Did I name everyone French to be a Rafale-Troll? I think not. Do pay more attention.

The exercise will commence on 2 May and complete on 10 May, spanning the May Bank Holiday weekend. During this weekend there will be a visible and audible presence of RAF Typhoon and Military helicopters operating above Greater London and the Home Counties. There will also be flights occurring throughout the exercise period, to allow pilots and other forces to become familiar with operating in the London and Home Counties airspace.

Both air and ground based elements will be involved in training exercises designed to test the Defence response to an unknown aircraft entering the restricted airspace which will be established in order to ensure that the Games are safe and secure. There will be a number of such training ‘serials’ each day, though the amount of flying has been reduced to the absolute minimum necessary to ensure that our forces are ready for their important role.

RAF Typhoon, RAF Puma, Royal Navy and Army Lynx and target aircraft, will fly between 4,000ft and 2,000ft above ground level for the majority of the Exercise to de-conflict with existing civilian air movements over London; however, military aircraft will occasionally operate at 1,000ft above ground level and, for a very brief period on three occasion, will descend to 500ft to achieve the necessary training objectives. It is recognised that military aircraft operating at this level could cause concern to the general public; therefore, time spent at the lowest levels will be minimised. However, members of the public should be reassured that safety remains are utmost priority, and our pilots and aircrew are well-trained and experienced in these sorts of operations.

We recognise that this activity may cause a disturbance. We have taken steps to ensure that flying activity takes place at times that keep this disturbance to a minimum. On current planning, one of the Typhoon training serials to be undertaken on 5 May is scheduled for the late evening, but will finish no later than 2230hrs. We regret any disturbance caused, but we hope that the public will understand why this important training has to take place.

http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/olympic-air-security-27042012

Be gentle with those throttles. :diablo:

EELightning have provocated some off topic answers, but we still are in a Typhoon news thread…

Yes, I deliberately didn’t mention the Italian Typhoon pilot’s claims in case the usual Rafale-Trolls came out of the woodwork (one of which had a nasty habit of posting Rafale news on Starstreak from January 31st), obviously my own efforts weren’t enough. :rolleyes:

Jackonicko, I very much doubt we’ll get something about P1EA in the next few weeks, however will there be a high chance we’ll get something out of Farnborough this year?

That only marks you has a chap with excelent taste (at least for TV series 🙂 ).

Also can’t beat a bit of Only Fools and Horses, Top Gear & Q.I. Heavy Metal music and a collection of Gibson and Ibanez guitars wired to a collection of Marshall, Orange, Mesa Boogie & Diezal amps, heads & cabs (not all at once obviously). Heaven! Or Hell, which ever you prefer best. 😀

Re: The Australian F-18 pilot, the earlier source stating he would rather go to war in Typhoon than in the F-18 anyday didn’t state he was on exchange with 6. Squadron. Hence why so many doubted the claim, especially on F-16.net. This very much backs up the claim now he’s obviously flown both and would’ve been one of the Typhoon pilots that took part and faired very well during Exercise Bersama Lima ’11. Initially a lot of people, myself included, thought these claims were from an Australian pilot actually flying the F-18 during the exercise.

I didn’t mention the ‘R’ word and the Italian Typhoon pilot’s claim in case the thread got messed up for the next dozen pages, or more. I’m surprised there hasn’t yet to be honest, internet connection must be bad in a certain part of Europe, either that or they’re still in bed…

…Wondering if my Uncle kept any body armour when he left the Royal Marines?

Did I really say Black Adder instead of Bright Adder? Oh dear, very sorry, my mistake. As it happens I was actually watching Black Adder on TV as I was writing that out. But who wouldn’t be influenced by such a classic comedy? 😛

Cheers for explaining, Jackonicko. It seems more than likely the Four Consortium members will operate Captor-E on their Typhoons, other than what has been explained on this thread about what benefits Bright Adder has given to the programme, it’d be a great shame for it be stored in the shed once Captor-E comes online. This might seem rather optimistic but wouldn’t it be wise to integrate Bright Adder onto the Tornado GR4 fleet in the future if the Typhoon FGR4 fleet is to integrate Captor-E?

Or is that a silly question?…

BlackKnight. *Salute!*

There is no aircraft worthy enough to be named after the English Electric/BAC Lightning in the same way no aircraft is worthy enough to be named after the Spitfire. Official or not, personally, I’ll never call the F-35 the Lightning out of principle.

Why not for the Royal Navy & Royal Air Force, S.F-35 MKI. (S for strike, e.g. Blackburn Buccaneer S.1)

Or…

F-35 MP…’Money Pit’.

A different/new nose fitted to a particular Typhoon at BAE Systems Warton.

Thanks to Falcon001 from Fighter Control.

http://www.fightercontrol.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=56402

Trials for the Captor-E maybe?

Image of an Italian Typhoon loaded with Marte-ER anti-ship missiles.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?124670-EF-Typhoon-News&p=6136536&viewfull=1#post6136536

Thanks to Mclaren and Syncro from Starstreak and Military Photos, respecitevly.

Not sure how old this image is since news was reported around November ’11 stating MBDA & Eurofighter GmbH were looking at the feasibility of integrating the weapon. I suspect this image is very recent.

A single Typhoon could carry four Marte-ERs with three 1,000 litre drop tanks and six A/A missiles.