RAF Intercepting Russian "and other nation's" Aircraft. Whose?
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Massive Thread Drift
Seems like this thread has drifted off course and what started as some reasonable thoughts on QRA has turned into a Times on-line to pay or not to pay.
So before someone gets it back on topic can I say I'm involved with a a 'trade' organisation which had hitherto taken an RSS news feed from The Times and e-mailed all of us in the organisation with each article of note. When the Times decided to charge, our secretary asked whether we thought the service worth paying for. To a man our view was that the Times seldom had an original article that wasn't reported elsewhere in the press and nor did it offer particularly insightful comment. Indeed, we all managed to quickly cite examples where they'd got their facts wrong or had reported them with clearly slanted opinions.
Result - we declined their kind offer, and feel none the worse for it.
Now, when I were on QRA we used to have to sit strapped in all night long and have the groundcrew pass up mugs of coffee to keep us awake - eee it were tough in t'cold war!
So before someone gets it back on topic can I say I'm involved with a a 'trade' organisation which had hitherto taken an RSS news feed from The Times and e-mailed all of us in the organisation with each article of note. When the Times decided to charge, our secretary asked whether we thought the service worth paying for. To a man our view was that the Times seldom had an original article that wasn't reported elsewhere in the press and nor did it offer particularly insightful comment. Indeed, we all managed to quickly cite examples where they'd got their facts wrong or had reported them with clearly slanted opinions.
Result - we declined their kind offer, and feel none the worse for it.
Now, when I were on QRA we used to have to sit strapped in all night long and have the groundcrew pass up mugs of coffee to keep us awake - eee it were tough in t'cold war!
Hardest of all was the low level relatively slow thing just under a 1500' cloud base by night in the Iceland Faeroes Gap. Only light on the beast was an anti-col down the back somewhere and the only thing we could see was a MAD boom. Never really sure if it was a P3 or a Nimrod as neither community would admit to be out there at the time (some clandestine op I suspect kept secret even from our own side!).
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Hardest of all was the low level relatively slow thing just under a 1500' cloud base by night in the Iceland Faeroes Gap. Only light on the beast was an anti-col down the back somewhere and the only thing we could see was a MAD boom. Never really sure if it was a P3 or a Nimrod as neither community would admit to be out there at the time (some clandestine op I suspect kept secret even from our own side!).
Mind you, some folks' recce skills were....not the best.
One day with a phamous phighter squadron at Akronelli:
"BEagle, we saw a twin prop thing with 4 fins - any idea?"
"A bit like an E-2 without the radar?"
"What's one of them?"
"A Hawkeye? US Navy.... And the transport version is the C-2 Greyhound, which sounds like the thing you saw."
Another day at a phamous phighter aerodrome not far from Stowmarket. Friday afternoon recce session for the shags with 'BK' running it ('wheels' and 'auths' such as chum Impiger were closeted away in some secret squirrel session
) . We have some 9 consecutive slides of the Sverdlov with 'BK' giving us all the recce features, then up goes the tenth. With 2 hugely obvious triple gun turrets pointing menacingly... "What's this then, chaps?", jokes the smiling 'BK'.
Immediate answer from 'Gizzard', the RAF's only commissioned football hooligan...
"Sam Kotlin?"
Happy times. Talking of 'Times', I'm with you on this, Impiger!
