...Or maybe the was the old Ark...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-46_(U. ... AN7-76.jpg

My understanding is that 892NAS initially did their carrier qualifications aboard USS Forrestal - I used to know someone who was part of the detachment. There was a bit of a fuss because if you look at the RN F4 it has a super-long font nosewheel strut (which USN F-4's didn't have) designed to incre...

Trimphone. Can't beat it. Makes great phone calls, which is what a phone is for. Just don't stand to close to the dial

Thanks Steve - but are those times Zulu (as indicated by the Z) or local? If Zulu, then need to subtract 7 hours, so the two arrivals at 19:32 and 20:36 would have been 12:32L and 13:36L - and I'd have expected to have seen them from the boat trip on Friday afternoon - or at least parts of them to b...

🇺🇦 🌻 🇺🇦 In the past I have organised two visits to Mildenhall asking questions of KC-135 crews. If I asked the following questions,I have forgotten the replies. Has there ever been a program/me for a common probe on all NATO aircraft? That is, the receiver on both systems to be the same design. If ...

The basic problem is that the RAF/MoD/HMG do not 'own' any of the Voyagers. Airtanker do. Therefore the RAF cannot just decide to fit booms to some of the Voyagers, because they aren't the RAF's property. Airtanker have a (PFI) contract with HMG to sole supply the RAF's air-to-air refueling capabil...

The basic problem is that the RAF/MoD/HMG do not 'own' any of the Voyagers. Airtanker do. Therefore the RAF cannot just decide to fit booms to some of the Voyagers, because they aren't the RAF's property. Airtanker have a (PFI) contract with HMG to sole supply the RAF's air-to-air refueling capabili...

IMV, you've completely overlooked the role that the Airtanker contract plays in all this.

22nd Dec 2023 09:00
Out on the ramp at 08:45 was

ZH842 Merlin HM2

Looked very clean, so may have been in for a re-spray.

Cheers
Malcolm

Download an inventory, and work out which areas contain the frames you are after. Then look at the area maps like this one https://www.flickr.com/photos/62861611@N08/52015870406. In general stuff which is in areas next to Escalante, Kolb and Irvington road are visible, particularly bigger stuff. You...

One AP-3C (A9-657) was there for the Williamtown airshow last weekend. No sign of a second one as we took off from Williamtown on Sunday evening. And no sign of any AP-3C's the following Thursday. Tracking on ADSBx seems to show them operating out of Edinburgh during my time down under.

ZZ100 landed Yeovil 11:05, and may have overflown central Yeovil shortly after the 2 minuite silence.

slogen51 wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 26, 2023 11:29 am

England have fallen in a heap

All out for 156

Willey not out

Shame Holding isn't still bowling :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0a-FOoM9ms

Thinking outside of the Box if we require more fighter aircraft would the F35C be a possibility ? It's probe & Drogue refuelling, It's got a larger wing area allowing if to land at slower speed, longer range & Beefed up undercarriage to name a few differences. With the idea of operating from Off-Ba...

Nothing wrong with the airtanker contract. Airtanker have said multiple times they are willing to change the contract to suit RAF needs such as fitting booms to some of the fleet or allowing a few A-400M's to be fitted with pods so they can be stationed down the Falklands freeing the Voyager up tha...

If 138 is still the planned number of F-35b's (big questions over this still I imagine)....how long would it be before we reach full strength? Based on the current progress of 30 odd aircraft supplied in 5 years... this could take a further 15-20 years! Is that timescale realistic or indeed practic...

No worries. If it isn't too much trouble, can you upload a picture of WS409? Best I can get is this https://ibb.co/pLY1Ypj https://ibb.co/MhJNrbk It was obscured behind SH-300 until that one taxied out to take part in the MAGTF. And the best place to see it from was right beside the security checkp...

Revised ramp map here : https://ibb.co/qMV0HzV

Aircmdr wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:33 pm

Hercs Spotted at Miramar on the Herc Apron Friday 22/09

170275/275
167108/108
170277/277
165739/739
169226/226
169230/230
166382/382 On Static Display

I have all those, plus 168067/QB-067 and 170278/QB-278, plus Fat Albert 170000. 169230/QB-230 was on static with 166382 I think.

Aircmdr wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:30 pm

Legend, thanks Malcom Ill have a flick through my pics tonight see if I can locate the two missing for you.

The map is wrong for the first line of F-35's in the sheds. WL-08 should be WL-00. I'll update the image later (the memory stick with the file on it is at home).