View Full Version : QRA tanker up...
YorkshireTown
16th Oct 2007, 11:02
Heading north @ 5am today.
Anyone?
Wow! They actually have a QRA tanker? :ooh: Things sure have changed since the 90s... :}
Razor61
16th Oct 2007, 11:24
It went out at around 3'ish and came back 8:30'ish.
bit of a normal affair now though isn't it? :hmm:
TonkaEngO
16th Oct 2007, 13:19
Pray tell....how do I distinguish between a 'QRA' tanker and a 'normal' one?
Yeller_Gait
16th Oct 2007, 13:37
A normal one does not go flying at 3 am?
ukmil
16th Oct 2007, 16:32
Tonka QRA 1 went up at leuchars at 3.40am, followed by QRA2 at 4.20 am, both arrived back at 7.30 am
2 x Tu-160 intercepted 70nm NW of Bardufoss by RNoAF F-16s this morning, according to media. (Their source CAOC3) The aircraft followed the Russians for 45 minutes before RTB.
Brain Potter
16th Oct 2007, 17:39
A normal one does not go flying at 3 am?
Except when it is moonlighting as an AT asset :p
TonkaEngO
16th Oct 2007, 18:30
Yeller gait
So only 10's/Timmy's on QRA fly at night/early hours?
pontifex
16th Oct 2007, 19:18
Of course we had QRA tankers. When I was on tankers in the 70s it was called Operation Dragonfly (and it was a lot of fun).
Timmy's on QRA ?
Behave yourself....;)
stickmonkeytamer
16th Oct 2007, 21:38
Does anything else go up to play? E-3D or the like now that we don't have radars looking that far north?
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