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I was routing via Sharjah recently and I thought I would call in at Dubai Airport to get my fuel on the way to Khormaksar, Aden. If you have a slowish Broadband which causes buffering pauses, click the Pause icon in the bottom left corner, then click the resolution up to 1080p...Now WAIT as the pink band moves from left to right, till it gets about halfway across. Now click that same Pause icon to start it running again and finally click the Full Screen icon at bottom right...It should now run through without further pausing. At the end you will see a "Replay" button...If you click that

Thank you Mut and John, I hope to get some shots of the Last Shuttle Landing

Now that NASA TV has gone HD I was able to make a slideshow of some of the procedings. My show starts AFTER the astronauts have been strapped in so there will be no pictures of them. The first half of the show is dedicated to the "Close Out Crew" operating in the White Room. Then the launch. The final eight shots are from camera replays. The slideshow can be seen here:- http://www.petermcleland.com/Last The pictures appear in your browser and are in 16:9 wide screen format. They are best viewed in "Full Screen" mode (IE with F11 and Firefox with View>Full Screen) In the group of Icons

Thanks John, Your new system looks great and should make Flight Simulators sing along nicely :001_th_smiles89:

Thanks Mut, The flying of the Leader and the Number 2 was pretty straightforward...All I needed to do for the Leader was to appreciate what the other two were going to do. Number 2 was also fairly easy as I just broke right over the bay instead of left and used the same timings as the leader. Number three was much harder as I kept straight on over the bay when the others broke and then had to estimate the moment past the ship to half loop back for the crossover at the runway (I was a fraction late but was pleased with the result and accepted the first take). After the crossover, I was able to

This is a re-processed version of the Synchro Three Practice session at McLeland Field in 16:9 format, for people who have screens of that shape. I don't have any 16:9 screens on my computer system but I do have a 32 inch Panasonic television of that resolution so I use these converted videos to make DVDs and they look really great on that. If you have a slowish Broadband which causes buffering pauses, click the Pause icon in the bottom left corner, then click the resolution up to 1080p...Now WAIT as the pink band moves from left to right, till it gets about halfway across. Now click tha

Jankees...Yes I'm familiar with the recorder method...I used it to make this video:- I flew all three biplanes I might well try to recreate the original Four Hunter Loop over Kilimanjaro

I was a fighter pilot for 12 years in the RAF then an airline pilot for 22 years with BEA/BA. For my last 11 years flying I was a Captain on Tridents, retiring in 1986.

John, we used 20 degrees of flap for all our Formation Aerobatic flights at high altitude places like Nairobi...And of course for that particular Kilimanjaro flight we were as high as 19000 feet. It gives a lot more bite for manoeuvering. If I remember correctly we introduced it out of necessity at high altitude displays but then standardised it for all displays...I had to remember if I did my Solo Aerobatics display after the final break, to get the flap in before starting my display as parts of my display were at very high speed. BTW...I was using 20 flap for these screenshots, but it is ha

Yes Dai, It was taken by one of our airmen who was a keen photographer...He flew in the right seat of our only Hunter T7 two-seater. He also got some colour shots for his own use but I never saw them. One of his b/w shots was published in The Illustrated London News with the heading of "Unusual Photographs".

While taking Echo around the World I am reliving moments from the past in certain locations. Here are a few shots taken as I savoured a flight in 1960 that we flew to get a photograph:- Sadly this time, I did not have the leader and two wingmen to keep me company but here is the photo we got in 1960:- This was our favourite formation team photograph. Tim Cohu, the team number two, died last year.

This is a re-processed version of the Echo aerobatics display in 16:9 format, for people who have screens of that shape. The manoeuvres that I'm particularly proud of in this video are:- 1.The roll on take-off through the fiery hoop. 2.Twice through the fiery hoop on a single loop. 3.Landing through the fiery hoop from an inverted break. I think this is my best YouTube video. If you have a slowish Broadband which causes buffering pauses, click the Pause icon in the bottom left corner, then click the resolution up to 1080p...Now WAIT as the pink band moves from left to right, till it

