makes sense 😀 :diablo:

btw…anyone has a video of the flanker going thru the 2 building…or a link..a pic….

I don’t think there was a video of the event unless it’s on my video at home but there were various pictures taken that day.

http://aeroweb.lucia.it/~agretch/Tushino97/index.htm

At an airshow at Tushino a few years back, I watched the Russian Knights display. They did their usual routine – finishing up with a downward ‘bomb burst’ – with all the a/c flying off in different directions.

I had put my camera away at this point – and was in the middle of a large crowd.

As I craned my head to see this ‘bomb burst’ – the Flankers disappeared below the heads of the people in front of me – so they were out of sight.

Then one of them suddenly appeared over our heads from in front – and I kid you not – at no more than 50 feet.

There were gasps from the crowd as we ducked – and the Flanker then went ‘knife edge’ between two apartment buildings on a ridge behind us – then climbed away and headed back towards Kubinka.

Following a few seconds stunned silence, a mighty roar went up from the crowd – followed by cheering and applause.

It left a big impression on me – so flying through a hole in a rock should be a doddle for the Knights.

Ken

I think I was at that Tushino show, was one of the team flying a normal blue camo Su-27? I certainly remember the knife edge pass between the apartment blocks…

I also remember in 1993 being on top of the hangar at Zhukovsky. You should remember this as well, Ken, when the Knights were doing their display. We were a long way up and there was no quick way down. The Knights pulled up en masse and headed vertically upwards and suddenly the sky was filled with these bright lights. A few months earlier I had seen the two MIGs collide at Fairford and seeing these lights made me think that couple of aircraft had collided and that the bits would start raining down on us. I have to say my heart stopped for what seemed quite a while until I realised it was only them firing off star shells……

Ahhh the days when you needed earplugs!!!!!

Great shots, 🙂

And also the days when there was a spectator’s terrace at Edinburgh. 🙁 And who remembers the bar at the old terminal 🙂

ZHR- Have you and Ken Dodd ever been seen in the same room at the same time?
I thought not……….

How tickled I am. And I wish my hair these days was still as wild as it was.

Well, spotted that man! I would never have guessed that in a million years. A fuselage? Blimey, why didn’t I think of that?

Hi fella’s!
I was just having a look around the web as you do and stumbled across your site, prety much by accident and i thought i’d pop by and say hello especially as i found you’d been talking about Deltics- theres topic variation for you 🙂 Anyway, thought that i just had to answer this one.

The short answer is yes!
I’l always remember a quote from many years ago.
On a still dark night from a couple of miles away, a Deltic at full speed sounds very much like a distant Lancaster bomber.
So yes, they are very much a sound to behold!!!!
They incidently had 3300hp on tap, may not sound much in aviation circles but they’d hall 500 tons at 100mph all day long 😎

Sorry if ive dragged up a thread thats getting on abit, i’l go back to my own forum now 🙂 😀

And here is a picture of a Deltic number collector and his number from ten years ago.

Modesty (and the fear that Trinny will make some fashion-guru comments about my err his lack of fashion) prevents me from revealing who it is.

I always thought the answer to ‘How to make a small fortune from vintage aviation’ was to start with a large fortune. Seems to be true for the entire aviation industry.

VFW-614