🇬🇧 Cold War Vintage Jets Burn Down The Runway

[@bobsurgranny]

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[@John-nc4bl]

Just more old Britarded 'iron' that didnt sell worth a hoot.

[@John-nc4bl]

Some people in the small island nation of Britain continue to drown themselves in nostalgia, are ‘poisoned’ with ‘colonial arrogance’ and ‘dreamy jingoism’.

[@dumbassgreek]

​@@John-nc4blLMAO, get over it racist dumbass

[@dumbassgreek]

reported ya, don't need your useless racist comments, "Britarded" lmao think of a good insult.

[@dumbassgreek]

oh and forgot to mention, you didn't even come up with any of the ideas, and they were valuable and definetly costed more than a "hoot", and by the way, I'm thinking of posting you on social media, because we don't need retarded, racist, karens like you.

[@bmused55]

This is how Aircraft need to be preserved. Able to power up and potter about the airfield and runway. Not dead and lifeless in a hangar.

[@bobsurgranny]

Absolutely

[@Frserthegreenengine]

Would be lovely for sure. But they would be extremely expensive to maintain and many museums simply can't afford to do it (or don't have a runway for it). But yes, would be nice.

[@thestig8133]

I do agree with you on that. But, it cost a good few million estimated between £3, 000, 000 & £10, 000, 000 + per aircraft estimated 🤔😟😟😟 just to maintain them for this let alone & for airworthy & airshows & flight tests. That's why they are far cheaper to have them in hangers or super size museums for the public to come & see.

[@daniel_of_jersey4775]

Yea thats cool and all, but $$$

[@Bartonovich52]

Yeah it’s definitely a happy medium. I love to see them fly but so many irreplaceable historic aircraft have been lost and of course the loss of life that goes with it. But static displays seem to deteriorate and rot and often they are just shells patched up with pop rivets and tin. In run-up, taxi conditions lets you hear and feel them and takes to back to airports and bases where they were active. But…. It’s still about $$$… trying to find or make parts, having skilled mechanics to work on them and people proficient in running them.. or even just fuel which is consumed at a prodigious rate even at idle on most of these old birds.

[@listeed1995]

It’s incredible to see the Comet still moving under its own engines 74 years on. Major credit to those engineers who keep it running

[@bobsurgranny]

Absolutely

[@ImpendingJoker]

When you realize that the Nimrod is nothing more than a souped up Comet, it's not really that impressive.

[@gamingpredator4226]

@@ImpendingJoker Yes, but the Nimrod is extensively modified and will have been kept far more up to date, they were also still in active service all the way up until 2009. The comets were retired in the late 90's and weren't nearly as up to date. So it is still impressive the Comet is still capable of near take off speeds

[@SomeOrdinaryJanitor]

wow, way to undersell it...@@ImpendingJoker

[@MultiAndrew1971]

Those people in the lightning and buccaneer. Well all of them actually. How great must the temptation be to just pull back on the stick and get airborne. I know I wouldn’t be able to resist

[@CaptainGarratt]

They have tiny fuel tanks so wouldn’t have enough fuel even for 1 circuit…. Guess it’s a way of taking away temptation

[@ertwander]

A pilot should be professional enough not to take a plane up into the air that isn´t airworthy anymore. Pull back on the stick and you might enter a world of pain without coming back.

[@CaptainGarratt]

@@ertwander you don’t need a pilots license to taxi a plane.

[@ertwander]

@@CaptainGarratt without being a trained pilot, one shouldn´t think of pulling back on the stick even more.

[@CaptainGarratt]

@@ertwander agreed

[@alantunbridge8919]

From the days when Britain had a world leading aviation industry. Destroyed by politicians primarily in the 1960’s. I recall seeing most of these flying then. I now live in Cape Town,until a few years ago, it was possible to see Lightning, Bucaneer & Hunter’s flying even a Shackleton MR3. Brought back memories of great days & used to bring tears to my eyes.

