The F-111 is an interesting bit of kit!
Love the video.
are these type of jets easy to fly at lo level, from the footage they seem like they are on rails, not a bounce or bobble. They go exactly where they are pointed.
Just how fast were they going at 20 ft, 500 kts?? very hard to judge.
are these type of jets easy to fly at lo level, from the footage they seem like they are on rails, not a bounce or bobble. They go exactly where they are pointed.
Just how fast were they going at 20 ft, 500 kts?? very hard to judge.
Pffft, nothin'. My grandma fly's F-111's at 5ft without TFR and doing Mach 2.5. That's how easy it is...
.... now that takes serious courage at that speed and altitude
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I had been hoping Milt would get involved here. Keep the stories coming!
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Buster, I'm not saying I like Commodores, just that I respected them when they had Brockie at the wheel.
I grew up with a succession of Fairmonts in the driveway so I am genetically a Ford man. Hence I have a problem these days when I rock up at the olds' place and there's a Calais in the garage. Just doesn't seem... right.
One more thing, Buster - as an Aussie in the UK, one can always determine the real Aussies from the wannabes by the application of a small test: just walk up and say "Mate, Ford or Holden?" Any real Aussie will just snap back an answer without even thinking about it.
I guess we could convert that here to "Pig or Tonka?"
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Buster, I'm not saying I like Commodores, just that I respected them when they had Brockie at the wheel.
I grew up with a succession of Fairmonts in the driveway so I am genetically a Ford man. Hence I have a problem these days when I rock up at the olds' place and there's a Calais in the garage. Just doesn't seem... right.
One more thing, Buster - as an Aussie in the UK, one can always determine the real Aussies from the wannabes by the application of a small test: just walk up and say "Mate, Ford or Holden?" Any real Aussie will just snap back an answer without even thinking about it.
I guess we could convert that here to "Pig or Tonka?"
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Wheels up
They do pretty well without the training wheels down too!
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=_qoS6_ogXh8
Nice Job!
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=_qoS6_ogXh8
Nice Job!
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here's one from a guy who flies aussie hornets at present.
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb0Geq...EDB69&index=14
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb0Geq...EDB69&index=14
At the risk of a little bit of thread drift.
Back in the mid 80s when I was sailing our 37ft cat up the coast one late spring night - imagine that, peace and quiet at sea in a beautiful, well behaved boat sailing in around 10 -12 kts wind speed making about 8kts boat speed. We were a bit north of Coffs headed for the Whitsundays. I had the con with 1 other on deck around midnight when, all of a sudden we see lights, strong lights, all over us, and what we later realised were A/B flames right over our mast about 60 ft above the OG, must be that high, the mast is 57 ft, as this a/c rotates and climbs above us. Then the NOISE arrives!!! It is safe to say that it scared about 9 different colours of sh1t out of both of us as well as getting the off watch on deck in 2 milli seconds. My intro to the mighty F111. We later discovered that the range was active and I guess the boys were out for a bit of fun. The radar must be bloody good, though - it's a tupperware boat with very little metal apart from the mast.
After my heart rate came down from stratospheric heights, I was lost in awe for an a/c that can do this stuff, given that I am an a/c tragic since birth.
Oh yeah, the Whitsundays cruise was AWESOME - much more fun than you can imagine or I can describe. Three months passed like a day!!!!
Back in the mid 80s when I was sailing our 37ft cat up the coast one late spring night - imagine that, peace and quiet at sea in a beautiful, well behaved boat sailing in around 10 -12 kts wind speed making about 8kts boat speed. We were a bit north of Coffs headed for the Whitsundays. I had the con with 1 other on deck around midnight when, all of a sudden we see lights, strong lights, all over us, and what we later realised were A/B flames right over our mast about 60 ft above the OG, must be that high, the mast is 57 ft, as this a/c rotates and climbs above us. Then the NOISE arrives!!! It is safe to say that it scared about 9 different colours of sh1t out of both of us as well as getting the off watch on deck in 2 milli seconds. My intro to the mighty F111. We later discovered that the range was active and I guess the boys were out for a bit of fun. The radar must be bloody good, though - it's a tupperware boat with very little metal apart from the mast.
After my heart rate came down from stratospheric heights, I was lost in awe for an a/c that can do this stuff, given that I am an a/c tragic since birth.
Oh yeah, the Whitsundays cruise was AWESOME - much more fun than you can imagine or I can describe. Three months passed like a day!!!!
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...Do you have an actual date??....he checks his logbook!
BTW - likely to be 300' above you (manually at night in those days) - or 200' if doin' the TF thing. If 'close to midnight' the lads were probably racing home for the 11pm Amberfield closure (daylight savings time faff involved - NSW Vs Qld local time??)
BTW - likely to be 300' above you (manually at night in those days) - or 200' if doin' the TF thing. If 'close to midnight' the lads were probably racing home for the 11pm Amberfield closure (daylight savings time faff involved - NSW Vs Qld local time??)
I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.....
Sorry Fliegenmong, had to see a man about an ENORMOUS dog!!
Hmmm, more stories - let me see... Now, there was that time with that ladyboy in Penang (man those surgeons are GOOD
) but I guess that's not what you're after!
