Ok, so you’ve got the Mi-26, you managed to sling the load safely underneath and you’re running up the rotors in preparation for the takeoff.

Where are you going???

What destination??

Why???

Who’s paying???

How have you dismantled the load???

Pllease answer, I’m dying to know.
A.

Right on. Plus that Mil 26 with its 20 tonne limit has the same problem as the Chinook with its 9 Tonne load limit — NO BL**DY FUEL to carry the Vulcan Hulk any distance.

The ONLY thing that will save the project (whoever it is running it) is money……and shed loads of it.

Which I don’t think the VTTSC will find, period. Just face it, if the Sea Vixen boys cannot get bookings for the Red Bull aircraft, what hope does the Vulcan have? The answer to that one is simple, just about ZERO.

Interesting clip on BBC Radio Suffolk this morning.

Statement from the USAFE that they view the Air Fete as important for local relationships and would hope it could be run again in the future.

Moggy

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE let it be true, however I don’t think it would be as good as the ones in the late 1980’s were.

But Chinooks have lifted airframes before. No-one disputes this airframe is large. What is questionable is whether stripped of engines, undercarriage, fin, control surfaces, even with electrics and hydraulics in situ, this is a particularly heavy airframe.

Establishing that it _could_ be done would go a long way to help in renegotiating hanger fees if a new team took over the project.

Having planned a Chinook lift of a ground based radar, I can tell you that airlift of a Vulcan is a non starter unless you chop the thing up. Also that 9 tonne lifting figure is at a massive reduction of range due to the fuel that the Chinook cannot carry while lifting that load.

I live in Florida and can’t wait to see F-35’s flying overhead…………. 😀

Well We will not be seeing much of the Lightning II down in my neck of the woods unless the 48th FW get them as a replacement for the F-15Es, The RAF and RN ones are most likely going to based in Scotland. 😡 899 NAS winged fist would look good on the tail of a Lightning FG Mk 1 however. 🙂

Some say we’re still paying it!

I think we still are, until the end of this year.

Captian Lockheed and The Starfighters. :diablo: :diablo: :diablo:

The rear cover is the same but there are 3 bright starfighter shaped patches on the wall and broken bits of startfighter all over the floor and mantle piece.

A very sick record in the eyes of most aviation minded people, however some of the sketches in between the songs are very funny (the one with Lockeheed salesman and the German Defence Minister and the one with the groundcrew trying to attach a wing to a Starfighter in a hanger are classics)

Frank Joseph Strauss – Very nice, we need an aircraft for (whole list of roles), not just a fair weather fighter!!!!!!!!!!

Lockheed Man – That’s OK, We can make some modifications, It will cost a little extra, but it will be worth it

Frank Joseph Strauss – and????

Lockheed Man – and instead of calling it the F-104, We will call it the F-104G.

Frank Joseph Strauss – F-104G???????

Lockheed Man – Yes Herr Minister, as in G for Germany

Frank Joseph Strauss – also G as in Gott strafe England, This I am enjoying.

Like buses ,you wait for one and then – – – – – – – – – – – – 🙂

By the way trumper, when did you leave the Cadets? The reason I ask is that we did a Night Ex with Saffron Warden up near Audley End in Sept 1983. We may have crossed paths 🙂