[@Bartonovich52]

Wasn’t destroyed by politicians… unless you mean when Churchill bankrupted the nation fighting a war that pissed away an Empire and kept them in hawk until 2006. Politicians were the only reason they survived at all. Handley Page was a textbook example… without suckling at the government teat with bottomless and zero-risk cost-plus defence contracts.. it went bankrupt trying to make a tiny commuter aircraft. Collaboration and globalization was the key to survival. Even Boeing and Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman make only a fraction of their own planes.

[@TheHDAviation]

Now that is cool to see and hear these classics racing down the runway, definitely not something you get to experience often. Love those sounds!

[@bobsurgranny]

Glad you enjoyed these old birds having a good blast 👍

[@agiantrat5517]

As an American, the Lightning is truly one of the most beautiful aircraft to ever fly. Would be cool to see this and an F-4 fly together. Great footage!

[@archimedesfromteamfortress2]

When i read that title i thought this was some aviation disaster, glad to see a wholesome video of old planes safe.

[@leezinke4351]

That Comet in the beginning looks gorgeous!

[@mred8002]

The owners, mechanics, and engineers must love their machines, and it really shows.

[@bobsurgranny]

💯

[@bonknessmonster]

I wish all these planes could fly again. We've lost so much of our heritage and it's not just aviation.

[@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587]

But you got Sadiq Khan, Sunak and all loving and hard working refugees LMAO

[@peterresetz1960]

@bonknessmonster, Unless this a museum, these aircraft flew there.

[@imperialinquisition6006]

Well this is a museum, so the aviation heritage is literally preserved. But beyond that, while unfortunately many Cold War jets will not fly, there are many WW2 props and some jets flying, as well as more being restored to flight. So it’s not really the end of the world.

[@imperialinquisition6006]

@@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587Relevance to aircraft? Sunak+the tories in general will certainly lose the next election, and Sadiq will probably go as well. Just talk about aeroplanes lmao

[@Tmccreight25Gaming]

​@@dr.jiIIaIicecooper2587most of these museums are charities and receive no government funding. But any excuse to shit on people fleeing war I guess.

[@mikejohnson5900]

Some of these aircraft are the most beautifully designed in the world in any era! Britons always had an eye for aeronautic design.

[@ImpendingJoker]

No, they all pretty much live up to the addage: If it's ugly, it's British. haha

[@DeadChan67]

@@ImpendingJokerkinda both ngl

[@joeg5414]

@@ImpendingJoker Yeah I kind of agree. They make some goofy looking airplanes 1:50 - I mean look at that. It's hideous

[@DevelDogg48]

Nah, they’re pretty hideous. Not taking away from how great they were, but they definitely weren’t lookers.

[@rthefish]

Bravo. Rule Britannia. Greetings from Australia.

[@davidjames6879]

Great trip back to yesteryear!! Hoping for one step further, and seeing these old birds take to the air.

[@ianlitchfield9273]

It won't & can't happen I'm afraid.

[@TR6Telos]

I remember in late 80s watching Buccaneers skim over the sea, Victor taking off to refuel aircraft ,Canberras, from valley Angelsey, and early 70s Lightnings at Warton, in 60s watching 3 Vulcans at altitude on the way to school in Manchester.

[@bobsurgranny]

fantastic

[@douglascurl5581]

Dad used to work on the Hawker Hunter at RAF Kemble many years ago and wrote 2 books about them. Delta Jets used those books as reference when they were still restoring the Hunter. I miss many hours with my Dad in front of them. We also went to RAF Wroughton, when he was working for the MOD there, and i remember a B17 Flying Fortress being absolutely dwarfed by the Avro Lancaster. Memories of wonderful aircraft and the shows we went to in the 70's and 80's.

[@jimdevlin2138]

At the leuchars airshow in the 70's , a Lightning did the ultimate sneak pass , at about 200ft. on full burners , what a machine! Someone had a thought ," lets take 2 big jet engines and weld them together , then if we strap a pilot to the top it should be spiffing good fun, What"

[@davidwalker9015]

Must’ve been the one I saw at the then Turnhouse air show (Edinburgh Airport now) fly really low and loud over Cramond. Awesome, still remember it to this day!

