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private flights / light aircraft / refueling
-although my brother who is a helicopter pilot says the refuelling is really flakey, and he goes to Kirkbride airfield which is about 10 miles away and has nicer tea and someone answers the phone when you went Jet A1
rented out by Norwegian Airforce for training exercises
playground for RAF A400s.....
enormous hangar for HGV freight and "airport" now owned by a forrestry company.
so, no flights to Majorca immenant sadly
-although my brother who is a helicopter pilot says the refuelling is really flakey, and he goes to Kirkbride airfield which is about 10 miles away and has nicer tea and someone answers the phone when you went Jet A1
rented out by Norwegian Airforce for training exercises
playground for RAF A400s.....
enormous hangar for HGV freight and "airport" now owned by a forrestry company.
so, no flights to Majorca immenant sadly
Edited by The_Doc on Monday 23 March 13:44
We get daily flights between 250ft & 3000ft.
I like seeing them, but they are noisy buggers. For a military transport system designed to get people and kit in and out of areas which may be hostile they are very noisy and can be heard long before they are seen, unlike the Hercules which quite often we past before you got a chance to see them.
There muse be advantages as a platform overall, but in that regard alone it does seem a bit retrograde.
I like seeing them, but they are noisy buggers. For a military transport system designed to get people and kit in and out of areas which may be hostile they are very noisy and can be heard long before they are seen, unlike the Hercules which quite often we past before you got a chance to see them.
There muse be advantages as a platform overall, but in that regard alone it does seem a bit retrograde.
Stick Legs said:
We get daily flights between 250ft & 3000ft.
I like seeing them, but they are noisy buggers. For a military transport system designed to get people and kit in and out of areas which may be hostile they are very noisy and can be heard long before they are seen, unlike the Hercules which quite often we past before you got a chance to see them.
There muse be advantages as a platform overall, but in that regard alone it does seem a bit retrograde.
They are big aircraft, substantially larger than a Hercules so their main advantage is that they can lift and carry more. They are more in line with the C-17 Globemaster but are, of course, turboprop rather than turbofans and have excellent short field performance.I like seeing them, but they are noisy buggers. For a military transport system designed to get people and kit in and out of areas which may be hostile they are very noisy and can be heard long before they are seen, unlike the Hercules which quite often we past before you got a chance to see them.
There muse be advantages as a platform overall, but in that regard alone it does seem a bit retrograde.
Older Hercules were noiser (and smokier) than the later J models so weren't exactly stealthy.
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