Is RAF grounded as well ?
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Yeah I know.
Interesting New Weapon opportunity though and thats seeding huge areas with silica type material that ingested into an engine would hamper performance.
Interesting New Weapon opportunity though and thats seeding huge areas with silica type material that ingested into an engine would hamper performance.
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Story on ash-damaged Finnish F/A-18 Hornets... with pics of the ash melted onto turbine blades:
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...ml#post5638678
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...ml#post5638678
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Political madness
I am told that the order to shut down all but emergency military flying is a political one, It would seem that there is no technical reason for stopping low level flying (below FL050) as the Volcanic ash is above FL200.
So the reason for the shutdown is that the Govenment feels that having the miltary flying when the general public can't go away on holiday is politicly embrassing if the press was to get hold of it.
The question I have to ask is why military trainning is put on hold (when people are working up to go to Afganistan) when there is no technical reason for it?
Is this move because the real people running the UK are the press? or is it just one more example of a Govenment who put the needs of the forces second to taking a little flack in the press from a badly informed press?
So the reason for the shutdown is that the Govenment feels that having the miltary flying when the general public can't go away on holiday is politicly embrassing if the press was to get hold of it.
The question I have to ask is why military trainning is put on hold (when people are working up to go to Afganistan) when there is no technical reason for it?
Is this move because the real people running the UK are the press? or is it just one more example of a Govenment who put the needs of the forces second to taking a little flack in the press from a badly informed press?
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Medevac Flights
Anyone know whats happening with the medical evacuation flights from Theatre that normally come into Birmingham?
Are those injured being kept in Theatre or taken elsewhere such as Akrotiri or a Mil Hosp in a friendly country in Southern Europe? Heard that the Americans are flying their wounded back to the US rather than Germany
Are those injured being kept in Theatre or taken elsewhere such as Akrotiri or a Mil Hosp in a friendly country in Southern Europe? Heard that the Americans are flying their wounded back to the US rather than Germany
Is RAF grounded as well ?
Ooh I am quivering in my boots. Those nasty Ivans must be itching to get over here in their Bears to photographs us in our dust cloud.
Just as well that we have our heroic QRA Typhoons on round the clock alert to protect us.
Just as well that we have our heroic QRA Typhoons on round the clock alert to protect us.
'Ash on aircraft halts flights from Cornwall to Scillies'
'Staff at Newquay Airport said that flights between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly were halted at about 1545 BST and that the decision was made as the ash cloud was drifting at a lower altitude.'
BBC News - Ash on aircraft halts flights from Cornwall to Scillies
'Two die as aircraft crashes into field in Hampshire'
BBC News - Two die as aircraft crashes into field in Hampshire
"A Hampshire Police spokesman said: "It is too early to say whether ash was a factor but it will form part of the investigation."
'Staff at Newquay Airport said that flights between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly were halted at about 1545 BST and that the decision was made as the ash cloud was drifting at a lower altitude.'
BBC News - Ash on aircraft halts flights from Cornwall to Scillies
'Two die as aircraft crashes into field in Hampshire'
BBC News - Two die as aircraft crashes into field in Hampshire
"A Hampshire Police spokesman said: "It is too early to say whether ash was a factor but it will form part of the investigation."
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Two Die as aircraft crashes into a field in Hampshire
"A Hampshire Police spokesman said: "It is too early to say whether ash was a factor but it will form part of the investigation."
It was a b***** microlite !!
It was a b***** microlite !!