What if...not anymore

[Blacklion213]

check out www.alert5.com for conformation but the RAF is barrowing RC-135's from the USAF as a tempoary Nimrod replacement

[Shasper]

Well this is certainly a surprise. . .

Shas

[Jennings]

Sacred fecal matter!  That's amazing!  Hemp & LAG hogs!?!?  With pink & blue roundels!?!?!

On second thought...

J

[B777LR]

  So the 50 year old comet gets replaced by a 50 year old 707
RAF, Air Force of 50 year old designs! (nearly including Sea Kings )

[Radish]

LOVE IT!!!

There's still time for the Stealth Camel!!

[Spey_Phantom]

to be honnest, i would have nevver suspected this 
i thought they were gonna convert an tristar or VC10 

[Jennings]

So the 50 year old comet gets replaced by a 50 year old 707

When, oh when will they ever learn?  I teach and I teach and I teach until I'm blue in the face.  An xC-135 is *NOT* a 707!  It's a Boeing 717!!



J

[Glenn Gilbertson]

We're doomed! Now say after me "the AMT kit is easy to build, the AMT kit is easy to build ......................"!

[wagnersm]

So the 50 year old comet gets replaced by a 50 year old 707
RAF, Air Force of 50 year old designs! (nearly including Sea Kings )

I wonder what is the oldest aircraft model still in use by an airforce?  Actual use, not flying museum piece.

Steve

[dragon]

So the 50 year old comet gets replaced by a 50 year old 707
RAF, Air Force of 50 year old designs! (nearly including Sea Kings )

I wonder what is the oldest aircraft model still in use by an airforce?  Actual use, not flying museum piece.

Steve

Check out some of the third world's air forces.  You would be shocked at what you can find.  As an aside, there is this small airline in Venezuela that still flies the DC-3...

[Blacklion213]

i think there up until the 1990s F-51's could be found in some countrys air forces

[Mossie]

Check out some of the third world's air forces.  You would be shocked at what you can find.  As an aside, there is this small airline in Venezuela that still flies the DC-3...

Air Atlantique show their DC-3's in the UK, but you can also book pleasure flights.  Also, one of them is contracted by Thales for Radar Calibration flights, that's a pseudo-military-ish-kind-of-thing???  I bet the USAF aren't far of operating the worlds oldest jets with the B-52's, although IIRC most of the airframes are realtively 'new'  Dosen't someone still operate Canberras???

[Jetfixer]

IIRC the last operator of the P51 was the Dominican republic. NASA still have a C47 in use, the S,A airforce still used the C47 too but they were converted to turboprop power. there are a couple of Hunters carrying current RAF serial numbers and are used by a civillian contractor.

Hope this helps.

Greg

[Shasper]

Strikemasters come to mind. . .

Shas

[Blacklion213]

There are some A-4's still in services with the IDF/AF