A330 AAR Boom Goes AWOL

[NoFaultFound]

It would appear a boom has fallen of MRTT this week

Airbus Military investigates A330 in-flight boom detachment

NFF

[NutLoose]

I wonder if it managed to be A Sonic Boom as it whistled past....


I'll get my coat..

[BossEyed]

Nutloose, you old rogue. (sp?)

[uffington sb]

I thought they were hose and drogue equipped. They don't look like booms to me.

[Vick Van Guard]

You would have thought Flight could have made a bit more of an effort with their illustration.

[hoodie]

It's a UAE aircraft, as in the incident, and you can that it has a boom. What's wrong with that?

[D-IFF_ident]

It's a UAE aircraft, as in the incident, and you can that it has a boom. What's wrong with that?

Because it currently (allegedly) doesn't?

[cornish-stormrider]

boom boom boom boom boom boom, an homage to messr Bald Rick and his definitive work - the german guns!

if the boom does fall in the forest and there is no-one to hear it, does it make a sound?

[NutLoose]

And after the first boom boom I thought you were going to say Basil Brush.

[chopper2004]

I guess sales of the MRTT will be booming in light of this

It be boom time soon

[Willard Whyte]

It's like a John Lee Hooker tribute hereabouts.

[chopper2004]

Any former boomers in the crew?

[BEagle]

ANOTHER A330MRTT boom detachment ???

To misquote Oscar Wilde:

"To lose one boom, Seņor Airbus, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose another looks like carelessness."

[brakechute]

It was not lost, just temporarily misplaced!

[Tankertrashnav]

hoodie - I must admit I didn't see the boom either when I looked at the pic - I suppose that the concept of a tanker fitted with both systems is pretty unusual, and as the hoses were deployed I didn't noticed the boom tucked away. Does this version have a centreline hose on a(n) HDU as well? Looks as though it has from the pic.

Could have been worse - Spain has had scarier bits of military hardware dropped on it in the past

1966 Palomares B-52 crash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Clockwork Mouse]

Looks as though our procurers made a sound, and fortunate, decision in going for drogues only.

[minigundiplomat]

I thought Gordon Brown announced an end to busted booms
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or was it boom and bust
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I'll get my coat

[TBM-Legend]

when was the last time you heard of a boom "falling" off a Boeing KC-97, KC-135 or KC-10 now? If it ain't Boeing, I'm not going...

[greenhornet]

How did this one come off, all on it's own?

[Arm out the window]

Maybe it was on a promise, having heard someone singing "Boom boom boom, let's go back to my room..."