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11-25-2005, 08:08 AM
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| Have a horrible feeling it was the one that was lost. | 
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11-25-2005, 08:13 AM
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| Friday fotos...II
More from you know where......
The RF-4C is a scan of a Polaroid taken at Alconbury OJ years ago - used to see these mighty beasts all the time... "The Smokers".
Nice mixed formation of Hunters and Lightnings off the TV. This one and the Hawks maybe should have gone on the other thread of display teams.
Finally the crazy flying of an SAA Jumbo. | |
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11-25-2005, 10:25 AM
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11-25-2005, 10:39 AM
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Country:  | Its not as good a plane as the Hawk but I have always thought the Gnat was a better looing aircraft Roy
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11-26-2005, 03:18 AM
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Country: | you kidding me the hawk's far better looking than the Gnat! and that's a great shot of the lightenings and hunters..........
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11-26-2005, 01:46 PM
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| I like both of them, the Gnat is more 'pointy' and looks like it's always going fast but the Hawk is elegant. It's humpy back makes it look a bit ugly I suppose but it is a marvellous machine, one of my faves. I am old enough to remember when the Reds swopped from the Gnat to the Hawk...  By far the Hawk is the more practical machine for training having been designed for that. Mind you the Gnat is a 'killer' I believe it was called the 'Sabre Slayer' in the Indo-Pak wars years ago... Today I reckon the Hawk would give quite a few planes a tough time. Especially with good pilots and Sidewinders. I particularly like the single seat variants... Hot Rod! | |
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11-26-2005, 01:50 PM
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| Saturday Snaps
More pix for your delectation... tank pix from BBC's Top Gear where JC was trying to evade the monster... pratt-of-the-month! (Again). | |
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11-26-2005, 02:22 PM
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Country:  | That was funny, "I know, ill go down this moderately steep hill and he wont be able to follow me!"  Hell I could have evaded the tank, its not my Range Rover ill just open her up and break all the suspension arms and steering joints, but ill evade it
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11-26-2005, 02:48 PM
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11-27-2005, 10:43 AM
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11-27-2005, 10:56 AM
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Country: | I would...I reckon I could make it to 100mph on that terrain...I'd thrash it...
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11-27-2005, 11:55 AM
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| Sunday selections
More to warm you cockles on these gloomy evenings.
Lightnings and a Spitfire.
Following up my TSR2 mag ad for Ebay on the other thread here are some snaps someone else was flogging. | |
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11-27-2005, 11:57 AM
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Country: | if the unlikely happens and you do make it to 100mph, you'd have to to it in a large open area, how would the tank not be able to get a shot at you then
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11-27-2005, 12:46 PM
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Nice pics Roy.
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11-27-2005, 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass if the unlikely happens and you do make it to 100mph, you'd have to to it in a large open area, how would the tank not be able to get a shot at you then | No I wouldnt, id skirt around the egde of the trees, then when im momentarily out of his field of vision make a break for the trees, go through them, out the other side and off to victory! Believe me id do it comfortably 
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