That is OK here Joe because you have the up to date embedding code...Elsewhere they don't use the latest code and the embedding denies the user "Full Screen Mode" as that icon in the corner is not present. That is why I use the tags to prevent embedding. Glad you enjoyed the "rest" Joe...I'm busy converting the Echo video now, and as you know, that is not so restful :001_th_smiles89:

A delight to cruise around in, enjoying the local scenery. This is a re-processed version of the Eastbourne Monoplane video in 16:9 ratio for those with suitable screens. If you have a slowish Broadband which causes buffering pauses, click the Pause icon in the bottom left corner, then click the resolution up to 1080p...Now WAIT as the pink band moves from left to right, till it gets about halfway across. Now click that same Pause icon to start it running again and finally click the Full Screen icon at bottom right...It should now run through without further pausing. At the end you will

Thank you John...Yes these sorties are interesting to fly, especially over the sea in real weather. However, the same thing over the mountains around McLeland Field is much more challenging

Thanks Kieron and Mut...I didn't know anything about CAP but someone kindly pointed me here:- http://captalk.net/index.php?topic=1090.0 I found it interesting to read about their origins :001_th_smiles89:

I've been enjoying some Search and Rescue flights with the Abacus product...I took a few pictures on today's sortie...No captions are necessary. Thanks for looking

Tim, Basically, on jet fighters in those days you flew from A to B at 40,000 feet and were not concerned with Airways. So all sectors were normally one straight line. A sector in the Hunter with four drop tanks could be over 1000 nms so the straight line would probably cross quite a few maps...The maps were all joined up and then a piece of string was laid between two pins stuck through the map at Departure and Destination... Then a decent straight edge was laid against the string to draw the track...You would have to lay the rule several times as the track might be quite a few feet long. You

I finished the Flightplanning today and will set off tomorrow. I will need to be a bit flexible as I'm going to use Real Weather updated every 15 mins, so I might have to divert to an alternate for bad weather, or in the case of some rather long legs, to get some fuel:- Hunter XE609 Echo RTW PAMA McLeland Field 1319 nms CYRB Resolute Bay 1535 nms BIKF Keflavik 1011 nms XSTD Stradishall 1143 nms LMML Luqa 918 nms LCNC Nicosia 875 nms OIIE Imam Khomaini 646 nms OMSJ Sharjah 956 nms OYAA Aden (Khormaksar) 977 nms HKJK Nairobi (Jomo Kenyatta) 1055 nms FVHA

Thanks for the comments Gents Those strip maps looked like this...These are the ones we used for operation "Longtrek" in 1953...12 Venom FB1s from Wunstorf in Germany to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia and back again. The year was 1953. I'm the one with my arms folded :smile:

In the old days when I was preparing for a long trip in a Hunter, the first step was to get all the maps that covered the route and stick them all together with glue, draw on the track from start point to destination and finally cut away all of it that was more than 50 miles each side of track. This made it into a strip map 100 miles wide and it was folded concertina fashion so that it could sit on my right thigh and be opened a section at a time as I proceded up the track. We had no nav aids in our Hunters so navigation was all by map reading. Now it is different and as I prepare to take Ech

Thanks for the comments Gents...I'm busy flight planning now to take Echo round the World. If anyone still using FS9 wants to rig the Long Range FGA9, here are some numbers you might need (taken from the real aircraft):- Hunter FGA9 Fuel at 7.7lbs/gallonIMP and 6.7lbs/gallonUS ........................LBS...........IMPgallons.. ........USgallons FRONT...............1540..........200............. ......230 REAR..................400............52........... .........60 WING................1078..........140............. ......161 2x100 ...............1540..........200.................. .230

I have only just found out how to get the full set of external tanks on my Hunters...I was labouring under the impression that the only optional model of the aircraft was the "Clean" version, but when I looked it was the full long range version. What a shame I did not discover this before I sent them all out to Kenya last year. It would have been the correct rig for them Anyway here are a few shots I took today of the AI Traffic long range version with inboard 230 gallon external tanks and out board 100 gallon external tanks:- Now I must get the user version to have the

That was fabulous Joe...I really enjoyed it and it took me back a long way :001_th_smiles89:

Thanks Kieran, Yep, the two seaters look good there at Yakutat...They are waiting for me to finish their flight planning that brings them into McLeland Field for a stream landing on a Saturday :001_th_smiles89: