Zulu Posted September 23, 2008 Posted September 23, 2008 Some Pictures I took while at the African Areospace and Defense Expo in Cape Town, South Africa. Silver Falcons Areobatics Display Team of South African Airforce A C-47 drops some South African Airforce Skydivers A South African Airforce Hawk Mk120 Trainer used as an Aggressor Aircraft Hawk Mk120 with Gear Down Hawk Mk120 Releasing Prachute South African Airforce A109 South African Airforce Gripen D Gripen D shwing off some burner Gripen D doing a 3g Turn The following aircraft are all operated by a private company Thunder City based at Cape Town International Airport. They own the largest collection of privetly owned military aircraft including 4 Hawker Hunters, 2 Lighnings, 2 Bucceneers. These lightnings are the only ones still flying today. They were even kind enough to break the sound barrier for us albeit at 20 000 ft to avoid any windows breaking. Hawker Hunter painted in the colours of Shell The Lightning going inverted for us. Something that was quite intresting was that he was only using one engine through the entire display and we were told that he had his throttles just above idle, some power, and when they where going to break the sound barrier he mistankinly broke it while he was doing an almost 90 degree climb to 20 000 ft. A Bucceneer doing a nice low pass. A Bucceneer showing of its arrester hook A South African Airforce C-130 Taxiing More photos will follow..... 2 To INVENT an Airplane is Nothing. To BUILD One is Something. But to FLYis EVERYTHING. - Otto Lilienthal [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
shaggy Posted September 23, 2008 Posted September 23, 2008 very nice screens! love them all! Intel Core i7-8700 3,20GHz - EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC2 - 32Gb Ram - DCS on 500 GB SSD - Windows 10 - Thrusmaster Warthog - Thrustmaster TPR pedals - Track Ir 5 - Samsung Odyssey+ [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] http://www.virtualredarrows.com
ED Team Groove Posted September 23, 2008 ED Team Posted September 23, 2008 Thanks for sharing with us! Awesome shots ! Our Forum Rules: http://forums.eagle.ru/rules.php#en
Kusch Posted September 23, 2008 Posted September 23, 2008 Thanks for sharing. Cool Buccaner :) Give me "flying telephone pole" (SA-2)!
4c Hajduk Veljko Posted September 24, 2008 Posted September 24, 2008 This picture is from Pretoria airforce museum. And, of course this is where you need to stay if you are arround Middleburg ... Thermaltake Kandalf LCS | Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R | Etasis ET750 (850W Max) | i7-920 OC to 4.0 GHz | Gigabyte HD5850 | OCZ Gold 6GB DDR3 2000 | 2 X 30GB OCZ Vertex SSD in RAID 0 | ASUS VW266H 25.5" | LG Blue Ray 10X burner | TIR 5 | Saitek X-52 Pro | Logitech G930 | Saitek Pro flight rudder pedals | Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Zulu Posted September 24, 2008 Author Posted September 24, 2008 Some more pics A Skydiver A Maritime Oryx A BK117 A Oryx picking up some Special Forces of 44 Parachute Battalion Pathfinders Regiment Oryx with Special Forces rappalling BK117 Under Guard Mortar Firing Rooikat 105 Olifant MkII MBT Ratel ZT3 An ex F-86 Sabre of the South African Airforce To INVENT an Airplane is Nothing. To BUILD One is Something. But to FLYis EVERYTHING. - Otto Lilienthal [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Zulu Posted October 3, 2008 Author Posted October 3, 2008 Little movie i made To INVENT an Airplane is Nothing. To BUILD One is Something. But to FLYis EVERYTHING. - Otto Lilienthal [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Allo Posted October 3, 2008 Posted October 3, 2008 Cool pics and info about the Lightning. What a beast. Would like to see a race to 40,000 feet against an F-15. Was wondering where the Rooivalk was, then I watched your video. Thanks for sharing.:thumbup: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] CPU - AMD Phenom II X6 1055T @ 3.6 GHz // Motherboard - ASUS M4A89GTD-PRO // GFX - ATI Radeon HD 6870 1GB // RAM - Patriot-Viper II 4GB(2x2GB) DDR3-1600 // Audio - Creative X-FI Platinum // OS - Windows 7 Home x64 Bit CH Fighterstick // CH Pro Pedals // CH Pro Throttle // TrackIR 4 // Eyefinity 20"x3 Portrait :joystick:
nscode Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 That thing about going >M1 in vertical is BS. Never forget that World War III was not Cold for most of us.
Zulu Posted October 4, 2008 Author Posted October 4, 2008 certanitly sounded like it broke it To INVENT an Airplane is Nothing. To BUILD One is Something. But to FLYis EVERYTHING. - Otto Lilienthal [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
nscode Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 It might have, but not at anything near 90* Never forget that World War III was not Cold for most of us.
Zulu Posted October 4, 2008 Author Posted October 4, 2008 maybe not exactly 90 but it sure wasnt a shallow climb To INVENT an Airplane is Nothing. To BUILD One is Something. But to FLYis EVERYTHING. - Otto Lilienthal [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Brit_Radar_Dude Posted October 5, 2008 Posted October 5, 2008 Hawk, Hunter, Lightning and a Buc - terrific pics says this Brit....... [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Sorry Death, you lose! It was Professor Plum....
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