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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
I remember the time they had a Harrier there, it was just amazing.
i used to volunteer for The Fighter Collection at Duxford and he used to fly Stephen Gray’s Bearcat. A fabulous display pilot, and very sadly missed. It’s an honour to speak to his cousin.
Reminds me of a graduation flypast at Cranwell one year. I was a couple of months away from graduating doing a leadership exercise behind (which seemed to consist of running as a flight with a telegraph pole) when from the otherside of the main college we heard the roar of jets and a pair of F4's popped up from behind the college. Apparently the graduation parade was decimated, hats blown off, a couple of people knocked over etc.. Subsequent flypasts were a lot more subdued.
EDIT looks like I was wrong about people being knocked down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3yV7pL1p24
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Pilot: How tall are you?
Presenter: Why do you ask?
As a young lad I can recall standing glued to the runway fencing to watch the BAC Lightning. What I didn’t know was it would come in perpendicular to the runway from behind me, and stand on its tail with both afterburners on, climbing vertically. The noise turned my insides to mush. I was utterly terrified by it, and I could feel the heat on my face from the engines.
I’d give my mother’s right arm to experience that again.
I've also fond memories of the Lightnings. RAF Binbrook, where they where stationed, is only about ten miles from me, so seeing them fly overhead was a daily occurrence, along with the aforementioned Hunters, V bombers, Phantoms and the odd Mirage fighters, to name a few, when exercises were going on.
I remember, when I was around ten years old, playing in my back garden, when I heard an almighty whine, followed seconds later by an F104 Starfighter screaming directly overhead at about one hundred feet. It was probably my favourite plane at the time, and the first time I'd seen one in the flesh. A great experience, and one I'll never forget.