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Do that with a B52

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    Do that with a B52



    From the long ago days when we were great.
    When the fun stops, STOP.

    #2
    I didn't have the right camera on me at the time, so my photos don't do it justice, but I remember at the 2016 Farnborough Air Show an A380 doing a flight demo. After take off it went very nearly vertical and then did some superb tight turns. Would have loved to have been on board that!

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      #3
      I'd put up the vid of the lune doing something stupid in a B52 but it's a snuff movie so I won't bother.

      The entire crew died due to some grandstanding Septic nutjob who failed to remember that there's zero lift when the wings are vertical.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6io8Tjv7xk

      Just as well it wasn't carrying any nukes they'd accidentally forgotten to take off it. .
      Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 10 December 2024, 13:27.
      When the fun stops, STOP.

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        #4
        Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
        I'd put up the vid of the lune doing something stupid in a B52 but it's a snuff movie so I won't bother.

        The entire crew died due to some grandstanding Septic nutjob who failed to remember that there's zero lift when the wings are vertical.
        Someone managed to barrel roll a 707...
        (I believe they received a "telling off")
        Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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          #5
          I resisted as long as I could!

          Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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            #6
            The Vulcan was an amazing aircraft. My Dad was a Vulcan captain and when we lived in Cyprus seeing them flying was an everyday occurrence which never got boring - also Canberra, Lightning, Hercules, Argosy, Whirlwind, Wessex etc - even the Red Arrows came and did their winter training there. What a great life for a young lad: sun, sea, Cold War aircraft

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              #7
              I remember them flying up the Neath valley to bomb the crap out of Epynt.

              There's the remains of one up there still.
              When the fun stops, STOP.

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