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'Lightning' - keeping up tradition?
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Boac » Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:14 am
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An RN F35 has diverted to an Indian coastal airfield, apparently due to 'shortage of fuel'. AH! Well I recall the BAC/English Electric Lightning, the...
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Said jet apparently is 'still there' with a major hydraulic problem. Some 30 matelots have been dispatched there to sort it. I hope it is under...
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Sun Jun 22, 2025 12:51 pm
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Excuse me! Can we have our drone back, please?
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Boac » Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:57 am
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Unfortunately the article does not tell us what happened!
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Something wrong with FR24's calculations. They reckon it will do 1982km in 2hrs42 min. That doesn't equate with a groundspeed of 270kts (500km/hr).
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Mon Jun 16, 2025 2:34 pm
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Trump Announces F-47 from Boeing
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PHXPhlyer » Fri Mar 21, 2025 7:01 pm
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Another Program for Boeing to Screw Up
Trump announces new US sixth-generation fighter jet that will be built by Boeing
President Donald...
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F-47 Program Details Revealed In New Graphic
Steve Trimble May 13, 2025
USAF graphic of fighters including F-47
The first members of a planned...
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Wed May 14, 2025 6:20 pm
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F/A-18 in New Submarine Role
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llondel » Mon Apr 28, 2025 8:46 pm
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A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet has been “lost” at sea after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier while it was...
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Modification to F/A-18s on USS Harry S Truman.
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Last post by llondel
Tue May 13, 2025 5:07 pm
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Permission to lay alongside, Sir?
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Boac » Sat May 10, 2025 7:48 pm
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The resignation of the First Sea Lord because of 'conduct unbecoming' (said to involve a subordinate) is doubly unfortunate since I understand he was...
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I'm sure you are right. I believe he has 'stepped aside' and not actually 'resigned' although 'Navy Leaders'/'News' says 'resigned'. The Spectator...
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Sat May 10, 2025 8:28 pm
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Last post by CharlieOneSix
Sun Apr 27, 2025 11:17 am
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Chengdu J-36
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PHXPhlyer » Wed Apr 09, 2025 3:19 am
China’s J-36 Tailless Fighter Zips Over Road On Landing Giving Us Our Best Look Yet
Link has pics and video.
New footage has emerged of the...
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Wed Apr 09, 2025 3:19 am
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Two Fleet Air Arm Legends retire
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CharlieOneSix » Thu Apr 03, 2025 11:15 am
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Two legends of the Fleet Air Arm, who joined the Royal Navy on the same day, have shared their last flight together as they retire after careers...
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Thanks C16 - what great careers. So many people taken through training.
It's frightening to think they joined 9 years after I left and a few more...
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Mon Apr 07, 2025 4:32 am
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Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:27 pm
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RNZAF: Hercules retirement flight January 29 2025
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Karearea » Tue Jan 28, 2025 7:45 pm
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As the sun sets on the 60-year-long career of our Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130H Hercules fleet, No 40. Squadron will farewell the workhorse of...
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Removing the tail of NZ7001 so it fits its new home at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand
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Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:19 am
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A400 seen!
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Boac » Tue Mar 25, 2025 9:25 pm
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A wonderful sight today in Sussex of the ship flying delightfully low west to east across the south of the UK. Magnificent.
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They seem to be doing a lot of flying currently.
Preparing for the upcoming peacekeeping operation in Ukraine :-o
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Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:06 pm
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Patrouille de France mid-air
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Boac » Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:23 pm
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2 collided and crashed during practice at Saint Dizier. Some ejections but fates unknown.
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Possibly - don't know about the alpha-jet and then, of course, it would need to be selected to seat priority.
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Last post by Boac
Tue Mar 25, 2025 6:19 pm
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South Korean AF Oopsie
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PHXPhlyer » Fri Mar 07, 2025 6:00 pm
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Number of people injured after fighter jets accidentally drop bombs rises to 29, South Korea says
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Familiar to all FAC & ACO folk - Stop! Stop! Stop! Own twoops!
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Last post by ricardian
Sat Mar 08, 2025 8:43 pm
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America’s First Unmanned Fighters Are Here
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PHXPhlyer » Wed Mar 05, 2025 5:40 pm
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America’s First Unmanned Fighters Are Here: YFQ-42 and YFQ-44
AURORA, Colo.—The Air Force’s first two Collaborative Combat Aircraft are...
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Any chance of an unmanned government? ;)))
They're working on that at the moment, test firings are progressing. At present they've got a good...
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Last post by llondel
Thu Mar 06, 2025 2:18 am
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Increase in defence budget Feb 2025
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ricardian » Tue Feb 25, 2025 6:43 pm
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Get more bang for your buck by bringing recruitment back in-house instead of leaving it to C(r)apita.
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Word over here is that the increase was announced to coincide with the meeting with Trump as part of the suck up.
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Tue Feb 25, 2025 8:06 pm
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MOD investigating aircrew cancers
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CharlieOneSix » Fri Feb 21, 2025 10:32 pm
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MOD investigating aircrew cancers amid claims personnel were exposed to toxic fumes. It comes after military helicopter crews said they were suing...
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All the hours of exposure and the duty free cigarettes wouldn't have helped either! There must be so many ex-military aircrew who flew in turbine...
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Sun Feb 23, 2025 3:35 am
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'Odd' F-35 crash
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Boac » Wed Jan 29, 2025 9:04 am
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The video appears to show a fully developed canopy some height BELOW the accident aircraft - which is somewhat unusual!
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It makes no sense to me but the driver will explain.
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Last post by Boac
Thu Jan 30, 2025 9:04 am
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OOPSY U.S Navy F/A-18 Downed by Friendly Fire
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PHXPhlyer » Sun Dec 22, 2024 3:16 pm
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Two US Navy pilots eject safely over Red Sea after fighter jet shot down in apparent friendly fire incident
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Two US Navy pilots ejected...
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Traditionally (cf Iran Air 655), the Captain of the Gettysburg will get a medal ;)
I should add that those of us who have done maritime air defence...
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Last post by Fox3WheresMyBanana
Wed Dec 25, 2024 8:48 pm
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V-22 Ospreys Grounded Again
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PHXPhlyer » Wed Dec 11, 2024 2:52 am
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V-22s Grounded Again After Special Operations Osprey Mishap
The Navy, Marines, and Air Force have stopped or severely limited Osprey operations...
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Pentagon lifts pause on troubled Osprey aircrafts
The unique aircrafts, which can rise vertically like a helicopter and fly horizontally like a...
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Fri Dec 20, 2024 11:30 pm
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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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Last post by FD2
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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