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MODS,
The way this is going, perhaps you should "unclose" the Grey Ladies thread from 10 years ago |
Red Shovels?
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Originally Posted by airsound
(Post 11024995)
Ripton and teej013 - I wasn't thinking of continuing with the Red Arrows name. Maybe something rather, well, British - like The Grey Grizzlies
airsound https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a7fa204ce0.jpg No need to panic though, you'll forget you've just read this thread after the next A400M pass. |
We had the "Green Barrows" at Lyneham ;5 Hercs,usually led by `Invincible Stu`...`Twinkle rolls ` were more `twangle rolls` as the co-pilots 4 lunches were spread over the cockpits of #3 and #4, passing the `inverted,and #5 always had problems remaining `plugged -in` to me(#4 tanker) during the `finale bomburst`.....
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Originally Posted by airsound
(Post 11024580)
Living quite close to Brize, we see a lot of Voyagers, Atlases, and, for the time being, Hercs. Today, something rather odd: an A-400M, flying a standard orbit pattern at 7000ft (according to Flightradar24) aligned roughly 280 (degrees) over Little Rissington, for about an hour. The odd thing is that it was trailing what looked like short contrails. At 7000ft?
A rather poor pic - but you can see the trails. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8cd0b7ab54.jpg Looking through binoculars, I could see the trails emanating from the wing trailing edge, between the outboard engines and the wingtips - i.e. not wingtip vortices, nor engine exhausts. I even rang Brize ops to ask if it was dumping fuel. A very nice duty ops officer told me it was definitely not dumping, but that it was doing a trial. No more details. Anyone else think it’s rather odd? Any ideas? Yes OK, I’ll try and get out more, soon as Covid is over. airsound |
Originally Posted by treadigraph
(Post 11025005)
The Fat Lasses?
I do recall a formation transport team the last time I went to RIAT - might have been four Polish Let 410s? Long time ago now, I remember a sort of Prince of Wales Feathers as finale... |
Czech "Szobi Kvartet" L-410s
Video from 1993 RIAT at: https://flic.kr/p/KQpP4D
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Originally Posted by SWBKCB
(Post 11025021)
A four Argosy formation team? my mind has just been boggled!! :eek:
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Originally Posted by The AvgasDinosaur
(Post 11025344)
Any photos any one pleeeze?
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Originally Posted by Commander Taco
(Post 11025460)
Where’s JW411, he might know.
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Treadigraph - No, from the south. The bomb burst was head-on to the crowd. (And, for the most part, the video serves as my memory!)
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That's what I thought - did the box aircraft come over the crowd?
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The…Bird
You don't see any C-17s? Everyone else - thanks for all the good stuff about Atlasses (Fat or not) and their flaps. And finally - I was trying to find my RIAT notes from 1993 on the Szobi Kvartet, but failed. I do remember, though, that the Czech L-410s were always welcome, because in the back of at least one of them was usually to be found a barrel of excellent Czech beer. airsound |
Overflying the Crowd
I don't remember explicitly, but I assume I was west of show center and that the slot aircraft was authorized to continue over the crowd there because it was no longer in formation, and was in slow-speed, non-maneuvering flight.
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Someone was flushing the loo.
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Originally Posted by ShyTorque
(Post 11025923)
Someone was flushing the loo.
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Originally Posted by Ninthace
(Post 11026293)
The A400 had two outside loos, who knew?
When we first saw them proposed in the specification meetings we idly discussed if they could be used in conjunction with the air deflector, to locate a seat for Maritime search role observer. I also seem to recall positioning a barbecue on them being mentioned. - the length of those meetings got to you at times. |
Originally Posted by VX275
(Post 11026344)
Well it does have two patios. Although I think they are officially called retractable parachute jump steps.
When we first saw them proposed in the specification meetings we idly discussed if they could be used in conjunction with the air deflector, to locate a seat for Maritime search role observer. I also seem to recall positioning a barbecue on them being mentioned. - the length of those meetings got to you at times. |
Well guess what - and The....Bird will be happy with this - these trials are still going on, but now they've got C-17s as well as A-400Ms. The ADBSexchange screenshot below is a C-17 doing the same orbits over the Cotswolds today - but no trails this time.
I'm wondering if they're surveying the old secret submarine pens concealed beneath the River Windrush. Oops, I've said too much. If I don't post again, you'll know why...... https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=43c174 airsound |
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