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- Mon Jan 25, 2021 12:05 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: 2020 Fatal E-11A Crash in Afghanistan
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2503
Re: 2020 Fatal E-11A Crash in Afghanistan
ETOPS implies a single engine failure should effectively be unnoticeable. Im not understanding your line of enquiry on this and wonder why you think a twin going single would be unnoticeable? ETOPS certification only says the aircraft SHOULD make an airport if its power was halved and now acting on...
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 5:58 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Foreign Airbases
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4723
Re: Foreign Airbases
The Iranian F-14s and F-4s are still shown. And a F-4 in a green and sand camo scheme at Bushehr Airport In the NE corner outside the HAS closest to the end of the runway https://earth.app.goo.gl/?apn=com.google.earth&isi=293622097&ius=googleearth&link=https%3a%2f%2fearth.google.com%2fweb%2f%4028.9...
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 7:38 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Delivering a Nuclear bomb the brave way
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3848
Re: Delivering a Nuclear bomb the brave way
Just for (somewhat dubious) Lols, here is the mighty 1961 Tsar Bomba, and it's effect on the aircraft that launched it (Tu-95). The bomb, weighing 27 metric tons, was so large that the Tu-95V had its bomb bay doors and fuselage fuel tanks removed. The bomb was attached to an 800kg, 17,000 sq ft para...
- Sun Dec 13, 2020 2:00 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: KC / RC-135 engine clearance
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4519
Re: KC / RC-135 engine clearance
Another issue is the airframe was originally designed for 4 engines generating 9000lbs each, or 12500lbs with water injection off a SAC runway. Can you clarify the significance of your last four words; "off a SAC runway"? You've now got 4 engines with 23000lbs each. If one engine fails yes you've s...
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 7:25 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: KC / RC-135 engine clearance
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4519
KC / RC-135 engine clearance
In a certain popular and very long running thread, I have come across various comments about KC- & RC-135s struggling to take-off from Mildenhall (or Fairford!) at full MTOW, possibly because of insufficient engine clearance vis-a-vis uneven runway surfaces. Obviously we are talking about the new (c...
- Fri Dec 11, 2020 12:20 am
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: WI ANG F16 down
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3108
Re: WI ANG F16 down
Maybe we should concentrate on https://www.facebook.com/115FW/ Not everyone uses Facebook, plus this is a forum for sharing. Exactly. Not quite exactly. I too am no fan of facebook or indeed anything that was invented since 1979, but even an unsociable dinosaur like myself has worked out that anybo...
- Sun Nov 15, 2020 11:07 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: SR-71's at RAF Akrotiri
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6119
Re: SR-71's at RAF Akrotiri
The problem is that an sr71 looks nothing like s U2 apart from being both black. Mistaken isn't a given. I don't think it is a case of confusing the two different planes; it's more likely a case of confusing the two different NAMES. As in "I saw a noisy black spy plane with long straight wings - it...
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 10:40 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Russian Spy Ships Near RAF Lossiemouth
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7051
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... It's a lovely story, apart from being a decade out. Aeroflot retired the Tu-104 in March 1979. And in those days the runway would have been 10R. The magnetic deviation wasn't factored ...
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 12:23 pm
- Forum: RAF Coningsby
- Topic: RAF Typhoon Fleet
- Replies: 58
- Views: 33356
Re: RAF Typhoon Fleet
Finally updated the list (March 2020)- here are the airframes that need noting!! Please note I will not accept an SBS/PP log of an aircraft only a Mk1 eyeball spotting!! ADSB blah, blah, blah.. .... you can probably find eyeball confirmations of some of these ADSB reports. I'd do it myself, but I'v...
- Fri Nov 13, 2020 12:34 am
- Forum: RAF Coningsby
- Topic: RAF Typhoon Fleet
- Replies: 58
- Views: 33356
Re: RAF Typhoon Fleet
Finally updated the list (March 2020)- here are the airframes that need noting!! Please note I will not accept an SBS/PP log of an aircraft only a Mk1 eyeball spotting!! Ok, noted. I prefer eyeballs too, but as it's lockdown (again), here are some ADSB reports to chew on anyway; disregard them if y...
