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March 20, 2011 at 1:26 am in reply to: Air Action Over Libya (Merged) #2317033

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The operation was supported by VC10 and Tristar air-to-air refuelling aircraft as well as E3D Sentry and Sentinel surveillance aircraft.

BBC’s Live text 01:11

Interesting that the Sentinal is involved. Another asset that was going to be disposed of once out of Afghanistan. Monitoring ground targets such as Mobile SAMs is exactly what it was designed for. This just goes to show the folly of Governmental thinking that it would be of no use after Afghanistan.

March 2, 2011 at 2:07 pm in reply to: Canberra fuselage / cockpit disposal #1101927

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Here is a link to a post I made in the Something completely Different thread.
It ontains an image of the afore mentioned canberra fuselage taken last summer.

February 26, 2011 at 7:31 pm in reply to: Boeing KC-X Victory (Merged) #2334724

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Outch. And who will pay for such a new design ? Not the USAF, you can be sure of that. The development cost alone of an aircraft of this class is between 10 and 15 billions $. Here the contract give 3.5 billions for the devellopement AND several KC46 (18 ?)

There are people talking about bwb tankers, which would need to be developed from scratch. What difference looking at a High wing, combined lifter design.

February 26, 2011 at 3:49 pm in reply to: Boeing KC-X Victory (Merged) #2334810

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Excuse me for loosing track during the course of KC-X I, II and III

THere was originally to be KC -Y and KC-Z follow ons, the Y was to be for a larger type than X, but Z was to be of similar size…Am I remembering that correctly?

Given one of the issues being argued was the footprint of the A330 being too big compared to the 767 and current 707 infrastructure. Where does that leave the larger KC-Y.
Would a solution be to move away from the “based on an existing airliner” model, to perhaps a high wing configuration that would be designed from scratch as lifter/tanker. The lifter being plumbed for hose and Drogue and palletised tanks, and the tanker being exclusively tanker with permanent tanks.

February 25, 2011 at 2:13 pm in reply to: Nimrod Museum Allocations #1106166

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East Fortune has now taken delivery of the forward fuselage of XV241. Delivered from Kinloss by lorry last week.

Where the hell will they put it, they have barely enough space to show off what they have?

February 23, 2011 at 12:07 pm in reply to: The And Now For Something Completely Different….Thread #1108890

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Nearly a Mig, a Letov L103

February 16, 2011 at 11:53 pm in reply to: The And Now For Something Completely Different….Thread #1116321

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Linking back though serveral images

A wingless Canberra and friends at Dumfries.

February 15, 2011 at 12:07 am in reply to: Beaufighter to Australia in 2011 #1118725

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May last year, it was in the storage/restoration hanger “on display” for the first time. Haven’t been down there this year yet so can’t comment further.

here are a couple of pics from last year

February 14, 2011 at 11:58 pm in reply to: General Discussion #295717

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I live under the approach to Edinburgh (about 10 miles out). The FM radio in our kitchen regularly picks up pilots calling that they are now on finals or acknowledging some other information not picked up. The aerial of the radio is close to copper plumbing pipes which I presume becomes a massive receiving array.

It doesn’t do it with every aircraft, just often enough to be annoying when a fav tune is interupted.

February 14, 2011 at 11:58 pm in reply to: Freak Broadcast #1888138

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I live under the approach to Edinburgh (about 10 miles out). The FM radio in our kitchen regularly picks up pilots calling that they are now on finals or acknowledging some other information not picked up. The aerial of the radio is close to copper plumbing pipes which I presume becomes a massive receiving array.

It doesn’t do it with every aircraft, just often enough to be annoying when a fav tune is interupted.

February 10, 2011 at 1:38 pm in reply to: Manx 2 Crash At Cork #501823

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The BBC were reporting that it crashed on it’s third attempt to land. The reporter suggested that after the first abort, it tried landing from the opposite direction which it aborted again, before trying a third time back on the original direction.

February 9, 2011 at 11:53 am in reply to: The And Now For Something Completely Different….Thread #1126348

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A bit more orange is needed I think. Here brightening up a dreary start to a Leuchars airshow.

February 4, 2011 at 11:50 pm in reply to: The And Now For Something Completely Different….Thread #1131510

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From one Comet to another Komet

February 2, 2011 at 2:09 pm in reply to: CVF Construction #2012745

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It’s going to look huge anywhere. 😉

February 2, 2011 at 12:31 am in reply to: Jaguars in museums #1135836

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Three of East Fortune’s Jag, sadly when these were taken she was in the Storage and restoration hanger looking rather forlorn stuck nose into a corner behind EF’s Percival Provost.
(permission was given by the staff to cross the ropes and get the close ups of her.)

Edit: I attached 3 pics to this post. Their sizes added onto my “image allowance” but haven’t appeared. Can a Mod check this please?
Try adding the pictures again as there are currently no images linked to this post?
peter, Mod
Thanks Peter
Curious thing, the image allowance had dropped back down again, yet it had gone up with those three images.
I see they are working now so thanks again.
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