adi44
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Post by adi44 on Nov 17, 2021 16:10:26 GMT
A Royal Air Force F-35 has crashed into the mediterrean whilst conducting routine training, the pilot has ejected.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59323895Adrian |
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adi44
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Post by adi44 on Nov 30, 2021 8:21:12 GMT
Here is how not to take off from an aircraft carrier.........
I hope the carrier was stationary at the time
Cheers
Adrian
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Post by graham on Dec 1, 2021 8:54:20 GMT
Thanks Adrian, that's unbelievable
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Post by Jeff on Dec 7, 2021 14:06:55 GMT
ZM152 is being reported as the frame that was lost
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Post by billsamuels on Dec 7, 2021 14:30:56 GMT
ZM152 is being reported as the frame that was lost Big loss at £100m but it was one of those that was onboard down at Portsmouth pre first deployment…. Bill |
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Post by keefyboy on Dec 7, 2021 16:01:04 GMT
£100M is certainly a big loss and it does make you think about how the UK spends it's money. However defence is a necessity and it's the price we should be prepared to pay. I suppose it's all relative and compared to the number of Scimitars, Vixens, Buccaneers and Phantoms that were lost on carrier deployments, we should be grateful it's just the one and the pilot was recovered safely. Fortunately, these days, modern aircraft are so much more reliable and write-off rates pale into insignificance compared to the stats for the 50's, 60's and 70's.
The Typhoon at some £75M a bash has proved incredibly reliable and I'm pretty sure the only one we've lost in an accident was DK back in the noughties in the USA - though I stand to be corrected. The thing is the MOD always buy more aircraft than they need to allow for attrition - loss rates are anticipated and predicted. Fortunately these days the attrition rates are amazingly low.
Keith
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Post by Jeff on Dec 7, 2021 18:20:51 GMT
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Post by Jeff on Dec 9, 2021 9:11:56 GMT
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Post by keefyboy on Dec 9, 2021 13:04:41 GMT
The airframe will almost certainly end up in the UK with the RAF Accident Investigation Unit. This unit is known to many in the RAF as 'crash n smash' - it used to be located at St Athan but I've no idea where it's moved to now.
There is a similar, but little known, unit at Yeovilton called FSAIU - it's located in the hangar right next to the FAA Museum. It's never open to the public and, when I visited in an official capacity, it contained about 12 airframes. Many of these had been plucked from the depths and some were in surprisingly good condition considering. Each aircraft has a plaque in front of it giving a detailed history of events surrounding the incident. It's all a bit morbid as many aircrew lost their lives in many of the aircraft and I can quite understand why it's not open to the public.
Cheers
Keith
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Post by graham on Dec 9, 2021 15:45:59 GMT
That's very interesting Keith, I'd never heard of the FSAIU unit so had a play on Google for a few minutes and came up with three of the inmates
ZH656 HARRIER W/O AKROTIRI 9/2/09
ZH844 MERLIN W/O CULDROSE 30/3/03
XZ614 LYNX W/O BASRA 6/5/06
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