Harrier and Tonka in near miss
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Harrier and Tonka in near miss
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...st/6404387.stm
Wheesht! Jings, Hamish what was that?
Glad I wasn't the groundie cleaning up the cockpits on landing!
Wheesht! Jings, Hamish what was that?
Glad I wasn't the groundie cleaning up the cockpits on landing!
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Answer down in the weeds.
Full details at link below:
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/423/01_07_...ed_airprox.pdf
Not sure if link will work as you have to accept conditions of viewing information. If link does not work go to UKAB website and look at January 2007 assessed airproxes. Page 73 of the pdf file is the Harrier v Tornado.
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What flight level was this at?
Full details at link below:
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/423/01_07_...ed_airprox.pdf
Not sure if link will work as you have to accept conditions of viewing information. If link does not work go to UKAB website and look at January 2007 assessed airproxes. Page 73 of the pdf file is the Harrier v Tornado.
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Reminds me of the F/A-18D - F-5E "near miss" reported in the article by G. L. Koelzer in the February/March 2006 Air & Space.
ACM in 2002 at MCAS Yuma, Arizona. The F-5E crossed the flight path of the Hornet belly-on, from right-to-left at exactly the same flight level. The Hornet pilot reporting both hearing and feeling the J85s of the F-5E.
The instrumentation aboard both aircraft (used for post-flight reconstruction & evaluation of the action) showed the "miss distance" as "1 foot, plus or minus 3 feet"!
I have scanned the article into a WORD ducument, and also the computer-generated "closest-approach" image (which shows the aircraft interpenetrated), but as it is a copywrited article, I don't know if it would be allowable to post it here (I know others do, but I want to know for sure).
ACM in 2002 at MCAS Yuma, Arizona. The F-5E crossed the flight path of the Hornet belly-on, from right-to-left at exactly the same flight level. The Hornet pilot reporting both hearing and feeling the J85s of the F-5E.
The instrumentation aboard both aircraft (used for post-flight reconstruction & evaluation of the action) showed the "miss distance" as "1 foot, plus or minus 3 feet"!
I have scanned the article into a WORD ducument, and also the computer-generated "closest-approach" image (which shows the aircraft interpenetrated), but as it is a copywrited article, I don't know if it would be allowable to post it here (I know others do, but I want to know for sure).
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According to the Scottish Daily Mail today, both pilots were travelling at just under 1000MPH. Those sonic booms must have sounded great in there. 
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"Airmiss" is redundant.
The buzz word now is "Airprox" - by definition, a situation where a pilot or controller perceives the normal acceptable safety margins to have been eroded. It doesn't necessarily follow that an actual risk of collision existed.
Regards
Ginseng
The buzz word now is "Airprox" - by definition, a situation where a pilot or controller perceives the normal acceptable safety margins to have been eroded. It doesn't necessarily follow that an actual risk of collision existed.
Regards
Ginseng
