COLD WAR JETS 5TH SEPT BRUNTERS

if you wanted to get involved with the aircraft go to www.coldwarjets.com or www.bucc society.com or pm me for membership details for Buccaneer Restorations.

there are a few groups active at Bruntingthopre but we mainly help each other out

Just to correct the above link for the Buccaneer Societies web address, www.buccsociety.com
As adwwebber has mentioned, we do tend to help each other out where at all possible, so the chances are that you may find yourself working on someone elses machine from time to time.

if you wanted to get involved with the aircraft go to www.coldwarjets.com or www.bucc society.com or pm me for membership details for Buccaneer Restorations.

there are a few groups active at Bruntingthopre but we mainly help each other out

The Comet was a bit special – no idea what the dimensions are but it’s BIG! It’s not far off the “Supermodels” Globemaster from what I could tell while they were sat on the tarmac.

I couldn’t get my camera sorted in time to catch the wet start – it was quite spectacular!

How would one get involved a little closer with these machines? I like watching, but I prefer getting my hands dirty and learning..

JC

Nice pictures everybody. I wasn’t able to get there this time as I was working but have been several times in the past and it is an excellent day out.

A friend sent me some pictures of the BOAC Comet model and I wasn’t convinced. I thought it was a screenshot from Flight Sim but having seen it again it is absolutely fantastic. I have seen the Vulcan and Victor models flying before but that Comet beats everything I have ever seen. What scale is it ? What is the length and span ?

Regards

Ian Haskell

It is almost like being there!!!!!

Peter, You should try and come over sometime, it really is something different and you never get the chance to be this close to a Jet on full power that you do at Brunters.

Did anyone catch XX900’s wet start on camera?

No problems Plazz, glad you enjoyed the day and I hope that you can experience many more with our motley crew. Hopefully next time 894 will play ball and make some noise.

Super pics guys!!

It is almost like being there!!!!!
I do have to say that the victor looks a little worn round the nose area any chance she will get a repaint for next season??

Bruntingthorpe

Shame I couldn’t make Sunday but had an excellent time on Saturday. A big thanks to Buccsociety and Co. for a memorable day.
Hears my view of some Buccaneer based events on Saturday.

Plazz

Wow, that Comet model is stunning.

why do people always capture my best side ? i am still looking for my camera lead to upload my photo’s.

Cheers Andrew, I did ask them If we could go to the other side of the aircraft to get away from the Sun!! Feeling a tad burnt today.

Now my photography is bad at the best of times so it is with some nervousness that I put up the following shots, now they are not of the usual fair as I do not get much of chance to go up to the runway to see fast runs, but they may be of interest to you all.

1). XX900 taxis from her pan to take her place on the runway, taken on the Saturday evening.
2). XX900 again, this time taken just after she had an aborted wet start, taken on the Sunday afternoon.
3). WT333 undergoes engine start on Saturday afternoon.
4). Newest member of the BBS gets used to 894’s rather strange seating arrangement, those who don’t know, this is the forum member known as Plazz.
5). Victor 715 prepares to start no 3 engine on the Saturday evening.
6). Both of Bruntys Bucc together, note: the chap in the fluro jacket is forum member adwwebber(sorry Andrew(.

A few photos from Sunday…

Bucc society was to busy getting famous with the discovery wings guys !!!! only kidding bucc !!

Didnt see any other forumites at 11 tho….

I was next to you all day long, but had to travel off site to get myself a decent breakfast at about 10:30 so I would have missed the 11:00 meet.

Thanks Steve -a pleasure – great to meet you and JN-4 too! Also Phil, Dave and their Chippie!

Didnt see any other forumites at 11 tho….

Bit miffed that the Iskra was refuelled next door to us with the public standing round watching by the bowser though!!!!!!!!! Bonkers.

The C-17 was wonderful – it even has its own bespoke trailer to live in….would I was so lucky…!

Hope we’ll give everyone a Pratt and Whitney based fast taxi next year..if not more…
Hows about a Four (Maybe Five?) Ship Beech line up at Legends – well if they can do it with Rapides…

See y’all in May if not before at the Sywell Show on the 26th….

TT

Having seen Lightnings do a fast pass and climb at airshows, 90 secs to 35000 feet is a pretty good way of putting it.

I have this memory of a Lightning coming in low and fast along the crowd line, standing on it’s tail and just going straight up between some clouds until it was out of sight. It had quite an effect on a 12(ish) year old 🙂 Would have been at Mildenhall or
Coltishall mid to late seventies.

JC

Sounds like it was another good event. Unforunatley I didn’t quite get there. My best mate decided he would like to come and offered the services of his company car – this was a good move, unfortunatley just before we got there he got a phone call from his girlfriend saying she’d just been in a head on smash – thankfully she was ok, but it ment a quick U-turn. I’ll be back there next year though.

Sounds like it was a great day can’t wait to see the piccies..!

ahh no where near, Wasn’t me by the way i was holding the Extingiusher probe.

Aha… we did wonder who the intrepid probe wielder was. That looked like a blimmin big sheet of flame from where we were standing! 😮

We missed the first Lightning run, as we’d taken the opportunity to wander over and look at a Vulcan in kit form. A very imposing sight, to walk round the open hangar door and be confronted with that thing’s back end. Still can’t quite get used to how BIG it is…

So we were a bit disappointed to have missed the Lightning, but soon found out that XS904 was going to go later on, which incidentally had been the one I’d sat in a couple of hours earlier. Such a small and compact ‘office’, everything within hands reach, it just feels so purposeful even now. And then watching (feeling!) the aeroplane go down the runway with both fires lit… magical… 😀

One of the things the LPG guys had told me was that in their heyday the Lightnings could go from brakes off to 35,000 feet in ninety seconds. So I glanced at my watch… and then ninety seconds looked upwards to see an airliner trailing it’s customary white line across the sky. How on earth can something get from standing still down here, to rocketing vertically upwards up there, in a minute and a half? Mind blowing.

Incidentally, I repeated the ninety second exercise last night as my BAe 146 flight left Birmingham airport – I’d estimate our height after 90 seconds as being a ‘mere’ 1500 feet. Comparitively sedate… 😉

Ah very sensible 😀

So what were Discovery Wings filming? Poor bloke doing the PA was badly let down by his sound gear, couldn’t quite make out what was going on!

JC

ahh no where near, Wasn’t me by the way i was holding the Extingiusher probe.