Farnborough 2014 - Anyone on here going?

[onyx39]

BrabusMog said:

Am I the only one who is going to admit to really enjoying the wingwalkers and A380?!

Nope, nice bit of humour with the wingwalkers doing a bit of "your exits here, here and here" type motions on take off.
I still find the A380 astounding it, ever after seeing it many times.

[Eric Mc]

Didn't queue to get on the Connie but was invited on board the Percival Pembroke - which was really nice.

[David A]

http://youtu.be/d76aM1tPT-c

A few vids stuck together.

[onyx39]

Eric Mc said:

Didn't queue to get on the Connie but was invited on board the Percival Pembroke - which was really nice.

I was one of those annoying chaps sitting in the golf carts facing the crowd line, one of my breaks co-Incided with me being next to the Ba Airbus, so went on board for a look around.
It was one of two A318's that BA have configured entirely first class and is used on the London City - New York route.
Damn thing was tiny inside.

[Eric Mc]

onyx39 said:

I was one of those annoying chaps sitting in the golf carts facing the crowd line, one of my breaks co-Incided with me being next to the Ba Airbus, so went on board for a look around.
It was one of two A318's that BA have configured entirely first class and is used on the London City - New York route.
Damn thing was tiny inside.

They are basically Pay As You Go biz jets.

[toppstuff]

Eric Mc said:

onyx39 said:

I was one of those annoying chaps sitting in the golf carts facing the crowd line, one of my breaks co-Incided with me being next to the Ba Airbus, so went on board for a look around.
It was one of two A318's that BA have configured entirely first class and is used on the London City - New York route.
Damn thing was tiny inside.

They are basically Pay As You Go biz jets.

Having used this service, I can report that it is very pleasant indeed.

Leave London City. Land in Shannon Ireland for a quick refuel - and you get to check in through US customs and immigration while in Shannon ! This means you land at JFK as a local arrival. Within 5 minutes of leaving the aircraft you are out of JFK and on your way to the hotel.

Its very civilised.

[onyx39]

yellowjack said:

Eric Mc said:

The Farnborough example was in Yellowjacks livery.

What did I see this afternoon, about 1340hrs? Something massive with a high mounted tailplane, heading broadly east, it appeared to be in the circuit to land on runway 24. IL-76? Is it here to collect stuff that was on exhibit?

Edited by yellowjack on Monday 21st July 15:02

yes, assuming it was the same aircraft, it delivered the Turkish attack helicopter the week before the show.

[oyster]

toppstuff said:

Eric Mc said:

onyx39 said:

I was one of those annoying chaps sitting in the golf carts facing the crowd line, one of my breaks co-Incided with me being next to the Ba Airbus, so went on board for a look around.
It was one of two A318's that BA have configured entirely first class and is used on the London City - New York route.
Damn thing was tiny inside.

They are basically Pay As You Go biz jets.

Having used this service, I can report that it is very pleasant indeed.

Leave London City. Land in Shannon Ireland for a quick refuel - and you get to check in through US customs and immigration while in Shannon ! This means you land at JFK as a local arrival. Within 5 minutes of leaving the aircraft you are out of JFK and on your way to the hotel.

Its very civilised.

Business class though, not first class.

Agree it is civilised.

[yellowjack]

onyx39 said:

yellowjack said:

Eric Mc said:

The Farnborough example was in Yellowjacks livery.

What did I see this afternoon, about 1340hrs? Something massive with a high mounted tailplane, heading broadly east, it appeared to be in the circuit to land on runway 24. IL-76? Is it here to collect stuff that was on exhibit?

Edited by yellowjack on Monday 21st July 15:02

yes, assuming it was the same aircraft, it delivered the Turkish attack helicopter the week before the show.

Cool. I was outside the doctors surgery on Giffard Drive, and I turned to look that way due to a massive jet noise, which I now presume was the Vulcan departing. The (IL-76?) was down the line of the road, heading from Crookham way toward Farnborough itself. I only got a glimpse between the rooftops, and at quite some distance, but having googled some images, I'm pretty sure it was the IL-76

[Eric Mc]

Was it the same one that dropped the chopper off?

By the way, I live just around the corner from Giffard Drive

[onyx39]

Eric Mc said:

Was it the same one that dropped the chopper off?

By the way, I live just around the corner from Giffard Drive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQqfPVtNBo

It was planned to be Eric, so imagine it was, unless of course the original aircraft went tech.

[yellowjack]

So the sequence of events I'm imagining is...

Vulcan departs, just as the IL-76 flies it's downwind leg. Then the next loud noise I heard (which got me out of the waiting room to see if I could see the cause) was not, as I suspected, the IL-76 on reverse thrust (not even sure if it's capable, TBH) but the Typhoon departing. Almost immediately the IL-76 landed, all on runway 24.

It certainly seems to fit with the youtube video and XH558's Twitter feed.

As an aside, I rode past the site along the canal yesterday. The breakdown and clearance operation is in full swing, and as far as I can tell, all the participating aircraft seem to have left...

eta:




(...apologies for the fuzzy quality of the pictures)

Edited by yellowjack on Wednesday 23 July 10:31

[Eric Mc]

I was at a client's place in North Warnborough (near Odiham) yesterday morning and the two F-18s departed over the house. They might have performed a pass at RAF Odiham before continuing on their way.

[RizzoTheRat]

I hadn't realised until I noticed the Omega Tanker DC10 that they'd had a contracted civilian tanker fly the F18's over rather than using US military ones. Given how many tankers the US have I was susprised they contracted that out, or do the US navy not have that many?

[yellowjack]

RizzoTheRat said:

I hadn't realised until I noticed the Omega Tanker DC10 that they'd had a contracted civilian tanker fly the F18's over rather than using US military ones. Given how many tankers the US have I was susprised they contracted that out, or do the US navy not have that many?

I don't know about the US Navy, but the US Air Force has a huge fleet of AAR tankers. I remember stopping off to refuel at Bangor, Maine on an air trooping flight to Calgary. The Air National Guard have a big presence there with the 101st Air Refueling Wing (MAINEiacs) in residence. A row of more than a dozen KC-135s was sat on the ground there. They support a lot of US and foreign military flights over the Atlantic, (providing fuel on the ground, and in the air) and post '9/11' they flew tanker support round the clock to keep the patrolling fighters 'on station' for extended periods.

[ecsrobin]

The US navy does not have any refuelling assets, so all refuelling is provided by Omega tankers.

[Eric Mc]

Can't they refuel from USAF tankers?

[motomk]

RizzoTheRat said:

I hadn't realised until I noticed the Omega Tanker DC10 that they'd had a contracted civilian tanker fly the F18's over rather than using US military ones. Given how many tankers the US have I was susprised they contracted that out, or do the US navy not have that many?

Probably more to do with the type of tanker, as the majority of the USAF ones would be the boom type.
The Omega ones are hose type which the Hornets like. I know the RAAF Hornets have used them too. A few of the Omega tankers are ex-RAAF, not the DC10 though.

[dr_gn]

RizzoTheRat said:

I hadn't realised until I noticed the Omega Tanker DC10 that they'd had a contracted civilian tanker fly the F18's over rather than using US military ones. Given how many tankers the US have I was susprised they contracted that out, or do the US navy not have that many?

In the recent past, some of the Super Hornets displayed at Farnborough were from a carrier group in the Med. Not sure about this year though.

[FourWheelDrift]

Bit late for the show but it was heading in that direction just now, E-3 AWACS just flew over me, no idea if it was one of ours, NATO, French etc or the USAF.