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October 30, 2008 at 12:34 pm in reply to: The XH558 Discussion Thread (merged) #1237876

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Rememberance

Surely it is the people who flew in the RAF we are remembering so it doesn’t matter if it is an ex Gulf War Tornado or a dh Comet transport doing a flypast.

October 29, 2008 at 10:50 pm in reply to: Little gems #1238156

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It’s good to hear that there are some totally unique exibits at NEAM, I would love to pop down for a visit but the 250 miles does pose a small problem! 🙁

October 29, 2008 at 10:42 pm in reply to: Little gems #1238205

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Hello Lindy’s Lad, I wondered how long it’d be before you payed me a visit! :p

October 29, 2008 at 9:57 pm in reply to: How would you form the European Air Force? #2499035

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European Air Force:
Let the Germans do the uniforms,
the Italians do the meals,
the French do the wines

the English…..maybe they can dust off the TSR. 2.

😀

How would the TSR-2 fare against modern types if it were to be ‘reborn’?

October 29, 2008 at 9:49 pm in reply to: Why can't UK build it's own aircraft? #2499039

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Money, money, money and money.

MONEY

A point to mention is though with the Tornado and Eurofighter, most of the design was done really by BAE/British companies, more so on the previous.

EJ200, Tornado Turbo Union are both Rolls Royce remember 😉

Which brings us nicely to the question, how much of the Eurofighter is really British designed or the idea for it was British?

October 29, 2008 at 9:45 pm in reply to: Baghdad-1 (Adnan-1) AEW aircraft #2499045

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To be honest I guess the question could also have been reworded, “have the Iranians intergrated the Adnana-1 into service and was it difficult?”

:rolleyes:

October 29, 2008 at 7:40 pm in reply to: Little gems #1238369

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Next time you go to the NMUSAF in Dayton go to Carrolion (SP?) Historic Park which is made up of many old buildings relocated and restored to show the area’s history. (My favorite is a restored circa 1910 Packard auto dealership which is now the Packard Club’s national museum…there’s also a log cabin, built circa 1800 when Ohio was considered the frontier. It was the first structure built in the area and variously served as a pub, inn, jail, store, etc. Looks like something out of The Last of the Mohicans.)

There is a specially constructed building where you can view (at very close detail and from 360 degrees) the Wright Brother’s 1905 Flyer.
It’s considered their first practical (more controllable on all three axis than the 1903 design) aircraft…
It was restored decades ago (perhaps when Orville was still living) and in in beautiful shape.
You get much better view of it than you do its older sister at the NASM in Washington.

Not something you’d exect to see outside of a major air/science/history museum.

This sounds like exactly the sort of thing I’m talking about, unfortunatly it is a little too far to travel for a day trip! :rolleyes:

October 29, 2008 at 12:49 pm in reply to: Baghdad-1 (Adnan-1) AEW aircraft #2499505

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If the Iranians really wanted to would it be very difficult to intergrate the ex Iraqi AF Adnan-1 into the Iranian Air Force?

October 29, 2008 at 12:41 pm in reply to: Biggin Hill BoB 1961 – Historic collection. #1238668

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Wow, that must have been an incredible collection of aircraft to look at even 21 years after the BoB ended! 😮

As a RAF mad teenager myself back in the 1990s the closest I think I could have come to experiencing anything remotely similer would have been the first appearence of the MiG29 at Farnborough in 1988.

October 27, 2008 at 10:02 pm in reply to: Possible futire Air wars #2500224

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F/A-18E/F is a self-escorting strike airplane. It is as big as an F-15, but only has F-18 sized engines. So, it doesn’t have the kinematic capability to run with the big dogs in A2A combat. It was foolish for NAVAIR to push an attack airplane into an air defense role.

What, like the RAF did with the Tornado?

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

October 27, 2008 at 9:44 pm in reply to: Tiger Club Turbs #494324

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Incredible little things!

What size engine do they have?

October 24, 2008 at 1:29 pm in reply to: HP Victor? #1165429

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The HP Victor was used in the Gulf War as an AAR tanker for allied aircraft 41 years after its first flight. Has any other RAF aircraft been used on active service at such an age?

October 24, 2008 at 1:24 pm in reply to: 2009 Anniversaries #1165432

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2009 Anniversaries

22 May, 63 years ago first flight of the de Havilland Chipmunk.

5 Feb is 68 years since the founding of the Air Training Corps.

And on the 15th Feb is 18 years since I started at 1011 Amesbury Air Cadets aged 13 years 1 day and I still go there regularly as a Civilian Instructer.

October 23, 2008 at 10:49 am in reply to: Chipmunks #1166575

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Nice to find a old freind eh!
I am sure i ticked of the ones i flew in my old military reg book (with a rather proud note saying “flown it” by the side! and im sure i have that old book somewhere if i can find it amongs my junk then i will be able to find out what chippies i flew, who knows maybe i flew WP840 as well!
I remember waddling with the parachute! do you remeber the saftey video with cadet “John andrews” i heard a rumor one cadet was not allowed to fly because when asked his name by the instructor he jokingly said John andrews!
Did you do any aerobatics, that was great fun, in my mind i was humming Top gun! at least i think it was in my mind!

How could I not remember Cadet John Andrews!

“Jump John, jump!”

VHS gold.

Does anybody know where I can view that Cadet flight safety vid again?

October 21, 2008 at 3:11 pm in reply to: Current designs extended to one-offs hypotheticals #2453938

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Something akin to the HiMat perhaps, but with common interface allowing “plug ‘n play” electronics/avionics?

Surely because of the massive aerodynamic changes with altering size shape and position designing an aircraft that can be converted into many versions will be impossible?
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