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[Spokey]

Except if it is on the runway at Tenerife. Then KLM sommer takes off when the captain wants to......

Yup, a colossal error in judgement.

[fanievb]

FAEL

 

ZS-LEY

 

 

 

even had the chance (again) to gooi the stokke. That trimming business is difficult [emoji2957]

 

[kosmonooit]

Why Electric Aircraft Are Tilting Toward Hybrid Drives

 

[Bateleur1]

A few of these oaks came rushing by just now.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panavia_Tornado

 

Not often you hear jet fighters so as my ears picked that up I was rushing for the balcony to see.

[Bonus]

A few of these oaks came rushing by just now.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panavia_Tornado

 

Not often you hear jet fighters so as my ears picked that up I was rushing for the balcony to see.

 

I love jets, and when the Tornado swings its wings back and gives it the full beans it's something to see and hear.

 

Edited November 12, 2020 by Bonus

[Robbie Stewart]

A few of these oaks came rushing by just now.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panavia_Tornado

 

Not often you hear jet fighters so as my ears picked that up I was rushing for the balcony to see.

 

A few years back I was standing outside in the garden one afternoon and heard this shattering roar coming in low and fast from the north. Imagine my surprise to see a 4 ship formation of Luftwaffe Tornadoes come screaming overhead at low level with fully swept wings, making their way to TFDC Overberg AFB in Bredasdorp for their bi-annual weapons exercises with the SAAF. They were on a sight seeing trip and came down the West Coast to see the fairest Cape en-route.

 

I can see that image as if seared into my mind's eye. Not everyday one gets such a treat.

 

http://www.strategic-bureau.com/en/tornado-allemand-en-afrique-du-sud/

Edited November 12, 2020 by Robbie Stewart

[Bateleur1]

I love jets, and when the Tornado swings its wings back and gives it the full beans it's something to see and hear.

 

 

Your links lead me to this ...

 

[patham]

A few years back I was standing outside in the garden one afternoon and heard this shattering roar coming in low and fast from the north. Imagine my surprise to see a 4 ship formation of Luftwaffe Tornadoes come screaming overhead at low level with fully swept wings, making their way to TFDC Overberg AFB in Bredasdorp for their bi-annual weapons exercises with the SAAF. They were on a sight seeing trip and came down the West Coast to see the fairest Cape en-route.

 

I can see that image as if seared into my mind's eye. Not everyday one gets such a treat.

 

http://www.strategic-bureau.com/en/tornado-allemand-en-afrique-du-sud/

 

Lucky SOB. The Tornado has great lines, I am sad I will probably never see one in flight. One more model kit to be bought as the next best thing (although I do remember building a 1/72 version in my early teens, that memory does not do the subject justice).

[Long Wheel Base]

A few years back I was standing outside in the garden one afternoon and heard this shattering roar coming in low and fast from the north. Imagine my surprise to see a 4 ship formation of Luftwaffe Tornadoes come screaming overhead at low level with fully swept wings, making their way to TFDC Overberg AFB in Bredasdorp for their bi-annual weapons exercises with the SAAF. They were on a sight seeing trip and came down the West Coast to see the fairest Cape en-route.

 

I can see that image as if seared into my mind's eye. Not everyday one gets such a treat.

 

http://www.strategic-bureau.com/en/tornado-allemand-en-afrique-du-sud/

So I assume this lands in the sea and it's just a dud but makes you wonder........... what if it's not? what if they drop it in a built up area. Wonder how many duds are lying at the bottom of the ocean?

 

[MrJacques]

In 1990, a panel of the windscreen on British Airways Flight 5390 fell out at 17k feet, causing the cockpit to decompress & its captain to be sucked halfway out of the aircraft. The crew held onto him for more than 20 minutes as the copilot made an emergency landing. The pilot made a full recovery.

 

[Robbie Stewart]

So I assume this lands in the sea and it's just a dud but makes you wonder........... what if it's not? what if they drop it in a built up area. Wonder how many duds are lying at the bottom of the ocean?

 

Tornado_chasseur_Allemagne_A106-506x657.jpg

 

TFDC (Test Flight & Development Centre) Overberg is the SAAF live firing range. It is also used by the SA Navy for live fire exercises. I was there in '08 or '10 at one of the airshows they held, and a Cheetah C made a low pass and fired a live heat seeker at a flare they shot up into the sky. It was quite spectacular. It made the usual 'battle simulation' they perform at more urban airshows look somewhat silly in comparison.

 

In fact, TFDC is regularly visited by foreign military powers, especially from Europe, to come do live exercises. It is to the east of Bredasdorp and stretches over unpopulated land and a large section of the coastal waters.

 

I guess there are most likely many duds dropped and just not recovered. It would probably be too costly and not worth it to recover them.

[Robbie Stewart]

In 1990, a panel of the windscreen on British Airways Flight 5390 fell out at 17k feet, causing the cockpit to decompress & its captain to be sucked halfway out of the aircraft. The crew held onto him for more than 20 minutes as the copilot made an emergency landing. The pilot made a full recovery.

 

 

 

that mans arms must have been killing him about 2 minutes in to the 20 minute ordeal. Well done to him for holding on so long. Not to mention getting slammed by the wind at some stupid speeds. Looks like the wind ripped the captains shirt off. The landing must have been terrifying for him.

[Robbie Stewart]

Lucky SOB. The Tornado has great lines, I am sad I will probably never see one in flight. One more model kit to be bought as the next best thing (although I do remember building a 1/72 version in my early teens, that memory does not do the subject justice).

 

There is a very particular beauty to the Tornado which is not seen in modern fighters anymore. It is also one of my favourites.

[MrJacques]

that mans arms must have been killing him about 2 minutes in to the 20 minute ordeal. Well done to him for holding on so long. Not to mention getting slammed by the wind at some stupid speeds. Looks like the wind ripped the captains shirt off. The landing must have been terrifying for him.

 

I've just flown in from x and boy are my arms tired!

 

On a serious note, that must have been terrifying.

[Bonus]

In 1990, a panel of the windscreen on British Airways Flight 5390 fell out at 17k feet, causing the cockpit to decompress & its captain to be sucked halfway out of the aircraft. The crew held onto him for more than 20 minutes as the copilot made an emergency landing. The pilot made a full recovery.

 

 

 

that mans arms must have been killing him about 2 minutes in to the 20 minute ordeal. Well done to him for holding on so long. Not to mention getting slammed by the wind at some stupid speeds. Looks like the wind ripped the captains shirt off. The landing must have been terrifying for him.

 

Did you know that the Captain made a full recovery but the first officer was scarred for life....Because the Captain remembers nothing about it!

[Robbie Stewart]

Did you know that the Captain made a full recovery but the first officer was scarred for life....Because the Captain remembers nothing about it!

 

Well now I do, lol. 

 

Ja, I can believe the blissful ignorance of not knowing how bad it really was. I had a similar incident after a fall and banging my pip. I also could not recall anything for about 2 hours after the fall for months later.

 

I can also believe the drama the FO must have been experiencing, thinking if the Captain got sucked out fully, he would likely have felt it was somehow his fault.