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12-10-2018, 01:43 PM
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C-17 Stunt Slammed as Stupid and Dangerous
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...dangerous.html
Bit over the top reaction to an event that has been well advertised. But being ex-RAAF maybe I am biased. Plus Airlift Group...yawn..Fighters do it better.
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12-10-2018, 02:35 PM
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Soon, they will deem all air force activity dangerous and stupid...
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12-10-2018, 02:48 PM
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I need more cotton wool in my life...
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12-10-2018, 03:10 PM
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Yeah, me too. Seeing I live next to an airport with frequent C-17 visits, I am scared chicken-less.
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12-10-2018, 03:10 PM
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Just lucky 'Tex' Johnston wasnt flying it :-)
Andrew
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12-10-2018, 03:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hans Tucker
Plus Airlift Group...yawn..Fighters do it better.
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The two EA-18G "Growlers" that followed were much faster and louder - and just as low!
It's interesting that it's taken two full weeks for all of the "outrage" to surface. (The practice fly-overs were done on Friday 28 September, with the main event on Saturday 29 September.)
This is what passes as "news" in the modern mainstream media!
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12-10-2018, 03:29 PM
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They'll ban kite flying in parks next
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12-10-2018, 03:38 PM
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No. I am a meat popsicle.
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Join Date: Aug 2017
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Just lucky 'Tex' Johnston wasnt flying it :-)
Andrew
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Lucky Arthur "Bud" Holland wasn't flying it...
This is lame news. The rags are so desperate for stuffing, they'll take any knee jerk utterance as fact.
Clive, do me a solid, and pass over some of that cotton wool eh 
Last edited by AndyG; 12-10-2018 at 03:51 PM.
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12-10-2018, 03:45 PM
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How about bubble wrap? I have a couple metres 
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12-10-2018, 03:47 PM
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IMHO Tex Johnston doing a barrel roll in a 707 takes the prize...
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12-10-2018, 03:57 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wavytone
IMHO Tex Johnston doing a barrel roll in a 707 takes the prize...
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If you mean stupid and irresponsible, why? A barrel roll is a 1g manoeuvre, and all airliners can perform 1g manoeuvres - in fact, you experience more in approaches and landings.
Poor decision maybe, but perfectly safe. Definitely not routine. (BTW, it was a Dash-80 - the 707 prototype, but that is pedantic )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaA7kPfC5Hk
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12-10-2018, 04:00 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AndrewJ
Just lucky 'Tex' Johnston wasnt flying it :-)
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Would've been more interesting if he had
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12-10-2018, 04:07 PM
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Always gonna be a NOOB...
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As a Navy Veteran of 28yrs service I am compelled by custom to declare that everything the Raafies do is STOOOPID......   : hi: 
However, clearly none of these moron's whingeing have ever flown into old Hong Kong Airport....
Check this out from about 1:05..... now that's something to be worried about & this used to happen umpteen times a friggin day, every day of the week...
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rb35p
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12-10-2018, 04:12 PM
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Would've been more interesting if he had
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I read that ( anecdotally ), when being dressed down by the head of Boeing re the stunt, he replied with something like
"I hear lots of people are placing orders"
Not sure that would wash in the RAAF ( these days ) :-)
Andrew
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12-10-2018, 04:23 PM
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No. I am a meat popsicle.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Outcast
However, clearly none of these moron's whingeing have ever flown into old Hong Kong Airport....
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Kai Tak appears only half a notch down from PNG Highland airstrips...
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12-10-2018, 04:26 PM
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Some of the simpleton whingers should have seen what the Caribous used to get up to, both in the scrub and up in PNG.
I have HUNDREDS of slides of the old man flying the DC-3 in PNG - should look into the cost of transferring them to CD/USB flashdrives.
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12-10-2018, 04:37 PM
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Gday Lewis
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I have HUNDREDS of slides of the old man flying the DC-3
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That reminds me of a documentary i saw a few years back re the design and evolution of the DC3.
The bit i found really interesting was when Donald Douglas was asked about it and how it progressed, he commented that in the early days, when designing the precursor units, he had a handshake agreement with the boss of TWA and the meetings were full of engineers and designers.
When he retired, the contracts were immense tomes and all meetings were full of lawyers and PR people.
I guess nothing has changed since, other than the "lawyers" are now
overlayed by people with a smartphone camera and a perceived idea of whats bad.
Andrew
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12-10-2018, 04:39 PM
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Always gonna be a NOOB...
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Yeah but, haven't seen a 747 land in the PNG Highlands yet though... 
I will grant that the Caribou pilots had humongous balls when it came down to where they could & would land...
They were fun to get on the booze with... unlike the self absorbed fighter flyboys....
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Originally Posted by AndyG
Kai Tak appears only half a notch down from PNG Highland airstrips...
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12-10-2018, 05:13 PM
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were they playing a war game and needed data from a staged terrorist attack to use in intelligence and defense tactics' manuals?
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