See UK heads up for today....all revealed there...cheers

Seems like some of the moves are akin to "squeezing a quart int a pint pot"....interesting read on Aviano,with the 57RQS having to basically work out of "temporary facilities",with all thier equipment etc scattered about!!....seems the bean counters in charge do not understand the operational side o...

As I read it,it will cost some $46m to upgrade Fairford for RC-135 ops....what is the cost of upgrading the facilities at Mildenhall currently projected at????

Have to agree with many on here who are tending to find "littering" a generational habit! I was on the A40 last week and from a car several places in front of me,was a whole stream of litter coming out of the windows....McDonalds boxes and wrappers etc.....on passing the car it was not a group of yo...

Fighterfoto wrote:I believe it's attending for a pre-planned event tomorrow, nothing to do with extra security.

That makes sense!......was sat in the kitchen when it done a the fly through and break right over the top of the house.....nearly choked on my digestive biscuit!!

Not wishing to appear "dumb" on this one.....if the nightshoot was postponed earlier today.....did no one tell Lossiemouth re the Typhoon turning up a short while ago???

Nice catch!....puts a whole new perspective on the phrase "wing man"

Yes,still along the Thames westbound!....what I heard is that they will route from Isle of Dogs westbound along Thames,towards Perivale and Northolt,whereby they will dogleg north to Northwood,then from there,return back towards Iver to pick up westbound heli lanes again.....info apparently from Nor...

Heard yesterday,that from the Isle of Dogs,these will route over Northwood HQ on return leg....

ZM400 departed as RRR4996 at around 0815 local.....routed to Guernsey....looks to be crew training there!!

Nice catch!....re the HF cables,it looks like they have been secured along the hinge line of the rudder?......it's probable that they may have snapped off on an earlier flight and flailing around they damaged the original rudder....hence the civvy colour scheme one fitted!!

According to local papers,the closure and rebuild was going to start in Sept 17 and last 9 months!. However the possible state visit of Donald Trump later in the year,seems to have put the start date back. The runway is apparently going to be deepened/strengthened and levelled out. Not sure where 32...

Heard today,that the rebuilding/resurfacing of Northolt's runway has been delayed,because of Trumps proposed visit.

Personally,I still think that 1500,is a huge amount of jobs to service a relatively few "military" aircraft!. If you take all Boeing operated fixed wing aircraft in Europe,(excluding USAF),it would probably not exceed 100 airframes,if that. Not sure how many non US mil rotarys there are in Europe as...

Surely one answer to this is a joint RAF/USAF tanker detachment/unit,based either at Waddington or Brize,specifically set up to support both UK/US missions. It doesn't have to be that big a unit,poss 4x KC135s and jointly funded/crewed. For RAF crews already trained to fly E-3 and RJ aircraft it sho...

It's very much a case of "perspective".....How many of us still love to see the Lancaster flying at events,but how many of us recall the untold destruction it's forebears created in cities like Dresden and Hamburg when we do?.....Similarly the same must be said for a whole range of a/c.....B52s wrec...

Ok,thought it was landing.....just seems an awful lot of flap setting for take off....usually it's about 15deg,but that seems a lot more!....could be camera angle.....nice catch anyway,,

Nice catch with 60-0324.,,..seems he must have had some landing gear/hydraulic problem....gear doors are positioned in the alternate/freefall position!.....

Yes,read the article....but isn't that a large amount of jobs,for a purely "military" servicing contract???.....Given that the BA 24-7-365 operation at both Heathrow and Gatwick runs with about 2,500 direct maintenance staff and around 1000 support staff and the BAMC operation at Cardiff has about 6...

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