I have dabbled in model rockets myself and can tell you that some of the larger rockets that I have built and launched have gone to well over 2000 feet and need a massive field with no winds to launch them or you’d never get them back.

Although they reach huge heights, if one actually impacted a moving aircraft it would do no damage to the airframe, unless it entered the engine intakes, as they are made of nothing but card.

The principles of still intensionally launching one at an aircraft is still utter madness and should not be done. Hope they catch the individual!:mad:

Sat and Sun 2nd – 3rd June 2001 at Biggin Hill. Probably the worst weekend ever for fatal show crashes.

Sat 2nd a Vampire crashes after flying through the jet wash of the Sea Vixen, Foxy Lady causing the aircraft to crash out of control in a nearby field.
read full story here:-
http://www.aaib.gov.uk/cms_resources/dft_avsafety_pdf_507791.pdf

Sun 3rd the King Cobra crashes after failing to pull out of a spin.

Two crashes at the same event on both days. Something that has never happened before and hope never happens again.

Spirit of St Louis replica

Another I witnessed was the sad loss of the Spirit of St Louis replica at Coventry’s final Airshow, The Classic Airshow hosted by Air Atlantique.

The pilot had literally just took off and after gaining some altitude started a lefthand turn. Just after executing this manouvre a loud crack was heard and it’s port wing, if I remember rightly, folded back against the fuselage putting the aircraft into an uncontrollable spin, causing the airframe to crash onto the old nearby Alvis site.

The Swidish pilot survived the impact but died later that evening in the hospital.

Ironic thing about this incident is that it was the first day of operations of the W&N air ambulance from Coventry. Ironic that the first incident it was to attend was at it’s home base.

Again a very sad loss:(

I was watching the Longest Day the other night and noticed in a few of the scenes with the Germans who were clearly operating at some airfield the background noise they had of some of the aircraft were jet sounds!

I don’t know what year it is supposed to be set but could they have been depicting Me262’s?:confused:

I’m sorry but all you young guys on here won’t appreciate the shear power and noise of an F6 Lightning no more than twenty feet away from you, open up it’s burners to full reheat and tear down the runway with a rib cracking and ear splitting noise!!

By far this aircraft is undoubtably the noisiest jet in the world and superceeds even the B1 bomber. Go to Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire on an open day or visit Thunder City in Cape Town and you will know what I’m on about:diablo:

My second loudest was a full routine display of an F14 at Mildenhall in 1993, where the aircraft did the full display, apart from his landing, with full reheat:D 😀

Their are distinctive dark spots in places on the shape that look like shadows. I have arrowed them to show you where. You need to zoom in on the image to see them, but they are there.

I would say it could be the Shuttle approaching the States if it was in a Westerly direction heading but according to the NASA sight I’m a member of the last Shuttle approach on this vector was June 22nd.

If your sure of the date being May, that rules that out:confused: