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The 12 year old in all of us

Postby Nash » Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:22 am

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Re: The 12 year old in all of us

Postby greenwoo » Fri Nov 16, 2018 12:37 pm

ha ha loved it

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Re: The 12 year old in all of us

Postby Tony C » Fri Nov 16, 2018 1:21 pm

Brightened my lunch break :lol:
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Re: The 12 year old in all of us

Postby SteveRST » Fri Nov 16, 2018 3:08 pm

haha - that was really good :lol:
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Re: The 12 year old in all of us

Postby locost220 » Fri Nov 16, 2018 5:36 pm

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Re: The 12 year old in all of us

Postby steve m » Fri Nov 16, 2018 5:37 pm

Good find, and delivered very well
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Re: The 12 year old in all of us

Postby nero1701 » Fri Nov 16, 2018 6:17 pm

Liked that
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Re: The 12 year old in all of us

Postby Fury1630 » Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:04 pm

I heard a story about the SR71 a few years ago from someone who ought to have known.

When the SR71 was new & still very VERY secret, they were flying missions over Russia so high & so fast that they couldn't be intercepted. To do it they flew east - over Britain - which was a violation of sovereign airspace. They had been tracked by radar & after a while a pattern of flights emerged, so the RAF stripped a Lightning of absolutely everything it didn't need to fly & at the appointed time, with clear weather the aircraft took off & went vertical with both engines screaming on full re-heat.

Sooner or later the engines would run out of puff & as the lightning nosed over & pointed itself at the ground again, the pilot was ready with a hand-held camera.

A little later, there was a meeting of Nato's top brass & while they were all sitting round the table, the UK representative walked round, leaned over the shoulder of the US man & placed in front of him a photo of an SR71 silhouetted against the south east of England & said "we'd rather you asked us before you do this again old chap", then went & sat down. 8-)

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Re: The 12 year old in all of us

Postby DJ. » Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:28 pm

Thanks Neil, I enjoyed that :)

Fury1630 wrote:I heard a story about the SR71 a few years ago from someone who ought to have known.

When the SR71 was new & still very VERY secret, they were flying missions over Russia so high & so fast that they couldn't be intercepted. To do it they flew east - over Britain - which was a violation of sovereign airspace. They had been tracked by radar & after a while a pattern of flights emerged, so the RAF stripped a Lightning of absolutely everything it didn't need to fly & at the appointed time, with clear weather the aircraft took off & went vertical with both engines screaming on full re-heat.

Sooner or later the engines would run out of puff & as the lightning nosed over & pointed itself at the ground again, the pilot was ready with a hand-held camera.

A little later, there was a meeting of Nato's top brass & while they were all sitting round the table, the UK representative walked round, leaned over the shoulder of the US man & placed in front of him a photo of an SR71 silhouetted against the south east of England & said "we'd rather you asked us before you do this again old chap", then went & sat down. 8-)


I do hope that is true :)

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Re: The 12 year old in all of us

Postby Phil N » Sat Nov 17, 2018 5:08 pm

That made me chuckle, reminds me of this one-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76OlqSd_5k8
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