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F-35 to Europe...

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by Will24 » Sat Apr 15, 2017 7:07 am

TeeJay wrote:And let's just hope people leave it CLEAN and TIDY this time!!!

NOT the horrendous mess after Raptor deployment!!

You don't realise how close LN actually was to closing the viewing area for good after that :grr:

Trev

Yes I totally agree it was just filled with idiots over them few days, idiots who could of wrecked it for all of us!

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by Thunder » Sat Apr 15, 2017 7:09 am

rebel14 wrote:According to Twitter they are from Hill.
So that would be about a 11-12 hr flight?

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by slogen51 » Sat Apr 15, 2017 7:12 am

Thunder wrote:These F-35's will either be from Eglin, Luke or Hill, which means it's going to be a bit of a hike for them without pre positioning on the Eastern seaboard first?
Maybe wrong but i think the 34fs at Hill is touted as being the only F-35A unit ready for deployment overseas

Find out soon enough i guess

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by boff180 » Sat Apr 15, 2017 7:24 am

It's the 34th FS from Hill they're the only USAF front line combat unit with 35's that's been declared combat ready.

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by GreenBat » Sat Apr 15, 2017 8:02 am

ythanpythan wrote:
TonyO wrote: Jesus wept...
To be fair Good Friday didn't end well for him.
Brilliant..... best comments I've seen on FC in ages :P

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by burnsy133 » Sat Apr 15, 2017 9:20 am

Anyone around the Lakenheath area at around 1330-1430 should be happy today :-)

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by Hmb » Sat Apr 15, 2017 9:53 am

Are they going lakenheath then?

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by MRTT » Sat Apr 15, 2017 9:56 am

Believe so, yes.

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by eagle driver » Sat Apr 15, 2017 10:02 am

Hmb wrote:Are they going lakenheath then?
Its only the Dutch that seem to be saying they are coming to LKH .everyone else seems to be content to dish out cryptic clues , no real change there then .

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by baz1 » Sat Apr 15, 2017 10:06 am

so were as the support landed and when!? should give a clue
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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by Hmb » Sat Apr 15, 2017 10:13 am

I thought there was a lot of cargo into ln recently

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by panta615 » Sat Apr 15, 2017 10:40 am

Hmb wrote:I thought there was a lot of cargo into ln recently
Probably find that was from Red Flag

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by Tiger 1 » Sat Apr 15, 2017 11:42 am

It's all gone quiet about the media day on Tuesday?

T1

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by burnsy133 » Sat Apr 15, 2017 12:40 pm

C-17 earlier this week was from HL.

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by Will24 » Sat Apr 15, 2017 12:50 pm

burnsy133 wrote:C-17 earlier this week was from HL.
I saw that Wednesday night, didn't no it was HL. All makes sense! I take it the F35's will obviously be HL too?

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by paddyboy » Sat Apr 15, 2017 1:01 pm

'Glide in' :S

That flying brick :lol:

Have the chance to get to the 'heath, but now off to get a bit more excitement in the shape of watching some freshly applied paint dry :thumbs:

You were right, Trev ;)

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by lambo1784 » Sat Apr 15, 2017 1:47 pm

6 coded HL arrived,reported put into shelters.2 more did not leave Bangor either spares or tanker problems mean they coulfd follow later.

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by Usernamegoeshere » Sat Apr 15, 2017 4:19 pm

my videos of the 6 usaf F-35A's landing at lakenheath today are on https://www.youtube.com/user/AwesomeFullHDvideos/videos more are uploading right now so will be published very soon
hope you like them

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ps they arrived from 135pm so no one got the times right in advance https://www.youtube.com/user/AwesomeFullHDvideos/videos

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Re: F-35 to Europe...

Post by davidn » Sat Apr 15, 2017 5:13 pm

I hear that they will be based at Lossie.
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Well, why not eh?

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