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COOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!

Now the theme from Top Gun is running through my brain!
 
I'm still nauseated.
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Hehehehehehe..... Wowie-zowie. Nice touch, that one pee-lot reading the chart at about 12ft. AGL.

R.
 
If I remember correctly the Tornadoe's nap of the earth flight system is pretty much a hands off system. Computer does the flying or is at least a strict nanny. Regardless, very impressive stuff!

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Shawn, The Tornadoes use Terrain Following Radar, totally computer controlled. Those are Mirages I think, which is ironic because the music is called 'Champions'.
 
Zipping along NAPE at no telling how many hundreds of knots & the guy is reading a TOPO & then tosses it on the dash....
 
*sigh*

...that just reminds me how much I miss it.
 
Nellis... Chasin' "Blackbirds" over desert I got it "demo'd" while we were up burnin' JP-4 waitin' for the first pass... bit unnerving, actually. Kept wantin' to grab 'n yank, IYKWIM. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
And that would have been your second mistake.
 
I may have posted this pic before, in which case apologies. It was snapped by an old colleague of mine of the opening flyby, not just taking off or landing, at a 70's airshow by a VC10 (the "iron duck").

I also remember seeing a video of UK Buccaneers flying through sand dune gaps in a time that was probably before terrain following radar.
 

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Just somethin' ~WRONG~ with a thing like that, gear up, that low...

Jeff, hope ya smacked him with his own newspaper. Repeatedly. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
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I have seen the RAF flyboys in the Elan Valley in Wales

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It's very weird to be up on the side of hill and LOOK DOWN on them. In our area, mostly Tornado GR1s, Jaguars, Buccaneers and C-130s.
 
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