Hunters & Drakens

[DHC1DRIVER]

Some old screens from a formation flying tutorial I posted on youtube.

Swiss Hunters




Drakens climbing in formation

[Dave T]

Two great aircraft thanks for posting.

[OldAirmail]

VERY nice pictures.

[Flacke]

A friend of mine learned to fly in a University flying school in Scotland. Later on when he was a Doctor in the RAF he got some backseat time in the " awker unter". He really loved that airplane. He loved how it looked and how it flew. He wished that he could have been a squadron Pilot flying them. He also got some experience with the Blackburn Beverly...........but he didn't exactly love that one.

Later on, he and I had many enjoyable flights in his Piper Cherokee. He was a bit of a risk-taker while I was more a conservative Pilot and put restrictions on his exploits when we flew together. He adhered to my "don't do" rules quite well and he is still alive to this day.

[Shadowcaster]

Nice, very nice indeed. Hunters with Aden Cannons and Sabrina's, what not to love.

Cheers
Rich

[wifesaysno]

A friend of mine that has since flown west got to fly the Draken in 'unusual modes' like doing on-the-deck low level fly byes for airspeed calibration and nasty stalls back when he went through National Test Pilot School...flew over 40 types there but the Draken made a gigantic impression on him! NTPS/Flight Research has since retired all of them and now there are several complete ones and several partial ones sitting on and around the Mojave airport!

Here is an example of what NTPS did with their Drakens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMmFy52HdPs

[Roypcox]

Flacke; you and I have the same theory of flight operations. "There are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots".

[Flacke]

Flacke; you and I have the same theory of flight operations. "There are old pilots and there are bold pilots but there are no old bold pilots".

Yes Roypcox, I have always been able to have a great amount of fun flying safely. I can practice my skills in airplanes without doing things that are overtly dangerous or foolish. As a result my Professional Pilot friends will always ask me to fly with them and they do not hesitate to offer me the left seat of their LearJet at FL430 or the controls of their Helicopter in the mountains. I like it that way.

[BigTruck]

Awesome shots of pretty birds!

[Daube]

The first shot is really beautiful. Great job

[Roypcox]

Flacke: some years ago I saw on this site or another site that a sim pilot that had never been inside a real airplane was friends with an airline pilot that was retired. He rented a C172 in the retired Capt license name and he just wanted to see if he could actually do a short cross county in the left seat. He posted the video and showed the whole thing the retired Capt did was he handle the radios. He didn't even bounce on landing. So flight siming really does teach real world flying. Of course the captian followed him thru on the take off and landing but stated he never made any corrections. But it being on the computer who know if it was the truth or not!!!! At least thats what my Dr states not to believe what you read or see on the putter