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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:17 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: 2024 Typhoon Display Jet
- Replies: 54
- Views: 2856
Re: 2024 Typhoon Display Jet
Those of a certain age can probably remember brown and tan camo Hercules and a few remaining Andovers. The Beverley had been retired and most had been scrapped before I was born. A few sand/tan Argosies survived into the mid 1970s IIRC.... I can remember a 115 Sqn Argosy going low level inbound Binb...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: F-4 fans may wish to avoid this....
- Replies: 0
- Views: 378
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:28 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: 2024 Typhoon Display Jet
- Replies: 54
- Views: 2856
Re: 2024 Typhoon Display Jet
F-2000 and TF-2000 in AMI service As per here also
https://theaviationist.com/2024/03/26/i ... -exercise/
https://theaviationist.com/2024/03/26/i ... -exercise/
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: 2024 Typhoon Display Jet
- Replies: 54
- Views: 2856
Re: 2024 Typhoon Display Jet
Interesting they chose what appears to be one of the most infrequently seen single-seat T1 jets, hope it's not a hangar queen. Apart from the Black painted thing not many do appear often.. After march next year, the only place anyone gets to see one will be Mount Pleasant. Or a fleeting glimpse of ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:29 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: 2024 Typhoon Display Jet
- Replies: 54
- Views: 2856
Re: 2024 Typhoon Display Jet
Same number of Squadrons, but just less airframes on them per Sqn....
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:53 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: 2024 Typhoon Display Jet
- Replies: 54
- Views: 2856
Re: 2024 Typhoon Display Jet
ZJ929 and ZJ939 have already been retired to Warton, along with ZJ937 which isn't yet retired.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:38 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Argentina to buy 24 Danish F-16
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2403
Re: Argentina to buy 24 Danish F-16
Well yes as NATO clearly isn't on the bottle every night, and I seem to recall it was President Yeltsin (doing the same)at the time... So yes you were clearly dreaming about Putin. Oh and a wee bit of research will tell you that all but 1 or 2 of the Tu-22M3s were scrapped the pair of survivors went...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Argentina to buy 24 Danish F-16
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2403
Re: Argentina to buy 24 Danish F-16
This Argentinian NATO application is another ruse inspired by those allegedly duplicitous Turkish members who are still sore about the Wooden Horse stunt way back!...imo. :whistle: How many other NATO members aside from Turkey have Russian missile systems? :grr: For Argentina, just join NATO & whil...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:36 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Akrotiri and Romania typhoons
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1433
Re: Akrotiri and Romania typhoons
Checking any reports from Coningsby for either of those or on Lossiemouth for the latter might be a starter. Otherwise, as the former change frequently, no.
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Warbirds, Replicas and Nostalgic Photography
- Topic: Shackleton XF708 @ Duxford - 23Mar24
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1069
Re: Shackleton XF708 @ Duxford - 23Mar24
Going on the time they took to restore the Victor, which is now inside Airspace. I'd say this is following that trend....
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 1:15 pm
- Forum: Current Military Photography
- Topic: Convoi Exceptionnel
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2324
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:41 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Duxford Crash
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3417
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Duxford Crash
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3417
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: RAF Boeing H-47ER
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5591
Re: RAF Boeing H-47ER
I expect there will be at least 14 retirements from the existing fleet, if not all originals bought in the early 1980s. It was supposedly going to be 9 of the oldest airframes out of the 60 in the fleet, so with an eventual fleet of 51, that probably will be the case. However they have retired 2 of...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: RAF Boeing H-47ER
- Replies: 30
- Views: 5591
Re: RAF Boeing H-47ER
And deduct the 6 already retired
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: Warbirds, Replicas and Nostalgic Photography
- Topic: Photo Request - Waddington Gate Guard Victor XL189
- Replies: 5
- Views: 810
Re: Photo Request - Waddington Gate Guard Victor XL189
To Waddington 2 July 1986 0fficially for Ground instructional use.
But put on display as a gate guardian, sadly a victim of the infamous One Gate Guardian only per airfield policy.
Scrapped August 1989
But put on display as a gate guardian, sadly a victim of the infamous One Gate Guardian only per airfield policy.
Scrapped August 1989
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: RAF Waddington
- Topic: WAVE - When did it open?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1265
Re: WAVE - When did it open?
Same day 23 Squadron became the second E-3 Squadron
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:58 am
- Forum: Warbirds, Replicas and Nostalgic Photography
- Topic: 6 Sqn. (The Flying Can Openers) reach 110
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1383
Re: 6 Sqn. (The Flying Can Openers) reach 110
6 sqn 100th anniversary special Typhoon arriving at Fairford RIAT in 2014. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51031833776_a8fdb2bc7f_h.jpg Typhoon FGR4 ZK342/ED 6 Squadron RAF Lossiemouth by Paul Downes , on Flickr I generally dislike most 'special' paint schemes for jets - and this is a total doo...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: Warbirds, Replicas and Nostalgic Photography
- Topic: 6 Sqn. (The Flying Can Openers) reach 110
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1383
Re: 6 Sqn. (The Flying Can Openers) reach 110
6 Squadron got its first F-4s in january 1969 when they left the NEAF Strike Wing at Akrotiri. Made up of 6, 32,73 and 249 Squadrons
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: Warbirds, Replicas and Nostalgic Photography
- Topic: RAF Scampton Relics
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2043
Re: RAF Scampton Relics
The F-4F at Scampton was never going to be the flying airframe. It was for spares as far as I recall whereas the one in Germany gained a UK Military serial ZK848