[@diqital_aviator]

Beautiful Aircraft there!! Wonderful to see them running and restored to their former glory!

[@taiyoki_futatsu]

The DeHavilland Comet is a national treasure

[@bobsurgranny]

💯👍

[@wintersbattleofbands1144]

Wing root intakes are so... classy. The mystique of the jet engine early on embraced by the Brits. Ease of maintenance or make it pretty...? Let's make it pretty! Bravo! Kudos!

[@steampunklimbo]

Brittish aircraft are just so beautiful and unique, definetly my favourite aircrafts!

[@bobsurgranny]

💯 me too

[@rescue270]

The plural of aircraft is still just aircraft. Not aircrafts.

[@John-nc4bl]

Some people in the small island nation of Britain continue to drown themselves in nostalgia, are ‘poisoned’ with ‘colonial arrogance’ and ‘dreamy jingoism’.

[@dumbassgreek]

​@@John-nc4bloh come on kiddo, don't put your racist remarks everywhere, just a bit more and you'll become 13, dumbass

[@imperialinquisition6006]

@@John-nc4blAverage stupid internet comment. It is completely fair to say that you like the design of old aircraft. Keep your weird complexes off the internet.

[@Marti79]

Hands up if you’ve seen all these fantastic aircraft fly!!! 🙌🏻

[@ieuandavies4134]

All of em’……but I’m old!!😮

[@rnichol22]

Oh yes

[@topfelya]

What a fantastic footage my friend 🙂👍I love that Comet and English Electric Lightning

[@Aerospotter.]

Great to see they still function!

[@bobsurgranny]

They all have so much character and you can see they all wanna take off 😉

[@Aerospotter.]

@@bobsurgranny Indeed!

[@stephenbrown1077]

Absolutely fantastic 👏 what nostalgia, and what amazing aircraft. The lightning always wins for me! Thankyou for sharing Bob great video

[@bobsurgranny]

Welcome. Pleased you enjoyed hearing these old beauties having a blast

[@simonbaxter8001]

I'm so glad to be part of the generation that not only worked on some of these aircraft, but saw them regularly on the air show circuit every year. Just needed a Vulcan, Jaguar and Tornado to finish the classic collection off!

[@bobsurgranny]

Fantastic. Pleased you enjoyed watching along 👍

[@JayantanathGupta]

Saudi Arabia has Tornado. Our Indian Air Force still has Jaguars.

[@magnuswalker7957]

❤❤❤ My generation of British jet aircraft. Thank you so much.

[@bobsurgranny]

Fantastic engineering. Glad you enjoyed seeing these old birds blast up the runway

[@susan8477]

So love these vintage jets, sad they are not flying though 😞

[@bobsurgranny]

Yeah good to see them running but a real bummer they don't fly

[@adlibbed2138]

don't wanna risk them falling down tho, even in airshows, Goodwood FOS blunders can happen, like there are several amount of P-51 Mustangs has been fallen down

[@stevendorris5713]

One word: "Wow!"

[@bobsurgranny]

Glad you enjoyed the oldskool racket from these fine birds

[@jackthebassman1]

I think the Victor is beautiful in a menacing way and the Lighting is gaaaaaaaaaasspp awesome.

[@andrewdrabble8939]

Superb. Absolutely superb. Just a shame these beautiful ladies aren't flying anymore as you could see they were champing at the very bit to be let loose

[@bobsurgranny]

💯👍

[@BootneckAlphaKilo]

A chill went down my spine when I saw the dreaded ‘square’ windowed Comet powering up, I thought it was going to take off … 😅

[@andypreston1524]

Oh dear me. The word "Rotate" is all that was going through my mind here......ooops !! Stunning video of stunning classic aircraft. Thank you !!!