Well, let me think - ah yes, there was this one time at band camp (or it could have been many years ago in Hawaii for exercise RIMPAC) where I managed in one sortie to:
a. get verbally abused by the angriest boom operator in the world for taking about 7 plug-in attempts to get a measly 5000lbs of fuel, whilst keeping 8 F-15s waiting with my pathetic efforts (in my defence, I had about 150hrs in the jet and was therefore predictably a shower of sh!t).
b. saw my first "super cloud" whilst running away bravely from the carrier CAP of F-14s: We were ~700 knots on the deck when I looked over at lead, only to see a small black nose cone sticking out of a enormous condensed shockwave. Tropical humidity combined with supersonic aerody can have some spectacular effects, and
c. had a "doggers" stoush with some F-14s memorable for two things, firstly, after merging and 180 degrees of turn, thanks to our low fuel state/light weight were still neutral (that's impressive if you knew how sh!t the Pig was at turning!!!) and then came the highlight of my life to date: In the middle of the "fight" the Nav leant over and tapped the fuel gauge and said in a loud American twang: "**** Mav, we don't have the fuel for this man!!!".
Now, maybe it's just me, but I thought at the time that was the funniest thing in the world. Ever. We were lucky to be able to land after that as neither of us could barely see due to tears.
I should probably point out I was doing a lot of drugs during my time in the RAAF so these things probably don't seem as funny now.
Anyway, I would have posted a piccie or three but I can't work out how. It keeps asking for a URL (???) when I click on the "add piccy" jibber.
No smart@rse comments please. There weren't no fancy damn fan-dangled computer inter-web thingies in the Piggy.
Hmmm, more stories - let me see... Now, there was that time with that ladyboy in Penang (man those surgeons are GOOD
) but I guess that's not what you're after!Well, let me think - ah yes, there was this one time at band camp (or it could have been many years ago in Hawaii for exercise RIMPAC) where I managed in one sortie to:
a. get verbally abused by the angriest boom operator in the world for taking about 7 plug-in attempts to get a measly 5000lbs of fuel, whilst keeping 8 F-15s waiting with my pathetic efforts (in my defence, I had about 150hrs in the jet and was therefore predictably a shower of sh!t).
b. saw my first "super cloud" whilst running away bravely from the carrier CAP of F-14s: We were ~700 knots on the deck when I looked over at lead, only to see a small black nose cone sticking out of a enormous condensed shockwave. Tropical humidity combined with supersonic aerody can have some spectacular effects, and
c. had a "doggers" stoush with some F-14s memorable for two things, firstly, after merging and 180 degrees of turn, thanks to our low fuel state/light weight were still neutral (that's impressive if you knew how sh!t the Pig was at turning!!!) and then came the highlight of my life to date: In the middle of the "fight" the Nav leant over and tapped the fuel gauge and said in a loud American twang: "**** Mav, we don't have the fuel for this man!!!".
Now, maybe it's just me, but I thought at the time that was the funniest thing in the world. Ever. We were lucky to be able to land after that as neither of us could barely see due to tears.
I should probably point out I was doing a lot of drugs during my time in the RAAF so these things probably don't seem as funny now.
Anyway, I would have posted a piccie or three but I can't work out how. It keeps asking for a URL (???) when I click on the "add piccy" jibber.
No smart@rse comments please. There weren't no fancy damn fan-dangled computer inter-web thingies in the Piggy.
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Quote: "At the risk of a little bit of thread drift"
On the subject of noise; a long time back in the UK I flew my own Stinson 108 into a weekend airshow at RAF Lakenheath. Private arrivals were permitted early Sat am, but no departures until Sunday pm, so I slept in a tent beside the dispersal area. Well, at 5am Sunday morning the bloody Vulcan arrived and announced the fact with a low pass right over where I was sleeping...NOISE you have never heard anything like it! I genuinely nearly soiled myself.
On the subject of noise; a long time back in the UK I flew my own Stinson 108 into a weekend airshow at RAF Lakenheath. Private arrivals were permitted early Sat am, but no departures until Sunday pm, so I slept in a tent beside the dispersal area. Well, at 5am Sunday morning the bloody Vulcan arrived and announced the fact with a low pass right over where I was sleeping...NOISE you have never heard anything like it! I genuinely nearly soiled myself.
C'Mon 'Booger',
I'm sure that you can arrange sumpthin' - with your obvious talent for telling a good yarn. You have that rare talent based on obvious experience.
Please give us 'mere mortals' a litttle 'taste'.
'Tis Christmas.
You'all have to go get the 'grandies' / the kids / somebody else's grandies / kids to push the buttons for ya......
Now.....'Straighten up and fly right'.........
PLEASE...........
Best Regards!!!
I'm sure that you can arrange sumpthin' - with your obvious talent for telling a good yarn. You have that rare talent based on obvious experience.
Please give us 'mere mortals' a litttle 'taste'.
'Tis Christmas.
You'all have to go get the 'grandies' / the kids / somebody else's grandies / kids to push the buttons for ya......
Now.....'Straighten up and fly right'.........
PLEASE...........
Best Regards!!!
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Spoke with Fish at WOW '06 and he said at that stage that Wanaka was his last show before flying a desk...good to hear he's still in the correct seat (hopefully)!
