skysurfer From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2004, 1134 posts, RR: 14 Reply 1, posted (1 year 1 month 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 3266 times:
"Richard Coglan, who was in Bath at the time of the incident, said: We saw the Eurofighter [Typhoon] circle the helicopter at very slow speed using full thrust just to stay up."
Full thrust eh? Hmmmm.
Had a friend post on my FB that he heard a loud 'boom', now we know what it was!
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The Typhoon wasn't exactly designed to run circles at low speed around a distressed helicopter... fighter jets find it hard enough to keep up with light aircraft, so I guess he was high AoA with loooots of power.
Which would not be on QRA as the RAF frames were never intended as interceptors. They could probably slowly circle the heli...30 minutes after the situation had been resolved one way or another.
NoUFO From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 7792 posts, RR: 13 Reply 6, posted (1 year 1 month 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 3166 times:
Quote: "It was doing really tight, slow circles and it suddenly put on full power and the noise was unbelievable, it was really blasting it out, and then it moved a bit further on and it did another slow turn.
Typhoons are loud! All fighter jets are loud, but Typhoons are ear-shattering, in fact even Su-30s, while creating a minor earthquake when they fire up the afterburners, are quiet when compared to Typhoons.
Back side of the thrust curve? Or just uninformed witnesses.
Quoting NoUFO (Reply 6): Typhoons are loud! All fighter jets are loud, but Typhoons are ear-shattering,
Having stood about 400 feet from one at full throttle (and other fighters as well) I can say that the Typhoon is the loudest I've heard. It almost transcends mere noise with all of the vibration that completely dominates everything else around you.
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AF1624 From France, joined Jul 2006, 572 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (1 year 1 month 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 3028 times:
I'm guessing he was indeed using lots of power. When the aircraft is at a very high AOA, to achieve such a slow speed, it needs loads of power to keep out of a stall.
GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 12701 posts, RR: 80 Reply 9, posted (1 year 1 month 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 2815 times:
I wonder if the suburban residents, clustered around RAF Northolt, in NW London, are quite ready for when a flight of Typhoons deploys there for the Olympics?
Being more used to BAe-146's, BAe-125's, biz jets, mostly light helicopters from the old Battle Of Britain airfield/
Though they'll be on QRA, they'll have to arrive, afterwards leave but presumably do some practice take offs and landings before the actual QRA goes operational?
Powerslide From Canada, joined Oct 2010, 481 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (1 year 1 month 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 2798 times:
Quoting GDB (Reply 9): Though they'll be on QRA, they'll have to arrive, afterwards leave but presumably do some practice take offs and landings before the actual QRA goes operational?
There were daily CAP flights during the Winter games in 2010 in Vancouver. I'd imagine the Typhoons would be flying everyday for the duration of the games.
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Having stood about 400 feet from one at full throttle (and other fighters as well) I can say that the Typhoon is the loudest I've heard. It almost transcends mere noise with all of the vibration that completely dominates everything else around you.
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