I got buzzed by a jet fighter

[lb99]

Yup its a swing wing....Also knowen as the Ardvark. There were a couple of Vampires floating about to...all getting ready for Warbirds.
Im Ex-Airforce......used to be based at Whenuapai.......always had the ozzys coming over for a visit, specially when 2 Squadren was based at Nowra in Oz.
The Sqwarks are all sitting on the tarmac or in one of the hangers on Woodbourne, see them every day at work....crying shame...all because of that monkey fucker of a she male hitler clarke. Its because of her and her fucked up views I left the Air force and went to Oz....as a lot of us did....the MUTT.

never saw the vampires, that would have been cool.

I was involved in building a new hanger at omaka, right by the avgas pump for about 6 weeks, so I saw some pretty cool old pison engines.

I saw those chinese radial things (nanchang?) leave a couple of hours before,,,,

[Crisis management]

It's an awesome sight, in'it?

I used to love the displays put on in when I was in Israel (several centuries ago), nightime barrel rolls along the border over the dead sea with afterburners on and the low level passes by Phantoms and Skyhawks in northen Israel, neat stuff and really got the adddrenalin going.

Mind you those bloody rockets that got fired back got the adrenalin going too, wasn't quite as pleasureable!

[lb99]

Yes they are swing wing. They are also huge, so he was probably 100m higher than you thought he was.

ever hit yourself with a hammer, you would be impressed with how far I can chuck that thing

[Mental Trousers]

The Sqwarks are all sitting on the tarmac or in one of the hangers on Woodbourne, see them every day at work....crying shame...all because of that monkey fucker of a she male hitler clarke. Its because of her and her fucked up views I left the Air force and went to Oz....as a lot of us did....the MUTT.

Go outside and take a photo of them. On the back address it to Parliament and put the message

Dear Uncle Helen
FUCK YOU

[doc]

The f111 crew sit side by side in a pod that ejects if they pull the handle unlike conventional jets.

funny that.

Didn't the Aussie's give us a couple of them. One at Ohakea, and one in Hauraki gulf or up norf somewhere ?

[Nade]

Go outside and take a photo of them. On the back address it to Parliament and put the message

Dear Uncle Helen
FUCK YOU

LOL i understand now why then never gave us live ammo during quarter gaurds for her and parliment.....always blanks.

[tri boy]

I reckon I could have thrown my hammer and knocked the fucker down, it was that close to me.....

Our Artillery crews desperately need your input.
Herr Clarke hasn't spent too much on them either.

[Mikkel]

It'll be the F111.

The F14s are in the process of being scrapped and are Carrier Based US Navy aircraft. Ain't no CVs anywhere NZ.

Would be awesome to have a F-111 flyby!

It's a shame about the F-14s - they are very cool looking fighterplanes, I'm tempted to say Iconic. But I guess they are pretty dated now a days.

Yup its a swing wing....Also knowen as the Ardvark. There were a couple of Vampires floating about to...all getting ready for Warbirds.

An Aardvark? Are you sure... That's the F-111(F/G/H - or something like that) and are designed for electronic warfare (ECM) and target spotting (laser).

I thought they were pretty rare, even in the US. The most common ones are the F-111B I believe and they are fighterbombers...

[Dak]

This be the beast.

[Usarka]

It's a shame about the F-14s - they are very cool looking fighterplanes, I'm tempted to say Iconic. But I guess they are pretty dated now a days.

The f111 are pretty date too, late 60's or early 70's if my brain hasnt had too many becks and knocks.....

[edit] prettty dated, i'd need a few becks to get it on with an aeroplane

[Dak]

The f111 are pretty date too, late 60's or early 70's if my brain hasnt had too many becks and knocks.....

Yup, 1967, still capable of mach 2.5 though.

[Nade]

Aardvark is the NATO designated 'nic' to describe that airframe....just a generic thing....dosent mean much. The Ozzys are the only country in the world to use this aircraft anymore in numbers, a few years back they bought up all the spare parts and as much of the tooling they could as the yanks no longer saw a use for them. This I was told by an ozzy groundy on squadren so I took it as gospel seeing as he worked on them all day everyday.

[lb99]

Would be awesome to have a F-111 flyby!

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it was fuckin loud,(like earmuffs loud) I am glad I heard it coming, the vineyard workers over the other side of the mountains, in the awatere vally would have shit themselves well and truly, no warning.

fukin aussie cowboys

[Usarka]

pffffft whats it like in the twisties though.....

[limbimtimwim]

Once upon a time when I was very young I remember going along the desert road in my parents Mk1 Honda Prelude. In the tundra there was a Scorpion tank, and it passed us. I remember it getting air over a hillock. Incredible.

Then another time whilst driving near Ohakea, getting buzzed by about 3 or 4 airmacchi's in formation close to the ground, they just skimmed the top of some poplar trees and flew over the car. What a sight.

Then again, just before their retirement, sitting on a yacht in the marlbourgh sounds on a calm day then.. BOOM!! A skyhawk pops over the ridge, drops and imaginary bomb on my head and then goes over another ridge. A minute later it swoops over again banked over 90' and doing a tight turn right above my head that made my eyes water (It looked impossible).

All gone now.

Odd this thread comes up, I'm pretty sure I saw a C-17 (Or maybe a C-5, but it was quite stubby) flying over wellington today.,