From experience in earlier jobs I suspect that the MAM designations are assumed given the build numbers of GS*** & GT*** for the German singles and twins. Also in correspondence with German crews they invariably referred to the aircraft as EF2000 and EF2000T for single and twin respectively.

Made the trip up to Kinloss last week to catch some Bolthole activity before the move back to Lossiemouth. In short great weather all morning and a short blast of sunshine in the late afternoon for the return of one of the P-8s and the afternoon Typhoons which sandwiched the grot weather in between....

Lovely shots although it's well and truly broken now following the incident yesterday.

Assuming the A-29s are in the group the support Dornier is currently on an easterly heading over KSA tracking toward Damman/Bahrain.

prefontaine72 wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:41 pm

TomG wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:35 pm

prefontaine72 wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:43 pm

And CFC4109 15003 Just of the Greek coast at 14.43 so on time hopefully ?

Dougie

Night stop or fuel stop?

Fuel stop ive been told

Many thanks.

prefontaine72 wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:43 pm

And CFC4109 15003 Just of the Greek coast at 14.43 so on time hopefully ?

Dougie

Night stop or fuel stop?

paddyboy wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:13 am

Certainly not blaming the organisers, Tom

We made enquiries and soon found out who insisted on the farce being put in place

Didn't think that PB, just adding a bit to the discussion.

Cheers, Tom

Richard & The Cat: precisely why we stopped going ;) Suffered one year of parking off-base and tramping with all our gear for ages to shuffle through 'security' and vowed never again :@ Waddo always did it the proper way, right up to the last in 2014 :thumbs: Certainly not ideal formally however th...

Mike wrote: ↑

Thu May 07, 2020 11:30 am

TomG wrote: ↑

Thu May 07, 2020 11:27 am

Seeing ZK345 up from Coningsby with a callsign of BRUTAL32, new one on me - any clues as to squadron?

Cheers, Tom

Hi Tom, it belongs to 3 Squadron.

Many thanks Mike.

Seeing ZK345 up from Coningsby with a callsign of BRUTAL32, new one on me - any clues as to squadron?

Cheers, Tom

Yes and no .Yes it is selected from the front but No in this case the cockpit switch was set to common allowing either the pilot or rear seat to initiate the ejection. Dependant on aircraft type. Tornado for example has the Command Eject Controller located in the rear cockpit; the setting on the CE...

I guess a lot will hang on whether nations have actually invested in continuing to train and authorise (Public Display Authority) their display crews for what could turn out to be a very small number of airshows in a massively depleted last quarter of the year. I suspect shows will be way down in th...

I am new to this site, i was extremely happy to find it last week, i have searched for around 30 years for information on U-2s stationed at wethersfield in 1975, i was in that squadron back then, had a lot of news clippings and articles about us being there, unfortunately ended up in a divorce and ...

Came out of Dundee, arrived there that morning direct from Northolt.

ZK334 (NATO fin mks) depart to Leeming (Lossie 86)

ZK350 arrived from Coningsby (Typhoon 44)

ZK378 (2 Sqn mks) & ZK426 (no mks) (Venom 11 & 12)

ZK434 (no mks) (Lossie 60)

ZJ917/WS-R IX Sqn (Lossie 10)

ZK306 1 Sqn mks - on the line but hadn't moved by the time I'd left at about 4pm.

Cheers, Tom

John Fletcher 54 wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:47 am

I have 165402/NA402 162481/EN12 165309/CG02 162009/HH07 162430/MA03 all 26/ 09/2019 @ Yuma
Thanks for the log. Cheers John

My pleasure John and thanks for the additional info.

Tom

Phil wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:28 am

Tom,

I can only help with 162430/MA03

https://flic.kr/p/2hAH5Ya

Phil

Many thanks Phil.

Tom

The following were noted at MCAS Yuma in October 2019. Format = Bu No, Code, Type, Unit, Date Noted. 165385 WE-02 AV-8B+ VMA-214 25 Oct 19 165585 WE-03 AV-8B+ VMA-214 25 Oct 19 165397 WE-04 AV-8B+ VMA-214 23 Oct 19 165006 WE-09 AV-8B+ VMA-214 23 Oct 19 164567 WH-04 AV-8B+ VMA-542 23 Oct 19 165420 WL...

Good day, A long shot in the off chance someone may be able to tie up Bu No's to the following codes from a few aircraft noted over a couple of visits to Yuma in late October 2019. VMA-231 AV-8B - code CG-02 HMH-464 CH-53E - code EN-12 HMH-366 CH-53E - codes HH-07 & HH-12 VMFA-112 F/A-18C - code MA-...

TonyO wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 09, 2019 9:17 pm

This is almost as good as the spotter who asked for a serial of a F-104 on a pole in Germany. He said it was signposted near "Ausfahrt".

Haven't seen that one although I have seen the one near Eingang!