... and of course, there was also the SOAF Jag that blew itself up at Rubkut range (I think) - but I guess that's another story....

"STOP BUZZER"
 

So how did we venture into mame and destruction, lighten up, and have fun......



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No maim, pilot got out....

Reynolds.. "SOAF Jag blew itself up" Seem to recall it was a hang-up on the wing due to using Hunter ordnance on a Jag. As you say that's another story.
The auld grey cells have taken a bit of a battering but I always thought it was an Airworkers truck that was "bounced" on the Thumrait road, '78-'80 'ish, were there 2 incidents?
Rgds Luigi:confused:

Lamer
 

That footage already posted....were you just trying a different source of my post?

Check back in the next week there will be more of the same....though you won't need to post it again.

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Some more from the archives....
 

Hope you enjoy these, once again big thanks to John Eacott for hosting them on his website.

I have not restored these yet, and they are from 1980 or so and copied from a very copied copy.....I think you get my drift.

Thumers 03 and 04 is for the Truckies as Fat Albert gets a Hunter and Jag escort on departure,

The last one is a doozy as it is the same sequence as previously from the tower, but from the flightline.....see if you can spot the last jag!

Turn up your sound...

Thummers 01

Thummers 02

Thummers 03

Thummers 04

Thummers 05

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For those with slow connections I recommend saving the file to your PC and running them from there rather than streaming. Run in Windows Media Player at 100%, don't expand as you will lose quality as the files are compressed.

Yippee Ke Yi Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Were there 4 or 5 jags in clip number 5? Whatever...V V good clips!

Twas not just the Jags that featured at Thumrait, I was leaning on the bar of the Mess there, as you do, when a fair roar was followed by a thump as a Skyvan did a touch and go on the roof, not an unusual event I was told.:p :p

Cannot vouch for the touch and go's, but can tell you the Skyvans are still flying strong....

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If that was RL, I saw him a few years afterwards, and his burns were horrific. He told me (I think) the 'delayed' ordnance was incorrectly fused and went off about 20' below the Jag, starting an oxy fire, which is what caused the burns. He managed somwhow to get to the handle!! . Hope you are well, Rick (23F Leuchars).

That's the one... he also had a huge problem after coming back to terra firma. There was a strong wond blowing and he was dragged a long way before he could get out of his harness.

There was also another incident later with a Jag's cannon shells arming themselves shortly after leaving the barrel and detonating just in front of the aircraft - one Nicky Poo was the pilot ISTR

Ah! Nicky Poo. A man of infinite wit and humour. Anyone know his whereabouts?

Madame Syn, who was Sister i/c Seeb Clinic then, has an album of the Pink Panther's detachment to Muscat following his temporary release (ie: kidnap) from Masirah in 1985. Nothing whatever to do with low-flying, but a wonderful memory of the time. My scanner's Cat 3 at present but I'll put them on a webpage and link it here during the week, insha'allah.

Fox3, thanks for the Thummers links - great times!

Did Madame Syn work with the notorious Doctor Helen T ?

The very same!

Email me if you think we know each other.

Think I have a piccie somewhere of Rick L. diving off the "cinema" wall into the pool at Thummers. Nicky-Poo, Toobs,J-B, Gerry,Parts et al..Bleedin' Hooligans the Lorra them! If they weren't trashing cars with their a/c, they were trashing "Snowy's" Range-Rover with an AK-47 or trashing my party in Skid Row with a landrover!!
Aaaah they were the days!!:ok:

Nick the Pooh is alive and well and lurking in the East Midlands! I still have the Pink Panther with his flying suit, log book and the photo album of his kidnap by the Trannies at Seeb. Later in what the Air Secretary imaginatively called "A Planned Career" I had a Silentnight Hippo, almost full size which tried to fly with me in a Bulldog. He was even larger then me and the stick did not have enough movement for flight!. Any Thumrait/Masirah mates please contact me via e mail. My recollection of the RL bomb incident was that they were Pakistani made 500lbers which were left over from the war and, while stored in the open, had been flooded. There were several hundred of them left and we are actually using them instead of practice bombs during FAC training. The fact re the explosion under the aircraft and the O2 fire are correct. The pilot who was dragged across the desert was an ex F4 pilot called Bob P*****. He had spun a 2 seater in and ejected successfully, the other pilot was S**** W****** and he landed so close the wreckage that his parachute was tangled up on the fin! Happy days indeed.

Videos are SUPERB. Is there anyway that you can save them to disk?? I hope so!!!

Right click on each one and save target to disk. Then write to a cd.:ok:

Not low level, but nice photos

http://sc.groups.msn.com/tn/44/51/gu...rriers/1/1.jpg

http://sc.groups.msn.com/tn/44/51/gu...rriers/1/2.jpg

http://uk.msnusers.com/guterslohharriers/shoebox.msnw

Thummers 3 & 4
 

Having watched these great clips I can say that Fat Albert plus escorts was the occasions of the departure of Thumrait CO, Tony Munro, on posting to Masirah as CO there. I have no idea how the 5 ship got thru the masts and wires on top of Ops (clip 4) but it was managed!