Interesting stories, must have been fun wrangling a camera with those g-forces :)
I'd be interested to see/hear an A400M some day. My wife's father used to be in the Air Force and she's flown in the C-130 as a passenger. She said you wouldn't want to forget your ear plugs. She also remarked that if you took the wings off a C-130 it'd probably fit inside the C-17... but the Emirates 777 that pulled up at the international terminal seemed to dwarf even that! I found out there's a B-52 on display up in Darwin, where we're going in a couple of weeks. It's on the itinerary :) Cheers, Dave On Oct 6, 2014, at 1:01 am, Steve Cottrell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/10/14, David Mann, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/gallery/58/#geso > > Good shots - well done! > > RAF has 5 C-17s all based next door here at RAF Brize Norton. Never > flown in one but been aboard many times over the years filming. Several > times in the cockpit which is always interesting. There are several > squadrons based here, the C-17s, C-130s and 130Js, Tri-Stars (being > phased out now in favour of), Voyagers (Airbus A330 redesignation for > refuelling tankers) and a very soon to start arriving bunch of A400Ms > which will be v interesting to see in the skies overhead. I filmed on > displaying 4 years ago at Farnborough and it was very impressive - and > then found out that it had a *full payload* aboard during the demo.......... > > Mercifully the VC-10 tankers have now gone - they were ridiculously > noisy, just silly noisy on take-off and you couldn't hear a person stood > next to you talking in our house. I have flown in one of those many > years ago, filming in the cockpit (on my own, no other journalists or > cameras on board) during fly-past celebrations for something or other > which was late cancelled due to bad weather on the ground. There were > many planes in the sky that day and we were in a three-ship formation > with a Tri-Star and another VC-10. I had the camera on my shoulder not > particular filming anything when I heard the pilot say very calmly 'On > the nose!' and he immediately yanked the column back as several Tornados > that were heading straight for us came fleetingly into view. Fortunately > the other 2 in our formation did the same thing and we rocketed upwards > pulling about 2 to 3 g, me and the camera ending up on the floor. I > climbed back into the jump seat and it was a very quiet trip back to the > airbase. After some thought, I broke the ice and said that I wouldn't be > mentioning anything to anyone and that seemed to relieve the atmosphere > as I'm sure they all thought the headlines the next day would be about > near misses etc. I'm sure it also meant that future invites to film > weren't going to be compromised, and indeed they weren't.... > > > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ Broadcast, Corporate, > || (O) | Web Video Production > ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> > _____________________________ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