[@bobsurgranny]

Yeah if only! Glad you enjoyed watching 🤗👍

[@edutaimentcartoys]

amazing rare plane spotting video 👍

[@bobsurgranny]

Pleased you enjoyed watching 🤗

[@christianperezlindo8628]

that is what i like of british "museums". instead just put things inside a building forever, every time that is possible they mantain them working and also shows them to the people. cars, planes, ships... Always loved how aerodynamic the Hawker Hunter is, but was very surprised to see a Comet 4! thanks very much for submit this video, btw, greetings from Argentina!

[@bobsurgranny]

Absolutely. Glad you enjoyed watching 👍

[@Delta2D2]

Once upon a time, Britain 🇬🇧 proudly made aircraft… and they were awesome!

[@iuhjhfdskjsdf]

Absolutely spectacular!❤️

[@bobsurgranny]

Glad you enjoyed seeing these old girls have a blast up the runway 😉👍

[@gafrers]

Fantastic

[@bobsurgranny]

Pleased you enjoyed watching 🤗👍

[@Jon962-h4i]

Brilliant stuff! Thanks for posting it.

[@bobsurgranny]

Glad you enjoyed watching

[@mansurazeez2229]

The EE Lightning was awesome with brute power from its RR Avon engines! One and only fighter interceptor with unique staggered engine design! 👍👍

[@busterthewolf7864]

Now these are very rare to see!! I mean, I can't believe the De Havilland Comet is still alive and can move on it's own original engines.

[@nmaviation1]

This is amazing!

[@bobsurgranny]

Glad you enjoyed seeing these old birds giving it the beans

[@paultanker5606]

G'day to you, OMG all my Dream planes in one Place, These were the Aircraft I remember be for coming to Oz,ExPat Mancunian!

[@bobsurgranny]

pleased you enjoyed watching

[@豊馬場-q8t]

イングリッシュ•エレクトリック　ライトニング、ボテ腹が可愛い。上昇力とトップスピードに優れた高性能迎撃機だけど、なんだか癒やされるデザインなのが英国流と言えるのかなあ。

[@PLANEMANIA747]

Beautiful video ❤ Awesome collection

[@bobsurgranny]

glad you enjoyed watching 🤗

[@wlshyd182]

Proper goosebumps seeing that Lightning bomb down the runway

[@bobsurgranny]

Great to hear! glad you enjoyed watching

[@matthiashaenni]

TOP video ✈️ 👍👍👍

[@brusselssprouts560]

5:10 The beautiful Lightning. I saw one as a child at RAF Biggin Hill do a supersonic flypast. It is awesome and still an icon imho.

[@bobsurgranny]

💯👍 Lucky bugger

[@ozzy8286]

How so much more interesting are these old birds than the ultra modern jets? Was lucky enough to have flown in the Nimrods over 30 years ago.

[@bobsurgranny]

Fantastic, loved the nimrod They all have great individual character.

[@John-nc4bl]

Some people in the small island nation of Britain continue to drown themselves in nostalgia, are ‘poisoned’ with ‘colonial arrogance’ and ‘dreamy jingoism’.

[@ozzy8286]

@@John-nc4bl I think you need to go and get checked out.

[@bobsurgranny]

Triggered trigglypuff

[@dumbassgreek]

​​@@bobsurgrannyhaha, yeah, I'm mass reporting his ass, I'm pretty sure this guy making racist remarks on the British, he said German technology is far superior, LMAO 💀

[@allongman]

Excellent !

[@bobsurgranny]

Glad you enjoyed watching 👍

[@mattt198654321]

You KNOW at least a few of these pilots were thinking "ya know...all I'd have to do is pull back the yoke...should I???"

[@Nicholas10101]

Brilliant!!!

[@bobsurgranny]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Back2TheBike]

I watched that Lightning leave BAe Warton on an autumn afternoon, straight up to 50,000 feet in a salmon pink sky, early 1990s.

