Look North now...

[harrogate]

The RAF are appealing for the public to report if they've seen a panel that fell off the wing of an AWACS during a flight over North Lincs recently.

:uhoh:

Nothing on the Beeb website yet.

[harrogate]

PS - they called it a 'spy plane'.

Bless.

[airborne_artist]

Horribly reminiscent of last night's Top Gear. Clarkson's £1,000 Rover SD1 shed panels, doors etc with almost perfect timing.

As for the AWACS panel - just check all the Ford Transit pickups in the area. An itinerant will have it on the back ready to weigh in at his nearest metals recycler :E

[harrogate]

Did any bits of that ship fall off over Lincs, though?

And what would be more newsworthy:

a) Bits falling off a ship flying over Lincs?

b) A ship flying over Lincs?

[ZH875]

Nothing on the Beeb website yet.


There (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/7113086.stm) is now.

Strange size of panel, it measures one-metre panel (3ft 28in)

3 Feet 28 Inches. :ugh:

[blogger]

Shame it was not the disc that fell off we could have had our own Roswell then.

UFO LANDS IN FIELD.............:ok:

[Wader2]

3 Feet 28 Inches. :ugh:

And the POINT?:}

Love the article though:


"Andrew Brookes, the air power expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said panels did drop off from time to time.

"They are little panels that close and fasteners can go wrong or goodness knows what."

and then the quote from our man at the ministry:

""The safety of our crews is paramount; we are investigating this incident thoroughly."

Well he would say that, wouldn't he?

[ZH875]

And the POINT?:}


I think the point is that a metre is about 3 feet and 3 inches.

3 feet 28 inches = 5 feet 4 inches or somewhere well over 1½ metres.:O

Must be the result of A*** Maths A Levels.

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[sitigeltfel]

"An RAF spokesperson said the public were not put at risk by the incident, which happened earlier this month."

It was made of Polystyrene then? :rolleyes:

[stickmonkeytamer]

I believe that it was a liferaft cover panel. A Harrier went up for a visual inspection of the Sentry a few weeks ago when it happened.
Has anyone tried Ebay???;)
SMT

[Roadster280]

"No, I haven't seen it".

Apologies to Blackadder and the Witch Smeller Pursuivant, a while back..

[Mr Point]

MoD Spokesperson:The safety of our crews is paramount; we are investigating this incident thoroughly

Now where have I heard that line before?

[soddim]

Truth being stranger than fiction I guess they want it back - can't afford another one in these days of blood on the floor of MOD.

[Wader2]

I think the point is that a metre is about 3 feet and 3 inches.

3 feet 28 inches = 5 feet 4 inches or somewhere well over 1½ metres.:O

Must be the result of A*** Maths A Levels.

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Sorry ZH, it took only 33 minutes to land the catch:

3 feet 2 POINT 8 inches. :)

[Wader2]

"An RAF spokesperson said the public were not put at risk by the incident, which happened earlier this month."

It was made of Polystyrene then? :rolleyes:

No, no, not at risk by the incident which was the panel coming off the aircraft.

They may have been put at risk of the panel hitting them but that is different. That would have been an accident anyway and not an incident.

[ZH875]

Sorry ZH, it took only 33 minutes to land the catch:

3 feet 2 POINT 8 inches. :)

Maybe if I was expecting that level of accuracy, I may have seen your point:O, but I certainly didn't get the point from the Beeb.

The AWACS is a US aircraft, so why should we have to put up with metric measurements?:confused:

[212man]

3 feet 2 POINT 8 inches

Actually, 3POINT28 feet ;)

[Wader2]

212, 10/10, well done that man.

Apply for a job at the Beeb in the Metric police department.

[Beeayeate]

Some years ago (late 60s) a panel detached from a Wyton Canberra on take off in the vicinity of Huntingdon. Fell into a woman's back garden breaking her greenhouse. She reported that the RAF could easily find the culprit as she had the aircraft's number . . . DTD26******!

:rolleyes:

[foldingwings]

It's a sad day when the BBC can't even spell one of the simpler words in our lexicon (detached)!:ugh:

Foldie

[Colonal Mustard]

And there i am Looking North out the window.........Doh:ugh::E