Dead dogs and old fire engines

[tricky]

Some random pics from my ride out to RAF Scampton today.

http://upload4.postimage.org/1624880/Scampton003.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/1624880/photo_hosting.html)

A Gnat.

http://upload4.postimage.org/1624886/Scampton004.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/1624886/photo_hosting.html)

Merv (the guide) said you can sometimes get a peep in the Red Arrows hanger, sadly there was no one about and the hanger all locked up.

http://upload4.postimage.org/1624905/Scampton009.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/1624905/photo_hosting.html)

Green Goddesses, a whole hanger full of them. (sorry about the crap pic, it was rather dark and I was struggling to hold the camera steady with such a slow shutter speed). All of these where being shipped abroad. Apparently all of them have less that 2000 miles on the clock.

http://upload4.postimage.org/1624929/Scampton011.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/1624929/photo_hosting.html)

The grave of Guy Gibson's dog.

[DarrenSV650S]

I was working in RAF leuchars a few weeks back and to get to where we were working we had to cross the main runway, and if there were planes taking off or landing you had to wait at the red light for them to go past. The noise was absolutely deafening :shock:
I got some vids on my phone of them taking off, the acceleration is amazing. 8)
Id post the vids but am not sure how because there a funny file type :roll:
I also got this photo of me "riding the bomb" :lol: :lol:
(its actually a fuel tank, but I tell everyone its a bomb) :wink:
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k164/DarrenStewartTait/DSC002361.jpg

[tricky]

:lol: Nice pic Dr Strangelove !

[Mr Toad]

:lol: Nice pic Dr Strangelove !

:lol:

[Spiderman]

I also got this photo of me "riding the bomb" :lol: :lol:
(its actually a fuel tank, but I tell everyone its a bomb) :wink:
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k164/DarrenStewartTait/DSC002361.jpg

Thats what they call misinformation mate ;) They tell everyone that go stop em knicking the bombs. Youre actulay lucky you didnt fart too loud when you were on that cos it would have gone off. Honest.

[BillyC]

Red Arrows... hooligans ;)


A couple of years ago I was at Headcorn Aerodrome getting a few hours in on my PPL. The day's NOTAMS indicated that the Red Arrows would be operating at Biggin Hill that afternoon.

So I jumped in my little Cessna 172, and rolled down runway 29... on my take off climb, just passing 800', six Red Arrows shot past my nose, left to right, no further than 200 yards away. No radio calls, nothing, and all within 1.5 miles of the runway centre.

I sat there in awe at the sight, just thinking "Coooool". It was only later that I realised that they could have easily smashed straight into me if the controller they were talking to wasn't being alert.

[keithd]

what a great name for a black lab....

:wink:

[fullstop102]

Yep. Don't think you would be calling that dog at 3am in Bradford!

Get your head blown off!

I have a black collie and a friend of my parents suggested I called it blacky. Silence filled that room! :P

[Warthog]

IN a similar theme, here are some photos from Coventry air museum last Sunday:

A Vulcan bomber, main nuclear deterrent in the early years of the cold war for Britain as you all know:
http://img1.putfile.com/thumb/11/31616173348.jpg (http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3985225)

And then me and my mate got to go and sit in the minute pilot and copilot seats! Bit of a dream come true for us!

http://img1.putfile.com/thumb/11/31616173345.jpg (http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3985226)

[Helga]

And then me and my mate got to go and sit in the minute pilot and copilot seats! Bit of a dream come true for us!

http://img1.putfile.com/thumb/11/31616173345.jpg (http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3985226)

hmmmmmm.........being a pilot suits you! (flashbacks of Top Gun!) :wink:

[tricky]

IN a similar theme, here are some photos from Coventry air museum last Sunday:

A Vulcan bomber, main nuclear deterrent in the early years of the cold war for Britain as you all know:
http://img1.putfile.com/thumb/11/31616173348.jpg (http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3985225)

And then me and my mate got to go and sit in the minute pilot and copilot seats! Bit of a dream come true for us!

http://img1.putfile.com/thumb/11/31616173345.jpg (http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3985226)

Cool, they've got a Vulcan you can sit in at Newark Air Museum too.

