Pretty Cool Formation Shot - UK
Only a little bit worse than the 24 Wessex and 12 Pumas in line astern at Odiham donkeys years ago. I should know - I was Puma No 12!
diginagain - yes the punters liked it but it was unpleasant to be in the middle of
Crab it was a shambles - the first Wessex flared a bit, the second a bit more and so on. By the time the ripple got to the Pumas, the only option was to break out, which we all did.
Yes, no-one likes being tail-end charlie in a line astern.
A chum of mine who did his BFT at Church Fenton on the JP5 was in a student formation, line astern, with the Stn Cdr as lead when he suddenly decided to call 'Airbrakes, airbrakes, Go!' A similar result to your Wessex formation
A chum of mine who did his BFT at Church Fenton on the JP5 was in a student formation, line astern, with the Stn Cdr as lead when he suddenly decided to call 'Airbrakes, airbrakes, Go!' A similar result to your Wessex formation
The post Op Granby flypast over London was a memorable mixed-type formation. I think most of us managed to log a bit of 'actual' IF, as well as trying to match speed with the element somewhere ahead.
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Question for members here. Someone told us thats the largest civil formation shoot thats been done in the UK, as you know I am not from here so have no idea if thats correct or not. Anyone here know if there has been a larger formation of civil machines. Thanks.
Bristow did a bit of formation stuff with some Super Puma's a while ago (mid 90's?) - If i recall they were doing type training for a foreign military (Japan?) and there was a requirement for formation. There are lots of photos floating about of those formations. They certainly had four-ships plus the camera platform - not sure if there were any five-ships.
Toyota Prado unveiling stunt - Sydney Harbour NSW ~ 21 machines? - June 1996.
I think I was number 20 in a 3fiddy. Like a Who's Who of idiots. Took a lot of organising for sure.
The Prado was on the hook of a 212 flown by Tim Joyce who actually organised most of it.
Since then I think there have been larger civvy formations for sure.
There was a Bristow five-ship on the North sea many moons ago - Picture on this thread about three quarters of the way down the page.
http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/287...photos-58.html
So you've maybe equalled the UK record but not broken it Ned ;-) Your Photo's still great though!
http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/287...photos-58.html
So you've maybe equalled the UK record but not broken it Ned ;-) Your Photo's still great though!