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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@jegga No, I hadn't. A good read.
Strangely enough a Cessna did this to me "I am going to set it afire" not the other way around.
Liked this:
“I flew F-16's for the better part of a decade. The jet was designed in the late 60's and has aged better than almost any aircraft in the world. The one aircraft that beats it is the Cessna 172,” Major Justin “Hasard” Lee, a U.S. Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighter pilot"
An argument could be made for the B52 and the Dakota (C47) in terms of longevity but he has a point.
Harvard was pre war but still in use too? Are there many tiger moths left?
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@jegga said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@jegga No, I hadn't. A good read.
Strangely enough a Cessna did this to me "I am going to set it afire" not the other way around.
Liked this:
“I flew F-16's for the better part of a decade. The jet was designed in the late 60's and has aged better than almost any aircraft in the world. The one aircraft that beats it is the Cessna 172,” Major Justin “Hasard” Lee, a U.S. Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighter pilot"
An argument could be made for the B52 and the Dakota (C47) in terms of longevity but he has a point.
Harvard was pre war but still in use too? Are there many tiger moths left?
Plenty of both of those around - I have a mate who has a moth. They are probably in vintage category rather than commercial / military operational though. Possible that they still train with them somewhere. Definitely in the cool aircraft list.
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@jegga said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@jegga No, I hadn't. A good read.
Strangely enough a Cessna did this to me "I am going to set it afire" not the other way around.
Liked this:
“I flew F-16's for the better part of a decade. The jet was designed in the late 60's and has aged better than almost any aircraft in the world. The one aircraft that beats it is the Cessna 172,” Major Justin “Hasard” Lee, a U.S. Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighter pilot"
An argument could be made for the B52 and the Dakota (C47) in terms of longevity but he has a point.
Harvard was pre war but still in use too? Are there many tiger moths left?
Plenty of both of those around - I have a mate who has a moth. They are probably in vintage category rather than commercial / military operational though. Possible that they still train with them somewhere. Definitely in the cool aircraft list.
I used to work with a guy who absolutely loved the tiger moth . He was in the territorial Air Force too , the ex ww2 pilots were pretty much the only ones that got to fly the mustangs but he got to fly the flying boat that is up in MOTAT or it twin . Said for an aircraft it’s size it was incredibly manoeuvrable
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@jegga said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
the flying boat that is up in MOTAT
Not sure what they have? Sunderland or Solent I would think.
Sunderland , the milspec Solent . I think they were based at Shelley bay
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@Snowy have you never touched a snake - definitely not slimy. Agree they're fuckers though
@jegga The Sunderlands were based at Hobsonville. It's why one of the new precincts there is names after them. My uncle was a Squadron Leader there. Also at Lautoka where we also has some Sunderlands based to cover the central Pacific. They were replaced in the mid 60's by the Orions which were replaced by...…..
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@dogmeat said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Snowy have you never touched a snake - definitely not slimy. Agree they're fuckers though
@jegga The Sunderlands were based at Hobsonville. It's why one of the new precincts there is names after them. My uncle was a Squadron Leader there. Also at Lautoka where we also has some Sunderlands based to cover the central Pacific. They were replaced in the mid 60's by the Orions which were replaced by...…..
That’s cool about your uncle .
They had a base in Wellington too , not as well used as the one in Hobsonville though
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@Machpants My old man first flew to NZ on a Solent from Sydney. Swore it was the best flight he ever did in his life. Took 8 hours. Apart from take off and landing he spent the entire time propped up in the lounge bar which he said was a full on cocktail bar.
He was doubly impressed as his only previous flying experience had been in troop transports that took 4 full days to get from Tokyo to Sydney and … didn't have a bar.
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@dogmeat said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Machpants My old man first flew to NZ on a Solent from Sydney. Swore it was the best flight he ever did in his life. Took 8 hours. Apart from take off and landing he spent the entire time propped up in the lounge bar which he said was a full on cocktail bar.
He was doubly impressed as his only previous flying experience had been in troop transports that took 4 full days to get from Tokyo to Sydney and … didn't have a bar.
They were cool looking beasts
Hard to believe the same company produced this ugly pile of shit
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@Machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@jegga my granddad did 4 years on Sunderland when based in Fiji, late 50s, according to his logbook
Here's another awesome thing, now on the internet
That is very very cool . What was he flying off the Ark Royal? I’ve tried to find out if corsairs and hellcats ever engaged 190s or 109s . Best I could come up with was maybe over Norway .
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Haha nothing so cool as a Corsair. He was a TAG (Telegraphist Air Gunner) in a a Fairey Fulmar. Probably lucky he only sighted ME109s! The 3 plans shot down were all transports, Italian, in the med.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Fairey_Fulmar_Mk_I_(M4062).jpg
Still as shit as the Fulmar was, his log book entries are much cooler than mine which have shot at by, rather than shot down
Location of original logbook 😜
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@Snowy Can you do me a price for the following? I have an irritating fluffybunny who references his granddad in the 1950's making him younger than my own pater. I'm sure you would find that he would make an attractive pair of racing shorts given his nom de guerre. Maybe enough left for some driving gloves for the Audi?
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@Machpants said in Planes:
Haha nothing so cool as a Corsair. He was a TAG (Telegraphist Air Gunner) in a a Fairey Fulmar. Probably lucky he only sighted ME109s! The 3 plans shot down were all transports, Italian, in the med.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Fairey_Fulmar_Mk_I_(M4062).jpgStill as shit as the Fulmar was, his log book entries are much cooler than mine which have shot at by, rather than shot down
Location of original logbook 😜
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/HMS_Ark_Royal_sinking_2.jpgAt least it wasn’t a Blackburn roc , they were dogshit.
I never understood the British theory that a carrier fighter needed a navigator . The yanks and Japanese never did and when they did try to marinise the spitfire it didn’t have the range and it’s landing gear was borderline on their steel aircraft carrier decks .
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@Machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Probably lucky he only sighted ME109s
Yep, even luckier they didn't sight him.
190 hours doesn't even get you a commercial licence these days. Amazing what they did with so little experience. I've done around 20,000 and still know fck all. I too am only "shot at " rather than "shot down" someone else.
@jegga Swordfish were on the Ark Royal but I don't know what else.
Also, was there a second Ark Royal? The guy who surveyed my boat was an engineer on it but he couldn't have been that old...
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@Machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Probably lucky he only sighted ME109s
Yep, even luckier they didn't sight him.
190 hours doesn't even get you a commercial licence these days. Amazing what they did with so little experience. I've done around 20,000 and still know fck all. I too am only "shot at " rather than "shot down" someone else.
@jegga Swordfish were on the Ark Royal but I don't know what else.
Also, was there a second Ark Royal? The guy who surveyed my boat was an engineer on it but he couldn't have been that old...
According to Wikipedia they had fulmars , rocs and the swordfish successor the albacore as well as the string bag .
Evans Bay - Wikipedia
Fairey Fulmar - Wikipedia
