Anyone else like Birds AND planes? (1 Viewer)

[Ratal]

SOCOM digital twin engineering rendering

 

[Mike Crawley]

Didn’t see that picture, although I think it looks odd

 

[Ratal]

Didn’t see that picture, although I think it looks odd

SOCOM wanted something like this - but there is simply not the budget for another new airframe type in the small batches that SOCOM would need them for. A plus for the adapted Herc is RAPID DRAGON could be used in theatre - This being a palletized, long ranged anti shipping missile that rolls off the ramp and away to target.

 

[Ratal]

RAPID DRAGON in test. Turns the Herc into a potential rapid response anti shipping asset

 

[KenM]

It might be my imagination but…is there something about the “sound” of a military chopper that instinctively tells you so?

Two of “these” flew over my abode this am (dunno), am not used to seeing them camouflaged, the big “twin rotor jobs” and the Apache are the norm hereabouts (NE London) with the latter being black and the former a mono colour grey.

Cheers

 

[Ratal]

AW-159 Wildcat

Nice bit of very capable kit.

 

[KenM]

AW-159 Wildcat

Nice bit of very capable kit.

Does the AW translate to “all weather” Ratal?

 

[Ratal]

Does the AW translate to “all weather” Ratal?

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A nice little look at the wee beastie in question. The one you got a pic of is the British Army version without the under-nose radar.

 

[PYRTLE]

Does the AW translate to “all weather” Ratal?

And my old brain thinking Augusta Westland.

 

[KenM]

And my old brain thinking Augusta Westland.

Oh yeah.😮👍

 

[Farnboro John]

And my old brain thinking Augusta Westland.

Must be the age then: AgustaWestland, not Augusta.

Cheers

John

 

[Andy Adcock]

saw this air ambulance circling, looking for a spot to land so followed it. He was waiting for an ambulance with a patient from an RTA.

The chopper is an Agusta something or other.

 

[Farnboro John]

saw this air ambulance circling, looking for a spot to land so followed it. He was waiting for an ambulance with a patient from an RTA.

The chopper is an Agusta something or other.

I googled the registration G-DRLA: it's an AgustaWestland A109SP Grand - lineal descendant of the old Agusta A109 first introduced to British service by captured Argentinian equipment.

John

 

[KenM]

There were two of these yesterday (NE London), I don’t have a scooby?

Cheers

 

[Scozmos]

There were two of these yesterday (NE London), I don’t have a scooby?

Cheers

Apaches?

 

[PYRTLE]

Apaches?

Yes. FJ might give the definitive model, a licensed version of the Boeing AH - 64 Longbow Apache used by the UK Army Air Corps.

 

[Andy Adcock]

There were two of these yesterday (NE London), I don’t have a scooby?

Cheers

You didn't think they might be Goshawks did you Ken

 

[Bismarck Honeyeater]

Fairly often used to seeing the Dragon Rapide out of Duxford. It’s used to fly tourist flights into London, I used to see it when I lived/worked there.

However this week, in Cambs/Suffolk saw a different version, in a new to me livery. Air Atlantique. I believe it’s also out of Duxford. Not too many still flying after 75 years.

 

[KenM]

You didn't think they might be Goshawks did you Ken

Naah!….but this is!

 

[Andy Adcock]

Naah!….but this is!

Nice!