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Shortage of guards?
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ricardian » Mon Nov 25, 2024 8:51 pm
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Highly skilled Royal Air Force officers - part of the UK's warfighting airpower - have been told to man gates at a key air base because of a lack of...
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If you contractorise everything you don't have any spare bods to impose extra duties on.
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Tue Nov 26, 2024 2:17 pm
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Wed Nov 20, 2024 2:24 am
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Spanish Air Force F18 fatal
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Boac » Fri Oct 04, 2024 4:48 pm
Particularly of note because it was being flown by a pretty senior Lt Col and appears to have had a CFIT (or perhaps FIT?)
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Fri Oct 04, 2024 4:48 pm
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Carrier Operations (YouTube) - US Navy
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CharlieOneSix » Tue Oct 01, 2024 8:52 pm
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I came across these three Youtube videos describing various aspects of fixed wing operations from a US aircraft carrier - catapult launch, air to air...
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I kinda like this one just for the fun of it to:
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Tue Oct 01, 2024 10:27 pm
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The 'career officer'
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Boac » Wed Sep 11, 2024 4:08 pm
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Ex-A's mention of 'Station Duty Officer' for 2 weeks' as a punishment leads me to wonder if any of our exmil folk have stories of 'Secondary Duties'?...
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Late to this thread I'm afraid.
Secondary duties could be either important ones or fairly simple ones allocated to the most junior squadron...
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Sun Sep 15, 2024 11:02 pm
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Impressive advanced F15 display.
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boing » Sat Sep 07, 2024 6:49 pm
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Watch the autostab elevator activity during the high AOA low speed pass.
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Such agility in an aircraft is terrific but in modern air combat a 'fight' should never reach the point where the two aircraft are circling around...
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Sun Sep 08, 2024 7:48 am
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Sun Jul 28, 2024 11:07 am
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Air Brake on Red Arrows displays
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CharlieOneSix » Mon Jun 17, 2024 6:28 pm
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A friend watched a video of the Buck House flypast on Saturday and has asked me why the airbrakes were extended on the Hawks. As my only fixed wing...
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Didn't you Lightning types also buzz trawlers hosting pirate radio stations?
My only excursion low over the deck of a Russian warship was in close...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Tue Jun 18, 2024 10:08 am
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Blue Angels
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GrumpyPilot » Sun Jun 02, 2024 8:11 pm
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For those of you who have Amazon , this will be well worth watching. 90 minutes showcasing the men and women of the 2022 U.S. Navy Blue Angels team.
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Grumpy-no, he worked on one of the squadrons-they bend, he mend!
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Wed Jun 05, 2024 9:37 am
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Wed May 22, 2024 11:43 pm
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How NOT to do a triple roll at a low height.....
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Boac » Mon May 13, 2024 1:59 pm
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Bangladeshi Yak130. Sadly one dead and other critical.
with videso of the (back seater?) ejection
Hazarding a guess ^! since the back-seater was a...
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How are the mighty fallen and the weapons of war perished The Bible I think.
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Wed May 15, 2024 6:32 pm
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Fri May 10, 2024 5:41 pm
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USS Nimitz
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GrumpyPilot » Thu Mar 21, 2024 4:15 am
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Back in 2008, PBS produced a documentary about the deployment of the USS Nimitz. The film crew had unfettered access to the ship (minus the nuclear...
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Thanks - I guessed so. Hope Ark didn't have any inferiority complexes. =))
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Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:36 pm
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Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:37 pm
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RAF cuts 30 Typhoons
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Ex-Ascot » Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:49 am
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The Royal Air Force is to retire 30 Typhoons next year. They are only 40% into their expected service.
Surely there can't be a worse time to cut...
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RAF sources said retaining the T1s would cost 'in excess of' £300 million for upgrades and storage. A spokesman said: 'Retaining Tranche 1 Typhoons...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:03 pm
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Failed Trident missile launch
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ricardian » Thu Feb 22, 2024 7:51 pm
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Seen on another site:
I don't like it when I see unfair and untrue sensationalised headlines. Ie. 'Royal Navy submarine fails in missile firing.'...
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Good point, whoever posted it on the other site and for copying it over ricardian.
The first of the three rocket motors doesn't ignite until the...
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Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:34 pm
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Wed Jan 17, 2024 1:35 am
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Wed Dec 27, 2023 6:22 pm
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B-21
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PHXPhlyer » Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:17 pm
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Pentagon to unveil its newest nuclear stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider
WASHINGTON - America’s newest nuclear stealth bomber is making its public...
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Video of flight:
PP
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Sat Nov 11, 2023 4:21 pm
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Royal Navy Aircraft carrier breaks down again.
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TheGreenAnger » Mon Aug 29, 2022 6:15 am
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HMS Prince of Wales breaks down day after leaving Portsmouth.
UK’s biggest warship suffers propeller shaft damage off south coast after setting sail...
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Compare and contrast - what two governments will spend money on - reaping the 'peace dividend' for the RN! :ymdevil:
Ark later fitted with British...
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Tue Oct 31, 2023 6:25 pm
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How many of these will get off the drawing board?
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ian16th » Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:07 pm
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I suppose today, this should be titled 'How many of these will get out the computer?'
Future flying thingies.
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A fascinating aviation archaeological artefact. The British were at the forefront in the science or theory behind the potential use of catapults to...
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Wed Oct 11, 2023 4:01 pm
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South African Submariners washed off deck of submarine.
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OneHungLow » Wed Sep 20, 2023 9:34 pm
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Huge seas have been pummeling the Cape Coast for the last 4 days.
Three SA Navy personnel died on Wednesday after a huge wave hit a submarine in...
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Hundreds of mourners gathered at the St John The Evangelist Catholic Church in Fish Hoek, Cape Town, on Saturday to bid a final farewell to the...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Sun Oct 01, 2023 12:57 pm
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F-35 only 50% availability.
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OneHungLow » Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:07 am
A highly critical US government report has revealed that almost half of the nation’s fifth-generation Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II stealth jets...
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Last post by OneHungLow
Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:07 am
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Tricci Frecolore ejection
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Boac » Sat Sep 16, 2023 4:50 pm
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A little late, but should be OK.
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The aircraft hit the family's car...
The engine flameout may have been due to a bird strike apparently...
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Sat Sep 16, 2023 8:06 pm
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