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asheshouse

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The Mach Loop
« on: April 13, 2017, 08:58:52 AM »

I stumbled across this while walking in the hills of North Wales earlier this week. If you are a fan of jet aircraft then its worth a visit.

The Mach Loop is an area designated for low-flying training used by the RAF and US. Read about it here https://machloop.co.uk/

Two of us were standing alone in a remote mountain col when a pair of F15's came around the bend in the valley below us, banked and climbed, passing straight over us at ---- very low.
Second aircraft pitched onto its side as it passed and the pilot looked straight at us.

Very impressive.

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Re: The Mach Loop
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2017, 10:29:12 AM »

the mach loop isn't all that far away from where i live - great sights and sounds, providing it isn't raining lol
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Re: The Mach Loop
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2017, 10:55:15 AM »

Mach loop is one of the best youtube search terms you can enter ;)
However when it comes to low level jet performance, I have to throw in the inevitable good old Panavia Tornado:



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Re: The Mach Loop
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2017, 11:47:19 AM »

Had a noteworthy sight on a schooltrip trainride from Halle to Thale (Harz Mountains). On a sunny Summer day in 1995
before entering vincinity near Neinstedt I saw a Luftwaffe Tornado pacing very low over wheat fields (less than 5m), he reduced speed to fly with us,
dust clouds after him. Thought I was drunk. Coming closer to wave at us. Distance to train was 20m or so.
In our waggon was fury, all came to watch this. Our Teachers mouth stood wide open, we yelled.
Suddenly after wing whiggling he swept his wings and departed in a full speed ahead over the mountain landscape towards West.
Remember an airflow blow that emerged at the tail before swoosh. We sat in the last car of a common Inter Regio, the loco driver must have got
a heartache when passing this.
2 hrs later we stood at Hexentanzplatz a famous landscape sight. When the air crumbled and yet another Tornado broke the
sound barrier above us, you could trace the Kreuz on his Wings, but this time it was 100-200m above us, in a safety.
On the Map I could trace that the Tornados followed a flightpath, as the direction of the first Tornado was Hexentanzplatz
and the railways at that location pointing towards it and long enough for such  show ups.
Still very very loud, the day was awesome, 2 sights of Tornados, I haven't dreamed of that. But I could
have bite my buttom, as I forgot to keep it's serial. Was so amazed, but all over within 1 minute.
In the media there was a focus on our politicians in the aim of cutting the air force from such training around that time,
the public and environmental activists doing rants.
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Re: The Mach Loop
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2017, 06:28:30 PM »



They are scaring the cows !!  o_O 

Poor little helpless cows.
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Re: The Mach Loop
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2017, 12:53:35 PM »

I went to Derwent water for the anniversary of the dam busters raid.

They trained over Derwent before the raid.

During the day there were a lot of fly pasts by all sorts of aircraft, but the two thatA stood out was (of course) the Lancaster (City of Lincoln) and the Red Arrows

The lanc was first, starting of safely at about 500 feet, then 200 feet, then 100, the final fly past he managed to get the old bird lower than the towers on the dam wall. What a sight.

A little while later I heard the growl of a jet engine coming down the valley, a single red arrow (I think he was in a gnat) fly down the lake at 50 feet. Tail on fire.

As he approached the dam wall he rolled inverted and passed over the wall about level with the top of the towers.....  with another red arrow below him.

The second aircraft had flown the other way up the valley and they timed their runs to perfection.

Stole the show




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Re: The Mach Loop
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2017, 02:57:24 PM »

If that is your pic of the Lancaster...taken into Photoshop and with some creative work, it could be made into a nice splash screen for your install.
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Re: The Mach Loop
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2017, 04:04:50 PM »




Ok  ...................... this thread begs the question ....... Is there any IL2 map that has a similar looking area (scenery and topology) which could be used as a "Mach Loop" ?






















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