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Why am I so insterested in aeroplanes - i.e watching progammes to do with airplanes , airports , travel , etc
My daughter is a flight attendant , and I often wish that my job was up there as well .
If I could start my time over again , i would definitely try to be a commercial pilot .
My daughter is a flight attendant , and I often wish that my job was up there as well .
If I could start my time over again , i would definitely try to be a commercial pilot .
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Planes amaze me :)
I was an RAF cadet and managed to get some flying and gliding training though I have to say, although I love watching them and love flying I have no big hankering to actually fly planes.
I got to spend an RAF camp on a tornado base and was in my element the whole time watching the incredible things!
I took my mum on a Concorde tour last year as she has always loved it and it was great and we sat in the airport viewing park for ages watching the planes coming in and out.
I was an RAF cadet and managed to get some flying and gliding training though I have to say, although I love watching them and love flying I have no big hankering to actually fly planes.
I got to spend an RAF camp on a tornado base and was in my element the whole time watching the incredible things!
I took my mum on a Concorde tour last year as she has always loved it and it was great and we sat in the airport viewing park for ages watching the planes coming in and out.
Having been a commercial pilot for most of my adult life, I still (after nearly 32,000 flight hours) feel my pulse racing when the First Officer, at 120 knots indicated airspeed, calls, "V1, Rotate, V2....Positive Climb" and I reply "Gear Up"... and then flying the exact profile until reaching Flight Level 350 (35,000 feet above sea level). The only thing that can add to that oft repeated experience is doing it with the ground visibility at less that 500 feet, and being enveloped by the weather ( a long time friend says it's like being on the inside of a Ping-Pong ball) and then several minutes later breaking out in the clear. The left seat of Mr. Boeing's grand old 727 is a king's throne when seeing the sun come up over the Big Horn Mountains of western U.S.
I'm not terribly interested in planes but I do like bugs.
Well actually that's not true... I'm scared stiff of almost everything with more than four legs no matter the size but I also find them incredible little things too. There's a wasp in a rain forest about an inch long who is the basis for the whole ecosystem of tree... Well not just the one wasp or tree but you get the idea.
Anyway.... horrid little critters but fascinating.
Well actually that's not true... I'm scared stiff of almost everything with more than four legs no matter the size but I also find them incredible little things too. There's a wasp in a rain forest about an inch long who is the basis for the whole ecosystem of tree... Well not just the one wasp or tree but you get the idea.
Anyway.... horrid little critters but fascinating.
Although not into planes, I have an obsession with hisorical novels and the Tudor period. I read books constantly about this era. I am currently watching The Tudors but it is seriously messing with my mind as it is so mixed up and incorrect in part and yet so correct in other areas! (Just thought I'd get that off my chest!) I wonder why I am so fixated on this and the answer is I don't know!!
I have likened it to someone may like cucumber (yuk!) and someone else may hate it!
I have likened it to someone may like cucumber (yuk!) and someone else may hate it!
I do agree BertiWooster that being around planes taking off or landing is very exciting, in fact I leap around waving like a six year old. Why do we do it - I don't knowm but it sure is a lot of fun! Perhaps Clanad would invite us over to the States to watch him play with his planes. Now that would be amazing!
On a more serious note I was privileged on many an occasion to watch the Pre-Production Concorde come in and out of Fairford, watching the Test Pilots put her through her paces. That I shall never forget.
On a more serious note I was privileged on many an occasion to watch the Pre-Production Concorde come in and out of Fairford, watching the Test Pilots put her through her paces. That I shall never forget.
Hi Clanad, It sounds amazing. I was lucky enough to attend a Public Relations trip to an Air Force base a few years ago. The highlight was going on a 4 hour refueling flight. First we were the plane giving the fuel and got to sit in the rear bottom of the plane and see things from that perspective and then we rode in the cockpit and were the plane taking on the fuel. It was incredible and the 2 planes were so close that I could see the other members of group clear enough to pick them out.
Not something I would choose as a career, but incredible.
Not something I would choose as a career, but incredible.
I have to say my RAF camp experience is the one that sticks out.
