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[winny]

Originally Posted by scottyvt4

Shame that the Jag was a fine aircraft!!


few of my mates been to Bruggen for camps with the Air trainning Corps

Ahh.. the ATC, one of the finest moments of my life was flying (ie: in control) a loop and a barrel roll in a Chipmunk just off the coast of blackpool.

And I loved the Jaguar too... Just quietly got on with it, no gimicks like swing wing or VTOL, just get in, kill everything, get out, make a shitload of noise and look cool whilst doing so.

[f1rebrand]

Originally Posted by winny

Ahh.. the ATC, one of the finest moments of my life was flying (ie: in control) a loop and a barrel roll in a Chipmunk just off the coast of blackpool.

And I loved the Jaguar too... Just quietly got on with it, no gimicks like swing wing or VTOL, just get in, kill everything, get out, make a shitload of noise and look cool whilst doing so.

I was in the ATC too, 1986 squadron to be precise. Never got the chance to fly though. Used to go on night exercises in Thetford forest. What a larf.

[winny]

Originally Posted by f1rebrand

I was in the ATC too, 1986 squadron to be precise. Never got the chance to fly though. Used to go on night exercises in Thetford forest. What a larf.

I was in 1005 squadron, Once did a night exercise on an abandoned airfield somewhere in wiltshire. A team of US special forces were there. We had to plant some explosives at the base of a radio tower. We waited outside the perimiter for 2 hours till it got dark, crept through the undergrowth all thinking we were being really stealthy and a small bush got up fired a full burst of blanks over our heads and said in an american accent, oops you're all dead. 5 other American soldiers then popped up out of nowhere. It was a very surreal experience. I was on summer camp at RAF lynham at the time and the US special forces were there in their black AC-130 on route to Iraq (1st gulf war)
They were some very serious looking men.

[f1rebrand]

Originally Posted by winny

I was in 1005 squadron, Once did a night exercise on an abandoned airfield somewhere in wiltshire. A team of US special forces were there. We had to plant some explosives at the base of a radio tower. We waited outside the perimiter for 2 hours till it got dark, crept through the undergrowth all thinking we were being really stealthy and a small bush got up fired a full burst of blanks over our heads and said in an american accent, oops you're all dead. 5 other American soldiers then popped up out of nowhere. It was a very surreal experience. I was on summer camp at RAF lynham at the time and the US special forces were there in their black AC-130 on route to Iraq (1st gulf war)
They were some very serious looking men.

That's a great story. We were also ambushed and actually physically attacked by a rival ATC squadron.

I just download the AC-130 Spectre app. It's like a dumbed down version of the MW mission 'Death from Above'

[Shadowcorp]

i see atc overhead every day. i live near raf aberporth they do a lot of their low flying exercises around the valleys in cardiganshire, sometimes the americans come out to play aswell; seeing one f15 getting triple teamed by three hawks stickes well in my mind