QRA Typhoons intercept Jet2 aircraft
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If the jets ever have to go supersonic to "chase off" a Russian bomber then the whole system has gone wrong. They're tracked for hours long before they get anywhere near the UK allocated bit of international airspace.
Well there's always people ready to claim for anything............. but was it REALLY necessary to supersonic over land - nowhere in the UK is more than 70 miles from the sea - which at 650mph is just over 6 minutes flying time.
Not as if they weren't in contact with the Jet2 crew either
Not as if they weren't in contact with the Jet2 crew either
First thought on the vid... thinking back to the pilots I knew, that was a VERY long way to run to the jet without a fag and a sit-down. Was it edited?
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Well done Jet2. Let's hope now that a). they follow it through, b). that every airline does the same after such an incident and c). that flying bans become pan-airline, possible legally enforced (they do it to soccer yobs - banning them travelling).
With several of these QRA launches of late I can't remember exactly which one I was following via ABSD, but having gone supersonic down to Stansted and then been stood down, the Typhoons went back and orbited around the Wash for a while, waiting for the Voyager that had just got airborne from Brize to reach them. There can't have been any immediate need to refuel given the time it took, so does the already lucrative AirTanker contract give them a guaranteed paid for sortie on every QRA launch such that hanging around and getting the practice since the jet was paid for anyway was the obvious thing to do?
