Cue massive cost overruns, changing goalposts by the air force and when it finally arrives most of the things it's supposed to have won't work until upgrades at a later date.Boeing awarded contract for F-47 fighter
Eyeing China threat, Trump announces Boeing wins contract for secretive future fighter jet
Known as Next Generation Air Dominance, or NGAD, the manned jet will serve as quarterback to a fleet of future drone aircraft designed to be able to penetrate the air defenses of China and any other potential foes.apnews.com
Not sure Boeing would be the best company but I know they subsumed a lot of the previous companies that existed that used to build fighters.
Plane Spotters / Flight Radar Thread
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Unfortunate crash for a French aerobatic team:
www.bbc.co.uk
Two French air display jets crash in rehearsal
The three occupants of the two Alpha Jets that collided ejected and were "found alive and conscious".
www.bbc.co.uk
Unfortunate crash for a French aerobatic team:
Two French air display jets crash in rehearsal
The three occupants of the two Alpha Jets that collided ejected and were "found alive and conscious".
Very fortunate there were no deaths.
Yep, good to see the parachutes and hoped nothing hit on the ground either.
Doesn't look good - F-35 looked like it was going down before it went off flight radar (hopefully an emergency landing), looks like the the RAF aircraft detached from their normal patrol to try and assist in some way.
As it went for altitude prior to losing it very rapidly, rather than dropping out from regular controlled flight, it was probably a managed descent.
EDIT: Though the aircraft squawking 7700 isn't necessarily the one in difficulty in a situation like this.
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Doesn't look good - F-35 looked like it was going down before it went off flight radar (hopefully an emergency landing), looks like the the RAF aircraft detached from their normal patrol to try and assist in some way.
As it went for altitude prior to losing it very rapidly, rather than dropping out from regular controlled flight, it was probably a managed descent.
EDIT: Though the aircraft squawking 7700 isn't necessarily the one in difficulty in a situation like this.
I can't think of a reason where an aircraft would squawk 7700 on behalf of another aircraft in difficulty. I think you can pretty much assume that the one squawking mayday is the one in trouble. Also, I'm not entirely sure how accurate the data derived from flight radar actually is. Starting at a low altitude and slowly working up to 20-25,000 feet over 6 hours doesn't seem right and the ground speed increase seems only to relate to the increase in altitude and not any kind of manoeuvring. At the end of the trace the ground speed seems to drop from over 500kts to less than 100kts at over 25,000 feet, shortly prior to a climb of 6000 feet - that would indicate a complete loss of control (if it were even possible), at least to me and broadcasting that has quite severe security implications. In short, I'm sure the aircraft had some kind of difficulty but I'm not sure how much you can derive from the nature of the emergency from the above data.
Often with military aircraft they will be flying in pairs or more - there have been previous examples though it is unusual.
Not hugely accurate but it is indicative - the sudden peak in altitude just before the descent is probably a data error and it smooths between updates a lot. The actual updates when it is visible on FR are briefly near the start at low altitude then about the last 20 minutes or so.
Circling back to this - apparently belong to Royal Netherlands Air Force who sometimes do training missions over here.
The U2 is on the tracker: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae094c
Did anything more come of this? Although I suspect they wouldn't be quick to admit an aircraft crash.
Doesn't look good - F-35 looked like it was going down before it went off flight radar (hopefully an emergency landing), looks like the the RAF aircraft detached from their normal patrol to try and assist in some way.
As it went for altitude prior to losing it very rapidly, rather than dropping out from regular controlled flight, it was probably a managed descent.
EDIT: Though the aircraft squawking 7700 isn't necessarily the one in difficulty in a situation like this.
I haven't seen anything.
EDIT: Checking FR history the ICAO has been used several times since, though not sure if that is with the same plane as there is quite a lot of globe hopping between flights with the bare minimum of time for it to have gotten there.
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Engine failure?
It's a stall, and looking at the wings it looks like there's barely any flaps deployed, just the slats. That's not normal for a plane loaded with enough fuel to get to London from India.