- Thu Nov 12, 2020 2:47 pm
- Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
- Topic: Russian Spy Ships Near RAF Lossiemouth
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7051
Re: Russian Spy Ships Near RAF Lossiemouth
Have a look off the coast of Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave, or the skies along its border. Then compare the two Russian ships off Scotland during a storm, to the daily NATO sailings and flights around Kaliningrad. P. Exactly my comment to my OH when she flagged up yet another BBC news item makin...
- Wed Nov 11, 2020 1:11 am
- Forum: The Newbie Forum
- Topic: Advice on unknown aircraft
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1839
Re: Advice on unknown aircraft
Does anyone know how to find out what an unknown (Military?) aircraft actually is on ADS-B Exchange. Aircraft today was flying (10.40am local) from E. Europe over N. Norfolk coast with numbers of 162801 and AE040C, no idea what that means so any help, websites, tips or a basic education would be mo...
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 2:32 pm
- Forum: RAF Fairford
- Topic: Thursday 29th - Mytee 11 & 12
- Replies: 116
- Views: 24911
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 1:54 pm
- Forum: RAF Fairford
- Topic: Thursday 29th - Mytee 11 & 12
- Replies: 116
- Views: 24911
Re: Thursday 29th - Mytee 11 & 12
Thursday 29.08.2019 Here in mid-Norfolk about 60mins ago I watched a pair of B-2s at ca 10,000' flying two (possibly three) very lazy figure-of-eights in an east-west pattern, encircling East Dereham & Swaffham. I was a bit slow with the first pass which was directly overhead heading East towards No...
- Thu Aug 29, 2019 1:48 pm
- Forum: Current Military Photography
- Topic: MYTEE 11/12/13 RAF Fairford 28,08.2019
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5787
Re: MYTEE 11/12/13 RAF Fairford 28,08.2019
Thursday 29.08.2019 Here in mid-Norfolk about 30mins ago I watched a pair of B-2s at ca 10,000' flying two (possibly three) very lazy figure-of-eights in an east-west pattern, encircling East Dereham & Swaffham. I was a bit slow with the first pass which was directly overhead heading East towards N...
- Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:40 am
- Forum: Current Military Photography
- Topic: A cup of coffee and a cold drink with the Friends of the Police
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3828
- Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:29 am
- Forum: Current Military Photography
- Topic: Marham Ascot 9711 Flight 16-7-19
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6005
Re: Marham Ascot 9711 Flight 16-7-19
Someone's got to say it; six of the best?
- Wed Jun 19, 2019 10:44 pm
- Forum: The Newbie Forum
- Topic: New to FC or not so new? Introduce yourself here.
- Replies: 1072
- Views: 315084
Re: New to FC or not so new? Introduce yourself here.
Hi I became a spotter many many years ago thanks to a copy of J.W.R.Taylor's Civil Aircraft Markings (1971 edition). The other helping hand was my father, who needed no excuse to adopt aircraft spotting as one of his hobbies, meaning that transport (a car) was also available. :thumbs: We started wit...
- Tue Jun 18, 2019 7:13 pm
- Forum: The Newbie Forum
- Topic: Hi from Norfolk
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1988
Re: Hi from Norfolk
Hi all I use to go to Bentwaters Woodbridge Lakenheath and Mildenhall in the mid 80’s early 90’s Work and family life then got in the way 🙄 Gary Hi there, Your story is mine too, except I'm a decade older than that, and after checking out Mildenhall/LN we turned left instead of right, and found our...
- Tue Jun 18, 2019 6:55 pm
- Forum: The Newbie Forum
- Topic: Can't read UK Heads Up, Movements & OTT
- Replies: 76
- Views: 31581
Re: Can't read UK Heads Up, Movements & OTT
LOL - long-time lurker, finally signed up because I saw something yesterday that I thought might be newsworthy.
But by the time I've posted five it will be very old news. Still, I'll be ready for the next time.
p.s. the "something" was a certain B-52 that's now splashed all over the news
But by the time I've posted five it will be very old news. Still, I'll be ready for the next time.
p.s. the "something" was a certain B-52 that's now splashed all over the news