A330 Royal Airforce

[studentpilotmcuk]

Hi i see that the Royal Air Force has a Airbus A330. What role would the
A330 be within the royal Air Force?

Regards to all

[Torque Tonight]

Have you tried typing A330 RAF into google?

[Malaysian28]

It's designed as dual role Air-to-Air re-fuelling tanker and Transport Aircraft.
Also known as a Airbus A330 MRTT / KC-30A Voyager.

Airbus A330 MRTT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[TEEEJ]

RAF - Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft

[Phileas Fogg]

And "Air" and "Force" are two words as defined in any reputable English dictionary!

[Phileas Fogg]

Having served in the Royal Air Force for Queen and Country perhaps one doesn't have too much time for the typo types of this internet age!

[Hotel Tango]

chris50:

1) It's God

2) It's their

I'll let you off with ass

3) chatting

4) about

5)......

On second thoughts I give up!

[chiglet]

HT,
You forgot the [lack of] punctuation......
There again, he may have been extracting the urine.

[studentpilotmcuk]

Thank you for all who responded. I could of chosen to look on google,however, I thought I would post it on here as just reading it on google offers no conversation. I sincerly apologise to anyone who noticed my mistake.

[DaveReidUK]

Also known as a Airbus A330 MRTT / KC-30A Voyager.

KC-30A is a bastardised, pseudo-US designation used by the Australians for their MRTTs because they couldn't think up anything more original.

[diginagain]

This is an aspect of PFI that has resulted in the 'Rental Air Farce'. Motto; "Buy now - pay much, later."

[VC10man]

If they last as long as the fabulous VC10s there will be plenty of time to pay.

[studentpilotmcuk]

I wonder if the military A330 will have the same handling challenges as the civilian A330. I seem to remember an issue being discussed on pprune about the computers taking over at the most challenging of times, mainly landing.

I can remember one person saying "there is nothing worse to have the computer take over when your riding the bull" refering to manually flying the ILS and the computer taking over. I would like to add these were not my choice of words but made me chuckle when i read them, its probably why i remember it so well.

I cannot wait to see this aircraft at a military display.

Once again thanks to all who posted

[Flightmech]

There's a HiFly A330 currently doing circuits at Brize. Training for Voyager crews?

[opsjockey]

Er no, just training for HiFly crews...

[Mechta]

From looking at the piccies and description, there doesn't seem to be any provision for a receiver probe on the Voyager. Is this intended as part of an upgrade or just deemed unnecessary? They proved rather useful on Victors after all...

[Jetset 88]

A330 in the RAF

See RAF 10 Squadron | 10 Squadron Association - Royal Air Force and AirTanker links. The present aircraft is a Voyager A330 KC2.

[chris50]

555
yea now work that one out
cheers chris think it just went into EMA 2130