Blackbushe bruised by boffo B 52 bungle, Brigadier berates bad show.
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Blackbushe bruised by boffo B 52 bungle, Brigadier berates blunder.
Tee hee: USAF B 52 tasked to make exciting fly past at Farnborough shows superior nav skills and stonks the hell out of Blackbushe.
“Lootenant Kerblonski: my office, your hat.”
Happens a lot, apparently. My mate in the Army Air Corps relates an amusing take of a super-ace helicopter display team en route somewhere who call up Duxford and offer to wire the place and please the punters. Go for it, says Duxford, and make it a biggie. Hurtle, roar, zooom, wokka wokka wokka, ker chunka chunka chunka etc.
"How was that, Duxford?"
Pause
"Er, [xxx] Leader, could you give Cambridge a call, please, they want to have a word".
Ooops. Tea, no medals.
“Lootenant Kerblonski: my office, your hat.”
Happens a lot, apparently. My mate in the Army Air Corps relates an amusing take of a super-ace helicopter display team en route somewhere who call up Duxford and offer to wire the place and please the punters. Go for it, says Duxford, and make it a biggie. Hurtle, roar, zooom, wokka wokka wokka, ker chunka chunka chunka etc.
"How was that, Duxford?"
Pause
"Er, [xxx] Leader, could you give Cambridge a call, please, they want to have a word".
Ooops. Tea, no medals.
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Excellent ! I bet they were using a GPS rather than a map. 
Theres a thread all about this over on Military Aircrew.
Didn't the Reds or a lone Spitfire do a spirited display over Kenley one year - when it should have been at nearby Biggin?
Theres a thread all about this over on Military Aircrew.
Didn't the Reds or a lone Spitfire do a spirited display over Kenley one year - when it should have been at nearby Biggin?
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Years ago Heyford based F111 Swinger gave Liverpool Speke a spirited display. Everyone there really enjoyed the unexpected sight.
Unfortunately he should have done it at Barton where the annual air display was in full "swing"
Mwap Mwap mwaaaaaaaaaa!
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Unfortunately he should have done it at Barton where the annual air display was in full "swing"
Mwap Mwap mwaaaaaaaaaa!
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It was a pair of Dutch F-16s that mistook Kenley for Biggin three or four years ago. Mind you, they might not have been the only ones!
And Duxford - an American Airlines MD-11 beat up some place south of Duxford a few years ago (no, it wasn't Stansted!) and a Lakenheath F-111 I think showed Cambridge a thing or two by mistake... realised after the first pass and repositioned a few miles southwest...
And Duxford - an American Airlines MD-11 beat up some place south of Duxford a few years ago (no, it wasn't Stansted!) and a Lakenheath F-111 I think showed Cambridge a thing or two by mistake... realised after the first pass and repositioned a few miles southwest...
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Apparently the B 52 dudes did not stop to say hi, but flew straight back to Fort Palooka, Butthole, Alabama (motto: "Bombing yo' ass for Freedom"). Sounds like it may be the old "Flying rubber dogs*** out of Hong Kong" career path from now on.)
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Reminds me of the airliner bound for Frankfurt from the US that landed at Brussels. The passengers were the first realise the mistrake as the cabin display showed them where they were.
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Treadigraph,
It was Sept 2000 at Biggin; the Battle of Britain 50th anniversary airshow. Mrs QNH and I thought it rather comforting that pilots who have had millions of pounds worth of training can still get it wrong. If we ever get it wrong, we will pull that example out in our defence, as we funded our own training and spent rather less.
ps. I seem to remember that these two F16s had already overflown London City airport on the way and caused quite a sensation there as well.
It was Sept 2000 at Biggin; the Battle of Britain 50th anniversary airshow. Mrs QNH and I thought it rather comforting that pilots who have had millions of pounds worth of training can still get it wrong. If we ever get it wrong, we will pull that example out in our defence, as we funded our own training and spent rather less.
ps. I seem to remember that these two F16s had already overflown London City airport on the way and caused quite a sensation there as well.
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Hey! Giff dose Dotch guys a break, yeah? First of all, dey go to some kinda rocking disco party der night before vid som of your Inglish chicks, and dey get kinda cracee, you know? Secondly, dey're fydder pilots, yeah? Effry one know dat fydder pilots, dey gets lost when dey change der railway points. Cracee, yeah?
