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Hi all,

Please come along if you can make it :PDT_Xtremez_15:

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Fingers crossed for the weather :PDT_Xtremez_28:
 
For those who have never witnessed a Bruntingthorpe open day, these flim clips supplied by a good friend are taken from previous events and will give you a little 'taster' ;)

Enjoy







Thanks Gray
 
Oh look, that comet is Canopus.

Saw her in at Akrotiri in the Mid 90's.

I'll bet there's a real temptation to pull the stick and get airborne in some of those old ladies!
 
320psi said:
For those who have never witnessed a Bruntingthorpe open day, these flim clips supplied by a good friend are taken from previous events and will give you a little 'taster' ;)
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Cracking vids 320psi BUT have had a huge impact on me.......I have always wanted to come to one of these days but now don't think i could do it....

I was willing them to "take to the skies" but alas as i knew all along they would not......I feel if I came along to any of these days i would be a blubbering wreck and having a go at the pilot for not doing the jet justice and putting her in the sky.

Crack on.......................:PDT_Xtremez_09:
 
BAH Cold War Jets open day

320psi said:
For those who have never witnessed a Bruntingthorpe open day, these flim clips supplied by a good friend are taken from previous events and will give you a little 'taster' ;)

Enjoy


Enjoy I did, did that Victor briefly fly? the weight was certainly on the wings not wheels.

And the Frightning............ pure Tchaikovsky. :PDT_Xtremez_30: :PDT_Xtremez_30: :PDT_Xtremez_30:



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Hi fella's,

Glad you like the vid's,

Trashy man, I do understand where your coming from, but please dont let the fact that they dont leave the ground put you off, its the next best thing to flight, and its affordabale and within our hobby to 'just' keep them in fast taxying cocndition, this takes us all our time and effort, belive me.

People in the crowd get all the smells, noise and sight of a living breathing aircraft, not just a dead museum piece.

Come and enjoy, please, we need all the support we can muster :PDT_Xtremez_30:

Plainsailing, I realy couldnt say about the Victor

Cheers all
 
BAH Cold War Jets open day

320psi said:
Hi fella's,

Glad you like the vid's,

Trashy man, I do understand where your coming from, but please dont let the fact that they dont leave the ground put you off, its the next best thing to flight, and its affordabale and within our hobby to 'just' keep them in fast taxying cocndition, this takes us all our time and effort, belive me.

People in the crowd get all the smells, noise and sight of a living breathing aircraft, not just a dead museum piece.

Come and enjoy, please, we need all the support we can muster :PDT_Xtremez_30:

Plainsailing, I realy couldnt say about the Victor

Cheers all
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I understand :PDT_Xtremez_15:

Please get a Shack MR3.3 it had two jets after all, if you do I`ll come and live there!
 
Taken off the TVOC web site:

STOP PRESS!

It has been confirmed that XH558 will be taking part in the Show; she will be moved out from her hangar to Pan 1 and will be carrying out static ground demonstrations on two occasions during the day!
 
I'm planning on coming along. I had a great time last year despite getting soaked and ruining a perfectly good pair of shoes. It was worth it for the Lightning and Victor max-chat demos.

Awesome stuff.

It was a brilliant day out with my dad - I'm meeting him again there this year. Must remember to pack sandbags, tilly lamps etc...
 
propersplitbrainme said:
Oh look, that comet is Canopus.

Saw her in at Akrotiri in the Mid 90's.

I'll bet there's a real temptation to pull the stick and get airborne in some of those old ladies!
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I'm obviously missing something here; I've never heard of 'Canopus'. I was under the impression that the Comet only ever flew as an airliner with BOAC/BEA. In the RAF, all the new Comet style airframes were all known as Nimrod's?
 
Anyone else planning on going?

I shall be the bespectacled one in an anorak with a buttie box and a tartan flask.

(kidding)

Seriously though, any other goaters likely to be around?
 
All being well I will be there, but the weather forecast has changed and it now says heavy rain all day but I have a few items to pick up so I will just hope for the best.
 
Hi all,
just got back from Brunty, typically today was perfect like Saturday,so anoying, hey ho.

If you have a look at sites like UKAR and Key Publishing Forum etc you will see some lovely wet shots of all the 'performers' yesterday.

Boy did it rain, just like last May, almost a perfect rerun !

But having said that we the LPG had a cracking day, the roof on the Q shed really came into its own, lots of people using it for shelter and hence spending some cash on the stall and on cockpit tours, an endless que, we could have done with five Lightnings, Ha!

We ran 904 from the Q shed pan, a first for us, and one we might explore again, not quite a Q scramble more a 'Q amble' in the rain.

904 was perfect, she performed flawlesly, all the hours of 'fixing 'and bleeding knuckles were worth while.

John Spencer took her, and throughly enjoyed him self.

After she had gone we went after her to collect the chute and check her over, we came over the hill and there she was against a black threatning sky, pouring rain, heat rising off her,sat at idle/ fast idle, she looked very meancing, we checked the tyres and waved John off, he nodded and taxied back, great stuff.

Cheers
 
Hi all, didnt get many shots this weekend, as we were busy, sorry

But got a few snaps on Sunday

Sunday first thing just before it started raining

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And right at the end, 558 going to bed, and the rain had typically just stopped

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The shot I should have got is firmly imprinted in my memory, as we raced (well 71mph in a 1981 Tranny van) after 904 to collect the soaking wet chute and check the brakes I was struck by a great sight, we raced (everything shacking)over the hill there straight in front of us was 904, rain beating down on her and the runway, heat rising from her, chute blowing about in the exhaust and to top it a dark menacing sky behind her, she looked perfect a true cold war warrior, shivers down the spine stuff and Im not usually affected by things like that, wonderfull


Cheers all
 
Absolutely gutted.

I'm glad you had a great day though. My Dad and I had a great time but we just got progressively wetter and colder throughout the day to the point where it stopped being fun any more. We were all set to go home when we spotted the victor starting up, so we watched the Victor and then called it a day.

Could have cried as I drove past the Q sheds and saw a tractor connected to 904.

Still, enjoyed the Comet, Hunter, Buccaneer, Canberra and Victor Demos. But I was really looking forward to two Avons on re-heat...

When is the LPG open day?
 
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