THE INITIAL upgraded Shadow R2 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft for No 14 Squadron was serial ZZ507. This is one of three additional King Air 350Cs acquired by the RAF for conversion to Shadow ISR aircraft, the other two being G-DAYP and G-GMAD, allocated serials ZZ505 an...

As part of a £110 million contract the shadow fleet will be increased to 8 airframes. The current 6 airframes will be upgraded to MK2 standard.
Good news for Waddington

Full article here
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/110m ... adow-fleet

As someone who for work goes airside on a number of sites I can confirm that following any unusual aircraft activity at a site I'm picking up the above items on FOD checks for the deployment and at least 2 weeks after. So it's quite simple 1. Take your rubbish home or you may end up killing a crew. ...

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I didn’t want to clog up the thread earlier, but now that they’re in I’d like to give my thanks to those knowledgeable guys offering such great info as always.

Top work guys, greatly appreciated!

Hear hear. Thanks troops for all the updates from us tied to the desk lot

The Airfield is south of the M4 and the main runway is grass here which is sandwiched between 2 solar farms.and usable in the summer only. 05/23 and 17/24 are limited width and fun in a crosswind as the areas to either side are fairly broken up and have vegetation growing on it. Just over the M4 to ...

Answers on a postcard. What is this? Be amazed if this video was not fake as can't see this being allowed to be taken with security being so tight there. Video here https://twitter.com/rubenhofs/status/1440652143455653900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1440652143455653900%7Ctwg...

Correct 1st arrived at STS Aviation Services - 7 January 2021 Boeing 737-73W (BBJ1) Registration N946BC (construction number 38633/3329) former Deer Jet 2nd will be another circa 8-10 year old Aircraft 3rd This will be the quandary in that this was supposed to be a new build along with Frames 4 & 5....

Apologies for the military purists here as it's a commercial plane. An interesting article on the development of our home grown 6th gen fighter. Leonardo and 2Excel are modifying a commercial Boeing 757-200 airliner to act as a flying laboratory called Excalibur. Still nice to see that dispite simul...

Possible another loss due to the site being sold from underneath the museum.to a local developer with only 2 years left on the lease. If anyone knows of a site that would be suitable with about 2/3 acre please contact them. Full story here https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/future-of-aviation-museum-up...

DESA have published the disposals across MOD

Anyone buying?

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... e_2021.pdf

Just like to say that when you sign up.You sign up to serve wherever in the world that might be.I have seen individuals throw there teddy bears on the floor to try to get what they want.It doesn't work as there are plenty more who want to get on and learn new skills. Therefore it may produce a small...

This was for delivery of fuel I was told.

https://www.railscot.co.uk/locations/R/RAF_Leuchars/

Buy back NATO Balado Bridge only £950,000 and comes with free dish and dome!

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=COM_BUY

Just found the video for the Jag on the M55

https://youtu.be/VeBZ3xbgN_M

It will be in Scotland to get the best coverage

The M55 motorway, at Weeton was used as a temporary runway before it was opened to the public. They used a Jaguar GR1 taking off from nearby Warton airfield on 26th April 1975, it landed on the motorway, loaded four cluster bombs before departing. Article and picture about it https://www.militaryima...

I expect there will be some delay to these if they operate from here.Planning for the new building included provision for the Wedgetail. A purely drone hangar will be a much smaller affair and will have to go through the legislative hurdles again.

I think a trip there will get you glowing as I can't believe they have a regulatory scheme to protect you from radiation. #glowstick

China is developing its own Area-51. Interesting article around the development of a number of sites in China for drone, stealth and 6th Generation aircraft development. Significant works have been noted at Malan Air Base and Lop Nur Air base in Xinjiang.These like Area 51 are in former nuclear test...