We miss our Pigs....

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We miss our Pigs....

#1 Post by EA01 » Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:14 pm

Not sure if this should be in 'FIXED WING" It is a 'polymorph'?....anyway, blazing through my home town.,.not me regrettably,...but lovely footage nonetheless...:)


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#2 Post by EA01 » Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:23 pm

2:18 may be a bit iffy....

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#3 Post by ian16th » Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:43 pm

I was expecting something about Vickers Valetta's!
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#4 Post by Boac » Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:13 pm

Fliegs wrote:2:18 may be a bit iffy....
- yes, a bit high =))

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#5 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:53 pm

Fliegs:
Can you post the address?
All I get is "www.youtube.com unexpectedly closed the connection"

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Never mind. It finally came through. ^#(^
Just took a while. :-?

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#6 Post by TheGreenGoblin » Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:04 pm

EA01 wrote:
Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:23 pm
2:18 may be a bit iffy....
Mike Beachy Head (RIP) used to do that with the Lightning over Cape Town. One afternoon my better half and were on top of Lions Head and he blatzed in over the City Bowl and couldn't have been higher than 400 feet. We were looking down on the aircraft from the mountain above.... totally illegal of course but nobody batted an eyelid.

PS - You know the word Aardvark is South African... =))
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#7 Post by PHXPhlyer » Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:04 pm

Never seen this before

A Royal Australian Air Force F-111C performing a dump-and-burn, a procedure where the fuel is intentionally ignited using the aircraft's afterburner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RAAF ... ilbert.jpg

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#8 Post by EA01 » Sun Jan 31, 2021 6:16 am

PHX ... Really? I grew up with that at Airshows...think someone discovered by accident, but had been a RAAF 'Party Trick' for years....it was really a 'Thing' to be at an airshow and witness it, then fell the actual heat on your face...magnificent!!...

Anyway...this is a fascinating website set up by Ex Pig Drivers...

http://www.pigzbum.com/

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#9 Post by EA01 » Sun Jan 31, 2021 6:22 am

And this is the dreadfully sad end to our 'Pigs'...apparently when we purchased them Waaay back, it ws agreed with the American Government that we would destroy them at the end of their 'lives', "Pigzbum' shows copies of the decommission statements, there are a few left in Museums / Gate Guards etc.

But I never knew why if they became too expensive for the Australian Government to keep them flying, hoe the hell could they ever fall into 'enemy' hands!?!?!

https://www.google.com/search?q=f+111+a ... HJk-j8JjZM

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#10 Post by EA01 » Sun Jan 31, 2021 6:30 am

.....very sad....I kinda know where they are...but I could not pin point it, in any case they are 120ft deep now...interesting he mentions 'parts could not be souvenired' ... I reclon a LOT of people who have already paid for the aircraft through their taxes would still be willing to pay a few $ more for a 2 inch square of fuselage as a momento...he seems to be boastful of destroying these F-111s....


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#12 Post by EA01 » Tue Feb 02, 2021 12:51 am



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