Buzzed! - Page 2

[GSV]Trig · 10-06-2004, 09:03 AM

Eurowhater?

Oh yeah that project where people that didnt know what they were doing were given critical parts of the airplane to build and then things started going wrong, and the French were involved, thats a bad start....

Clingy · 10-06-2004, 09:23 AM

VC10
Jags
Nimrod

Some historic flypast then!

Live fairly close and work closer to Lakenheath and Mildenhall. Noticed a couple of very low flying exercises last night. Our church is some kind of dummy target and our house is on the bomb run. Shame they dont have any Mildenhall airshows. They were spectacular, although 200,000 people on Suffolk country roads does rather block things up!

Capt Doufos · 10-06-2004, 09:26 AM

I think this was the flypast to signify the closure of a Radar station at an RAF base in the area.

MA_Moby · 10-06-2004, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by [GSV]Trig

Eurowhater?

Oh yeah that project where people that didnt know what they were doing were given critical parts of the airplane to build and then things started going wrong, and the French were involved, thats a bad start....

Actually it was the Germans, Italiians, and Spanish!

If only the French were involved. Their Dassualt Rafale was on the drawing board at the same time as the British Aerospace EAP (the precurser to and testbed for the Eurofighter). The EAP first flew in 1986 and we're still waiting for the Eurofighter Typhoon. The Dassualt Rafale first flew in 1986 and went into service about 5 years ago.

Give me the French to design, build and put into service an aeroplane any day.

Or even the Swedes. Their Saab Gripen was the first of the new wave of modern Delta Canard fighters to enter service.

MA_Moby · 10-06-2004, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by Capt Doufos

I think this was the flypast to signify the closure of a Radar station at an RAF base in the area.

It does rather look like it has all the elements for a Flypast. See the link 'Elements of a Flypast' - it's pretty much all there.

http://www.warplane.co.uk/features/jubille%202.htm

[GSV]Trig · 10-06-2004, 10:06 AM

IIRC the French were involved to start with then they backed out and did the Rafale, by the time the Eurofighters done it'll be 15 years out of date...

Not that it will get finished, we'll just end up buying some crap of hte Yanks instead, like the replacement for the Harrier, too heavy for our carriers already, whats wrong with the If it aint broke dont fix it way of thinkin?

MA_Moby · 10-06-2004, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by [GSV]Trig

Not that it will get finished, we'll just end up buying some crap of hte Yanks instead, like the replacement for the Harrier, too heavy for our carriers already, whats wrong with the If it aint broke dont fix it way of thinkin?

The funny thing about that is that it was fine for our original plans for the new aircraft carriers. But then some bozo in the MoD decided the new carriers needed to be smaller (cheaper), and all the figures went to pot

**Stoo** · 10-06-2004, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by MA_Moby

They could be climbing out to the Lakenheath Aerial Tactics Area, which is a large area of airspace that starts about 5 miles East of Lowestoft, above 6000ft. Though with all those tankers it's more likely they're heading to an AARA, air to air refuelling area. The question is, did you see them come back? If not, maybe they're going off an exercise in Europe or further afield (that might explain the C17 - probably packed with spares and stuff for the ground crew)!

It wasn't the usual flight-path for the training zone though, they came in from the southwest-ish and headed off northwest-ish. I've not seen/heard them come back yet either..
What was really odd was that they were so low, I think the only thing I've seen lower was the Harrier the other year when they dropped it in the drink..

yamangman · 10-06-2004, 11:57 AM

Close, but it's a KC-1 Tristar, not a KC-10, and yea it's been a shame about Mildenhall air fete for the last 3 years, there should be one next year though. I have every Mildenhall air fete souveneir program since 1983 !

**Stoo** · 10-06-2004, 12:37 PM

I've not been to Mildenhall in *years*

They were fab

**Stoo** · 10-06-2004, 01:34 PM

...and the cookie goes to:

Originally Posted by Capt Doufos

I think this was the flypast to signify the closure of a Radar station at an RAF base in the area.

Correct!

It was on the news this morning.. but they didn't get pictures

MA_Moby · 10-06-2004, 02:18 PM

which base?

**Zak33** · 10-06-2004, 03:15 PM

Blue Base....bandits at blue base....

:blushes:

oh..sorry

MA_Moby · 10-06-2004, 06:18 PM

I'm thinking it must be RAF Neatishead, about 5 miles SE of Coltishall. Another cost cutter I guess!

In fact, bingo - just googled up this ~

http://news.mod.uk/news/press/news_p...wsItem_id=2889

**Nick** · 10-06-2004, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by Stoo

It was on the news this morning.. but they didn't get pictures

Of course there weren't any pictures... with no radar, they didnt know they were coming....

(sonic) Boom, boom!

MA_Moby · 12-06-2004, 11:26 AM

Bloomin' 'eck. They're at it again. A VC10 flying finger four with Jaguars just went over West Norwich! I wonder what the occasion is this time!

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