[@bobsurgranny]

whAT an awesome memory to have

[@andrewsewraviation3991]

A routinely fantastic video and job! I admittedly I am very delighted to be supporting you in the best ways possible, and continue on producing your incredibly inspiring and amazing work, including to share it all around and to support others great contents for their betters, as I’m striving to do! I encourage all my subscribers and friends to keep having great diligence and ambition despite the unwanted circumstances, and with great confidence as well! 🍀🙏👍

[@BosworthMcG]

Would love to see the buccaneer flying again

[@nelsonmellososobrinho1123]

Belo vídeo. Congratulações . Faltou o " GLOSTER METEOR ". Abraços desde São Paulo - Brasil .

[@bobsurgranny]

Thank you. Pleased you enjoyed the video 👍

[@douglashundley6777]

Awsome super cool please do more like this

[@bobsurgranny]

glad you enjoyed hearing these old birds blasting down the runway

[@TR6Telos]

I remember in mid 70s watching passenger comets landing at Manchester.

[@timothybird7450]

When was this filmed? Last I heard the Cold War Jets days were effectively over and they were using it as a giant car park. If that's changed it would be great to go down again and see the jets run.

[@bobsurgranny]

Yep this was 10 years ago, think they still run a few things including the Lightning but doesn't seen as appealing to visit these days as you say

[@olympus__]

They’ve recently started doing open days again, just with static runs. The Buccaneers, however, still conduct fast taxi runs, now based at Kemble!

[@davidb3172]

I flew in a Dan Air Comet 4 from London to Piraeus in December 1980.

[@sw40c]

Awesome!!!

[@bobsurgranny]

Great hearing those noisy old birds. Glad you enjoyed the footage 👍

[@thestig8133]

Even by todays standards the ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIGHTNING has to be still one of the most fastest flying & fastest excellarating aircraft ever built & most feard fighters ever designed & flown. Just so sad it does fly in the UK anymore ( out of date software etc, etc , etc ) & i have sadly never seen one inflight & now i never will only online 😟

[@bobsurgranny]

They still fly one in South Africa

[@thestig8133]

@@bobsurgranny SADLY that is absolute no use to me if i can't get there. & i still say they are such a fantastic aircraft & i will always they are real shame never to fly in the UK ever again. So, if other iconic aircraft are still allowed to fly here in the UK at various events around the country then i just wish the stupid rule & regulations of this peticular aircraft wasn't as tight as they make out on it. But, what can i do about NOTHING!!! so, it's simp!y KZbin vids to enjoy of it.

[@wintersbattleofbands1144]

"accelerating."

[@heatherbarlow986]

Me: who invited this guy to the game No one: Nimrod: What did you just say!

[@DezRosswess]

Afterburners on that lightning! You must have felt it from there

[@bobsurgranny]

Yep loudest thing I've ever heard no doubt

[@SebastianWittich]

Must be verry hard for the pilot not to pull the nose up and fly off when he is burning down the runway in these iconic aircrafts😅

[@coolhand66]

COOL!

[@bobsurgranny]

Glad you enjoyed watching these cold war era jets blast up the runway 👍

[@coolhand66]

@@bobsurgranny oh yeah really enjoyed the lightning and the Hanley page really cool is he just don't see that much anymore

[@ErennYeagerMlbb]

That De Haviland Comet looks clean though

[@bobsurgranny]

This was 10 years ago, I hear it has been left to rot now, such a shame

[@armorer94]

Did the Canberra reject the takeoff?

[@bobsurgranny]

No, none of these are deemed airworthy any longer, they sometimes just give them a blast down the runway with fast taxi runs

[@HandFromCoffin]

oh man.. that Lightning wanted to take off so bad...

[@LCdrDerrick]

Post WWII English music was the best in the world, think of both British invasions and all the famous bands. What a gift to mankind! But there was another gift, the gift of building some of the ugliest planes on the surface of the earth (whilst the Spitfire was the most beautyful).

[@John-nc4bl]

The old Spit was an ugly aircraft with its narrow stance of landing gear. As well, Britain stole the idea from Germany for the planform of an elliptical wing since Gremany had flown elliptical winged aircraft long before Britain did. A P51 was a much more attractive looking aircraft than the ugly old Spitfire.

