British Military Jet Kills 7 at Airshow

[EagleSmack]

Seven Killed in Fiery Plane Crash at British Airshow - NBC News

 

[petros]

Quality.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Too bad there weren't some Americans around to stop him.

 

[EagleSmack]

Quality.

Shoreham Airshow crash: First picture of 'gifted' trained British Airways pilot of crash that left 7 dead - Mirror Online


Apparently so.

 

[petros]

I witnessed a crash about 12 years ago at a show at CFB Moose Jaw. Nasty!!! I can still feel the heat and the thud when I think about it.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

According to the article, he was the "best of the best."

If that's the Briddish's best, it's probably a good thing their carriers don't have aircraft. Safer that way.

 

[EagleSmack]

British Media on the ball saying the aircraft was a WWII Aircraft.

Reporting at its finest.

According to the article, he was the "best of the best."

If that's the Briddish's best, it's probably a good thing their carriers don't have aircraft. Safer that way.

"He is highly professional and it is totally unusual for this too happen."


Too happen?


"He was a Harrier pilot in the air force. They are the top RAF pilots - the best of the best."

 

[darkbeaver]

The limeys know how to make an exciting airshow. I think I read that it, the plane, snapped in half trying to finish the bottom of the loop.

 

[petros]

Was it made of plywood?

 

[#juan]

The Hawker Hunter was developed in the fifties, It looked like the pilot had time to eject but not enough altitude to complete a loop. Hard to say what went wrong in a sixty odd year old jet fighter.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

"World War II jet fighter."

British journalists are as competent as Briddish pilots.

 

[darkbeaver]

50s airframe shouldn't even have been in the air let alone doin loops over thrill seekers.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Maybe it was shot down by an invisible Messerschmitt.

 

[darkbeaver]

Putins wicked work.

 

[Kreskin]

The poor people on that highway. What a bloody moron.

 

[Curious Cdn]

?The Hawker Hunter was morphed into the Harrier in in 1960s and there is still a family resemblance. They were deployed all over and they filled the same operational niches as the Sabre did in our air force.

Was it made of plywood?

I watched a deHaviland Venom jet (just a few years older than the Hunter that went down, today) doing aerobatics at a Warplanes Heritage airshow in Hamilton in the 1980's. It was made out of plywood as was her very similar sister, the de Haviland Vampire, which was Canada's first fighter jet.

 

[lone wolf]

Low level loops have claimed many a pilot. How much closer can you get to Heaven than going out doing what you love doing? Rest in peace.

 

[EagleSmack]

?The Hawker Hunter was morphed into the Harrier in in 1960s and there is still a family resemblance.

lmao

 

[darkbeaver]

Too bad there weren't some Americans around to stop him.

You don't mean on the ground do you?

Some may have, I haven't seen the list of victims yet.

 

[taxslave]

Prince of Darkness wiring.