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Odds And Ends And Anything You Fancy
- Thread starter Eulalia
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just like most of usJames May is a Professional Idiot
LOL
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. The original was one of the most incredible rescues by bystanders on You Tube. 
Lord W
Believe me, I have the original, (#5).
It just does not make the upload in CF.
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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
I elephants can fly...
The F-104 Starfighter was designed in the early fifties for missions at high speed and high altitude. It was the very first jet fighter with an operational speed over Mach 2. The characteristics that allowed this performance, particularly the small wings, made the F-104 very vulnerable and unforgiving at low speed.
Paradoxically, the small wings made the plane suitable for a near-ground stunt manoeuver called ‘touch-roll-touch’. The plane lands and touches the runway, to be pulled up immediately. It then performs a roll and descends again on the same runway.
Engineers thought it was impossible, given the bad controllability of the F-104 at low speed, but the Belgian Air Force pilot Bill Ongena showed it could be done. It took both skill and guts, but Ongena perfected the technique so far that he could make up to three rolls in one pass.
It was indeed an dangerous manoeuver, and several pilots got killed while trying to perform it. It was soon prohibited in many countries. Ongena’s successor, Cpt. Jacobs was killed in 1970 in a crash when his engine malfunctioned during a roll. After the accident, touch-roll-touch was forbidden in the Belgian Air Force too.
As a twist of fate, Bill Ongena died in 1990… in a car accident.
This is a short reel (without sound, unfortunately), of what has been deemed by some as the most insane stunt manoeuver ever performed with an airplane. (Some may rank it into the category ‘people who have nothing else to do’.)
The F-104 Starfighter was designed in the early fifties for missions at high speed and high altitude. It was the very first jet fighter with an operational speed over Mach 2. The characteristics that allowed this performance, particularly the small wings, made the F-104 very vulnerable and unforgiving at low speed.
Paradoxically, the small wings made the plane suitable for a near-ground stunt manoeuver called ‘touch-roll-touch’. The plane lands and touches the runway, to be pulled up immediately. It then performs a roll and descends again on the same runway.
Engineers thought it was impossible, given the bad controllability of the F-104 at low speed, but the Belgian Air Force pilot Bill Ongena showed it could be done. It took both skill and guts, but Ongena perfected the technique so far that he could make up to three rolls in one pass.
It was indeed an dangerous manoeuver, and several pilots got killed while trying to perform it. It was soon prohibited in many countries. Ongena’s successor, Cpt. Jacobs was killed in 1970 in a crash when his engine malfunctioned during a roll. After the accident, touch-roll-touch was forbidden in the Belgian Air Force too.
As a twist of fate, Bill Ongena died in 1990… in a car accident.
This is a short reel (without sound, unfortunately), of what has been deemed by some as the most insane stunt manoeuver ever performed with an airplane. (Some may rank it into the category ‘people who have nothing else to do’.)
malins
Stumbling Seeker
Also known as the 'Flying Coffin', 'Widowmaker', etc etc etc., and centerpiece of one of the biggest national security scandals in Germany that plagued the country for 30 years.
mongo
Governor
[QUOTE="malins, post: 231967, member: 43runwayslso known as the 'Flying Coffin', 'Widowmaker', etc etc etc., and centerpiece of one of the biggest national security scandals in Germany that plagued the country for 30 years.[/QUOTE]
Back in the day Soviet pilots on tarmac runways would firewall the throttle. When the tailwheel came up the pilot would " take off" by retracting the undercart!!
Back in the day Soviet pilots on tarmac runways would firewall the throttle. When the tailwheel came up the pilot would " take off" by retracting the undercart!!
Repertor
Artifex Imaginum
"Let's try that too" said the fish, but without getting dirty.People Who Have Nothing Better To Do - 055 (GIF)
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http://www.zie.nl/video/bizar/Vis-heeft-mega-goede-camouflage/1u6zkzifig7z
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montycrusto
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just got to shake it ; lady fish love that...fine for avoiding predators and catching unwary prey,
but not much use for attracting a mate!
