Born Hunter 17,639 Posted March 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 12 minutes ago, chartpolski said: I worked for Lockheed Aircraft in Saudi in the 70's on the C130 program, also on th G.E. & NavAids program. The Hercules has been a great work horse for many years and is still going strong. Mind you, I liked it as the "Puff the Majic Dragon" version in the Vietnam war. That would strike fear into anyone ! Cheers. They still have the C130 gun ships for close air support. I think they have seen a lot of use in Afghanistan due to their long loiter times. Maybe someone with experience can comment? I think that was one of the criticisms of the harriers in that role, they only had something like 20 minutes of actual time above the battlefield before they were running low of fuel. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THE STIFFMEISTER 14,568 Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Steel three two Charlie , this is gunslinger inbound in figures 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Born Hunter 17,639 Posted March 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 2 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said: Steel three two Charlie , this is gunslinger inbound in figures 2 The most notorious plane in the CAS/ground attack role. And they were thinking of retiring them for the F-35..... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
socks 32,253 Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 41 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said: Steel three two Charlie , this is gunslinger inbound in figures 2 Hello zero this is gunslinger 1 permission to smoke over ........ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLATTOP 3,680 Posted March 9, 2021 Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 7 hours ago, dytkos said: My ex wife's uncle used to live in Harmston Lincolnshire and he worked in Saudi. We used to stay in his cottage when we went coursing and it was right under the flight path of the Vulcans from RAF Waddington. This was at the one of the Falklands war. Could almost see the colour of the pilots eyes when they went over. Awesome. Cheers, D. That documentary about the bombing raid in Port Stanley is amazing it makes you proud to be British if you haven’t watched it, it’s a must see. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
steve66 3,086 Posted March 9, 2021 Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 14 hours ago, Bush Rummager said: Interesting topic. Without geeking out too much... does anyone else use these tracker Apps?? Had one some years now since kids were young and used guess with them where the planes were heading when we were sat out bbqing and what not. Obviously not everything in the air is visible on there but there does seem to be a lot of the RAF planes showing this last year or so. Jest flicked it on now and it's pretty quiet out there it seems.. bar this Hercules.. I believe you can set alerts up.. but I've never got that far with it...lol.. I mostly use adsbexchange, not bad shows mil stuff where some dont 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
steve66 3,086 Posted March 9, 2021 Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 6 hours ago, FLATTOP said: That documentary about the bombing raid in Port Stanley is amazing it makes you proud to be British if you haven’t watched it, it’s a must see. Got some pics somewhere of its last flight , sad to see it sat out on the tarmac at donny airport Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLATTOP 3,680 Posted March 9, 2021 Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 27 minutes ago, steve66 said: Got some pics somewhere of its last flight , sad to see it sat out on the tarmac at donny airport We’ve got XL426 at Southend Airport it was out on the tarmac but it’s now in a hangar there is a restoration trust that do a great job when it does the taxi run you can see they are itching to take off. AVROVULCAN.COM 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,639 Posted March 9, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 15 hours ago, Bush Rummager said: Interesting topic. Without geeking out too much... does anyone else use these tracker Apps?? Had one some years now since kids were young and used guess with them where the planes were heading when we were sat out bbqing and what not. Obviously not everything in the air is visible on there but there does seem to be a lot of the RAF planes showing this last year or so. Jest flicked it on now and it's pretty quiet out there it seems.. bar this Hercules.. I believe you can set alerts up.. but I've never got that far with it...lol.. I don't really do these apps but if you look now, over Yorkshire/North sea, you'll see five falcon 20 doing mock attacks for a pair of Hawks to practice intercepts. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gypsydog94 4,329 Posted March 17, 2021 Report Share Posted March 17, 2021 Down the local army camp today Nmp 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 44,334 Posted March 17, 2021 Report Share Posted March 17, 2021 On 08/03/2021 at 19:53, Born Hunter said: This is my favourite. Similarly In another life... Stiffmeister sent me a video the other year when he was deployed on disaster relief in the Caribbean after the big hurricane came through and levelled the gaff. He was sat on the open back ramp of a chinook as it flew across the island and he was filming it on his phone, pretty cool actually. Im surprised the idiot never fell out ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DIDO.1 20,893 Posted March 18, 2021 Report Share Posted March 18, 2021 On 09/03/2021 at 12:54, FLATTOP said: We’ve got XL426 at Southend Airport it was out on the tarmac but it’s now in a hangar there is a restoration trust that do a great job when it does the taxi run you can see they are itching to take off. AVROVULCAN.COM They are some beasts them vulcans. I had a poster of one on my bedroom wall as a kid, until I discovered tits. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,639 Posted March 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2021 16 hours ago, sid g said: had them in n out to the new Defence establishment (the DMRC) last 2 days They might have been going there tbh, dunno. Funnily enough I’ve driven past there the past three days. I’ve since found out who it was. Just a local lad putting on a show for family. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Born Hunter 17,639 Posted March 18, 2021 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2021 16 hours ago, WILF said: Stiffmeister sent me a video the other year when he was deployed on disaster relief in the Caribbean after the big hurricane came through and levelled the gaff. He was sat on the open back ramp of a chinook as it flew across the island and he was filming it on his phone, pretty cool actually. Im surprised the idiot never fell out ! He posted photos of it iirc. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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