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Thread ID: 125632 2012-07-10 00:03:00 Simply beautiful - big bird in flight Zippity (58) PC World Chat
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1287358 2012-07-10 00:03:00 www.youtube.com Zippity (58)
1287359 2012-07-10 00:36:00 Indeed. I presume those window-shaped things poking up near the front of the wing are air brakes? Strange place to put them

To think one of those planes accidentally touched the runway at Wellington during a flypast in the (1960s?) and spent forever at Ohakea on recovery
BBCmicro (15761)
1287360 2012-07-10 00:46:00 Huh? (images.wikia.com) ;) SurferJoe46 (51)
1287361 2012-07-10 00:57:00 Glad I got your attention, Joe ;) Zippity (58)
1287362 2012-07-10 01:02:00 Saw it live on Sky TV flying over the F1 Grand Prix at Silverstone over the weekend.
:)
Trev (427)
1287363 2012-07-10 01:26:00 ..got your attention, Joe

With Joe's aeronautical background I imagine he saw the thread title and thought 'Big Bird can fly? No way! Drag coefficient all wrong, Bernoulli's equation not satisfied, ...'
BBCmicro (15761)
1287364 2012-07-10 01:32:00 Filmed from the cliff tops so you don't have to crane your neck much. My brothers home town here (www.youtube.com) gary67 (56)
1287365 2012-07-10 01:46:00 ...brothers home town..
The Spitfire! It brings back memories. I used to fly them back in my younger days. They were so powerful you could apply one of the wheel brakes, spin around, and take off across the runway!

(Never managed to land one, though. But hey, the BBC Micro only had 0.000032 GB of memory)
BBCmicro (15761)
1287366 2012-07-10 01:53:00 Bet it cost the poms a fortune in AVTUR those 4 Olympus engines would be fair gobbling it. prefect (6291)
1287367 2012-07-10 02:00:00 I remember watching a Vulcan bomber flying over Invercargill during the 1950s. Bobh (5192)
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