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The roar of a low flying jet fighter overhead minutes ago just lit me up, every hair on my body stood straight up!
A career mistake I won't make again in my next life
I will be certain my full time ride starts with an "F" as in F-14, F-15, F-18, F-22, F-35...I was always told I would have made an excellent military man, I enjoy a high degree of structure on the job.
This weekend:
The Breitling Jet Team is the world’s largest professional civilian team performing on jets. They fly seven L-39C Albatros aircraft, Czech-made twin-seater military training jets. Their performance is a meticulously coordinated ballet in which planes fly within 3 meters of each other, at speeds of over 700 km/h.
Fort Lauderdale Beach, FL.
El Equipo Jet Breitling es el equipo profesional civil más grande del mundo que hace presentaciones con jets. Vuelan siete aviones L-39C Albatros, los cuales son jets de entrenamiento militar biplaza construidos en la Republica Checa. Su presentación es un ballet meticulosamente coordinado en el cual los aviones vuelan a menos de 3 metros de distancia entre ellos, a velocidades de más de 700 Kmh.
Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida.
07MAY2016.
Jet petrol was founded in Rotherham in 1953 by a chap called Bill Roberts - that's according to the internet anyway, but more likely by Hansons of Huddersfield - see way down in comments below. At the time he founded his petrol company, he didn't have a specific brand name for it, but the first delivery of oil tankers they were to use featured registration plates with JET on them (ET being one of the main Rotherham area letter codes) so that seemed the obvious choice. I am guessing the first Jet branded forecourt was established in 1954. Jet became rapidly known as a discount brand, doing so well that it was only a matter of eight years before Conoco bought out the company. Little changed until into the next century when Conoco merged with Phillips 66 in 2002. In 2012 the Conoco Phillips company was divided into upstream and downstream, so Phillips 66 took control of all the downstream sites in the UK, but the Jet name continues to be used.
Jet had a number of different logos over the years, the earliest featuring a delta wing jet plane but soon replaced with a more simple amber sign with Jet in black on it. There were subtle variants of these signs, earlier versions had canted edges, later ones were parallel, and there were examples of a different font being used for the logo. By the later 1970s Jet had established what I refer to as the "1970s council house livery" in amber and beige, the sign still being black on amber, and then once that sort of colour scheme had truly fallen from favour, in 1989 they introduced the "lego" style livery with a royal blue and yellow logo and livery which at the time felt like a considerable departure. That lasted into the next century, but in 2003 the logo was updated again, now using more of a navy blue and amber. That is the logo style which remains to the present day, although a new variant was introduced a few years ago adjusting the colours very slightly and utilising more grey on the overall livery, currently for some reason highly popular in marketing
Below I'll add examples of each variant.
As an aside, even in the 1970s when I was a young lad, I was already aware that Jet petrol was generally cheaper than other brands, and the name seemed cool too!
Very few Jet branded keyrings exist, so far I've only been able to acquire two, one celebrating their fiftieth anniversary in 2004, and the other features the current logo style, and the keyring doubles up as a supermarket trolley token!
Koksijde, 7 July 1991.
2019 will see the end of the Belgian Alpha Jet. AT11 was the solo display jet in 1991 and therefor is in special colours.
Belgium received the first of 33 Alpha Jets in October 1978 as a replacement for the Lockheed T-33A and Fouga Magister. The last one was delivered in July 1980.
They were used by 7 and 11 smaldeel at Brustem and later Beauvechain, but in september the fleet moved to the French-Belgian Advanced Jet Training School at Cazaux (France).
C-FTLK is one of three Boeing 737s being used by Thomson's to convey passengers from the British Isles to their cruise ships in the Mediterranean.
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
12th October 2013
20131012 IMG_8193 CFTLK
On final for runway 25L.
Taken from lounge/pool deck of the La Quinta Inn and Suites Las Vegas Airport South.
A short clip of a very athletic Jet Skier in the Solent performing somersaults with ease.
Apologies for the uncontrolled child running in front of the camera but the somersault is caught in all its glory.
If only my bones could perform like this!!
Mascarello Roma 370, Mercedes Benz O-500RSD-2441 BlueTec 5
Lugar De La Foto: San Fernando
Patente: HLBF-56
Servicio Regular Zona Central
Dassault Alpha Jet AT-08 of the Belgian Air Force and Folland Gnat T.1 XM693 at Cranfield on 19th September 1993.
Photo by John W. Read.
OK, so its a Spanish one, and a McDonnell Douglas Mk II, rather than the Hawker classic, but so cool to see this iconic aircraft. In the background is a Constellation. Farnborough Air Show, UK, 18 July 2014
Hawker Siddeley Harrier GR.3 XZ133.
The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, developed in the 1960s, was the first of the Harrier Jump Jet series of aircraft. It was the first operational close-support and reconnaissance fighter aircraft with vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) capabilities and the only truly successful V/STOL design of the many that arose in that era.
The Harrier was developed directly from the Hawker Siddeley Kestrel prototype aircraft, following the cancellation of a more advanced supersonic aircraft, the Hawker Siddeley P.1154. The British Royal Air Force (RAF) ordered the Harrier GR.1 and GR.3 variants in the late 1960s. It was exported to the United States as the AV-8A, for use by the US Marine Corps (USMC), in the 1970s.
Passing one another at Frankfurt airport, the two crowning members of the lonely world that is the Jumbo-Jet family; the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 747.
In the background, Emirates Airbus A380-861 A6-EOI taxis to the active with a flight to Dubai, while at the gate is Lufthansa Boeing 747-430 D-ABVO, being prepared for a flight to Tehran.
Both of these aircraft, while the very pinnacles of commercial aviation technology and how much can physically be put into the air, are a dying breed. With the advent of more efficient twin-jet aircraft with equal capacities, including the Boeing 777 and 787 and the Airbus A330 and A350, these four-engined, double-deck monsters of the sky are destined for the history books.