Eurofighter - Last seen.....
 

Anyone know whats happening/happened to the Eurofighter?

Not heard anything for a while.

Voices

They are safe and well and flying around a Military airbase in Somerset. Been here all week as well .....what does that mean?

Just wondered what they're up to. Do you know if they are properly front line yet?

It means that they are lost and need a navigator.:ok:

Quality........ :ok: :ok: :ok:

What is a Navigator?

Its what that bloke up there needs so that he can safely guide his sooper duper multi million pound set of rivets safely back to earth.

Good news for the boys - Batch 2 RTS was signed off by ACAS today so we'll see some single seater's in action now.

Heard during a recent PI sortie on the east coast, our friends have asked for FL410 for a transit back to Warton, but once level are in potential confliction with an airliner climbing (but still 25nm away).

WC: "Monkey, one stranger blah blah, any chance you can make FL430?"

Monkey 1 "Climbing FL 430".

Twenty seconds later, they are level FL430. Somewhat different to the mighty F3, though it will be interesting to see how they perform dirty (with missiles etc).

BA

'Need' and 'navigator' in the same sentence. Discuss.

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Need/Navigator???

Single seater has 6 (super-sized) navigators more fuel than the twin seater.

I know which I would rather need.

Biggin,

The missiles and the tank(s) make very little noticable difference to the sort of areas you described.

The jet is awesome, it will take a while before folks realise and acknowledge its full potential, but Batch 2 RTS and Tranche 2 are steps in the right direction.

Tarnished

Potential - ie not there yet ???

Much as I love being British and as proud as I am of having been involved for 8 years of my life in the Typhoon programme, I am increasingly pi$$ed off at comments such as yours Safeware.

In another thread BAESYSTEMS are getting slammed for a takeover of UDI, why is growth in the North American market bad news for heavens sake, a British company doing well in Uncle Sam's backyard?!?!

Typhoon is a world beater, look up potential in a dictionary, I'm sure it will put you straight. Unfulfilled is a word often used with potential, so the aircraft has potential, its up to the air forces flying it to capatalize on it and use it to its best advantage - ie Safeware, its there already.

If you happen to be a Boscombe-based, Q-employed, System Software analyst with an input to this project then there are a raft of folks who would like to meet you (behind a bike shed somewhere).

The folks working for BAES have to battle at every turn with an empire that thrives on not allowing progress, because its supposedly safer than taking the "risk" and accepting the logical proof.

Anyway, bad day on another project, off for a Jack and coke!!

Fly safe, be proud of what we are good at.

Tarnished

Typhoon may be a "Worldbeater" but what world? That of the 1980/Cold War etc? First operational a/c for delivery in 2009?

A nav equals 3 black boxes on a Tristar

Pilot = glorified bus driver on a TriStar...

(Straps on armoured flying helmet to await incoming)

:D

Big white fun bus soon to be big Grey fun bus

I'd like to echo Tarnished's thoughts on Typhoon. I got to fly it but once. It was superb. I've flown in a wide selection of military hardware from all over the place, but Typhoon was in a class of its own for performance. Cold war spec or not, if I had to go to war again (anywhere) I'd like to do it in a jet that can piss all over the opposition without breaking sweat. There may be better US products (F22 perhaps) but the advantage of having a European or National software controlled by us is impossible to overstate. And another thing. Expensive though a Typhoon may be, its a drop in the bucket compared to the Raptor.

I think I'll join Tarnished for a Jack and Coke.

Tarnished
I don't have the experience that you have on Typhoon, I do think it is a great aircraft, and I do think it'll be used to its best advantage by the frontline. I disagree with the 'Cold War relic' label, but do wonder when it is going to match up with what it is supposed to do, and pure EJ driven 9g performance isn't everything.

Poential, adj: capable of coming into being or action, latent

The RAF have everything they need to make it a success. But the project is late for a range of reasons and my comment was solely in that vein and not a slight on those working hard to deliver against the Empire.

Personnally, I think it is great that BAES are getting more into the US market - BAES and UK plc have a number of good products which the Yanks seem happy with - AV8, T45 etc etc so why not exploit it.

The cap doesn't fit, but I thought you company men were supposed to work with Q?

The Typhoo is still jam tomorrow - today it should be on our bread (yesterday, in fact).

One hopes we don't have to say to an adversary - "Just wait a couple of years while we make it work".

That it will be good is just its saving grace.