Mildenhall CV22's

Post by **Phantom ACE** » Tue 09 Jul 2013, 11:00 am

Does anyone know if the CV22's that arrived Mildenhall are flying operations or doing anything at all yet ?

Have a few days free next week prior to RIAT and with arrivals for Wednesday looking decidedly thin this year was possibly thinking of heading over to the Hall for the day.

Cheers,
Al.

Post by **Brevet Cable** » Tue 09 Jul 2013, 11:24 am

Nope !!

According to posts on FighterControl , they haven't moved since they arrived & one of them is currently in a somewhat dismantled state undergoing repairs { presuably the one that went tech in Canada ?? }

Post by **Phantom ACE** » Tue 09 Jul 2013, 11:54 am

Thanks Brevet, that would account for the lack of news since their arrival, I imagine we will all know when they do start ops.

Post by **138EAW** » Tue 09 Jul 2013, 11:59 am

Brevet Cable wrote:Nope !!

According to posts on FighterControl , they haven't moved since they arrived & one of them is currently in a somewhat dismantled state undergoing repairs { presuably the one that went tech in Canada ?? }

That's not entirely true.. One of them did a short test flight last Tuesday :grin:

Post by **Brevet Cable** » Tue 09 Jul 2013, 12:04 pm

Does "take off , buzz around the airfield , land" really count , though ?? :lmao:

Post by **138EAW** » Tue 09 Jul 2013, 12:07 pm

If it left the ground yes :roll:

Going by your logic the Wright brothers flight wouldn't of counted :whistle:

Post by **Rockhopper** » Wed 10 Jul 2013, 3:18 pm

The ones they had out here (KAF) used to spend a lot of time being repaired which was just was well as they are incredibly noisy in flight!

Post by **Rule 27** » Wed 10 Jul 2013, 3:48 pm

One flew again this afternoon. It's now broken again.

Post by **Brevet Cable** » Wed 10 Jul 2013, 4:01 pm

You couldn't make it up , could you !! :roll:

I bet Mildenhall's SOG are already pleading to have their trusty old MH-53s back !!

Post by **GhostFlight91** » Thu 18 Jul 2013, 9:36 am

God I miss the MH-53s. Its pot luck I know but popping down the hall at the weekend for a night. I know theres more than likely to be the odd based tanker going out and a few odd visitors but WHEN the CV-22s have been moving has this been known to be on a weekend. Fingers and everything else crossed to actually see one get off the ground.

Post by **Monty** » Thu 18 Jul 2013, 9:48 am

SOG doesn't fly on weekends ...

A CV-22 has been up every afternoon this week so far, so it seems like you should see them if you went on a weekday at the moment.

Post by **GhostFlight91** » Thu 18 Jul 2013, 10:21 am

Gutted

I know they don't fly at weekends but was hoping to get lucky on the off chance. Sadly I am a Grimsby lad and don't get much chance to get down with work only weekends here and there :sad:

Thank you Monty

Post by **Mike** » Fri 19 Jul 2013, 9:45 am

Monty wrote:SOG doesn't fly on weekends ...

Are the operations 'special' because they are only allowed to take place during working hours on a Monday-Friday? Isn't that a bit inconvenient if any prospective enemy doesn't agree to play by those rules as well?

Post by **JJC** » Fri 19 Jul 2013, 10:18 am

Mike wrote:
Monty wrote:SOG doesn't fly on weekends ...

Are the operations 'special' because they are only allowed to take place during working hours on a Monday-Friday? Isn't that a bit inconvenient if any prospective enemy doesn't agree to play by those rules as well?

Just because they aren't flying, doesn't mean they aren't prepared to deploy on operations the same. :roll:

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