Typhoons over Grand Canyon

[Regie Mental]

Some great imagery of 1(F) en-route to Red Flag. Good luck on the Ex.

RAF Typhoons fly over Grand Canyon en-route to Nevada for Exercise Red Flag | Daily Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2903402/The-REAL-Gun-Stunning-images-emerge-RAF-Typhoons-flying-Grand-Canyon-en-route-Nevada-Exercise-Red-Flag.html)

[Al R]

Is Typhoon a comfortable jet, relatively speaking, in which to spend a few hours?

[orca]

Do you think there are any with no.3 in position?

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Must be one of those Nimrod formations they were on about in another thread; two aircraft in adjacent Altimeter Setting Regions.

[Herod]

"Same way, same day", what's the problem?

[TurbineTooHot]

Al,
Yeah, slightly less roomy than the might Fin, but the seat is much more comfortable and less lower lumbar crunching!
And it's far easier to tank in, what with all the SEP and the FCS, so that makes any trail less fraught (caveat: you can f&&& it up all the same however).

Cheers

[Courtney Mil]

Great pictures. Thanks for posting.

Yes, the seat is as comfortable as an ejection seat can be - a bit hard by necessity.

Good to see some positive News about the RAF.

Here's to the folk doing the job.

[Lima Juliet]

Do you think there are any with no.3 in position?

Thought the same thing, must be one of the Nav crossovers that went to Typhoon! :ok:

LJ

[Regie Mental]

Some video from the same trail on the RAF YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJtr0rEP62E


eJtr0rEP62E

[Courtney Mil]

Do you think there are any with no.3 in position?


Probably. But who cares? It wasn't an official photo shoot. I wonder if they maintained perfect close formation for the entire transit. If I'd been lead I'd have kept them in echelon port for the entire trip. No, really.:E

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

If I'd been lead

You're a hard man Courtney, but you have to respect standards!

[Courtney Mil]

I promise to try harder in future, my friend. Ready for a Trappers ride any time. As long as I'm in front. :ok:

[TBM-Legend]

It's obvious. Two flights of two in close proximity...:eek:

They do look sharp oner that beautiful piece of real estate:ok:

[Navy_Adversary]

Would the aircraft do the entire transit from Lossie to Nellis non stop? It must be the best part of 12 hours with the Pilots in one position, DVT, Liquids, food and all that!
TIA

[Black Sheep One]

I'd say 2 is tight, and therefore 3 is in the correct position 😀

[Al R]

TTH,

Cheers. I wonder how being reclined for long periods in other jets (16 etc) was.

Great shots btw.

[vascodegama]

Navy

It's sort of hidden in the story. It was done over 4 legs
1 Lossiemouth to Lajes
2 Lajes to Bermuda
3 Bermuda to Eglin
4 Eglin to Nellis
I am a bit surprised at the 13 refuellings though (unless you count the ones on the ground!)

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

Keeping topped off makes a lot of sense.
You've never had fuel problems well out over the water, have you Navy?

[Schnowzer]

Would the aircraft do the entire transit from Lossie to Nellis non stop? It must be the best part of 12 hours with the Pilots in one position, DVT, Liquids, food and all that!

My best was 10.15 one way and 10.35 back the other the next day in an F3 during GW1, don't know about DVT but it was a pain in the arse.

[orca]

Black Sheep One - and there you have the real lesson. Always best to be a little tight, it'll be the other guy who always gets the flak!

(I blame the whip myself).

[Jet Set Willie]

And someone needs to tell them they are 180 degrees out from the operational theatre yet again!!

[P6 Driver]

"Do you think there are any with no.3 in position? "


Eeeee, when I were a lad, there weren't anybody out of position, 'cos we were perfect"

[orca]

A simple 'No!' would have sufficed.;)

[KenV]

Great pictures.

How come no RAF roundels? The only color on these birds was on the tail fin.

[Rhino power]

How come no RAF roundels? The only colour on these birds was on the tail fin.

The roundels are visible on the side of the fuselage, flanked by the squadron colours, and on the upper surface of the wings...

-RP

[GreenKnight121]

And, like the rest of the paint scheme, they are "lo-viz".

No more carrying around bloody great colourful targets on the aircraft.

[KenV]

No more carrying around bloody great colourful targets on the aircraft.


USN went to all lo-vis decades ago. They're allowing more color now on top of the lo-viz gray. It seems that if opponents are close enough to make out the colored areas of the airplane, they are certainly close enough to see the gray airplane.

[Courtney Mil]

True, but no need to help them more than you have to.

[Fox3WheresMyBanana]

I though all Eagle drivers wanted their aircraft dayglo orange, so the MiG pilots could all go to Hell knowing d@mn well who'd killed them?