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The Greatest RAF Aircraft........Ever

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sculthorpe

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fav. raf plane

fav. raf plane

During the mid fifties while at Sculthorpe, I used to see vulcans,canberas,hawker hunters, and the dehaviland venoms flying around and over the base. Never had a chance to see them on the ground,with the exception of one canbera that landed there. If I may offer an opinion, I would have to say vulcan,hawker,and venom. I particularly loved the way the hawker looked on a low pass. Those were the good old days!- The R.A.F. have had some great and some awsome aircraft over the years.
 
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Last night Hamshire Helicopter central had a fly past of another venerable warhorse, a P51 Mustang. Decorated in WWII colours, anyone else see that ?

Looked and sounded lovely, almost as nice as the Spitfire or Hurricane...... almost :pDT_Xtremez_15:


It looked like she over flew the base and turned out to the south....



Oh Sculthorpe, by Hawker I assume you mean the Hawker Hunter ? It's the Aircraft at the end of '28 days later'
 
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MAINJAFAD

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Scaley brat said:
Looked and sounded lovely, almost as nice as the Spitfire or Hurricane...... almost :pDT_Xtremez_15:
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It should sound the same, as the Mustang IV (RAF designation for the P-51D) had the same engine as the mid mark Spitfires (in fact it was the Merlin than made the Mustang the aircraft it was, instead of an almost ran that was the orignal Allison powered version)
 
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Scaley brat said:
Last night Hamshire Helicopter central had a fly past of another venerable warhorse, a P51 Mustang. Decorated in WWII colours, anyone else see that ?

Looked and sounded lovely, almost as nice as the Spitfire or Hurricane...... almost :pDT_Xtremez_15:


It looked like she over flew the base and turned out to the south....



Oh Sculthorpe, by Hawker I assume you mean the Hawker Hunter ? It's the Aircraft at the end of '28 days later'
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Yes S B that is what I meant . I failed to mention that I have seen the venom on the ground here at an airshow.Would like to get up close and personal with a hawker hunter. Beautiful plane.
 
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I agree that the Tonka has it's plus points....when it is in the air!

I worked on all variants of Tonka and got several back seaters which were all great.

However, I maintain my preference for the Hawk. On the Reds they get 10 - 12 of the little red rockets started time after time with little failure....Try doing that with 10 Tornado's...christ you would need 30+ of them on the line to get 10 airbourne!!
 
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Blue Van Man said:
I agree that the Tonka has it's plus points....when it is in the air!

I worked on all variants of Tonka and got several back seaters which were all great.

However, I maintain my preference for the Hawk. On the Reds they get 10 - 12 of the little red rockets started time after time with little failure....Try doing that with 10 Tornado's...christ you would need 30+ of them on the line to get 10 airbourne!!
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However which one would YOU go to WAR in?????? Tonka with a full navigation and defensive aid's fit, plus PGMs and missiles or a Hawk T1 where the only fully internal nav system is a Map and Stopwatch, and the only weapon normally carried is a 30 mm cannon (the position of which the Reds use as smoke dye tankage).

Got to admit that in a lot of ways the Hawk is a modern day Hunter, however I known somebody who has flown both with the Royal Navy's FRADU and he prefered flying the Hunter.
 
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The Greatest RAF Aircraft........Ever

_Skevans 2 points_:

1. Don't believe everything you read in the Internet.
2. Been there seen it done it. :pDT_Xtremez_30:
 
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The Tornado F3....no one has ever had the balls to ever go one to one in a fight with it........unchallenged defender to the last.....
 
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I had a few ad ons for mazilla and if fooked it up, nowt to do with me being half drunk honest:raf:

I cant embed it just the link
 
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Oh Crikey a post that has brought out the best in all , at last we talk about things that we all have in common

Best British Aircraft , wow personally there is so many , Buccaneer, Lanc , Spitfire, Comet , Mosquito , TSR2, Harrier , V - Force, VC-10 , Chipmunk, Lightning, Canberra,Shackelton, Wellington, Hurricane ,Argosy, Meteor, Vampire, Javelin crikey i cant think if any more as im pished !!!!

To me all them aircraft , most of which in the 60s era , as the UK we were world leaders in aircraft design at that time , every single aircraft to me is the best as they are British :)

but if you want a vote then id have to say the most impressive , amazing and with a record that beats any for long range bombing id have to say the Avro Vulcan

An aircraft that well , i cant say anything that anyone does not know :pDT_Xtremez_28:
 
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Being a shiney I can't admit to having a wealth of knowledge of what makes the best a/c in the RAF. But for sheer strength of history I would admit that both the Vulcan and the Lancaster located at Hendon get my vote.
 
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