A330 Royal Airforce

[studentpilotmcuk]

Hi i see that the Royal Air Force has a Airbus A330. What role would the
A330 be within the royal Air Force?

Regards to all :)

[Torque Tonight]

Have you tried typing A330 RAF into google?

[Malaysian28]

It's designed as dual role Air-to-Air re-fuelling tanker and Transport Aircraft.
Also known as a Airbus A330 MRTT / KC-30A Voyager.

Airbus A330 MRTT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A330_MRTT)

[TEEEJ]

RAF - Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (http://www.raf.mod.uk/equipment/futurestrategictankeraircraft.cfm)

[Phileas Fogg]

And "Air" and "Force" are two words as defined in any reputable English dictionary!

[Phileas Fogg]

Having served in the Royal Air Force for Queen and Country perhaps one doesn't have too much time for the typo types of this internet age! :)

[Hotel Tango]

chris50:

1) It's God

2) It's their

I'll let you off with ass

3) chatting

4) about

5)......

On second thoughts I give up! :p

[chiglet]

HT,
You forgot the [lack of] punctuation......:ok:
There again, he may have been extracting the urine.

[studentpilotmcuk]

Thank you for all who responded. I could of chosen to look on google,however, I thought I would post it on here as just reading it on google offers no conversation. I sincerly apologise to anyone who noticed my mistake.

[DaveReidUK]

Also known as a Airbus A330 MRTT / KC-30A Voyager.

KC-30A is a bastardised, pseudo-US designation used by the Australians for their MRTTs because they couldn't think up anything more original.

[diginagain]

This is an aspect of PFI that has resulted in the 'Rental Air Farce'. Motto; "Buy now - pay much, later."

[VC10man]

If they last as long as the fabulous VC10s there will be plenty of time to pay.

[studentpilotmcuk]

I wonder if the military A330 will have the same handling challenges as the civilian A330. I seem to remember an issue being discussed on pprune about the computers taking over at the most challenging of times, mainly landing.

I can remember one person saying "there is nothing worse to have the computer take over when your riding the bull" :E refering to manually flying the ILS and the computer taking over. I would like to add these were not my choice of words but made me chuckle when i read them, its probably why i remember it so well.

I cannot wait to see this aircraft at a military display.

Once again thanks to all who posted

[Flightmech]

There's a HiFly A330 currently doing circuits at Brize. Training for Voyager crews?

[opsjockey]

Er no, just training for HiFly crews...

[Mechta]

From looking at the piccies and description, there doesn't seem to be any provision for a receiver probe on the Voyager. Is this intended as part of an upgrade or just deemed unnecessary? They proved rather useful on Victors after all...

[Jetset 88]

See RAF 10 Squadron | 10 Squadron Association - Royal Air Force (http://www.10sqnass.co.uk/) and AirTanker links. The present aircraft is a Voyager A330 KC2.

[chris50]

:) 555
yea now work that one out
cheers chris think it just went into EMA 2130