one man said his windows broke, think it already was and he is just pulling a fast one (so to speak) mythbusters done a test that proved to brake a window(had fragile wine glasses and a car set up too) the plane had to do the sonic boom at 200 ft directly above the object. this week is interesting here as I am beside the local airport so we have seen black hawks and f16's all week totally missed airforce one this morning as I was in work
I can vouch for that...they are bloody loud but the loudest I have heard was a super tomcat, it was that loud it hurt My ears.it was louder a mile away than a harrier hovering A few hundred feet in front of you, im sure most here know How loud the pegasus engine is.
They are bad boys. Su 27s hurt when they're doing high alpha party tricks, but F/A 18s doing the same thing really make me wince nowadays. However, when I was young and my hearing was indestructible it had to be either a lightning in reheat or a Vulcan climbing out that were the top trump cards to hold.
vulcan you lucky sod, I was meant to watch one a couple of years ago but it got a last minute fuel leak so it was called off but the typhoon and the F-16 made up for that lol
They were still in service when I was a lad Ciarán and regulars at every airshow. Their party piece was a 45 degree climb out from take off with a tip stall wing over at a couple of hundred feet. Their wing loading was so low and they were so over powered it was a piece of piss for them to be thrown around like fighters. The lightning pilots used to vie for who could do the lowest Mach one pass right up against the crowd line.
hopefully they will try to make another round of shows this year, so want to hear one. one plane that I looked at and thought how they hell does it stay up was the airbus A380. the pilot put it through a load of real slow sharp banked figure eights, couldnt believe how tight it was turning and it was banked well beyond 45 degree's.The airbus guy doing the commentary said to lap it up as you wont ever see an A380 doing these maneuvers in normal service again.the only pity is now the airshow has moved to a sea location you dont get to see the planes on the ground and since leaving my last job I dont get the free tickets to the paris air show's
I saw the A380 at Farnborough, 2005, I think. Stood looking at it thinking they were taking the piss. Then they had to move an A340 a 320 and a 747 out of the way just to drag it onto the apron and the wing tips were passing over us. The pilot did a touch and go, nose wheel in the air, main wheels on the ground while he was hanging out the window waving at the crowd., FFS. Mind you, the C17 blew in then and made them all look like wall flowers.
Probably the same display/promotion pilot. It was 2009 I seen it, I cut the failsafe wing ribs for thirty Of the aircraft flying today,I was happy to be part of the project
Lightnings..........Feck me a rocket with a pilot bungied to it LMFAO. I was at Coningsby for a while a long time ago, when they received F3 tornados in place of the Phantoms. When I left Coningsby a very nice man called Sqn Ldr Morrison took me up for a jolly. Unfortunately for me they fecked me over when a guy called Fred Grundy who was the F3 display pilot was at the helm. My head hurt for days aswell as my stomach muscles from the retching lmao
I remember reading an interview with a Lightning pilot once who stated that when the F104 arrived in Germany amid much fanfare, the American pilots still could not catch the Lightning and although the F15 could catch it, when it arrived, it took them a couple of years to learn to use them well enough to catch it. Fighter pilot bravado perhaps but still smile inducing.
