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I know, not a car, but isn't she gorgeous?
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Ah! the Nimrod you would have loved it out in Malta we had to guard these little beauties, with the occaisional Vulcan, Harrier, Jaguar, Hercules (aka Fat Albert) and any other aircraft that ventured out to RAF Luqa nice hot long sunny days, with lots of sports days, make`n`mends...............that was the life.
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Did anyone see the AC-130 Spooky gunship on Bravo saturday night? That thing kicks some serious ass!!

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These things showing up will completley ruin your day...

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Only if we happen to be flying underneath when they do that Lance!
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Hyperlithe wrote:Only if we happen to be flying underneath when they do that Lance!
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As well as walking, running, standing, driving or riding... underneath... You are not going to have a good day... :evil:
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Lance wrote:
Hyperlithe wrote:Only if we happen to be flying underneath when they do that Lance!
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As well as walking, running, standing, driving or riding... underneath... You are not going to have a good day... :evil:
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A B52 flew all the way from the US a couple of days ago to do a fly-past at Farnborough. The skies cleared, the crowd waited and the tower talk-over commenced. Only for Tex to zoom over Blackbush at 200 feet and then disappear towards London.

OOps! :roll:
A Kiwi pub landlord watched this performance from his garden, and commented that he had been in Vietnam, where the yanks coined the phrase 'friendly Fire', seems like nothing has changed.
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I saw a B-1b come in supersonic from the US for RAF Waddington, it was like an earthquake, those things move! An old Lancaster bomber flew over me house the other day to, literally, amost tkaing the chimney pot off!
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wannabe_bootneck wrote: An old Lancaster bomber flew over me house the other day to, literally, amost tkaing the chimney pot off!
that`ll be the ones that flew over the village of Smalley about a fortnight ago yes?
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Not sure, I live in Sherwood, Nottingham. Quite impressive though.
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WB, yes, the flypast was for the Village of Smalley, god knows why, but posters were up in all the back lanes from Derby to Heanor, unfortunately, due to work, i missed it. I belive it was the British Grand Prix weekend when it happened.
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I hope we don't stop commemorating WW2 & key events in it when the generation which lived through & fought it have gone. I personally think as this time approaches WW2 shold take a larger role in education so it can't be forgotten, too many lessons to be taken from it!
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If you think that one Lancaster shook your house, yet there was time when I was a lad the sky was black with them, not only did they shake your house the very bones in body would vibrate, add to that a few squadrons of B17 and sundry other aircraft then you can say you have seen air power in action.
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I won't say i'm sorry i wasn't there during that time but I am sorry I didn't see something like that. Must of been a sight.
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