Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
Operation Tractable is the reason for all the air activity at the moment. All I saw yesterday were a couple of Chinooks and several Apaches.
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Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
I managed to get a better picture of an Osprey today.
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
One of these was hedge hopping on my ride today.
Elybazza61
Guru
Come over our house quite often as they are based at Mildenhall;you can certainly hear them coming the noise they make!
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
It was all quiet today ! Nothing apart from a couple of light aeroplanes.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
One of these was hedge hopping on my ride today.
was driving past Burford some years back to see a Chinook dangling a Bedford army truck on a rope. Impressive !
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
The Chinooks do an impressive display at airshows. I wouldn't want to be on board when they do it.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
It is the last flight of the Sea King from RNS Yeovilton today. There is going to be a flypast this morning.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-f1V_kT4Ec&ebc=ANyPxKq-CFAUwzsnaOzXhyZwHSACX88LBL3FfbRx1qlzLmmI_X81wFw7iAorfWi0ehTabvHPG-cIUUcA49QqUgmd3WpkfmZRtw
First try, and second successful test of the Goblin, built to be a parasitic fighter for the B-36, although being tested with a B-29.
classic33
Leg End Member
"Landing" back aboard was supposed to next to impossible. Landing on the ground, impossible.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
Did they find the pilot? They seemed to be looking for him.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
The first instance shows a ground landing(of course, on a dry lake bed, after the pilot smashed the canopy attempting hook up, the second run was successful. It was not a particularly useful weapons system, especially as the surface-to-air missile was being developed at this time. So the need for a fighter aircraft was lessened, and other fighters were getting longer range due to mid-air refueling, and the B-36 was getting ready to be superseded by the B-52.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
I should further add that most of the flights in this aircraft's history of less than three flight hours resulted in a forced landing on its bottom skid at Muroc Lake Bed. Performance was not what it was supposed to be for this fighter, another factor in the programs' cancellation.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
I managed to just catch the Grizzly on its way out yesterday
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Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
- Location
- Back up north
Came across this nice footage of a Gripen flying... I wouldn;t call it jaw-dropping as the website says, but it's very pretty!
