Live stream here OK, what height does he jump from ?

Ditto?. was it something like 120k ??

Ha! so you have seen it as well. makes you wonder if some people should be even let outside sometimes or perhaps they dont get out often enough?? 😀

theres alot of who har here n there on the web at the mo. people waffling on about aircraft contrails and not fully understanding them. ive tried to explane that its mostly condensed moister water vapour type stuff but the majority seem to think its end of the world gasses or sinister alien plots and such like..

I hope as he hurtles though the layers of atmosphere he will leave the odd contrail here n there. in such a way that it will be obvious and that he obviously is not powered except for the force of gravity. the only exhaust gasses will no doubt be of his own making 😀 ..

I wonder how much heat will be generated via air friction??

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I’d never noticed the ranks to be honest. Maybe I don’t have enough posts yet, only been on here 12 years;)

you must be above rank and us mere mortals and have been moved into a God like status 😀

This is about a third of my Dinky planes. its better than money in the bank at the mo..

ive been promoted recently also in the same way but no medals yet for actions beyond the call of duty 😀

With talk of the Campbell clan i feel i must thrust this under your noses. obviously i couldnt get Donald to sign the prints of “Tomorrows Salute” but i did the next best thing and got the pilot of the Vulcan to sign the prints. The pilot was Don Dale and Donald Cambell was a hero to him as he was to most of that generation. much the same as Malcolm was to the folks in the 1930/40s.

Don was on exercise in the area the day after the tragic crash of Bluebird. he suggested the idea of a flypast to his crew whilst in flight to which they readily agreed to. the Nav gear was switched “off” and this was put down to a glitch in the electrics.. they performed the flypast at around 2000 feet to stay above the light aircraft and helicopters as they waggled the Vulcans wings down the length of the lake. this was seen by Gina Campbell just as she got into her car.

The good deed done, the crew of the Vulcan carried on with the mission after the Navigator “fixed” the Nav gear. on return to base Don was told by the ground crew chief to go see the CO. he was in lots of hot water to say the least.. whilst they had carried on with the mission the worlds media had approached the RAF to congratulate them on a fitting flypast, to which they answered
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………………. NOT ONE OF OURS! …………….
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This was on the headlines of most of the newspapers the next day 😀

..TOMORROWS SALUTE (by me).. note the ghostly image of the Vulcan