Did you know that registration to Fighter Control is completely free and brings you lots of added features? Find out more....
Search found 294 matches
- Mon Feb 22, 2021 6:59 pm
- Forum: RAF Northolt
- Topic: Ascot 4008 just landed
- Replies: 2
- Views: 303
Re: Ascot 4008 just landed
Showing over Illinois eastbound as Ascot 400....looks to have departed from Salt Lake City
- Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:16 am
- Forum: RAF Northolt
- Topic: Ascot 4008 just landed
- Replies: 2
- Views: 303
Re: Ascot 4008 just landed
Departed circa 10:15 local
To USA after gas and go at Keflavik
To USA after gas and go at Keflavik
- Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:49 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: RAF Mildenhall to close. Lakenheath to get F-35 by 2020
- Replies: 1448
- Views: 407078
Re: RAF Mildenhall to close. Lakenheath to get F-35 by 2020
Biden has just made his first foreign policy speech in which he has “reversed” the withdrawal of some US military forces from Germany, as proposed by Trump!. Be interesting how this plays out with the future of Mildenhall and other US assets in Europe.
- Thu Jan 28, 2021 11:30 am
- Forum: RAF Northolt
- Topic: A400 28January 2021
- Replies: 2
- Views: 198
Re: A400 28January 2021
Departed 11-30
- Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:24 pm
- Forum: Edinburgh
- Topic: C-17 tonight
- Replies: 5
- Views: 466
Re: C-17 tonight
ZZ175 just airborne from Ramstein
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 7:01 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: New Wedgetail surveillance fleet to be based at RAF Lossiemouth
- Replies: 126
- Views: 10780
Re: New Wedgetail surveillance fleet to be based at RAF Lossiemouth
Despite what "Widow Krankie" says,Scotland,(if it ever became independent from the rest of the U.K.),would probably need to both adopt the Euro and display "fiscal stability" in its own right as a country in order to trade/become an EU member....SNP's default position post devolution!! With regard t...
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:29 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: E-3 and Sentinel for sale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1448
Re: E-3 and Sentinel for sale
ZJ692 currently showing off Cyprus as RRR9985
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:46 pm
- Forum: RAF Fairford
- Topic: Notam 23/12
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1385
Re: Notam 23/12
Still tracking on Planefinder,approaching Stoke on Trent,fl600
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:05 pm
- Forum: RAF Fairford
- Topic: Notam 23/12
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1385
Re: Notam 23/12
Showing over North Sea off Newcastle,fl600.....now turned towards Hull/The Wash
- Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:59 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Finnish Anniversary Hawk
- Replies: 7
- Views: 895
Re: Finnish Anniversary Hawk
Not a bad finish,on the Finnish Hawk

- Wed Nov 25, 2020 9:42 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: US out of Open Skies
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1319
Re: US out of Open Skies
As these two aircraft are decades old and would require a lot of modifications to both aircraft and systems etc,would it not be more feasible for the US,(if they did want to rejoin),to use the same model airframes used in production of the P-8 and fit two of those out with the appropriate hardware/s...
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 12:02 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Army, Navy, RAF severe cuts
- Replies: 131
- Views: 14130
Re: Army, Navy, RAF severe cuts
Looks as though the Royal Navy will benefit most with new Destroyers/Frigates etc,especially as we now need protection for the "Flat Tops" when on deployment!. MoD still has a £13bn black hole to fill,and apparently much of this is going to have to come from existing resources and capabilities!. Sti...
- Sun Nov 15, 2020 11:02 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: RAF Mildenhall to close. Lakenheath to get F-35 by 2020
- Replies: 1448
- Views: 407078
Re: RAF Mildenhall to close. Lakenheath to get F-35 by 2020
Having seen a lot of news coverage of Biden over the past week or so,future decision making seems to be a "mixed bag". He is reported to be keen to rebuild bridges with Germany after Trump somewhat called them out for thier defence spending etc! On the other hand, Biden seems to be more sceptical of...
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 12:21 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: SR-71's at RAF Akrotiri
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3651
Re: SR-71's at RAF Akrotiri
Having spent many a time watching SR-71s at Mildenhall,I cannot recall one ever taking off and going "near vertical". More often than not it was a reasonable climb rate at speed. Assume that the M-B forum member is confusing it with the U-2
- Sat Nov 14, 2020 12:15 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Russian Spy Ships Near RAF Lossiemouth
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4647
Re: Russian Spy Ships Near RAF Lossiemouth
Sheikhy, Thanks for your detailed reply! You are probably right that I could be a decade out, or have attributed the wrong aircraft type to the story! Having started working at LHR for BA in 1974 I know that this particular incident was widely known about in and around the airport and reported in th...
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 8:34 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Russian Spy Ships Near RAF Lossiemouth
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4647
Re: Russian Spy Ships Near RAF Lossiemouth
I can also remember an Aeroflot TU-104 in the early eighties coming into land on Heathrow's southern runway 09R,initially coming in from the east,over north London,then out to the west before turning base leg back towards LHR. Apparently,they had a "short term radio failure" as they turned base leg ...
- Fri Oct 02, 2020 5:28 pm
- Forum: RAF Mildenhall
- Topic: Movements 2.10.20
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1173
Re: Movements 2.10.20
17-46030 is a KC-46A
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 10:59 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: USMC F-35B down in the US
- Replies: 47
- Views: 6025
Re: USMC F-35B down in the US
Can I assume that the Herk would be fitted with onboard video of the refuelling process,re aircraft connecting/disconnecting from the hoses??. If so,I assume,(given the fact that an F-35 was involved),that any such video will probably not surface for many a year,if at all. If as speculated the hose ...
- Sat Sep 26, 2020 12:30 pm
- Forum: RAF Northolt
- Topic: Atlas ZM402
- Replies: 6
- Views: 548
Re: Atlas ZM402
Just done a low overshoot at Northolt....looks to be positioning for a 2nd attempt at landing!
Edit...landed on 3rd attempt.....crosswinds!!
Edit...landed on 3rd attempt.....crosswinds!!
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 5:58 pm
- Forum: RAF Northolt
- Topic: TE311
- Replies: 0
- Views: 323
TE311
Spitire TE311 just done a couple of flypasts