compare it to a VC10, C130, FJ, in fact anything but a C17).
Proper Elsan loo (%&^!!?) with a door and sink.
Wing root gun pack & voice activated autopilot (only fitted when pax on board).
The ability to carry home just about the same as the personal allowance for the crew & pax for any given det - and no more ............................
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The 'Mighty Bunter?'.....??
"Oh Crikey, I say, you fellows....yaroooh...!"
And as for any clattering piece of Wastelands scrap iron - YGBSM!
"Oh Crikey, I say, you fellows....yaroooh...!"
And as for any clattering piece of Wastelands scrap iron - YGBSM!
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Dirty, for your information I don't fly anything, although I've hitched a ride in loads of stuff. I don't see why there's any need to get snooty about this, I was merely asking if this thread was intended to be a serious debate or if it was (as you suggest) merely banter. If it's a crime to ask, then I apologise.
And as for reading stuff out of AFM, do me a favour, I don't even buy such rags
And as for reading stuff out of AFM, do me a favour, I don't even buy such rags
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Originally Posted by doubledolphins
DC3? Don't you mean C-47?
Originally Posted by doubledolphins
Ok, so the BBMF still has one but that just flys in straight lines. The last one "in service" was doing Nimrod impersonations a couple of years back but its gone now.