Is it true?

[superplum]

This extract from a very recent FOI request states:

"The types of aircraft that have landed/taken off at/from Wattisham between 7 November 2015 and 6 November 2016 are listed below. Please note this list shows the aircraft types that have used Wattisham airfield at least once during these 12 months.
AH64 (Apache)
EC135 (Eurocopter)
MOTOR GLIDER/SF25
PITTS SPECIAL
PA28 (Piper Cherokee)
LYNX
CH47 (Chinook)
AS350 (Eurocopter)
AS355 (Eurocopter)
AW139 (Agusta Westland 139) BN2T (Islander)
AN124 (Antonov Ruslan)
PUMA
TB10 (Tobago)
SEAKING
DA42 (Diamond)
B212 (Bell)
AS65
CV22 (Osprey)
B47 (Stratojet)
CN235
MD902 (Explorer)
C130 (Hercules)
AW109
GAZELLE
C152 (Cessna)
MICROLIGHT
WILDCAT
R44 (Robinson)
R22 (Robinson)
HAWK
PA18 (Piper)
GLIDER
H500 EC120 (Eurocopter Colibri)
EH101 (Merlin)
BH07"

Is there really an airworthy B-47 Stratojet doing the rounds?

[eckhard]

Maybe it was a Bell 47 helicopter?

[Harley Quinn]

Originally Posted by superplum

This extract from a very recent FOI request states:

"The types of aircraft that have landed/taken off at/from Wattisham between 7 November 2015 and 6 November 2016 are listed below. Please note this list shows the aircraft types that have used Wattisham airfield at least once during these 12 months.
AH64 (Apache)
EC135 (Eurocopter)
MOTOR GLIDER/SF25
PITTS SPECIAL
PA28 (Piper Cherokee)
LYNX
CH47 (Chinook)
AS350 (Eurocopter)
AS355 (Eurocopter)
AW139 (Agusta Westland 139) BN2T (Islander)
AN124 (Antonov Ruslan)
PUMA
TB10 (Tobago)
SEAKING
DA42 (Diamond)
B212 (Bell)
AS65
CV22 (Osprey)
B47 (Stratojet)
CN235
MD902 (Explorer)
C130 (Hercules)
AW109
GAZELLE
C152 (Cessna)
MICROLIGHT
WILDCAT
R44 (Robinson)
R22 (Robinson)
HAWK
PA18 (Piper)
GLIDER
H500 EC120 (Eurocopter Colibri)
EH101 (Merlin)
BH07"

Is there really an airworthy B-47 Stratojet doing the rounds?

Good question re the Stratojet, but does anyone else think this question, and I guess it, or similar, is asked at most military airfields, is an entirely frivolous and unnecessary misuse of resources. Do they publish who has asked these questions?

[thunderbird7]

I wonder if asking the question on PPrune of who has asked the question is an appropriate use of PPrune's resources?

[GeeRam]

Originally Posted by superplum

Is there really an airworthy B-47 Stratojet doing the rounds?

No.

It's 30 years since a B-47 last flew.

[Davef68]

There are no flying B47s - couldn't be a typo for b747 could it? :-)

[STN Ramp Rat]

How about a typo for a B57 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin...B-57F_Canberra I have a feeling NASA 928 might have been about sometime.

what a complete waste of everyone's time responding to the FOI, hasn't the person who requested it got anything better to do? apparently not

[Basil]

I'd say that the answer to a FoI request regarding a military airfield is "None of your business!"

[heights good]

Just a thought...

2 points -

- the original FOI request could have been by someone buying land for housing nearby or a local farmer looking to open a small aerodrome or for a Combined Accommodation Assessment System (CAAS) appeal in the environmental section of the system. Just because you think it is a waste of time doesn't mean it is actually a waste of time!

- the FOI process is there for tax payers to have answers to questions that prior to the FOI Act was largely inaccessible. We (citizens of the UK) have a right in a democratic society to hold our elected representatives to account; that is the embodiment of democracy and a modern progressive society.

And for the record, most airfields have aircraft movements logged in a spreadsheet to would take very little time to analyse.

[rolling20]

What luck! Myself and the wife are seeing a house 3 miles south of Wattisham on Monday. I had wondered about movements/ types, doesn't look too bad looking at that list.

[STN Ramp Rat]

heights good ~ the issue is that these business are not resourced to answer the amount of stupid FOI requests that are made. I am a governor in a school and time and resource that could be spent on educating the children is spent answering FOI requests. in my view it is out democratically elected leaders that should be holding the government to account not the electorate. we have too much democracy in this country.

[MightyGem]

Typhoon or Hercules may be a bit noisier and the odd Chinook low level at 2 am

Night flying goes on a bit later these days then?