"There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are very few old, bold pilots." --An aerospace engineer.
Sid Boyce wrote: > Geoff wrote: > >> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:39:56 +0000 >> Sid Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >> >>> I hope one day I shall see the Vulcan fly out. On >>> my birthday about 4 years ago my daughters took me to buy >>> me a present related to flying and I was also served >>> another treat of seeing the Vulcan taxi, speed down >>> runway 18, lift the nose, then settle back down. It's >>> being maintained daily and they say it will fly out one >>> day >>> >> As I think I wrote here once before, as a boy I had the good >> fortune to be taken to Battle of Britain Day display at RAF >> Finningley, which included a squadron scramble of (as I >> recall), four Vulcans. One of the sights and sounds of a >> lifetime. >> >> Geoff >> >> >> > I am surprised you have any hearing left, one on its own is incredibly > noisy. During the Cuban Missile crisis they used to take off from RAF > Waddington and were at amazing heights by the time they were over the > Noth Sea coast, those "coal burners" are swift. One of my ex-colleagues > and one of our flight examiners who both flew as navigators in them tell > of hair raising rides 250 feet at 250 Kts on a turbulent day. > Regards > Sid. > -- A scientist claims in court that the reason he ran a red light is that, due to his speed, the color was blueshifted till it appeared green. Needless to say, the charges of running the red light were dropped and he lost his license for speeding excessively. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
