RAF pilot flies jet THROUGH Tower Bridge

Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson

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How times have changed, the recent celebration of our Royal Air Force's centenary brought this amusing old story from 1968 to the newspapers. No mention of a major security incident, no intercept jets scrambled, no talk of it being shot out of the air, just some RAF wag bringing attention to a lack of Labour government support to another anniversary, its 50th.

"Now that's a flypast! RAF veteran pilot, 82, relives the split-second decision he made to fly through a busy Tower Bridge in 1968"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...it-second-decision-fly-busy-Tower-Bridge.html


Shame the photo is fake. No that is a story for the after dinner table :)`Elf `n' safety eat your heart out!
 
The sad bit is I was well into my twenties then and can remember it.

Yes - how much things have changed for the worse.
 
Gonna rise to this bait, cause why not.

Uh... he should be glad he didn't get a lengthy prison sentence for that, all it takes is single mistake and you not only destroy an ancient bridge, but probably damage everything around it and killing a bunch of people.

Would it have been patriotic then?
 
It's health and safety gone mad I tells ya.

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StriderX said:
Gonna rise to this bait, cause why not.

Uh... he should be glad he didn't get a lengthy prison sentence for that, all it takes is single mistake and you not only destroy an ancient bridge, but probably damage everything around it and killing a bunch of people.

Would it have been patriotic then?
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Jet fuel is well know for incinerating steel
 
chroniclard said:
I do miss the days you could fly around london landmarks with impunity, great days. :(
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If you read the article there was no impunity, he paid a consequence for his misplaced bravado. But patriotism in the UK was not the fashionably dirty word it's become recently and he had huge popular support, which almost certainly mediated his level of punishment. He'd be high on my "who to invite to the dinner party" list.
 
Nasher said:
Imagine the **** storm if someone did that now.
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Yeah, because it's illegal and stupid, just like it was when this guy did it in 1968.

Oh, and about that the **** storm? We don't have to imagine it, because a **** storm is exactly what happened in 1968!

He was put in close arrest for two days and a psychiatrist concluded that Alan was lucid enough to face a court martial.
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Gee, I guess the RAF had already gone all PC and pro-elf 'n' safety back in the 60s? :rolleyes:

Health and safety really has sucked the fun out of life.
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What a load of ****.
 
Talking of 'elf and safety' the Aberdeen council have earlier this month, parents were sent a letter, which gave them a deadline to remove items such as cuddly toys placed on the surrounding grass at Hazlehead Cemetery, Aberdeen. The authority said the mementos pose a health and safety danger to staff cutting the grass.
It seems their big grass cutters cannot destroy totally a cuddly toy I could lend them my mower which seems to have no trouble.
 
stockhausen said:
God save us from fabulous racist, bigoted orators.
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I am afraid they will still have their podium, especially with the 47th none terrorist murder this year in our capital having just occurred, the majority committed by ethnics or those of ethnic origins. God can only do so much, he can't fiddle facts, and many of these so called bigots are factually accurate.
 
Pretty dumb thing to do.

It's kinda "cool" but the entire thing was totally irresponsible and cocky.
 
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