Colin Leighfield Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Announced at Farnborough today, minister and industry signing up heads of agreement. (Guardian photo). Edited By Colin Leighfield on 16/07/2018 17:35:26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Carpenter Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Funny how all new ish ! RAF aircraft have Hawker names from the past !!! Must be a Sydney Camm fan in the Ministry !!😉 Colin. Oh and EE ! Edited By Colin Carpenter on 16/07/2018 17:41:34 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McG 6969 Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Hi Colin, Reading your intro, I thought you were choosing for a new 'model' to build... But then if you want to model this one, I guess you still have some time left for the Fury... ??? Cheers Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Leighfield Posted July 16, 2018 Author Share Posted July 16, 2018 Makes sense to call it Tempest to follow the Typhoon! I can’t see them ever using Spitfire because it’s so exclusively attached to arguably the most iconic and charismatic aircraft of all time. Mind boggles though when they talk about 2035! Don’t think I’ll be worrying much about it then and it won’t feature in my list of model daydreams! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Former Member Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 [This posting has been removed] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Stevens 1 Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Leighfield Posted July 16, 2018 Author Share Posted July 16, 2018 Tom, Will it be allowed to fly above 400 ft? Good one Mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john stones 1 - Moderator Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Yep just been reading it, £2bn, yeah right...that figure will end up no where near. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel R Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 John that's only until 2025. Six years by time contact signed. Maybe less. It'll never be ready for service by 2025. F35 only just arrived here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Price 2 Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Thats £2bn per week, John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john stones 1 - Moderator Posted July 16, 2018 Share Posted July 16, 2018 Never seen a government estimate yet that is any where near accurate, lots of snouts to dip into the trough yet. Oink Oink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Posted by Tom Sharp 2 on 16/07/2018 20:37:01: It says that the plane will be able to be operated remotely. Therefore will it be subject to the Drone laws? I suspect it will fly wherever and whenever it wants - I wouldn't want to try arguing the case with one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 I am surprised it even has a pilot onboard The space and equipment required to sustain them is both expensive, heavy and structurally limiting, plus physically having a person on board severely limits the aircrafts performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Wright Stuff Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 They were going to call it 'a little bit windy', but it got voted down... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel R Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 I'm with Tom, the pilot seat is likely just there to keep folks happy about these things being moved around from place to place - not for actual combat. Besides, early doors yet - highly likely the cockpit will get deleted later on in the programme, I would say. Good news for RR anyway, recent few years haven't been so grand for them. Incidentally, the wikipedia page for the BAE Taranis says this: "The Taranis is planned to be operational "post 2030" and used in concert with manned aircraft.[1]" Now, does that timescale sound familiar? Edited By Nigel R on 17/07/2018 09:13:46 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 after thousands of committee meetings we may see(one) fly, then it'll possibly get scrapped down to another supplier can make, supply them cheaper.....and of course no one will shoulder the blame? ken anderson...ne..1...…. 1000's of committee meetings dept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel R Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Or, alternatively, it might get made and used. Let us not eviscerate new Tempest with fiction before its day is done. It seems there is will to spend money on something that will furnish UK based companies with work, on something (whatever that turns out to be) to replace Typhoon. We have a rather good aerospace industry here which we could do with maintaining at the very least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Leighfield Posted July 17, 2018 Author Share Posted July 17, 2018 The mportabt thing to me is that it is UK lead and not compromised by the multi national shenanigans associated with Tornado and Typhoon. Get back to designing whole planes again instead of bits of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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