US President Jimmy Carter was concerned about the appearance of a large VIP fleet at Andrews, so to remedy that he had the "V" dropped from the aircraft designation from all aircraft except the two VC-137(s). Nothing else changed. From that point on the USAF could report that they own only two VIP a...

I remember seeing an AOR-2000 built into the cockpit control panel in the left side back seat of the USN EA-6B. First and fifth pictures in this reddit thread show what looks like an AOR2002 in the left side rear dash. That's got to be extremely unusual - getting a piece of commercial kit installed...

I remember seeing an AOR-2000 built into the cockpit control panel in the left side back seat of the USN EA-6B.

Thanks for that. I had seen bits and pieces in various threads, but this is a great recap.

Do we know which airframe did this flight? Also what about the support tankers involved?

Hi all, I see USAF mission numbers in both the Coronet and the RCH sections of the board. I was curious if the format of the mission numbers is a known quantity, or if there is a basic hobby cheat sheet type thing to decode them. I can see information like Coronet number, and Julian date, etc within...

paddyboy wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 01, 2024 3:37 am

Welcome aboard the friendly aviation forum, Chris

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Cheers Paddy

Hi all, New to Fighter Control but definitely not new to the hobby. Some of you probably know me from years past on other forums. Things I am interested in are call signs, CONUS mil freqs, and I have dabbled in the EAM and STRATCOM things over the years. I have been into ADS-B tracking since the ver...