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Thread Author: Fursty Ferret Replies: 27

 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Fursty Ferret
Since about 8am various Typhoons and other pointless inventions have been messing around over the north of England. Go home or sod off over the North Sea, or Aylesbury or something. Some of them even belong to Qatar.

Edit: AIR EXER. MULTIPLE MIXED ACFT WILL CONDUCT HIGH ENERGY MANOEUVRES
WI 5NM RADIUS: 541221N 0012252W (TOPCLIFFE AD). ACFT MAY OPERATE AT
SPEEDS OF UP TO 450 KNOTS IAS AND MAY BE UNABLE TO COMPLY WITH RAC.
AIC Y007/2023 REFERS. FOR INFO 07584 063715. OPS CTC 271.000MHZ.
2023-05-0399/AS3.
Last edited by: Fursty Ferret on Tue 9 May 23 at 22:19
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Bromptonaut
Location and speed are mentioned what are the altitudes/flight levels affected?

What is RAC in this context?
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Fursty Ferret
>> What is RAC in this context?

TCAS resolution advisory complement.

It's part of the coordination between two conflicting aircraft. Once a solution is computed the TCAS systems will send advice to the other aircraft to minimise the risk of collision. The Resolution Advisory is something like "I WILL CLIMB", "I WILL DESCEND". "I WILL LEVEL OFF", and the complement is a component that says "DON'T PASS ABOVE ME" or "DON'T PASS BELOW ME".

Not surprising the Biggles would be unable to comply with a TCAS instruction.

I did have to look up this aspect of it though.
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - sooty123
It's an exercise, I'm not sure what the issue is. The 323 may be booked or unsuitable.
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Bromptonaut
>> It's an exercise, I'm not sure what the issue is.

I suspect the aircraft are disturbing the peace!!
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Zero
Hes Just peed off that people are zooming about at speed in their little sports jobbies while he is stuck with his flying van.
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Fursty Ferret
>> Hes Just peed off that people are zooming about at speed in their little sports
>> jobbies while he is stuck with his flying van.
>>

I’m sorry but if it doesn’t come equipped with an espresso machine and a first class galley I’m simply not interested.
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Runfer D'Hills
A old friend of mine, now retired, began flying in the RAF and was on fast jets as a young man. Later in life, he went on to become a commercial airline pilot.
He maintained that (of course in theory), an empty passenger aircraft could also be flown with a considerable degree of abandon if the pilot knew how to and was sure of remaining undetected by anyone who might object. We were never sure if he was winding us up, and I’m sure you can neither confirm nor deny knowing anything like that FF? ;-)
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Bromptonaut
Wasn't a 707, or perhaps the "dash 80" prototype, barrel rolled by Boeings Chief Test Pilot in the mid fifties?

There's video on the net of a BA VC-10 so low it's practically clipping the grass at White Waltham in the seventies.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Wed 10 May 23 at 22:39
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - henry k
>> Wasn't a 707, or perhaps the "dash 80" prototype, barrel rolled by Boeings Chief Test Pilot in the mid fifties?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_khhzuFlE
>>
>> There's video on the net of a BA VC-10 so low it's practically clipping the grass at White Waltham in the seventies.

similar
>> www.youtube.com/shorts/5BEFN8ne4-E
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - bathtub tom
I was at an airshow where the Vulcan was rolled beyond 90 degrees. IIRC it was the last year it was flown.
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Zero
I very much doubt it was rolled beyond 90 degrees on its last years in the air, Shoreham Air crash ensured the CAA was watching over them like a hawk. Sure plenty of wingovers that look spectacular, (I Filmed a few of them ) but not 90 degrees.
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Bromptonaut
It's amazing what a display aircraft can appear to do. One of most impressive displays I've ever seen was a militarised version of the old Fokker F27 - the Dart engined original not the rehash with modern turboprops - at the Air Tattoo c1985.
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - bathtub tom
>> I very much doubt it was rolled beyond 90 degrees on its last years in
>> the air,

tinyurl.com/msnj96wd

Rirght at the end from about 5:40
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Zero
Difficult to say if thats beyond 90 due to the changing camera angle, certainly the biggest wing over I ever saw it do in its display years.
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - bathtub tom
I was there, and I believe that's a true representation. I recall thinking that if it doesn't roll back soon, it could go down on Biggleswade and cause hundreds of pounds worth of improvements.
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Zero
There are rumours that Vulcans have been barrel rolled given sufficient altitude.
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Bromptonaut
>> There are rumours that Vulcans have been barrel rolled given sufficient altitude.

Theres a video somewhere on the net of Roly Falk doing a 360 degree roll in a Mk1 at Farnborough in the fifties.

 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Bromptonaut
There's also a suggestion that XH558 was rolled in October 2015:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-lincolnshire-34712344
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Bromptonaut
I guess if it was the last ever display before being permanently grounded then the crew might have pushed the envelope a bit.
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - tyrednemotional

>> I suspect the aircraft are disturbing the peace!!
>>

....should be arrested ...!
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - martin aston
A job for the Flying Squad?
Last edited by: martin aston on Thu 11 May 23 at 06:06
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - tyrednemotional
>> A job for the Flying Squad?
>>

...in plane clothes....?
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Bromptonaut
Not worth getting in flap over...
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Zero
They need to wing it over there ASAp then
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Zero
Get Hurcule Pitot on the case
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - Robin O'Reliant
The puns didn't take long to take off.
 WTF is going on with military aircraft? - smokie
They all went over my head I'm afraid.
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