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Does anyone know what height they were flying at?
It must have been a bit of a scare if you were in the circuit - 'Uhhh, tower, am I number 2 to that
'ing big plane flying a rather strange circuit?'
Even better if you were on first solo
It must have been a bit of a scare if you were in the circuit - 'Uhhh, tower, am I number 2 to that
'ing big plane flying a rather strange circuit?'Even better if you were on first solo
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On a serious note, it does make you think, doesn't it? If they can't even find the right airfield when no-one's shooting at them, what are the chances of hitting a precise military target rather than a hospital/school/mosque
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A charitable explanation would be that they thought it was all a bit of fun, and they didn't pay attention. This sort of low level VFR flying isn't something they ever do for real, anyway. They fly at 30,000ft+. If they drop a guided bomb, the bomb will go to the target using its own means.
I was talking to an RAF fighter pilot at Farn 2002. He had never used a GPS; they navigate PPL-style and get a lot of training at it. But they are still human, and Blackbushe is very close to Farnborough. Anybody can make a mistake like that eventually.
Visual navigation is a piece of cake if you live in the area.
I was talking to an RAF fighter pilot at Farn 2002. He had never used a GPS; they navigate PPL-style and get a lot of training at it. But they are still human, and Blackbushe is very close to Farnborough. Anybody can make a mistake like that eventually.
Visual navigation is a piece of cake if you live in the area.
Leaving aside the serious questions this raises, would have loved to have been in the tower at EGLK to have witnessed this (the B1 in 2000 all over again) - the landline they have to Farnborough ATC must have been red hot!
Bloody glad I wasn't descending deadside for 26 (sorry 25!) at the time.
Bloody glad I wasn't descending deadside for 26 (sorry 25!) at the time.
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Run the cockpit tapes
"Hey Bud, this Farnboro' Airshow looks kinda chickensh*t to me: all they got is a bunch a crummy Cessnas."
"Always knew dose limeys wuz cheap bums. Light the fires, dude, we outttahere. Say, you like the Dodgers for the World Series this year?"
"Hey Bud, this Farnboro' Airshow looks kinda chickensh*t to me: all they got is a bunch a crummy Cessnas."
"Always knew dose limeys wuz cheap bums. Light the fires, dude, we outttahere. Say, you like the Dodgers for the World Series this year?"
Where I worked in the 70's it was announced one day that we could finish early for lunch so that we could watch a flypast by a Victor tanker in formation with some Lightnings. The flypast was in our honour and the large, white roofed factory is about 5 miles from the sea and alongside a river. It is also inside Class D, or whatever it was called in the 70's.
Exactly on time we watched the formation fly past, on the horizon to the south, right over Mrs p's school which is about 1 mile from the sea. She thought it was great.
Some months later the Navy also decided to honour us with Sea Vixens and F4's and got much closer, about 200' was my guess.
Exactly on time we watched the formation fly past, on the horizon to the south, right over Mrs p's school which is about 1 mile from the sea. She thought it was great.
Some months later the Navy also decided to honour us with Sea Vixens and F4's and got much closer, about 200' was my guess.
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B 52 Flypast (!)
I was really looking forward to the B 52 flypast at Farny on tuesday.
You would think that of the two airfields, both very close together, they would have picked the one with all the large aircraft parked next to 4 massive exhibition halls and 10,000 people standing next to them by the runway.
This may be ' Lil' England ' but it doesn't take a bomber pilot to pick out which one is EGLF!
What an embarrasment!!!
You would think that of the two airfields, both very close together, they would have picked the one with all the large aircraft parked next to 4 massive exhibition halls and 10,000 people standing next to them by the runway.
This may be ' Lil' England ' but it doesn't take a bomber pilot to pick out which one is EGLF!
What an embarrasment!!!
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we heard all of this on the radio while flying back from a stunning Ultimate High day at Kemble.
We were on a service from Brize and the guy was literally bimbling around at 3k and sounding like he had no clue what was going on. My wife thought it was hilarious.
These B52 boy are only used to carpet bombing and to find something as small as Farnborough must have been a real challenge!!!
We were on a service from Brize and the guy was literally bimbling around at 3k and sounding like he had no clue what was going on. My wife thought it was hilarious.
These B52 boy are only used to carpet bombing and to find something as small as Farnborough must have been a real challenge!!!