Altitude...

[petermcleland]

...I can do without this sort:-

https://youtu.be/f1BgzIZRfT8

[Airspeed]

Damn! It's a bayonet fitting, they've given me a screw in globe!

[dodger]

Thanks for posting Peter,

Gives you the shivers just watching the chap,

Roger

[airboatr]

Ah come on, Mac .. Go another 500..
It'd only a 1000 feet above our average altitude in FLIGHT!

https://youtu.be/qWOd6mH_kUs

Seriously though, in my younger years I would have loved the opportunity.
I never had a problem with heights. I was always the one to put my hand up for high time...

[Paul K]

Gawd, that video almost makes me ill to watch. I've never had a problem with heights in an aircraft, or even jumping out of them, but when it's high up a structure that's fixed to the ground - well that's very different. When I was eighteen, I was up and down the masts of a sailing ship without any bother, but a few years later, when climbing the lighting masts of a supertanker, I was white as a sheet and hanging on for grim death.

Despite the shivers - great video, Peter !

[Nigel H-J]

Flaming 'eck!!

I have to admit I am terrified of heights, when flying I was OK as sat in a cockpit and had full control over the glider but when I was at Whitby one summer Paul, our youngest wanted to go up to the top of the lighthouse so without wanting to disappoint him I said OK. The stone steps up went in a spiral (as they would anyway) but even though there was a solid pillar in the centre of the stairs I found myself close to the outer wall and once at the top I grabbed the railings tightly and could not even bring myself to look directly down.

Boy,was I glad to get my feet back down on terra firma!!

Regards
Nigel.

[petermcleland]

Thanks Gents...Glad you "Enjoyed" it

[robbie]

No, No, no..not for me, I remember having to walk across the horizontal stab on the Argosy just to remove some inspection panels, my knees were knocking together every time lol.

First thing that came to mind with that guy was: "Ohh maybe that vindaloo last night was a huge mistake".