RAF Durrington was the first of six GCI stations covering England & controlled the night-fighter squadrons based at nearby RAF Tangmere. RAF Sopley controlled the night-fighter squadrons based at Middle Wallop & further west. http://www.radarpages.co.uk/mob/gci/gcimap.htm

I had a look at Tangmere of Google Earth and although no longer used as an airfield you can clearly see the lines of the two runways there. What are the three hangers used for now?

What must we now call the concrete lumps that are placed in roads to control the speed of traffic? ‘Sleeping policemen’ doesn’t tend to encourage drivers to slow down for some reason and ‘speed bumps’ is taken as an instruction! :rolleyes:

Just another way for describing the performance of acceleration for Typhoon that have already been well known:

1. From braking-off to supersonic: less than 30 secs.

2. Low-level flight, from 200 kts to Mach 0.9: less than 20 secs.

3. Acceleration at low level: 30kts per second in reheat.

550 kts = 283 m/s –> I wonder if the sentence quoted above means the vertical climbing performance for Typhoon…..

How do these figures compare to the EE Lightning?

I realize this is a slight thread drift but what happened to the remains of the aircraft that were shot down over Iraq during Gulf War 1 in 1991?

Excellent pictures civilspotter, what are the two large shoulder pods on the F-16 for and how many missiles can the F-15 carry under it’s belly, there seems to be two lots of pylon?

According to this;
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1985/1985%20-%203087.html
she suffered engine failure in 1984, crashed landed, rolled and was destroyed.

G-HRVD is on a long term rebuild in Leicestershire.

I presume this is FT375’s civilian reg, but I thought she had been sold to and was operated by an African air force?