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[OM] Re: Circles.

Subject: [OM] Re: Circles.
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:18:31 +0100
Well, you can just see the edges of the red intake blanks.

Coincidentally I flew today with a Royal Navy pilot who had an  
unfortunate incident in a T8 (Navy Hunter trainer).  He had his neck  
at an awkward angle when the other pilot, the captain, pulled 9g (a  
serious over-stress) to avoid a bird at low level over the sea.  It  
broke 2 vertebrae in his neck and caused him paralysis of one side of  
his face.  He is better now, thankfully, but it stopped him going on  
to faster aircraft (since an ejection might have caused him drastic  
damage) and he remained a helicopter pilot.

It was quite easy to over-stress the T-bird Hunter, especially with  
outboard stores.  I managed 7g in a T7 while learning low-level  
evasion over southwest Wales.

Chris

On 16 Apr 2008, at 09:26, Ian Nichols wrote:

> On 16/04/2008, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Well done, Tom, they're interesting compositions.
>>
>> And 439 is a T-bird Hunter, a 2-seater.  I can't tell the exact mark,
>> but it's likely to be a T7.  If you have a side shot, Tom, I should  
>> be
>> interested to know its serial number (2 letters followed by 3  
>> numbers)
>> as I might have flown that old machine ... :-)
>
> Chris, you forgot to mention that it has rather tasteful triangular
> intakes at the wing root, a bit like on a Vulcan, only much smaller.
> Can't see them because the nose is in the way, and anyway, they'd
> spoil the "Circles" theme.
>
> http://www.vectorsite.net/avhunt.html



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