Low flying military aircraft

[Cow Pie]

For the pretty plane fans amongst you

 

[Spinney]

Flying under the radar in "Red Flag" exercises. They were always getting through.
@Spinney ever seen them flying below cliff level down your end?

Haven't been near any cliffs down my end - but that would be an impressive sight!

 

[Cow Pie]

Ooooohhhhhh!! Shiny

 

[Cow Pie]

And after all that pubic relations guff. What we actually get paid to do.

 

[Spinney]

Are you in the RAF then, @Cow Pie ?
My only connection is working in Flight Test at British Aerospace for 10 years, but it's now over 20 years since I left!

 

[welsh dragon]

[QUOTE 3035788, member: 1314"]What are you scared off? Upsetting the men around you? Having to challenge your own preconceptions of who you are? Not wanting things to change?

This rocket-boy stuff is as stiffy as it gets sexually without real flesh involved - the mechanical throbbing of the visiciouness is overcumming.

It's pure 70s cock-rock stuff.[/QUOTE]

I don't have any problem with upsetting anyone as you may have noticed, and not just with women either. I am not intimidated by anyone, but as vernon said this isn't the place for that kind of arguement.

i have been accused on more than one occasion of speaking my mind and not giving a rats ass what people think, especially in business and I do not suffer fools gladly.

and if I thought that men really thought of them as boys toys or it was prevelant in the places I go to, then I wouldn't hesitate to slap that person down very effectively.

 

[welsh dragon]

And after all that pubic relations guff. What we actually get paid to do.

That is a great photo.

 

[Cow Pie]

Are you in the RAF then, @Cow Pie ?
My only connection is working in Flight Test at British Aerospace for 10 years, but it's now over 20 years since I left!

Yeah still in until I get killed, made redundant or they find someone cheaper to do the job (how I don't know)

 

[Cow Pie]

That is a great photo.

Can't remember where it was taken. Afghan I think looking at the aircraft role setup. One of the military intelligence (two words that should never be in the same sentence) photography girls took it as she walked back from the mess.

 

[welsh dragon]

Can't remember where it was taken. Afghan I think looking at the aircraft role setup. One of the military intelligence (two words that should never be in the same sentence) photography girls took it as she walked back from the mess.

There stunning. Your very lucky to have a job like that. But of course there is always a downside.

 

[Cow Pie]

There stunning. Your very lucky to have a job like that. But of course there is always a downside.

Yeah the food... awful, simply awful

 

[welsh dragon]

Yeah the food... awful, simply awful

nice one

 

[classic33]

Royal New Zealand Air Force Short Sunderland doing a touch and go at Wellington airport in 1959 - Surely no-one can go lower than that! A touch an go in a wheel-less flying boat is not recommended. You couldn't get a damn slice of pastrami between the hull and the runway. There exists a crystal-clear shot in one of the RNZAF flight-safety publications that showed the aircraft just after it had done the "touch and go" clearly showing the bilge water escaping. Spectators were treated to a shower of dirty bilge water as it climbed away.

 

[classic33]

Low flying?

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From Colin Smedley comes this magnificent image that seems to show 55,000 pounds+ of Blackburn Buccaneer hovering over the runway. In the 1980s and 90s, No 208 Sqn RAF were the real experts in ultra low-level under the radar nuclear strikes. During the International Air Tattoo in 1993, to mark the squadron's 75th birthday, this Buccaneer S.2B was flown at an altitude of just 5 feet for the entire length of RAF Fairford's runway. From inside the massive strike aircraft, it must surely have felt as though they were actually in the ground. Thank God for ground effect. Photo Colin Smedley

 

[AndyRM]

Trouble is, I don't think you can separate the two. It's clear from many of the posts here (and certainly clear to me, in the unreconstructed Y chromosome part of my being) that part of the thrill of seeing low flying jets is the sense of power and assertion of that power.

I see what you're saying, but I disagree. That said, I do find it very easy to split things off into categories and only relate them when required.

Anyway. fark the politics and all that. Low flying planes are awesome.