[@LCdrDerrick]

@@John-nc4bl See, I knew this with the eliptical wing, stolen from Junkers or some other German company. I wrote this under another Spit video, where I also claimed that the later Griffon Spit is the most beautyful aircraft, not static on the ground of course, with the silly narrow gear, which was built that way for rails transportation imho, but in the air. The ugly raised Merlin nose was corrected then, as to say stolen from the BF109. But the fanbois killed me for the story with the stolen wing. The Mustang however, with its stolen Merlin engine (the Yanks haven't been a technology nation back then) and its tumour under the belly and its silly narrow fuselage is, so to say from the same kind as any of the planes shown above, where nobody seemed to care for aesthetis, but only for function. Beauty is not a thing of taste, beauty and aesthetics is "objectifiable", shown e.g. in the golden section. Again, the P51 is not a beautiful, well proportioned aircraft. It is build from people who came from barbarism to decadence without even scratching the zenith of culture. At least for my taste ;). The canopy however was sleek!

[@dumbassgreek]

​@@John-nc4blcan you please get your American ass outta here

[@sr3d-microphones]

Hi Mr Bobsurgranny! How would you like to try one of our binaural 3D mics for aircraft events? You can get a sense of what they are about on my channel of a Typhoon at Southport air show this year, but be sure to wear headphones and lower the volume to about 50% for the best experience :O) It's called binaural audio and is a clone of how we hear audio, so puts you there where the mic was.

[@angostoora4737]

Felt myself breathing in those fumes every run.

[@bobsurgranny]

Lovely! About time we invented "smellavision " 😜

[@simplybutter1]

Half these aircraft I didn't know were still flying!

[@bobsurgranny]

None of these are in airworthy condition, they just blast them down the runway once in a while

[@simplybutter1]

oh well still good to see them moving!@@bobsurgranny

[@ianwebster891]

Great footage! What year was this? Absolutely criminal what's happened to Bruntingthorpe in recent years. At least some aircraft escaped.

[@bobsurgranny]

2013 this was

[@PsPuNkS]

Wait so were they just only drag racing the planes?!

[@bobsurgranny]

yep pretty much haha

[@jxk4500]

oh god thath electra. didnt know one still existed

[@ukar69]

I've ridden in the Comet down the runway. Shame the new owners want all aviation activity gone from Bruntingthorpe.

[@bobsurgranny]

Nice. Yep not enough dollar in it for them. Terrible there's no heritage preservation thought going on and they don't care, just always money orientated

[@igortarnovskiy1910]

Where is it possible to have a look on these still working beauty?

[@bobsurgranny]

They have a twin seater EE Lightning still flying in South Africa

[@benoitpisarchick6866]

Brits aircraft are always the most bizarre airplanes you can find! it's always difficult to say if they are ugly or beautiful. but interesting to see anyway

[@thekeithfulbarrums]

some fantastic footage you've got here. When was this filmed?

[@bobsurgranny]

cheers this was 2013

[@thekeithfulbarrums]

cheers, heard this place closed a few years back, its a real shame.@@bobsurgranny

[@SeungunHong-r7x]

Amazing video when was this taken?

[@bobsurgranny]

2013

[@aviationin4k258]

Awesome, when was this?

[@bobsurgranny]

2013

[@Crazyuncle1]

Thank you for the fine videos but I wish you included the rotation and initial clime out.

[@bobsurgranny]

These were just fast taxi runs, to give the engines a good blast, none of these planes are deemed airworthy any longer unfortunately..

[@Crazyuncle1]

@@bobsurgranny That explains it. Initially I watched it with the sound turned down so I wouldn’t wake the wife. Giving the engines a good blast is a great description.

[@owensmith7530]

@@Crazyuncle1It's good for clearing the cobwebs out of the engines...

[@Gadgetonomy]

If only Concorde was allowed to display like this.

[@bobsurgranny]

it would do 😉

[@still_guns]

I had heard Cold War Jets had closed down a few years ago, so how recent is this footage?

[@bobsurgranny]

Yes this was 2013

[@LTTUSA]

Thunderbirds Are GO !

