Sentry Grounded
 

Torygraph reporting that the Sentry has been grounded

RAF planes grounded after technical fault - Telegraph

Just tell the world ! When will journo's not learn to hold their tongues until ther'e back in service.

Regards.

Air pig.

Yeah... Right....... Muppets.

The MOD spokeswoman told the world.

They have got an exercise on Monday. :hmm:
Ex Joint Warrior
mmitch.

whatever happened to D-notices?

I wouldn't worry about the DT article. In reality, and given the parlous reporting in the DT of late, its probably a Grob/Glider/runway sweeper that's been grounded/superceded by 'jet powered Muslamic ray guns', or worse.

D Notices - went the way of 2 mail deliveries a day and milk in boittles, I'm afraid.

Oh dear. How sad. My heart's bleeding.

I'm sure the Waddo car parks will still be full - plenty of pointless meetings will be conjured up on a whim.

Yet another RAF/NATO aircraft showing signs of getting old
 

4 engines, check. Landing gear, check. 2 wings...hang on a minute....

Could be interesting with the Olympics coming up unless it's a quick fix.

BBC News - RAF surveillance planes grounded after fault found

Isn't one thread on this subject enough?

sse http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...-grounded.html

The kind of statement that could encourage a bean counter somewhere to ask why Sentry is needed in the first place. Options? We can't afford to give you options in times of austerity. :ugh:

Yup, he missed that check off the list...

This link takes you to a thread on another site where someone under the name "Silent Flight", and working at Waddington, has posted on the same subject. See post 11.

Give me the link

The aircraft as a type is grounded but there is no loss of operational capability?

So why do they normally waste all that fuel by taking off, then? Are they just joyriding and claiming the rations? :}

My apologies - I could offer various excuses for not putting the link in before, but I bet you've heard them all before and I'll just accept being stupid for now...
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View topic - RAF Sentries grounded

P6

that post would appear to have shades of Mandy Rice-Davies about it...

Sentinel seems to be an amazing platform. As well as the overland role, according to the MoD it can assume the MPA role and fill in for the AWACS.

I think they should consider fitting a gun and AMRAAM. Then we can get rid of Typhoon as well!

Grounding the fleet is nothing unusual. During my 3 years on the flying frisbee the fleet was probably grounded at least half a dozen times (examples that spring to mind are 100% inspection and swap out of the CFM56s, cracks in flap/slat brackets, cracks in the frisbee 'clam shells', etc...). All perfectly normal as parts start to wear out for the first time.

I also remember the "amazing" Sentinel being grounded for a wiring snag with the radar and being so unexpected that they only had 2 sets of bolts for the radome - took weeks to resolve.

Probably nothing to see here and move on (as is usual in the press these days)

LJ

D Notices were only ever advisory. Can you imagine the owner/editor of any British newspaper taking a blind bit of notice of an advisory, when they have been blithely breaking the law on phone-tapping etc for so many years now?