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by EGDR
Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:03 pm
Forum: Photography Q & A / How to post photos
Topic: Upgrade to mirrorless or full frame?
Replies: 23
Views: 1159

Re: Upgrade to mirrorless or full frame?

Canon have very similar rolling shutter performance to Sony with the same limitations as you descend in price. The A9III's global shutter comes with some significant performance downsides - lower dynamic range, higher base ISO and worse ISO performance than the A9II. If you need the global shutter, ...
by EGDR
Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:31 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: USAF Certifying F-117s To Receive Fuel From KC-46s
Replies: 3
Views: 1205

Re: USAF Certifying F-117s To Receive Fuel From KC-46s

That was late 2022 - just over a year to complete the process doesn't seem out of the question. The A400M helicopter AAR trials took from 2019 to 2021 to complete.
by EGDR
Sun Mar 17, 2024 12:40 am
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: RAF Boeing H-47ER
Replies: 30
Views: 5436

Re: RAF Boeing H-47ER

The Chinook HC3s (now HC5s) were also supposed to be fitted with an IFR probe. As we now know, that capability hasn't been utilised. Just because an aircraft *can* be fitted with one doesn't mean it must be used. MH-47Gs can fly without them if ever necessary, it's just uncommon to see that configur...
by EGDR
Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:21 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What phone do we all use?
Replies: 22
Views: 1847

Re: What phone do we all use?

I've used Pixel phones since switching over from an iPhone 6 in 2019. I do still like iPhones, I just keep getting better deals on the Pixels. Started with a Pixel 3A, then a Pixel 5, now on a Pixel 7 Pro. Have very few complaints about them (most of which are very niche things, like not being able ...
by EGDR
Fri Mar 15, 2024 10:54 am
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: RAF Boeing H-47ER
Replies: 30
Views: 5436

Re: RAF Boeing H-47ER

Are there any based in the middle east? Not sure there's a permanent need in the Middle East now, given there isn't too much of a UK troop presence there, if at all. There's a need for CSAR support for Op Shader aircraft and likely for special forces operations which don't get publicly acknowledged
by EGDR
Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:19 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: F-35 Now Certified To Carry Nukes
Replies: 3
Views: 1128

Re: F-35 Now Certified To Carry Nukes

I don't think any RAF aircraft are nowadays, mainly because we don't have the WE177 any more. There may be some US owned weapons allocated to us, although I suspect that any such plans are not public knowledge. There's no RAF aircraft able to deploy nuclear weapons - Typhoon has always been a no-go...
by EGDR
Wed Feb 07, 2024 3:39 am
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: Lakenheath - nuclear store
Replies: 85
Views: 15515

Re: Lakenheath - nuclear store

Well that's kind of my point, why not have the storage available should it ever be required. Because maintaining a complex weapons management system for which we have a) no weapons, and b) no aircraft that could even deliver those non-existent weapons (the F-35B is not and will not be cleared for B...
by EGDR
Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:14 am
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: Lakenheath - nuclear store
Replies: 85
Views: 15515

Re: Lakenheath - nuclear store

Where would the need arise? Our contribution to the NATO collective deterrent is our submarine force, which is far more significant than us strapping a couple B61s to some fighter aircraft. The F-35B can't carry the B61 internally and there's zero chance of Typhoon ever seeing one.
by EGDR
Thu Nov 30, 2023 7:26 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: USAF EA-37B Updates
Replies: 30
Views: 3346

Re: USAF EA-37B Updates

My bad. Not sure how I missed that!
by EGDR
Wed Nov 29, 2023 11:04 am
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: USAF EA-37B Updates
Replies: 30
Views: 3346

Re: USAF EA-37B Updates

To be honest, I'd not considered the 'originals' might be the edited ones, you might be right :lol:
by EGDR
Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:29 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: USAF EA-37B Updates
Replies: 30
Views: 3346

