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Dragging it in...
Seems it's not just 777s...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=825_1373548431
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=825_1373548431
How long before one of them sues the RAF for the stress this gave them?
The stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me....... There are two places hardened spotters(should) never go; directly under the landing approach like this, and the same point at the departure end of the runway. Having seen a Jaguar dump all it's stores just off the end of Coltishall's runway many years ago after an engine surge, it pays to think of these things.
I can see the headline in the Sun already: " RAF playing chicken with Joe Public".
It must be the strange yellow ball in the sky that's frying their brain cell's...
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The stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me....... There are two places hardened spotters(should) never go; directly under the landing approach like this, and the same point at the departure end of the runway. Having seen a Jaguar dump all it's stores just off the end of Coltishall's runway many years ago after an engine surge, it pays to think of these things.
I can see the headline in the Sun already: " RAF playing chicken with Joe Public".
It must be the strange yellow ball in the sky that's frying their brain cell's...
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The stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me....... There are two
places hardened spotters(should) never go; directly under the landing approach
like this, and the same point at the departure end of the runway.
Nearly as nutty as the cyclists who prefer to ride to Waddington up the A607 rather than use the cycle track which was provided at great expense along the side of the road. But that's a different story.
We would regularly get spotters right under the approach at Brize.
Oddly enough, the appearance of real idiots in the middle of the boundary fence would often coincide with my need to call a "Simulated herd of goats crossing the runway - GO AROUND!!!" event during a 3-engine approach in the FunBus. With practice, the timing of the call would be such that 3 x full power Conways would make their quiet voice known to the spotter exactly as we passed overhead.
Usually they weren't still there on the next approach, for some odd reason.
Almost as much fun as a 22:59 night asymmetric NDB overshoot from MDH - which created the Sound of Freedom directly outside the Stn Cdr's bedroom window....
Oddly enough, the appearance of real idiots in the middle of the boundary fence would often coincide with my need to call a "Simulated herd of goats crossing the runway - GO AROUND!!!" event during a 3-engine approach in the FunBus. With practice, the timing of the call would be such that 3 x full power Conways would make their quiet voice known to the spotter exactly as we passed overhead.
Usually they weren't still there on the next approach, for some odd reason.
Almost as much fun as a 22:59 night asymmetric NDB overshoot from MDH - which created the Sound of Freedom directly outside the Stn Cdr's bedroom window....
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I remember Brize getting a phone call from the local police stating the had arrested someone taking pot shots at the Tens landing with an Air Rifle, only down side was he was doing it on Thursday and it took them a couple of days before they thought they better tell us / enquire if we had found any damage. 
Remember it's NOT always the Spotters that come off best
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Remember it's NOT always the Spotters that come off best
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The incident happened on arrival day at RIAT Cottesmore in 2001.
Some photographers and aircraft spotters were next to the perimeter fence on the northeastern side of the airport next to the runway 23 threshold. This spot provided a unique point-of-view as arriving and departing aircraft were pretty close.
A B-1B Lancer 86-0104, 34th Bomb Squadron, was preparing for his rehearsal: it taxied to the holding point of runway 23, entered the runway and lined-up, while many photographers thought that the Bone’s departure would provide the perfect opportunity to get an impressive shot.
However, as the pilot pushed the throttles to the stop, to full afterburner, exhaust gases reached the spotters assembled just a few meters behind the American bomber.
Heat haze hit the photographers, some of those barely manage to escape the jet blast: some were burnt, others slightly injured cuts and bruises, others simply shocked.
Fortunately, nobody was seriously hurt.
Some photographers and aircraft spotters were next to the perimeter fence on the northeastern side of the airport next to the runway 23 threshold. This spot provided a unique point-of-view as arriving and departing aircraft were pretty close.
A B-1B Lancer 86-0104, 34th Bomb Squadron, was preparing for his rehearsal: it taxied to the holding point of runway 23, entered the runway and lined-up, while many photographers thought that the Bone’s departure would provide the perfect opportunity to get an impressive shot.
However, as the pilot pushed the throttles to the stop, to full afterburner, exhaust gases reached the spotters assembled just a few meters behind the American bomber.
Heat haze hit the photographers, some of those barely manage to escape the jet blast: some were burnt, others slightly injured cuts and bruises, others simply shocked.
Fortunately, nobody was seriously hurt.
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As far as dragging it in, have none of you ever heard of St. Maarten?
The Sunset Beach Bar?
No military aircraft, but still quite a daily show, including topless women.
A sign in the Sunset Beach Bar reads, 'Topless women drink free'. And they do.
The Sunset Beach Bar?
No military aircraft, but still quite a daily show, including topless women.
A sign in the Sunset Beach Bar reads, 'Topless women drink free'. And they do.
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BOAC, pretty sure it was an aircraft from the rear section of the Patrouille de France [in those gopping Fouga Magister's THE loudest aircraft, from the front, in NATO] as I was sitting in our spacers sqn bus trying to get away, to beat the rush, stuck in a queue just past Meteor Row when it "bounced"!
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Ever so slightly "On Thread" ... I once flew with a Royal Navy Lt Cdr in a Chipmunk ... he used to fly the Fairey Firefly ... where he would hang the Chipmunk on it's prop as per a carrier approach ... and then shout "Number Two Wire" when he touched down ... on a conventional runway ... and no it wasn't the RAG end 
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Ah, the Sunset Beach Bar. Memories and mammaries!. Still got the 'T'shirt!!!!
Have to confess I stood in the undershoot for an A.340 of Air Frog, but only once!!. Just something you had to do there. Scary!.
Have to confess I stood in the undershoot for an A.340 of Air Frog, but only once!!. Just something you had to do there. Scary!.
A sign in the Sunset Beach Bar reads, 'Topless women drink free'. And they do.
Also been there volunteer crewing on a sail trainer.
Why didn't you tell me that eight years ago?
Just remembered: Donkey's years ago, calibrating the ILS at RAF Gatow, Berlin, in an Argosy, we noticed a family picnicking right on the C/L just at the perimeter fence.
On the next approach we had the loo washbasin filled and, as we passed overhead, the nav pulled the plug. Next approach, they were gone.
How were they to know it was just clean potable water?
On the next approach we had the loo washbasin filled and, as we passed overhead, the nav pulled the plug. Next approach, they were gone.
How were they to know it was just clean potable water?
