Have a cool Yule!
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RE: 3D models by Luke777 (Kaos)
Well this RAF retd. ‘Cold Warrior’ is speechless!!!
Sat here with my mouth hanging open having only just discovered it here.
The ‘banana jet’ (yes, that’s what we called it) is just glorious!Beautiful work Luke!
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RE: 4.36 Screenshots
892 NAS disbanded 15 Dec 1978.
RAF Tristar KC1 entered service 24 Mar 1986
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Lockheed_TriStar_(RAF)They didn’t grey up till many years later as well.
But as you say. Nice picture.
P.S. I remember the Ark Royal hangar for 892 when I was at RAF Leuchars in 1979!
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RE: Just a question about birds and BMS
One of my past lives was as a ‘Bird Control Unit’ operator.
On the course I was fascinated by the 1/2 Mass (of the budgie) x Velocity squared formula giving the Kinetic force for damage! Imagine a goose down your intake…
I saw the results of many bird strikes but the worst has to be a deer strike! Simulate that mess!
As for birds not liking to live near airfields. Nah. They love it! All the open grass areas are fantastic feeding for them, unless it’s allowed to grow longer. (Then you get another problem of fires in Summer…)
Roosting in the Hangars/Buildings and local area woods are another reason.
Trained Falcons for Bird Control are pretty rare in my experience.
Oh and we played loud music as well as various species alarm calls to disperse them. Lapwings were a particular pain. They’d return in minutes! And yes we used flare type pistols firing specialised shotgun cartridges that were like flashbangs.
I loved that job… More to it than you would think!