In the Vulcan, the pilot and co-pilot get ejector seats, the three crew facing backwards behind them don't. I would imagine they would get fried when the pilots ejected ! :shock:

[Warthog]

And then me and my mate got to go and sit in the minute pilot and copilot seats! Bit of a dream come true for us!

http://img1.putfile.com/thumb/11/31616173345.jpg (http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3985226)

hmmmmmm.........being a pilot suits you! (flashbacks of Top Gun!) :wink:

Thats my mate not me :cry: :lol:

[Helga]

And then me and my mate got to go and sit in the minute pilot and copilot seats! Bit of a dream come true for us!

http://img1.putfile.com/thumb/11/31616173345.jpg (http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3985226)

hmmmmmm.........being a pilot suits you! (flashbacks of Top Gun!) :wink:

Thats my mate not me :cry: :lol:

Oh well - you'd better get some pics of yourself next time!! :lol:

[Warthog]

Hehe I did, but I looked a bit dumb so I am not posting them :P

I'll try to take some more of me looking good on/in huge machines 8)

[Helga]

Hehe I did, but I looked a bit dumb so I am not posting them :P


Oh go on!!!! Don't be a wuss!! There are some horrific photos of me posted on here - thanks to Quiff :x

Fairs Fair!! :lol:

[Warthog]

Nonsense, the only ones I have seen of you have been of your ****, and that certainly not horrific! ;)

(All my photos are at home, so I can't post any now anyway I am at work. Busy working hehe)

[tricky]

Hehe I did, but I looked a bit dumb so I am not posting them :P

I'll try to take some more of me looking good on/in huge machines 8)

Just next to/on/in machines will do, I never look good. :(

Here's me standing next to a tank in Belgium
http://upload4.postimage.org/1650337/Belgium2006050.jpg (http://upload4.postimage.org/1650337/photo_hosting.html)

[Warthog]

Nice Sherman, and I see you found a sunny day in Belgium hahaha, thats rare!

Continuing the in front of large things theme, here is me infront of a Belgian fort:
http://www.geocities.com/deathuk2003/DSCF0555.JPG

This at Whitwick Manor near Wolverhampton (an excellent NT place if you like these things!). I randomly found an American jeep, helmet and Thompson gun. No-one around.... Had to wear it all and pose :lol:
http://www.geocities.com/deathuk2003/DSCF0716.JPG

[Warthog]

Oh and this is an officially-sanctioned picture of me if you were interested, available in A3 and A1 on demand :lol:

http://www.geocities.com/deathuk2003/me.jpg

[DarrenSV650S]

Id post the vids but am not sure how because there a funny file type :roll:
Here are the two videos I took
Thanks to Cloggsy for converting the videos for me 8)
The second one takes ages and the camera work is a little shakey :lol:

Video 1 (http://s88.photobucket.com/albums/k164/DarrenStewartTait/?action=view&current=11-08-06_1142.flv)
Video 2 (http://s88.photobucket.com/albums/k164/DarrenStewartTait/?action=view&current=17-08-06_1003.flv)

[Ba55man]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/Boodog/DrStrangelove.jpg

[tricky]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/Boodog/DrStrangelove.jpg

:D :smt038

[21QUEST]

what a great name for a black lab....

:wink:

:lol: That almost went over my head. I was sat thinking why is 'tigger' a great name for a black labrador(didn't click on the image). Then fullstops102 post made me think I must have missed something.



Yep. Don't think you would be calling that dog at 3am in Bradford!

Get your head blown off!

I have a black collie and a friend of my parents suggested I called it blacky. Silence filled that room! :P

:lol: :lol: Now that is class. Cracks me up when people(no offence to parents friend) sometimes say stuff without thinking too much about it :lol:


Cheers
Ben

[DarrenSV650S]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/Boodog/DrStrangelove.jpg
:shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Now that is some good work :notworthy:
You've got to send me that pic :smt043

[PsychoCannon]

Haha that's fantastic :)

Learning to fly in FSX at the moment and loving it :)
Wish I could afford to do it for real :( :cry:

[kwak zzr]

hey Warthog nice to see you again :D