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[hilldweller]

Last I heard there was still one of the Lightning's for sale.
Richard.

Let's have a whip-round.

 

[Carol]

Hello welcome from lurking into the light

 

[Drexxer]

Hi and welcome to MHF, I've been following your travel blogg for a while, great number plate by the way

Hats off to you for your efforts in keeping a truly Awesome Aircraft flying, we are just down the road from waddington and I can remember years ago the sheer power from those engines making my whole body vibrate, sadly I haven't seen it since they left waddington all those years ago despite living in Bomber County

Andy

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[Clarky]

Let's have a whip-round.

There are two at Bruntingthorpe that are very well looked after by a dedicated group and regularly belted down the runway, often with full reheat.
Look out for Cold War Jets day on May 24th.

Richard.

 

[hilldweller]

There are two at Bruntingthorpe that are very well looked after by a dedicated group and regularly belted down the runway, often with full reheat.
Look out for Cold War Jets day on May 24th.

Richard.

Wow, that would be some ride and Soooooo tempting to pull back.

They weren't out this day, I was a member at Hus Bos just down the road.

 

[hilldweller]

Wow, that would be some ride and Soooooo tempting to pull back.

Do you remember the case of an RAF ground run tester who "accidentally" hit reheat during a ground test and did a circuit, got it back nice and safely but I think his balls never recovered.

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[MHVirgins]

Welcome to you both!

Margaret & Bill

 

[daveandsan]

The only old one better in my books, the Lightning. Total raw power and even today can hold it's head up high. I wish I had £12K spare to go fly one in South Africa ( if it's still going ).

Agree with @hilldweller , Saw the Lightning at halfpenny green when they did the airshows. On its last pass it came in as slow as it could and then the pilot just stood it on its tail and up it went with full after burner, the ground shook and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.

 

[Mousy]

Years ago I was sharing a house with a girl whose father was very involved with getting a Vulcan to fly, it had been an ongoing expensive project for ages, he was the pilot and amid much excitement he flew it, only to crash land. Must have been 1986/87.

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[Bertie Bassett]

A warm welcome from Wales and thank you for helping keep the Vulcan flying!

 

[Clarky]

Do you remember the case of an RAF ground run tester who "accidentally" hit reheat during a ground test and did a circuit, got it back nice and safely but I think his balls never recovered.

If you go to Duxford 'his' Lightning is the one on display in the Airspace hangar.

Richard.

 

[hilldweller]

If you go to Duxford 'his' Lightning is the one on display in the Airspace hangar.

Richard.

One of our first MH trips. That place is pure magic. I touched a Blackbird. The only plane I'll accept as better than the Lightning.

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[Shazrick]

 

[colinw]

Hello and welcome
Thank you for helping keep part of this beautiful countries proud heritage alive .

 

[Debs]

Hi & welcome to the forum

Thanks for keeping her flying, we can't wait to see her fly at Yeovilton in July

Used to love the Lightening when it displayed at Mildenhall ....

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[Debs]

One of our first MH trips. That place is pure magic. I touched a Blackbird. The only plane I'll accept as better than the Lightning.

Did you get the hairs standing up on the back of your neck though when you went into the American Hall and realised you were eyeball to eyeball with a B52?

 

[hilldweller]

Did you get the hairs standing up on the back of your neck though when you went into the American Hall and realised you were eyeball to eyeball with a B52?

To be honest no, it's just a bomber. Whereas Blackbird is man's skills stretched beyond their limits, a machine so focussed to perform a single near impossible task remembering it was designed in the 50s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird

 

[TUCANO]

Welcome welcome welcome, and I am back to work tomorrow after the weekend working on Tucano's

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[Debs]

To be honest no, it's just a bomber. Whereas Blackbird is man's skills stretched beyond their limits, a machine so focussed to perform a single near impossible task remembering it was designed in the 50s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird

I hadn't realised it was so old, we've seen that a few times at Mildenhall too. The shape always looks like a flying guitar to me.
Awesome machine though.

 

[hilldweller]

Welcome welcome welcome, and I am back to work tomorrow after the weekend working on Tucano's

Are there Tucano's in private hands ?

 

[f6c]

Welcome aboard

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[Clarky]

Thanks for keeping her flying, we can't wait to see her fly at Yeovilton in July

Thanks for keeping her flying, we can't wait to see her fly at Yeovilton in July

Come and say hello, we will be working in the Vulcan Village.

Richard.

 

[Debs]

Come and say hello, we will be working in the Vulcan Village.

Richard.

Ok thank you, we will do
.......along with a few other funsters as well I imagine

 

[TUCANO]

hilldweller,

There are Tucano's in private hands, with glass cockpits too, but they are in the USA, I work at RAF Linton on Ouse but we are all civvy,s excepting for air traffic and aircrew naturall.y

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[Bertie Bassett]

Did you get the hairs standing up on the back of your neck though when you went into the American Hall and realised you were eyeball to eyeball with a B52?

In the late seventies I was an instructor at the School of Infantry in Brecon. One late June evening at dusk a B52 passed below us going up a very steep sided valley on the North East edge of the Sennybridge Training Area. We often saw A10's, F111's and Harriers below us but that B52 was one of the most awesome bits of flying I have ever seen. To get out of the end of the valley without rising high enough above the ground clutter to present a radar picture to AWACS that 52 did a wing over. The lads with me were, as I was, completely awed! The next day a Vulcan provided us with our very own personal eclipse of the sun above Brecon Forest. The aircraft was so low the spruce trees bent with the engine wash...we never heard it coming and we never heard it go.............. Those men could really fly and yes the hairs on the back of my neck stood up!

 

[Bertie Bassett]

To be honest no, it's just a bomber. Whereas Blackbird is man's skills stretched beyond their limits, a machine so focussed to perform a single near impossible task remembering it was designed in the 50s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird

I met the driver of one many moons ago Brian. The most unassuming and quiet American gentleman I have ever met.

 

[hilldweller]

I met the driver of one many moons ago Brian. The most unassuming and quiet American gentleman I have ever met.

I can imagine. More technician than military person. And full of crap and piles, I assume sitting half a day in a space suit would do that eventually.

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