Hunters...

[DaveB]

The pilot (and owner).. Jonathon Whaley was a pilot in the RN paul.. I'm guessing on 899Sqn

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DaveB

[paulsl]

Thanks Dave, that led me to Google (should have tried that first up) and I found a very interesting man on the Heritage Aviation site and here (gotta love the bottom line ).

This last gave up two good sites, a Sea Vixen and a Phantom that were new to me.

Thanks again, Paul

Edit: just went digging and found this little gem. Apologies if it's been posted before.

Oh and sorry if I'm straying Mind you there does seem to be a lot of Victorious action around here at the moment!

[J0hn]

Just posted 10 minutes ago

http://youtu.be/UGCfg7Wbuvs

T7 at Shuttleworth

[DaveG]

Thanks for posting that.
Downloaded and saved for future viewing.

[Dev One]

I noticed there was no 'Blue Note' is that normal for a T7 though?
Also flaps 1/3rd - had he forgotten, or was that to keep to a tight circuit?
Nice to see that some people can afford to keep them airworthy. Fuel tanks & grade 1 engines were a problem back in the '80's........
Your expertise please Peter.
Keith

[petermcleland]

The couple of notches of flap is normal for doing tight stuff...The only way I could get round the inside of Ol Longonot's crater was with some flap. In the formation aerobatics team we always used a couple of notches for the whole display...It gave more "Bite" and a tighter performance at altitude...If you look at the Kilimanjaro picture below, you will see the flaps. It also maybe that the bit of flap helped with the "Blue Note"

For solo aerobatic displays I did not use flap because parts of my display required negative lift and other parts were at very high speed where a bit of flap would have given a strong nose down trim.



You can click on the picture to see it full size ...Maybe that is just on my iPad!

[DaveB]

Hi Peter..

No.. that's the forum software. Click on it once and it opens the picture in it's own window (detached from the post if you will).. then, click on the arrows in the bottom RH corner and it opens full size

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DaveB

[petermcleland]

OK Dave that's cool!...Has it always done that or is it something new? It works just as you described on my iPad

[DaveB]

Hi Peter

No, it's not always been that way. I think Ben introduced it around the time we upped the forum limit to 1080.. perhaps a bit later. It certainly makes seeing detail easier on what would otherwise have been a small shot Seeing the flaps on your Hunter shot is a good example

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DaveB

[Dev One]

Peter,
Thank you for the flaps info. As for the Blue note I think it needs to be faster than the flaps down would possibly allow.
Keith