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Typhoon - Aircraft Symbols.

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Typhoon - Aircraft Symbols.

Post by paulh » Wed Oct 14, 2009 6:52 pm

Apologies if this question has been asked before :blush: .
Just sorting through some photos taken at Coningsby last week and noticed these aircraft painted on the side.
Are they intercept markings?? These are on ZJ932 DB.
Knowing me they will have been on at least a year and I havn't noticed before :whistle: .

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Cheers Paul.

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Re: Typhoon - Aircraft Symbols.

Post by Mike » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:37 pm

They are silhouettes of aircraft intercepted on QRA's.

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Re: Typhoon - Aircraft Symbols.

Post by paulh » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:42 pm

Flaps wrote:They are silhouettes of aircraft intercepted on QRA's.
Thanks Mike, how many aircraft have these on??

Cheers Paul.

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Re: Typhoon - Aircraft Symbols.

Post by Mike » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:45 pm

Just on ZJ932/DB as far as I know,Milky01 is the man to ask-he'll know !

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Re: Typhoon - Aircraft Symbols.

Post by paulh » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:48 pm

Flaps wrote:Just on ZJ932/DB as far as I know,Milky01 is the man to ask-he'll know !
Thanks Mike, I'm sure Kevin will be along soon :thumb: .

Cheers Paul.

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Re: Typhoon - Aircraft Symbols.

Post by T_J » Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:50 pm

paulh wrote:
Flaps wrote:They are silhouettes of aircraft intercepted on QRA's.
Thanks Mike, how many aircraft have these on??

Cheers Paul.
ZJ932 is the only one that I have seen. Bears and Blackjacks. It looks like the Blackjacks were intercepted during the night, so no nice images.

The following link will take you to images of ZJ932 during one of the intercept missions of the Tu-95MS Bear H.

http://www.xisquadronassociation.co.uk/ ... _bear.html

TJ

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Re: Typhoon - Aircraft Symbols.

Post by paulh » Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:01 pm

Thanks for that Link TJ :thumbs: .

Cheers Paul.

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Re: Typhoon - Aircraft Symbols.

Post by paulh » Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:12 pm

Milky01 wrote:The marks on DB have been on for 8 or 9 months,Like TJ said only noted on DB.Cheers Kevin.
Thank you Kevin - thats cleared that up :thumb: .

Cheers Paul.

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Re: Typhoon - Aircraft Symbols.

Post by Mike » Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:23 pm

Kevin got his 1st pics of it on the 11th August,I know because I was stood next to him !
This was mine :-
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Re: Typhoon - Aircraft Symbols.

Post by paulh » Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:58 pm

Flaps wrote:Kevin got his 1st pics of it on the 11th August,I know because I was stood next to him !
I'm only a couple of months behind the times then - thats not bad for me :O .

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Re: Typhoon - Aircraft Symbols.

Post by exleckie » Thu Oct 15, 2009 12:06 pm

Those marks have been on that jet for well over a year now, fortunately the painters never removed them when she was in TMU for servicing.

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