Discuss Whats this, any plane spotters in? in Aviation on The Army Rumour Service; Originally Posted by SUU23
And one from an E-Mail I've just received
A slightly dinged MiG 29A, a Sukhoi Zero/Zero ejection seat, and I can't remeber the pilots name.
I recall that as soon as ...
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A slightly dinged MiG 29A, a Sukhoi Zero/Zero ejection seat, and I can't remeber the pilots name.
Originally Posted by SUU23 
And one from an E-Mail I've just received
I recall that as soon as he landed he reched inside his flight suit pocket and pulled out a smoke, and then strolled off, like it was something he did everyday. He must have had fucking huge cajones!
- 22-05-2012, 09:42 #35152Senior Member
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.....except it's a CF-18 and one of Martin Baker's finest
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I do remember that crash, a real test pilot he was. But unfortunately not this one. Not a MIG. Originally Posted by Mothman
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Indeed it is........Was. Originally Posted by cometcatcher .....except it's a CF-18 and one of Martin Baker's finest
Some excellent sequence photos. Thank god for Kodak inventing the digital camera.
Canopy Rockets
Seat and drogue
Seat Separation
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- 22-05-2012, 10:08 #35155And a video - CF-18 Crash - YouTube Originally Posted by SUU23
- 22-05-2012, 17:09 #35156
This might interest some - memoirs of a Russian Airacobra pilot:-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Star-Air...tf_362181031_9
Free download for Kindle at the moment, will be listed at £13.38 very soon.
Have to admit to having a liking for the old Airacobra - dad worked on them for a while during the war. They arrived from Uncle Sam and at an airfield near Blackpool dad led a team that jacked them up, raised the undercarriage, took the prop off, removed the wings and built a packing case around the thing with the wings beside the fuselage. Then the packing case went on a ship bound for Murmansk.... He spent a winter doing that in a hangar open at both ends with aircraft coming in one end and boxes going out the other.Adrian
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Have we had one of these before?
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COW gun fighter
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Strewth you were quick there!
- 22-05-2012, 20:14 #35160
Re: the CF18. It simply had to be the one with the decent paint job, didn't it?
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