Rich,

Thanks for the info on the Radome, shame but never mind. BTW I am the guy attempting to build the Shack MR Mk3 Phase 3 on the Britmodeller site that you helped out with the roof pictures a few weeks back. When my Dad who worked with Lancs in WWII is out of hospital and feeling up to it I will get him over to Coventry to come and have a look at 693. He was one of the founders of the East Mids AVA at East Midlands Airport many years ago and was instrumental in getting Graham Vale’s Varsity running up. He had to pack in the AVA when my Mum got ill but he would love to have a look at the Shack.

Cheers

Ian

Sintra,

Yes you are on the right track, just because “Congress” pressurised IAI into cancelling the original deal to install an AESA into those BE-50’s for the Chinese, it would be reasonably to conclude that by that stage the Chinese scientists had got a pretty good handle on how the AESA Radar system worked. The Israelis are pretty good at working around other people’s rules and I would be willing to bet that the KJ-2000’s radar isn’t vastly different to that in the Indian Air Force’s Beriev A50EI.

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Cheers

Ian Shaw

Surely the Embraer R-99A with the Erieye has got to be a runner. Its good cost effective and proven. Ask the French Mirage pilots who got a bit of a shock during their joint exercises with the Brazilian Air Force last year. It can’t be that expensive as the Greeks have bought some!

Then there’s always the new C295 -AEW I suppose.

Ian

ZG989

The Islander/Defender with the large bulbous nose, ZG989 has been flying out of Waddington again last week and this week. It has spent hours orbiting the Lincoln area at around 10.000ft, must be doing some sort of AEW trial. Maybe they are going to replace Astor/Sentinals with the cheaper competitor from all those years ago afterall!

Rick