![]() ![]() I've taken to using the pause button and trying to find the right external view at fast jet speeds is. Get the kettle on, chaps! Now where's that telescoping ladder button?įSX NOTAM. OOPS! Too close to the airfield and didn't turn tight enough! Bless her though, she's telling me she's going to stop flying in a little bit, unless I firewall those throttles, and retract the speedbrakes. The angled white roofed structure to the left of Maccy D's houses KFC, Subway, Costa Coffee and Nando's.īack to Warton and slowing her down for a right downwind approach to RWY8. The photoreal building touching the canopy rail on the right of the picture is Maccy D's (yes!). Just a marina these days.Ī quick look at Deepdale Retail Park: The obvious autogen large block building is the empty Toys R Us shop. The teal coloured rectangle above the tip of the tail fin is Preston Docks. (PNE's football (soccer) ground on Deepdale Road underneath the fuselage). I guess Preston North End are all training from home. Burners lit, I'm off to Preston to break some windows! Any of you Freight Dogs down there getting jealous? 'Ave crossed over t' Pennines! Rhodeswood Reservoir on the port wingtip. More work for the spray shop sure, but I do like it!Īye, Lad. I do prefer the radome with stripes on it rather than just having the dome in one overall colour cut off at the hinge line. The Phantom is an American plane and so she needs American volts, not good old British volts, hence the green power cart is tucked to one side Note the American (US Navy issue) ground power cart. ![]() Here we are in one of RAF Coningsby's HAS (hardened aircraft shelter) getting the beast ready to go. It didn’t explode the warhead- it just punched straight through, which proved it could work.”Ī brilliant article, and Chris Bolton, the man with the story, is I feel a kindred spirit with his views on the Royal Navy F-35 In the Vietnam War they discovered – I think with a Phantom with an early Sparrow, hit the New Zealand (HK note: it was actually HMAS Hobart, so Australian) frigate Hobart which came as a big surprise to everyone. There’s a range just off Puerto Rico called the Vieques. “Missiles? I fired Sidewinder once, and Sparrows twice.And I a hit fast patrol boat target in the Caribbean using a Sparrow missile as an air to-surface weapon.
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