We'd see tornados and other aircraft all the time but we had trips to the engineers department and got to see the mouse guns and I got to sit in and be strapped into a proper ejector seat (first to volunteer haha) and did some flying and aerobatics in Bulldogs over the beautiful Fife coastline.
We went to the ATC tower to have a presentation and they wer ehaving a training exercise on taking off and landing so was standing watching these amazing aircraft come in and out right in front of me. We also got to follow some down the runway during takeoff in our minibus when going around the base.
The complete highlight though was on a night exercise. We were doing some navigation work in the dark in a wood on the base and at one point came to a clearing at the back of the runway looking straight down it.
Two tornados were there about to take off, the noise was incredible and all the burn was all lit up in the dark. We stood and watched them until they finally took off, just amazing!
The Concorde tour was great if you ever get a chance to go. A presentation which makes you a bit teary at the end then a tour of the inside where you get to sit in the plush seats (it's actually very narrow inside) - I engineered it so mym mum got to sit in the Queens seat and she was made up!
The a tour of the underneath. We had a former Concorde pilot on the tour who despite him contradicting the tour guide throughout, provided a facinating insight.
One of my questions was were they able to fly still. He said they were but it's too expensive to keep them going, especially after the dip in trade since 9/11 and that BA refuses to sell them to anyone else who could take them up. Such a shame.
We'd see tornados and other aircraft all the time but we had trips to the engineers department and got to see the mouse guns and I got to sit in and be strapped into a proper ejector seat (first to volunteer haha) and did some flying and aerobatics in Bulldogs over the beautiful Fife coastline.
We went to the ATC tower to have a presentation and they wer ehaving a training exercise on taking off and landing so was standing watching these amazing aircraft come in and out right in front of me. We also got to follow some down the runway during takeoff in our minibus when going around the base.
The complete highlight though was on a night exercise. We were doing some navigation work in the dark in a wood on the base and at one point came to a clearing at the back of the runway looking straight down it.
Two tornados were there about to take off, the noise was incredible and all the burn was all lit up in the dark. We stood and watched them until they finally took off, just amazing!
The Concorde tour was great if you ever get a chance to go. A presentation which makes you a bit teary at the end then a tour of the inside where you get to sit in the plush seats (it's actually very narrow inside) - I engineered it so mym mum got to sit in the Queens seat and she was made up!
The a tour of the underneath. We had a former Concorde pilot on the tour who despite him contradicting the tour guide throughout, provided a facinating insight.
One of my questions was were they able to fly still. He said they were but it's too expensive to keep them going, especially after the dip in trade since 9/11 and that BA refuses to sell them to anyone else who could take them up. Such a shame.
Thank god to see others that identify with me - i thought i was a bit weird , and was contemplating a visit to my analyst ;-)
There are few things to beat the roar , overlaid with the scream , of a jet engine , and the sight of an airliner climbing towards the clouds
Sheer poetry - better than sex ( I think )
There are few things to beat the roar , overlaid with the scream , of a jet engine , and the sight of an airliner climbing towards the clouds
Sheer poetry - better than sex ( I think )
My introduction to the world of aviation is attributed to my older brother who, in his teens, would go to Croydon Airport on Open Days. He, later, volunteered for aircrew in the RAF and I followed him 2 or 3 years later. I spent 2 years training eventually flying in the Lancaster. I had no qualms about flying to go on holiday after WW2 but I did worry my wife a little when she found out that her octogenarian husband had arranged to go on a local flight over the south coast , paying a nominal sum to assist a pilot to increase his flying hours so he could apply to become a commercial pilot. I think the RAF and flying must be in my blood!
I'd like to say to Hugh Spencer that my first job flying entailed being an airline co-pilot in DC-3's (Dakotas) for Captains who were all WW II veterans. They had more time being shot at in aircraft than I did total. Not a man among them bragged about his service, but most would recount events if asked, especially on longer trips (they were all longer at only 160 MPH). I want to personally thank you and your generation for such devoted service and truly helping save the free world... my hat's off to you and your brothers and sisters... I'd wish you blue skies, following winds and always coordinated turns with the ball centered!
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