I've just volunteered to help out at the Norwich Aviation Museum. I can pretend I am Biggles or Guy Gibson while I work on a Buccaneer, a Vulcan or a Lightning. Yes I know they were before then but I can't think of anyone similar from the 50s/60s.
I can relive my dashed dreams of being a pilot whilst I sit in the cockpits making plane noises, then ride home on the Storm sounding like a Spitfire.
Bliss
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:21 am
by Pete.L
Oh Dear!
Why do I have a feeling there's going to be an aviation nostalgia thread coming on any time soon8O
Just kidding Strat. That sounds like a lot of fun, enjoy
Pete.l
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:33 am
by Stratman
As if!
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:28 pm
by TSP
I thought I was alone in being so, so sad and obsessed with planes!
If your a true nut, you should get the DVD box sets called Dogfighters, it's a computer generated DVD that re-lives the famous dogfights of history. I am obsessed by it
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:33 pm
by Beamish
Please spare me ! Bloody things are a pain in the ass
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:36 pm
by RedStormV
Pete.L wrote:Oh Dear!
Why do I have a feeling there's going to be an aviation nostalgia thread coming on any time soon8O
Now I'm really jealous!!!!!!
Ah yes the VC10 - remember those things waking me up (no mean feat I can assure you!) at our training school (end of Brize Norton runway) Mail run for German bases et al - Wednesday mornings and bloody early! iirc.
Length of a Lancaster, Wing Span of a Spitfire and iirc, the Yanks were going to shelve the F-111 and buy the TSR-2 as it was a far superior plane!
Again iirc (or at least from reading). the Air Ministry decided to scrap TSR-2 and buy the f-111 - never bought a single plane!
I know, I'm sad, but then I didn't start it
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Rossi, really messes with your mind!!!!! Muaahahahaha
Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:15 pm
by Stratman
I forgot to mention - sounds better too. Tell me these don't get the hair on the back of your neck rising
I especially like the bit between 1:05 & 1:17 - truly awesome, although I love the music, The Spitfire and the film, the Hurricane was the real star of TBOB .......
Why have one beautiful sounding engine when you can have 2?
Wooden Wonder anybody?
Listen for the Mosi's going overhead in this one!
How the heck did they get them altogether? Wish I'd been there
This music still makes me want to don a leather cap, goggles and go daggadaggadaggadagga !! & Oh Maria!!!
Didn't quite catch what the reporter at the end of this clip says, can anyone clarify?
Low Flying - Watch for the clickable link at the end of this clip to see more VERY low fly pasts & Sonic Boom Booms!
(a link at end of each one)
Look out for the brits and I think, a Harrier.
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:03 pm
by andy c
On the subject of the Avro Vulcan They've just got XH558 airworthy at Bruntingthorpe about 10 miles down the road from me an awesome site when it flies over.
How about having a Storm meet somewhere like Duxford.
we could get all the bikes together and half the people who turned up would'nt now it was a Wings and Wheels Day
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:21 am
by Stratman
Duxford would be good, though looking at the website I can't make any of the flying exhibitions remaining this year. The static displays are good though. What about 30th August?
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:29 pm
by RedStormV
Can't make 30th Aug, still be @ Manx GP IOM
What about Cosford? more central - Midlands area?
Dunno when their flying show is but statics while not as many as Duxford are still impressive iirc - also don't they have a TSR-2?
[Edit] = Yes Show been and gone
Yes they have TSR-2
Yep free to get in and it was a large cold war set up last time I was there on a course. Vulcan, nuke missiles etc......
Count me out though its just a bit too much of a busmans holiday
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:32 pm
by RedStormV
Nah!
Surely you could just flash your gold braiding and get us Stormers into the pilots seats so we could make engine noises and re-enact dog fights 'n' stuff!
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:33 pm
by RedStormV
Nah!
Surely you could just flash your gold braiding and get us Stormers into the pilots seats so we could make engine noises and re-enact dog fights 'n' stuff!
If there was owt interesting in 'em these days, I'd show you round a telephone exhange!
