Our latest obsession ..

[Peter Korsten]

Op 5-7-2013 21:40, Jay Vaughan schreef:

> Amazing detailing .. I don't know how comfortable I would feel flying that.  I have a hard enough time getting these cheap foamies in the air and down again without suffering the builder/crasher dilemna .. I guess thats the point, though .. if you build it to such amazing detail, you better damned well fly the thing like a real pilot would!  :)

The Royal Saudi Air Force regularly flies some Eurofighter Typhoons from 
Britain or France (whether new or for refurbishment, I don't know), and 
they make a stopover in Malta. After all, it's a small, inoffensive and 
neutral country.

When they take off again, they tend to do so at full throttle. And then 
they make another fly-by at just a few hundred feet, again not flying 
exactly slow. It's quite a sight, although brief, and a shitload of noise.

Then, the other day, another Antonov An-124 landed, and quickly moved 
out of sight. Not that it makes much of a difference: these things are 
seriously loud. And big. It's like trying to hide an elephant in your 
bathroom.

Or the An-12, which is actually banned from flying in Russia, but 
happily lands here. Or Dutch and Belgian C-130 Hercules. How such a 
relatively small plane can make such a lot of noise is still a mystery 
to me.

It has its perks, working next to a runway, even of such a small airport.

- Peter