RAF Northolt & Typhoon

[Waterfordman]

Almost everyone in the road came out for a look at them, great sight and sound to see them over and back over head.

[JFZ90]

Interesting photo from the Internet

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[Helol]

Heard them around 1700 then again around 2140 here in the Chilterns.

[TEEEJ]

Mathias Rust recounts being intercepted.



Eight page article at following link.

The Notorious Flight of Mathias Rust | History of Flight | Air & Space Magazine

[Rhino power]

Couple of shots which demonstrate runway length clearly isn't an issue!

Typhoons @ Northolt • FighterControl • Military Aviation Forum

-RP (aka Daz)

credit the OP from fightercontrol forums

[PEI_3721]

Rhino, good photos, but there’s a lot of rubber on the runway, presumably left during landing.
Also, note the cable.

[Jumping_Jack]

Kinda unfriendly over at FighterControl!

Hmmm, tried to look at the photos to be met with the message that I am permanently banned from the FighterControl website! As this was my first venture there I am slightly bemused!

[NutLoose]

I wonder how long till the novelty factor wears off on the locals..

[NutLoose]

Ha, didn't take long, did it, but in the tradition of all RAF exercises, TACEVALS etc, surely they should launch them about 5 am...

[Trim Stab]

I am surprised there is enough hangar space for Typhoons plus the extra AAC Defenders that are due to be deployed. Or have they reclaimed the Netjets hangar space?

[NutLoose]

Post mentioning the installation of a temporary RHAG also mentions temp Hangars.

[GeeRam]

I wonder how long till the novelty factor wears off on the locals..

After just seeing another one overheard just after departing Northolt, I think I may write a letter of complaint to the RAF.....


Asking if they might consider making this a permanent detachment

[Natstrackalpha]

but there comes a time when we have to say enough is enough!!

not since 9/11 baby. . "Dear Mr. Potential Adversary, please don`t bother us during the Olympics, as he thinks enough is enough - so we want plently of warning next time and only use marshmallows or your are horrid"..

I know, why don`t we have those cool barrage balloons that they used to have in WWII over London, much cheaper.

Still, either way, it is better to be safe than sorry. My Latin is most rusty, if not non-existent but are there words along the lines of `se vis pacem preparam bellum`?

By the way, will Mathies Rust be attending the Olympics then? . . . and, surely the HARRIER would have been a better option to the, most excellent, Typhoon, for just, precisely, this sort of mission?

Also, if we covered the whole of London with a net about 200 feet high, it could collect any frag of a freshly squeezed bogie.

Anyway, its not our fault, blame the bloody terrorists, not the tax accountants.

[TEEEJ]

Trim Stab wrote

I am surprised there is enough hangar space for Typhoons .....

See images

Military Aviation >> Exercise Olympic Guardian at RAF Northolt - Global Aviation Resource

Typhoon fighter planes stationed at RAF Northolt in Olympics military build-up | Mail Online

[Gulfstreamaviator]

G5 is as noisy as a Typhoon

Not quite sure about that...my reheat facility is only in the microwave oven...

Perhaps NetJets and RAF can have a head to head with a noise meter..

Glf

[UAV689]

Any of the raf boys reading this - do you want some practice intercepting a pa28, I would love to oblige and help you out with your training!

[AGS Man]

I think you will find that the Arresting Gear System temporarily installed is not a RHAG but a MAAS. This is a mobile version of the American BAK 12 which can be installed pretty quickly depending on where it's fitted. On pre prepared plinths less than an hour or if staked into the ground with 31 5 ft long aluminium stakes per side a good team can do it under 12 hours.

[Thud105]

So, does anyone know exactly why the recently promulgated interception procedures do not comply with ENR 1-12-1?

[Widger]

Rhino,

That does not look like Northolt to me. There should be either a petrol station to the right of the picture with relatively low land beyond or the A40!

[Cows getting bigger]

Sorry to wee on your frosted flakes Widger, but it looks very like Northolt to me. . Looking West towards the A40 and then Uxbridge.