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by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
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 ...
by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
Thu Aug 29, 2019 2:32 pm
Forum: RAF Fairford
Topic: Thursday 29th - Mytee 11 & 12
Replies: 116
Views: 24911

Re: Thursday 29th - Mytee 11 & 12

flarkey wrote:
Thu Aug 29, 2019 2:28 pm
Just heard they're over Marsham, Norfolk again
Is that Marsham (just north of Norwich)?
or Marham, (a different place...)

Sorry, had to ask :P
by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
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

Re: A cup of coffee and a cold drink with the Friends of the Police

coldwater wrote:
Wed Jul 17, 2019 4:03 pm

Image
I just love the Tricolore colours on the tail rotor.

If they are carrying military markings, I give up. Where exactly do they display the Mickey-Mouse serials? (MMxxxxx)
by Sheikhy
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?
by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
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...
by Sheikhy
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. :clap:

p.s. the "something" was a certain B-52 that's now splashed all over the news

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