Re: USAF EA-37B Updates

POL wrote:
Sun Nov 26, 2023 8:13 pm
Photo of 5567 marked up with DM tailcode: https://twitter.com/EC37B/status/1640031817167417345
Tailcode was edited in, unfortunately - original image in here: https://theaviationist.com/2023/06/01/ec-37b-update/
by EGDR
Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:27 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: Ex Qinetic BAC 1-11 Saved
Replies: 7
Views: 1509

Re: Ex Qinetic BAC 1-11 Saved

One-Eleven 539GL ZH763 would've been much better-off where it was previously "stored in Cornwall." Questionable, the HAS site was far from a perfect location for these aircraft. The VC10's undercarriage was found shortly after the museum's closure to have rotted to the point of being completely uns...
by EGDR
Tue Nov 07, 2023 11:36 pm
Forum: RAF Fairford
Topic: HOWLER 31-32 mission 7/11/23
Replies: 127
Views: 9246

Re: HOWLER mission November 7th.?

vaughan wrote:
Tue Nov 07, 2023 11:31 pm
Valley is VLY
Not when you're routing via the TACAN
https://ourairports.com/navaids/VYL/Valley_TACAN_GB/
by EGDR
Tue Nov 07, 2023 11:18 pm
Forum: RAF Fairford
Topic: HOWLER 31-32 mission 7/11/23
Replies: 127
Views: 9246

Re: HOWLER mission November 7th.?

HOWLER 32 requesting routing via Valley/VYL back to Fairford

HOWLER 31 requesting to route direct MEZRE
by EGDR
Tue Nov 07, 2023 10:48 pm
Forum: RAF Fairford
Topic: HOWLER 31-32 mission 7/11/23
Replies: 127
Views: 9246

Re: HOWLER mission November 7th.?

Whoppa722002 wrote:
Tue Nov 07, 2023 10:42 pm
Did anyone at FFD get confirmation of registrations for tonight's HOWLER flight??
31 passed serial as 86-0103, could not hear the serial for 32
by EGDR
Tue Nov 07, 2023 10:32 pm
Forum: RAF Fairford
Topic: HOWLER 31-32 mission 7/11/23
Replies: 127
Views: 9246

Re: HOWLER mission November 7th.?

2229z: LAGER 91 holding to line up rendezvous with HOWLER flight

2231z: LAGER 91 declaring MARSA with HOWLER flight

2237z: LAGER 91 climbing to FL250 due to cloud at established altitude block
by EGDR
Thu Oct 12, 2023 3:02 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Formula 1 2023
Replies: 692
Views: 372170

Re: Formula 1 2023

Marathon runners aren't strapped into a car with a 1000hp engine inches from their back. It's a very, very different type of physical endurance. It is extremely hot (50-60 degrees celsius) in those cars even on the best day, let alone in a place with 40c+ natural air temperature that drivers often d...
by EGDR
Fri Oct 06, 2023 4:09 pm
Forum: Warbirds, Replicas and Nostalgic Photography
Topic: Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre
Replies: 13
Views: 2094

Re: Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre

They're not building housing on an active airfield. The old museum site already has new lessors.
by EGDR
Fri Oct 06, 2023 1:43 pm
Forum: Warbirds, Replicas and Nostalgic Photography
Topic: Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre
Replies: 13
Views: 2094

Re: Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre

mancman wrote:
Fri Oct 06, 2023 8:29 am
especially since the demise of the Virgin space venture?
Virgin Orbit never held land on the airport, so there is no 'extra room' since their bankruptcy. Spaceport Cornwall is an ongoing concern, completely seperate from Virgin Orbit.
by EGDR
Sun Sep 17, 2023 9:07 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: Harriers left AMARC
Replies: 15
Views: 2370

Re: Harriers left AMARC

Shame, we should have asked for them back, Anything better than the F-35?!?!?…… You're right, there isn't anything better than the F-35. That's why everyone who can is buying it. BUT the 'B' model is a complex range & payload limited high maintenance one-trick lame pony imo Rather apt description f...

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