Vulcan on in 20 minutes . .

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/flightglobal

Nick

Haha brilliant, camera tracking take-off, went past some buildings then lost it haha

good find!

It;s the Eurofighter on now.

It is piloted by Mike Makepeace.

Nice one.

I'm going there on Saturday

I'm going there on Saturday

And me, see you there

Haha brilliant, camera tracking take-off, went past some buildings then lost it haha

I think ithe camera operator was a junior scribbler in the back office and it was a remote control camera.

Nick

And me, see you there

I will more than likely spend some of the time on the Brookhouse stand

What happened to the Nimrod that was supposed to do a flypast?

What happened to the Nimrod that was supposed to do a flypast?

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/05/20/342208/raf-prepares-for-final-afghan-deployment-with-nimrod.html

I think I read on the one of the in-house mags that following the accident report and public furore all the others have been withdrawn from service.

Granted there are not the original 1950s aircraft, as the fuselages were re-built in 1971 and the wings re-done in the '80s, but on most indices 40 years would be a good service life.

On the other hand B-52 is slated to go on for the next 40 years. We just can't afford the upgrade.

See general discussion:-

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/376555-nimrod-mra-4-a.html

Nick

Edited 24 July, 201015 yr by Clunkclick

It was the new MRA4 I meant.

It was the new MRA4 I meant.

On static only was it ?

It is it fully commisioned/certificated yet ?

It could be unserviceable/ allocated at last minute for operational/exercises/no money for flight - given the current exercises that are going on Ministry wide its probably the latter.

I recall, that on the one and only Air Day education flight that I was scheduled to go on (Some time ago) , a bus load of my civvy contemporaries were taken to Brize, embarked on a VC10 and then smartly disembarked, as one of the engines caught fire on start-up.

Nick

On static only was it ?

It is it fully commisioned/certificated yet ?

It could be unserviceable/ allocated at last minute for operational/exercises/no money for flight - given the current exercises that are going on Ministry wide its probably the latter.

I recall, that on the one and only Air Day education flight that I was scheduled to go on (Some time ago) , a bus load of my civvy contemporaries were taken to Brize, embarked on a VC10 and then smartly disembarked, as one of the engines caught fire on start-up.

Nick

The MRA4 never turned up.

The MRA4 never turned up.

Ask the question on the military aircrew section of PPrune. Somebody's bound to know.

I should think they pulled it to save money. Maybe it will just turn-up on sunday.

Although teams like the reds charge airshows for their appearance, i'm not sure whether others do and whether when they do they recover the full-costs of appearance.

The public thinks everything is OK cause they see the 2% of activity that is ceremonial or demonstration apparently going without a hitch.. Behind the scenes, in most areas now, its being run on a catswhisker and a torch battery.

Postscript

There you go:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/defence/7900081/RAF-offer-to-scrap-3.5-billion-Nimrods.html

Might be the reason behind the no show - inter service rivalry.

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/376555-nimrod-mra-4-a.html

Nick

Edited 25 July, 201015 yr by Clunkclick

The MRA4 PA04 flew from Warton this afternoon for the first time in about six months.

The MRA4 PA04 flew from Warton this afternoon for the first time in about six months.

I wired up the TACCO/COM workstation for that one. And several others.

I don't think we will be seeing much of the Nimrod MRA4 any more but I found this on youtube.

The first Nimrod Mra4 has now been cut up.