Bloody impressive take off today.
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Bloody impressive take off today.
I happened to be passing close to RAF Tattershall today, with a non-aviation chum who enquired as to whether the Typhoon was ready for service yet. We diverted to watch the aircraft, and saw large numbers of Typhoon's recovering and launching, including aircraft from every squadron.
I'd been giving him the usual blah about performance when 'BJ' of 29 took off - doing a very passable impression of a Lightning, pulling into an incredibly steep (not vertical, but it looked close) climb after a gob-smackingly short take off roll. His jaw dropped, and so did mine. I hadn't seen a Typhoon do that, that impressively.
My friend was almost as impressed by the pilot of 17 Squadron's 'AF', taxying out behind the OEU's Pirate jet, who gave a cheery wave and blipped his airbrake.
Between them, these two pilots did more for RAF communications than DCC has managed in the last year!
I'd been giving him the usual blah about performance when 'BJ' of 29 took off - doing a very passable impression of a Lightning, pulling into an incredibly steep (not vertical, but it looked close) climb after a gob-smackingly short take off roll. His jaw dropped, and so did mine. I hadn't seen a Typhoon do that, that impressively.
My friend was almost as impressed by the pilot of 17 Squadron's 'AF', taxying out behind the OEU's Pirate jet, who gave a cheery wave and blipped his airbrake.
Between them, these two pilots did more for RAF communications than DCC has managed in the last year!
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Straight up!
I spoke to Jim Walls, the Typhoon display pilot, earlier this year and mentioned to him about not having seen the pull into the vertical on takeoff since the days of the Lightning He said that the difference is that after doing it he still has fuel for another hour and a half of flying.
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I spoke to Jim Walls, the Typhoon display pilot, earlier this year and mentioned to him about not having seen the pull into the vertical on takeoff since the days of the Lightning He said that the difference is that after doing it he still has fuel for another hour and a half of flying.
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=D0B_6RtBM1c
Here's one of those 'special' take-offs.
Due to the unique way in which both the BBC and MoD are (under)funded, you'll notice that much of the air-to-air footage is RAF archive stuff, but the cockpit footage of Mr May is interesting, especially that take off.
Here's one of those 'special' take-offs.
Due to the unique way in which both the BBC and MoD are (under)funded, you'll notice that much of the air-to-air footage is RAF archive stuff, but the cockpit footage of Mr May is interesting, especially that take off.
