Oman

I think this is a sport now between the the RAF and the RAFO. Who can fly the lowest? So far I think the RAFO is winning the contest. They love it and cannot get enough of low flying. Absolutely top draw professional outfit the Omanis. Very steady.

Not Oman, but big & low so I’d thought I add it.

mark 12`s shot of the hunter reminds me of seeb on the afternoon of the 1980 national day. after the 22 hunters did the formation over muscat they returned and bounced seeb from all compass points…………. two minutes of awesome flying:D 😀

I have a couple of bits ( about 2Mb in total) of “home movies” showing the Omani Jags doing their infamous flybys on the range and on the pan. Be glad to mail them privately to anyone who wants them. They’re WMV files, will play in Windows MediaPlayer.

Meanwhile, here’s another Omani Jag (not from the movies).

……..and another.

……another shot

There’s a thread that was on Modern Military (now moved to General Discussion but probably can’t find it for the polls) with some real & some obviously fake funny’s. Check the F-16 about two thirds of the way down. Even got a kill marking for it!

http://www.keypublishing.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16350

One time in Thumrait.

When I was still on the Mighty Herk, my crew was deployed to Thumrait for a couple of weeks. We were living in the “camel barns” and it seemed as hot as the surface of the sun.

One afternoon, I was standing on the top of the C-130 and a Jaguar buzzed us. The cockpit was level with the horizontal stab. Two or three days later, I watched a Jaguar fly down the road behind base operations. He was level with the traffic signs. It was quite a sight!

The Russavia Rapide accident was on 21st June 1987 IIRC, for some reason the IWM tried the idea of some airshow car parking on the live side, only once though.

Could well have been. Having given it a bit more thought, I’d date it around 1982/3, as both me and my mate were at different secondary schools by then. And the car was definately a W reg Cortina estate, painted red with a black vinyl roof. Ford certainly knew how to inflict some sh!t upon the British motoring public…

I wonder if this was the incident that the former Russavia Dragon Rapide was involved in during the mid eighties?

Originally posted by aj_march
Looks like the car was Duxford based 😀 :confused:

Funny you should say that. I remember many years ago, must have been very late seventies or very early eighties, seeing on the tv news that a Dragon Rapide had managed to taxi into the car park at Duxford, and one of the props had chomped its way along the roof of, amongst others, a red Ford Cortina estate.

Now I knew that a good mate of mine had gone to Duxford that day with his mum, and that his mum drove a red W reg Cortina estate, but the idea of their car being eaten by a Dragon Rapide was just far too improbable, so I dismissed it.

A couple of weeks or so later, I went round to see my mate after school, to be greeted with the words “Come and look at THIS!”. He opened the garage door, and yes, there it was. One red Ford Cortina toast rack conversion. Apparently it was an insurance write off, but his dad bought the wreck for peanuts, amazingly managed to stick a new roof on it and got it MoT’d, and it went on to clock up quite a few more miles…

No names, no pack-drill.

Twas the under fuselage strakes of a ‘too friendly’ Jaguar.

The vehicle belonged to a Hunter pilot.

Thumrait SW Oman circa mid 1980’s.

“The ground crew quickly got into the sensible habit of checking left and right for high speed traffic before leaving the Hardened Aircraft Shelters and crossing the taxiways.”

Mark

More photos available if of interest.

Jaguar – metal variety

I know! I know!

Twas a low flying Jag, piloted by Andy Cubin on an exhange with the Omani Air Force.

Somebody’s landing gear??