There was a Hunter T-7 on the dump in Elgin town back in 1992 when the Buccs were being chopped up.
It mentions the previous incident where the Polish president tried to put pressure on the pilot to land when the pilot did not want to, an event that I was not really aware of.
There is an AAIB report mentioned over on the GA forum where a Comanche crashed in Sussex in bad weather and the analysis was that the pilot was subject to ‘get-there-itis’.
The Guardian article (one of a number it has carried) would tend to suggest that a similar attitude was at work here which is a more reasoned argument than some of the conspiracy notions printed above.
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/index.php
Auster AOP9 XR246 drifting past East Bridgford in the early afternoon sun, interestingly with two civil Gazelles having flown past me in loose formation an hour earlier.
It’s not that surprising, I’ve seen quite a few new airframes going straight from the prod line to Mojave/Marana in the past, for example the Air Canada 744s and a whole bunch of Avianca MD80s.
XG882 is/was at Errol on Tayside
😀 I wish I could say this was just for you but I can’t; neither can I say there won’t be other people around as the museum is open as normal!
Perhaps if NAM gets the R1 that it’s hoping and planning for, you could discuss the finer points of Nimrod landing profiles with the museum’s resident ‘former R1 driver!’
I seem to recall that Al Maclean at Cosford had been in a Nimrod crew at some time
Interesting because a Libyan IL-62 also landed well short of the runway back in 2006
I thought that, rather than the current MR2 fleet being ‘much rundown’, it was being withdrawn totally leaving a gap until the MRA4s came in?
Classic footage of Fairport Convention from 1970, also featuring the AAC Blue Eagles in their Sioux days.
Typical Fox News article :rolleyes:
From its own words
“The risk is low for airplanes, which use ground-based radars for guidance and have a back-up navigation system that does not depend on satellites. Military personnel use a private GPS network. But GPS jamming could nonetheless cause confusion in the cockpit as pilots have to switch to back up navigation systems. And maritime shipments that rely on GPS coordinates for finding port locations could face problems as well. “
So where does the could bring down aircraft come from?
Interesting thread on this (unsurprisingly) over on PPRUNE
Reached the BBC now…
I’m surprised they are not going round buying back all the copies to pulp them. I had to do that once when I took over as editor of an ‘industry standard publication’ which had gone terribly wrong under the previous editor..
Nice, but how is it relevant?
It (allegedly) melted the concrete during a vertical take off on a practice display
The moral? There’s nothing new under the sun anymore, it’s all happened before