Club Arnage

"chicken" for grown ups.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbqQr2EEtHA

ufck :o

The BBC have been covering it today and impressed NOT they are too, nothing but complaints, spoil sports and careful you never know it might hurt you.

Ofcourse! What if the Hamster was driving there, he could have been hurt! :o

Didnt we see that one already a few days ago?

Fran - good girl - indeed you did, when I stuck a link to it amongst a few others at
http://www.clubarnage.com/forum/index.php?topic=6035.0

The Harrier one was filmed a few months ago now and has been circulating around since then.  Now it has finally hit the news, when a journalist spotted it on youtube and then the usual with uninformed reporting started on BBC and Sky.  Typical is "the serviceman, who at first seems unaware of the approaching jet, is seen to duck as the Harrier roars past him".   Same with Sky - "soldiers play chicken with jet plane".   No - he is an RAF serviceman - not a soldier - he looks back twice before it overflys - he knows it is coming, where it is coming from and his mate is filming it approaching it as it approaches and departs.  He might not have expected it to be quite that low.  Whether it was filmed on a "normal" take off or fully set up with the aircrew, is one for those were there to know and others not to worry about.  For me, the measured MOD response to the news hounds is, IMHO, quite appropriate.

MG Mark

I just thought it was funny.

Nobby - it is, and v. impressive too - I wasn't having a go in any way at your post, it was just that at the time the media were going to town on it in a particularly uninformed way and I wanted to put the story in its context, as it's an area that is, shall we say, dear to me.   Mind you, v.low flying Harriers is probably small beer compared to the cr*p that is hitting the fan after a certain interview in this morning's Daily Mail....

MG Mark   

It's a disgrace, treating an expensive item of military hardware as a toy. It's dangerous too, I mean if it had hit him it could have had the poor blokes eye out. And what are they doing there in the first place with all those folks firing bullets? This fighting business is surely a danger under the HSAWA and someones gonna get hurt soon, you mark my words.

its a shambles, that's my tax money being wasted too boot ;)  Not the first time either, I'll wager, what about this, not only LOW but got the fires stoked right the way up tooo

Indeed not - we've been doing it for some time methinks.....


MG Mark

One could be charitable - it might have been a "low level tactical departure" ;).   If people choose to stand under the flight path, then well......

MG Mark

Now THAT is beautiful.

Now, that's a low flyer!

But at least we're getting to enjoy it  ;)

A couple more for you to enjoy  ;)

(http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/images/AIR_B-1B_Extreme_Low_lg.jpg)

and  ;D

(http://www.airdisplaysint.co.uk/photos/spit-low.jpg)

Great shots!

WOW. that shot of the B1 is truly awesome

A shot you won't see is the Lightning doing a low pass (cannot remember where). Pilot forgot about the reserve tank on the bottom and ruptured it on the runway. Runway had to be closed for resurfacing due to the resultant fire!! The Lighting survived after an emergency landing.

Air Zimbabwe Boeing 707 flypast at Charles Prince Airport, Harare, on Sunday, May 9, 1993, during the Mashonaland Flying Club's Air Day'93

Is the Spit Ray Hannah at Goodwood?

MH434 is/was Ray's spit, bought from Adrian Swire, yonks ago, Adrian IS the swire group, you know the people that own Cathay Pacific Airlines. If it was this year then no it can't possibly be Ray :-[

Here is a shot of Ray flying at the first revival, not many shots were taken as you can imagine we were all tooo shocked to see a spit below in the grandstand

I found the Spit pic on this site here The History Channel Biggin Hill International Air Fair 2006 (http://www.airdisplaysint.co.uk/display.php)

So I have to assume it was at Biggin Hill  ;) ;D