Lightning v Spitfire
Right! So you have done ISS and must have got an A Grade?
Flew fighters but never did an intercept!
Go on, give me a clue
Oh and must be retired otherwise you would not be posting on this thread in the middle of the working day!!
Flew fighters but never did an intercept!
Go on, give me a clue
Oh and must be retired otherwise you would not be posting on this thread in the middle of the working day!!
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If you were the driver (airframe) of an F-111 would you agree that:
a. It was pointy
b. It was a fighter
c. It was not an interceptor
If the answer was yes to all three, then maybe you have an answer for cuefaye, and where he might be coming from.
I could be wrong though.
MB
If you were the driver (airframe) of an F-111 would you agree that:
a. It was pointy
b. It was a fighter
c. It was not an interceptor
If the answer was yes to all three, then maybe you have an answer for cuefaye, and where he might be coming from.
I could be wrong though.
MB
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Nah ....... my guess is that he was RAF and did at least one exchange tour with the Navy on the Seajet. This - of course - would mean that he did intercepts (but I can't see where he denied doing them), he just claimed that newt's interceptor wasn't a fighter. I know at least 4 F16 drivers who would argue with that statement though.
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Ok, ok, I'll rejoin this outing exercise, once ----
I didn't get an A grade in ISS (but was an A1 elsewhere
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I didn't fly F-111, but know a lot that did
Didn't do a Navy exchange, but know of sea-things
Was a fighter pilot (like Wholi and fantom)
Did intercepts (sort of)
Know you all
And as for F16 v Lightning - c'morffit Roj
Am retired (that was clever, newt)
Other than that I'm incognito, and off to the pub for swifters
I didn't get an A grade in ISS (but was an A1 elsewhere
)I didn't fly F-111, but know a lot that did
Didn't do a Navy exchange, but know of sea-things
Was a fighter pilot (like Wholi and fantom)
Did intercepts (sort of)
Know you all
And as for F16 v Lightning - c'morffit Roj
Am retired (that was clever, newt)
Other than that I'm incognito, and off to the pub for swifters
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We were indeed fantom, we were indeed.
In fact, I firmly believe that being a fighter pilot is more about attitude than pretty much anything else.
In fact, I firmly believe that being a fighter pilot is more about attitude than pretty much anything else.
Then I suppose the F in front of F6 etc did not mean Fighter?
The primary role for the F2 and F2a in Germany was low level fighter cap and not medium to high level intercepts using ground based radar.
I rest my case
Now where is that whisky bottle?
The primary role for the F2 and F2a in Germany was low level fighter cap and not medium to high level intercepts using ground based radar.
I rest my case
Now where is that whisky bottle?
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Quite enjoyable. Quite.
As Michael Caine is reputed to have said "Not a lot of people know ........"
that Barrage balloons were in Fighter Command, and my dad as an LAC RAFVR was i/c Balloon, Hydrogen, One, and Vehicle, Winch, One, which makes me a son of a fighter pilot. Coventry in the Blitz, N Africa, D Day landings and all.
Doesn't it?
As Michael Caine is reputed to have said "Not a lot of people know ........"
that Barrage balloons were in Fighter Command, and my dad as an LAC RAFVR was i/c Balloon, Hydrogen, One, and Vehicle, Winch, One, which makes me a son of a fighter pilot. Coventry in the Blitz, N Africa, D Day landings and all.
Doesn't it?
Thought I would add this quote from R P Beamont from Airframe dated 25/10/1963 about the Lightning:
Probably not relevant, but there are lots of interesting things about Lightnings in the book I have just read.
overall,he concluded, the Lightning, although a densely equipped radar fighter, was fully aerobatic and a fighter pilot's aircraft
