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@jegga My old neighbours were on that BA flight. There was a story published in Readers Digest in which they were quoted.
There’s a short book about it . It mentions one old duck was reading a book , heard the announcement and went back to reading the book because she didn’t want to die without finding out what happened in the end .
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An ex Tornado guy has brought all the bits from various sources, and set up the sim. It's a no visual sim, just the cockpits (was always night IMC
) used mostly for emergency training but some other stuff, too. He's added a VR headset to it, so you can have a play.Tornado F3 Mission Simulator | Tattershall Thorpe
Tornado F3 Mission Simulator, Tattershall Thorpe, Norfolk, United Kingdom. 2,352 likes · 3 talking about this. Using virtual reality technology visitors can "fly" the Tornado F3 Mission Simulator in...
Nice bloke, written a good book too, for spotters rather than general public
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@Machpants said in Planes:
Sorta planes, one of my buddies now training in Dubai saw this
DDay era roundel and invasion stripes!
Needs sharks teeth like a p 40
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@Machpants said in Planes:
More appropriate to the roundel
I had a client who was trained to fly those in preparation for huge losses on d-day . That never happened though and he never got to actually fly in combat , still he got to fang around the sky in one of those beasts for a few months before he went home to his old job selling cars.
They were Richie McCaws grandads ride for the latter part of the war flying out of Tangmere. If anyone has a link to the clip of him blowing up the German train with rockets I’d be stoked if you posted it .
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@Donsteppa said in Planes:
@jegga I'm surprised there are any left for a museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Vickers_Viscount
The poms built the Comet too which had the unfortunate issue of breaking up in mid air
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If you've read the book Devotion you'll know this guys story, I think theres a movie in the works about it. Here's his background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Hudner_Jr.
Tornado F3: A Navigator's Eye on Britain's Last Interceptor: Gledhill, David: 9781781553077: Amazon.com: Books
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de Havilland Comet - Wikipedia
