Top Gear...
 

Clarkson and his pals at Coningsby tonight. Typhoon vs Bugatti. Should be good :cool:.

http://www.raf.mod.uk//news/index.cf...867C3FE38073DF

For those that can't wait!

Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X7V7LMNF5Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3z1L0YMglo

:ooh::ooh: nice.



Wowee. Looks impressive.


Quite agree with the comments on the first one, can't wait to see the footage from the camera car!

Typhoon.
Cold War dinosaur, not what is needed, waste of money etc etc; Yes, I can see some points of view.




But .....








- ITS STILL BLEEDIN' AWESOME!

Oh man, that's good... can't wait to see that in widescreen when I get back!

Just watched it...........very impressive :D

Nice one Oz! Good to see you promoted too...a good year all round then? :ok:

WOW- just seeing the Typhoon turn in full afterburner. Just incredible.
V. incredible

Great show...... and no doubt some jumped up MP will now be on the phone or writing to CAS to complain about the cost of such a venture and to question how an Air Force which proclaims to be at full stretch can spare an expensive aircraft and an entire active runway to perform such a trick.....Good show though

Supposedly the BBC picked up the tab.

Awesome photography of it all (as always on TG - definately one of the best programmes on TV).

Well done Jim:D

Did anyone else notice the one Hammond was walking down the wing on? Looked like it was missing the front end.

I assume this was the one that suffered the accident on landing - but I'm still surprised it's not gone back to BAe by now.

Has there been any comparison with the Tyhpoon and the F35? Any sites?

I thought that it was one of the best episodes in a long, long time, probably a good 2 or 3 years. The BBC piece was very well done; the sight of the car driving behind the news readers desk made me choke on my drink. They managed last night, to keep enthusiasts happy while keeping it mainstream, they seemed to have lost the knack of getting that balance right.

The RR piece was almost as good as JC's Phantom piece, the star in a reasonably priced car only made a passing reference to his book, the 599 looked subliminal and Ken Livingstone got a half decent mauling, which is always good. As much as I like the Fifth Gear crew, they'll be wondering what on earth they have to do, to catch up. Apart from getting 5 times the production budget. The general camera work has to change though, those moody filtered skies and cropped long shots have been done to death. The Typhoon photography was fantastic though.

One thing I noticed was that after Typhoon had crossed the finish line it went away doing a Victory Roll ('....and if you EVER do that again....') and I thought that if the car had won he couldn't have done that.

Then I thought; 'but Hammond is driving and it's on a runway. Maybe.......'. :E

MadsDad, thats another monitor/coffee incident for Pprune. :p

I noticed he blipped the burners as he swept over the Hamstermobile. I presume this was the Typhoon version of a certain hand gesture :E

I liked the way Hammond described the RAF as "...a bunch of airplane enthusiasts.."

That's an obvious lie for the majority of the RAF.