[@wintersbattleofbands1144]

Go COMET!

[@garyprice7810]

Great video where was it filmed cheers Gary

[@bobsurgranny]

Bruntingthorpe. Please read descriptions 👍

[@DAviation179]

Are these planes still airworthy?

[@dodoubleg2356]

Awesome vid but why wouldn’t you show them at least rotating?? That would’ve been the icing on the cake. 🤔

[@bobsurgranny]

All these are no longer airworthy, they just give them a good ol' blast down the runway every now and then

[@canadiantrainperson]

How come they arent allowed to take off? Really cool!

[@bobsurgranny]

CAA won't let these fly any more, all deemed un-airworthy, so we only see the occasional fast blast up the runway

[@L_U-K_E]

👏

[@karloarsch1579]

Nice collection, but why don't you show us the take offs?

[@bobsurgranny]

none of them took off, they are no longer airworthy so they just give em a blast down the runway

[@karloarsch1579]

@@bobsurgranny I am sorry, my bad, I knew, that the comet and the victor are not longer airworthy, but thought that the smaller fighters still are. Thanks.

[@bobsurgranny]

np

[@russell4788]

did any of them leave the ground or did they just power down the runway? Every clip is a video that ended too soon.

[@wintersbattleofbands1144]

Um, read the title of the video. These just high speed taxi runs. These aircraft have probably lost their airworthiness certificates, but at least they're essentially functional rather than being dead displays.

[@RLVIDEOS2024]

Great Victor bomber

[@bobsurgranny]

💯 Victor has sooo much character, what a marvel in engineering and way ahead of its time. The Victor run is on the end screen 👍

[@125brat]

It's actually a K2 tanker now. It started as a B2 bomber, then was converted to a BSR2 reconnaissance aircraft, then to a K2 3-point air-to-air refuelling tanker.

[@Legobro427]

Bro that nimrod looks like it wants to be a c130 and a dehavelin coment

[@tangerinedream7211]

Remember seeing the newspaper pictures of Nimrod's being broken up mid build when the government cancelled the contract, so very very wasteful of taxpayers money. It carries on with all lane running motorways and HS2, they haven't got a clue, they know the price of everything and the value of nothing.😡

[@mack1541]

that lightning should be burning fuel up in the air where it belongs not in the ground, so what if it's too loud it's a speed machine of course it's gonna be loud.

[@bobsurgranny]

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh

[@jimdery2920]

Weird to see this, I was once responsible for a number of them........

[@jgulbrandson]

To my untrained eye it appears that some of these jets are still airworthy.

[@Flying_GC]

There is a big difference between airworthy and an aircraft that 'looks and may function' as an airworthy aircraft, but is actually far from the technical term of airworthy. Sounds weird I know. Over 20 years as a commercial pilot and some things still can be confusing for me even. Often it's time expired parts.

[@rescue270]

Airworthy is a legal term that means "in a condition for safe operation AND in conformance with approved Type Design." Jet aircraft have quite a few parts in the airframes and engines that have service fatigue life limits. This means these parts must be replaced when they reach their maximum prescribed number of hours or cycles. All of these aircraft probably have parts that are beyond their mandated service limits, which are set forth in their original Type Design approval. Therefore, they are not legally airworthy. Furthermore, there are probably some very time-consuming and expensive inspections that are required to ensure safe condition, even if the life-limited parts are still within their service life limits. They may still be in a condition for safe operation for the moment, but that has to be proven and documented through inspection and Type Design research before they can be determined to be in Airworthy Condition. Even if no civil Type Certificate exists for them, such as the military aircraft, the governing civil aviation authority will require full inspections and viable life-limited parts before issuing an Experimental Exhibition type of airworthiness certificate. Making one of these legal to fly again would be mountainously expensive. Old airplanes are not like old cars where you can change fluids, plugs, and some rubber and go drive them. Well, you can drive them, like they're doing here. You can't fly them.

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When was these clips all recorded??

[@bobsurgranny]

May 2013