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Chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them
Donald Trump needs kicking out of a helicopter
I'm personally responsible for all global warming
The Hunter is a very safe aircraft and was well within its capabilities - in fact, about another 10 feet of height and he might just have got away with it even though he was far too low. If you watch the film you can see that he’d actually managed to pull out and almost level the aircraft, but unfortunately that caused a high-speed stall right in the worst possible place. The airframe did not fail in any way.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
when I was about 10, he buzzed my grandparent house on the river Barle in Dulverton. His first approach was following the curve of the valley, at valley top height
all that was of course not permitted, but nil trouble ensued for him. He was a bit of a playboy, drove a white E type, He later died in a freak accident during a display in NZ.
Chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them
Donald Trump needs kicking out of a helicopter
I'm personally responsible for all global warming
(he was genuinely modest about his service record, like most of those type )
He was preparing an article for Flight magazine, which I don’t think he submitted in the end. Maybe it was too sensitive a topic. Had a lot of gun camera shots.
Stefan was tasked with a low level reconnaissance pass to photograph them. They turned out to be fake mock ups and the aerodrome had been set up to ambush any Jet attack
He felt he was very lucky indeed to have survived that, but he had a couple of the low level photos , showing the mock ups in sufficient detail..
When I was growing up there were a lot more active military aircraft from multiple airforces as part of the lineup. These days the professional involvement is basically the Red Arrows, Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and a Typhoon.
The gaps are increasingly made up from wealthy amateur involvement, for which - being a massive plane nut - I am grateful. I can see that aircrew training and aircraft maintenance is going to be more variable than that of a military unit though.
For what it’s worth, the pilot who crashed at Shoreham was well-trained and vastly experienced.
The tragedy is that it was only because he came so close to saving the plane that the result was so terrible - if he’d realised he wasn’t quite going to make it and ejected, it would have crashed before it reached the road.
About sixty years ago a friend of my father’s killed himself and a passenger - who could easily have been my dad that day, in which case I wouldn’t be here now - doing the same manoeuver in a small prop plane.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein