Cycleops
Legendary Member
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- Accra, Ghana
Just read that a Canadair like the one in the video has crashed damping down the fires in Portugal. No comment on casualties.
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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
We were in a pedalo on Lac de St. Cassein when a Canadair like this one dropped in to quench its thirst. The pilot cleared the road bridge across the lake by about 15 feet.
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DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
And, happily, not true either.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
That report is many hours old, It has subsequently been proved wrong (as the comments below the report make clear)
See http://www.jn.pt/nacional/ao-minuto...-dia-quente-de-combate-as-chamas-8576121.html - with a bit of help from Google Translate, it says:
"Gas cylinder blast may have been mistaken for plane crash
Commander Vítor Vaz Pinto of Civil Protection said there had been an account of an explosion of a gas cylinder in a bullet [sic] whose crash could possibly have been mistaken for a plane crash.".
I have no idea why the Independent hasn't yet edited its account.
When I was out in Majorca the other year at Puerto Polenca, there was an air force base to the north of the bay, and I watched them practice daily in the bay picking up water and low flying over the bay. Very skillful and entertaining at the same time.
gbb
Legendary Member
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- Peterborough
Colleague was telling me today...he'd had a crud day and was not in the best of moods and to cap it off he was just outside his house on the edge of the fens and a pair of incredibly low and fast aircraft shot by with an explosion of noise.
He said it frightened him to death, completely unexpected, incredibly loud.
He was in such a bad mood he explained he found himself hurling oaths at the already disappeared aircraft
He said it frightened him to death, completely unexpected, incredibly loud.
He was in such a bad mood he explained he found himself hurling oaths at the already disappeared aircraft
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
One of these circling slowly at about 2000 feet yesterday.
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Colleague was telling me today...he'd had a crud day and was not in the best of moods and to cap it off he was just outside his house on the edge of the fens and a pair of incredibly low and fast aircraft shot by with an explosion of noise.
He said it frightened him to death, completely unexpected, incredibly loud.
He was in such a bad mood he explained he found himself hurling oaths at the already disappeared aircraft
Tell him that then god awful noise is the sound of freedom!
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
I suspect what you saw was a C-17, not the C-141 in the photo (they were retired more than 10 years ago).
gbb
Legendary Member
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- Peterborough
He said at the time....any other time he'd have grinned ear to ear, but at that specific moment he was in a dark place
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
You may be correct. Thought it may be related to the Fairford show which is coming up. We'd be only some minutes from there, flying time.
