f16/tornado flight

[J.A.F.O.]

Now, you see, if someone gave me that amount just for flying then I'd buy the Cub share that I was offered last night and had to turn down because the kids want to eat and wear shoes and stuff like that.

But that's a different dream altogether.

[halty]

F16 Trip

I very nearly got a "flight" in a Dutch F16, pity i was in the circuit in a Yak at the time and he was going the other way!! dont they have big air intakes as they go over your head {just}

[J.A.F.O.]

If I was going to Thundercity I'd take a trip in the Hunter, go high and fast in the Lightning then low and slow in the Bucc.

I've flown in formation with a Hunter (but I was in a Pilatus Turbo Porter and it didn't last long) and did a lot of work with the Buccs out over the oggin but never got inside one and I remember sneaking round the back of Warton when I was a lad - probably bunking off school - when a Lightning took off and stood on its tail just above my head before disappearing straight up, we felt the noise rather than heard it.

If I'd gone to school rather than bunked off that day, who knows, but I don't regret it for a second.

[a4fly]

If you manage to get a go in an F16, let's hope that you get more luck than this guy !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWCCPog9m9o

[hoodie]

That was not an F-16 - no matter what YouTube might say.

Accident occurred in Canada on 14 May 2004; it was an NFTC CT-155 (Hawk) aircraft, 155202.


Accident report here.

[a4fly]

It doesn't matter whether it was a Hawk, F16, Harrier or whatever. If you have one engine and little height or speed you will always get the same result, a long walk home !

[Fishtailed]

"If I was going to Thundercity I'd take a trip in the Hunter, go high and fast in the Lightning then low and slow in the Bucc."
JAFO, If you was in a Buccaneer you would be going low and FAST, it was one of their attributes, and I've sampled it myself. The Hunter flight I had was unforgettable too. A lottery win would definatly see me in Cape Town for a Lightning trip. I wrote to Binbrook in 1985 but they were too damn busy for pax trips.

[J.A.F.O.]

Fish

You're quite right, I was obviously very tired. Wouldn't be much point going if it was to go slow, I can do that in what I've got over here. How my fingers typed slow without telling my brain about it I just don't know.

[Genghis the Engineer]

How on earth did you fall asleep in a Hawk AND a Tucano? If that was me, I’d have been wideawake

I've fallen asleep in a Tucano, as I recall it was briefly and during the recovery from an oscillatory max-power inverted spin during the latter stages of the type's approval flight test programme. Not an experience that, if I'm honest, I'd care to repeat.

I was in the back seat, I was not a passenger!

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[TheGorrilla]

Jeeeeese!!

There are alot of sad people on here trying to "out seat" each other......

[Genghis the Engineer]

It relieves the monotony of a day in the office. I'm currently occupying a mid-range blue fabric office chair, which is deeply unimpressive, whilst writing a report about some very interesting flying - done by somebody else!

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[Gingerbread Man]

hmm then it is clearly my fault and the chap with no life who searched on my posts to find out who I was clearly wasted his time in his attempot to discredit me , for reasons best known to him , funny my profile says i have a ppl ah well, just so anyone else sat by his computer witha dubious magazines and tissue decides to have a go at poor old max , I was in the RAF for many years during which time I was lucky enough to con my way into various BACK SEATS including a danish f16 , that one was a lottery win believe me .

And the award for the longest ever 'sentence' goes to.....


Ginger (That's me signing off, not claiming the award you understand)

[J.A.F.O.]

Mine's a sort of director's chair type thing, awfully tasteful.

[Bravo73]

Hmmm, one post by v8girl asking a vaguely ridiculous question followed by 3 pages of discussions. Nothing else then heard from the original poster.

Isn't this the very definition of a troll?