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by willow70
Thu Mar 27, 2025 2:49 pm
Forum: Aviation Videography
Topic: F35B at Yuma
Replies: 0
Views: 951

F35B at Yuma

Feb 2025 F35b at Yuma from the Fairground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYrjbFpwGgk
by willow70
Fri Jul 26, 2024 6:46 am
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: French AF aircraft on civil register?
Replies: 17
Views: 4276

Re: French AF aircraft on civil register?

I think the British military used a 5 letter callsign based on the aircrafts radio station . I remember Shackletons using calls like MFHJK sometimes preceded by Rafair.
by willow70
Thu Dec 16, 2021 6:16 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: Typhoon jet shoots down drone of Syria
Replies: 28
Views: 6908

Re: Typhoon jet shoots down drone of Syria

Will the RAF call this its first kill since 1948 or do drones not count. (I know the F4 v Jag incident but shooting your own side down is just silly)
by willow70
Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:32 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: if the MOD was run by fighter control...
Replies: 40
Views: 5002

Re: if the MOD was run by fighter control...

A radical clean sweep from me. Bin the F35 and visit Davis Monthan to get some good used plane deals. The Navy would be expected to bring Her Majesty some spoils from its voyages and perhaps a bit of extorsion with the Subs ( nice Capital you have there ,shame if it got broken). The Army would absor...
by willow70
Wed Nov 17, 2021 4:53 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: RAF F-35 crashes in Med
Replies: 38
Views: 10151

Re: RAF F-35 crashes in Med

Let them have it . That will set their mil development back 10 years especially if they try and replicate the joke B variant.
by willow70
Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:34 am
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: For sale....going cheap
Replies: 9
Views: 2946

Re: For sale....going cheap

I am waiting for the Taliban Surplus Agency to start selling some of that $83 billion of gear they got free.
by willow70
Mon Aug 16, 2021 3:07 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: Kabul - USAF C-17 - 02-1109
Replies: 57
Views: 10647

Re: Kabul - USAF C-17 - 02-1109

Some sites are reporting that a C17 had 800 Pax .That must be some kind of record.
by willow70
Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:06 am
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: Switzerland Selects F-35
Replies: 20
Views: 3388

Re: Switzerland Selects F-35

Hmmm I wonder if the manufacturer used the same method as the sale of F104s to Germany . The GNY had the option of Buccs or F104s it should have been a no brainer to pick the Bucc.
by willow70
Thu May 06, 2021 12:34 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: F-35B jets to join the fight against Daesh from the Carrier Strike Group
Replies: 30
Views: 7098

Re: F-35B jets to join the fight against Daesh from the Carrier Strike Group

This should be cancelled and the F35Bs should be doing hovering practice round Jersey.
by willow70
Wed Jan 27, 2021 9:22 am
Forum: RIAT
Topic: CANCELLED Royal International Air Tattoo 2021 - General Discussion Thread
Replies: 246
Views: 65700

Re: Royal International Air Tattoo 2021 - General Discussion Thread

The poor chap has to top up his £50K + pension somehow.
by willow70
Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:02 pm
Forum: RIAT
Topic: CANCELLED Royal International Air Tattoo 2021 - General Discussion Thread
Replies: 246
Views: 65700

Re: Royal International Air Tattoo 2021 - General Discussion Thread

More good news. The USAF seem to be getting their vaccine out to their troops so the thought of all those disease ridden foreigners coming into FFD won't be a problem.
by willow70
Sat Sep 26, 2020 3:19 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: MILDENHALL Wx DIVERTS
Replies: 25
Views: 4774

Re: MILDENHALL Wx DIVERTS

Some military crews prefer diverting to civil airfields to avoid some of the military BS they have grown tired of . I used to work at a BAe airfield and we had a good canteen and shops within walking distance. I went to lunch with a crew once and asked why the did not use a military airfield that wa...
by willow70
Sun Jul 12, 2020 3:05 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: Nimrod or Breguet Atlantic
Replies: 34
Views: 9988

Re: Nimrod or Breguet Atlantic

I think you could easily have been flying in an Avro 776 rather than the HS801 .The designer of the project at Manchester told me it was a very close decision and it was a late night phone call that stopped the Trident option going ahead. There are some pics on the web that give some idea of what it...
by willow70
Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:10 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: Nimrod or Breguet Atlantic
Replies: 34
Views: 9988

Re: Nimrod or Breguet Atlantic

The NATO users of the Atlantique could easily have ended up with the similar Avro 745 which also use 2 Tynes and had a similar layout. The RAF waited a further 10 years and ordered the Nimrod. I spoke to an old Avro designer and the industry wanted to use the Trident as a basis for the Nimrod but th...
by willow70
Sun Apr 12, 2020 5:06 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: UK Airshow's 1970's 80's
Replies: 2
Views: 2282

Re: UK Airshow's 1970's 80's

I did not keep a Log but I remember that many RAF aircraft at shows used used a normal RAF Trigraph eg HDY 17 . It was quite easy to recognise most aircraft types by the background noise to the transmission Vulcans hi pitched tone , Gnats sounded like the pilot was playing a Stylophone.
by willow70
Wed Jul 24, 2019 7:45 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Womens Football World Cup
Replies: 12
Views: 4727

Re: Womens Football World Cup

Make it topless might sell a couple more tickets, linesperson and refs in black stockings, basques and garters, Benny Hill theme tune as the teams arrive on the pitch with Phil Neville chasing them in a policemans uniform waving a truncheon.
by willow70
Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:50 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: How bad is your ISP
Replies: 12
Views: 5023

Re: How bad is your ISP

Apart from Virgin all the other ISPs use bits of copper and in some areas aluminium wire. I have had problems with multiple ISPs and eventually open-reach come and swap wires. This transfers the issue to someone else in the road . Eventually they do lots of complaining and it gets moved back to me ....
by willow70
Wed Jun 27, 2018 9:10 am
Forum: RIAT
Topic: Arriving on Wednesday
Replies: 5
Views: 3911

Re: Arriving on Wednesday

Does it use standard ATC ? Will it work Brize etc like a "normal " aircraft?
by willow70
Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:20 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: 1969 USAF C130 Wreckage Found in Channel
Replies: 54
Views: 23338

Re: English Channel hunt for wreck of stolen Mildenhall C-13

I wouldn't think a Lightning would have the range to get to near Guernsey where it went down . At low to medium level it would need a F4 to get from East Anglia and back . A ex Bentwaters controller said it was one of their jets that got it, So many conflicting stories about this, perhaps the truth ...
by willow70
Fri Jan 19, 2018 5:49 pm
Forum: The Fighter Control Mess
Topic: Even you can land an F-35B
Replies: 5
Views: 2674

Re: Even you can land an F-35B

I spoke to a F35B pilot at an airshow and he trotted out the usual "its all marvellous" line. I asked what he flew previously he said the Harrier so I asked which was the most fun to fly he looked around to make sure no-one was listening and he said it was the Harrier by a mile.

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