Warton Reports

[GARYKING]

Having been working near Warton for years and doing nothing, the last 10 days has been a bit of a change with me calling up when on lunch. I thought I'd start a thread just for people interested in images and whats going on.

ZJ514 airborne again and still on the new 43C6AA code..

It departed Woodford, came to Warton and flew about 7 circuits. Some very nice steep departures and left turn outs. When I left 'photo corner' she was still on the ground. Callsign Today was AVRO 4.

Other activities today were a new Typoon, but it went tech and was on the ground within 5mins of initial departure, G-UMAS girocopter and Typoon ZJ938

I have some shots I'll post on here when I get home from work, apart from the Tech Typoon as this flew at 10.30am

Gary

[bones]

The irony here is that I pick up the little gyrocopter on Mode S (4054EF) but never any Typhoons..

[GARYKING]

Today

ZJ514


ZJ938


G-UMAS

[GARYKING]

A few from today 16-03-2010

New Hawk ZK034


New Typoon - ZK039 Second, but First Flight. I maid its maiden flight a few days ago, but never left the circuit as it went Tech


ZG773 - This GR4 Suffered multiple bird strikes a while ago, this was its first flight since repair. Fuel can be seen pouring out of the right wing on take off, I was informed that this was safe as its just excess fuel in the line.....??? She then returned half hour late with Warton on standby as the Pilot reported Major Vibrations, She made a Slow and low run along RWY08, before doing at 180 and landing RWY26 safely.





Gary

[moonie31]

There are fuel collector tanks at the end of the wings on tornado for any expansion of fuel to collect and not deposit itself on the floor via the drains. These should be drained before and after any refuel to prevent what you saw happening!!!!

P*** poor lineys at work!!

Moonie

[GARYKING]

Thanks for the info.

I was a little suprised, At first I thought nice wingtip vortex, but then after looking at my images and speaking to the other 'togs' they said, fuel and lots of it.

As Tonkas go, this is a bright one, and you can't get the type wrong either ha ha

[moonie31]

Must be the last one still in the camouflage paint scheme as well!!!

Moonie

[allan senior]

Nice idea for a thread Gary.
Often see the products from Warton on the list, now I'll have info as well.

[GARYKING]

Nice idea for a thread Gary.
Often see the products from Warton on the list, now I'll have info as well.

I leave my SBS at home, But might start bringing it to work for when I go upto Warton so I can start matching blank 'Mode S' codes to stuff thats in and out of the Field.

There is due to be a New Saudi Typoon up today/Tomorrow on Airtest.

I'm not sure if the callsigns show in the list, but each of pilots at Warton have their own personal callsign TARNISH ??, I am able to tie up the callsign to an Aircraft if I know the time they appear in the list, sometimes the Pilots can be up in various Aircraft during the day. i.e yesterday

14.00 Tarnish 9 lands in hawk ZK 034

15.32 Tarnish 9 Departs in Tornado ZG 773

(lucky man......... "how was your day dear?" "well I delivered a new Hawk, then went out on test flight in a tonka that went tech")

Gary

[ATCManch]

Fuel can be seen pouring out of the right wing on take off, I was informed that this was safe as its just excess fuel in the line.....???

Safe!!?? I wouldn't like to be in an aircraft with fuel pissing out of the wing whilst at full afterburner!!

Concorde Paris anyone??

[GARYKING]

Fuel can be seen pouring out of the right wing on take off, I was informed that this was safe as its just excess fuel in the line.....???

Safe!!?? I wouldn't like to be in an aircraft with fuel pissing out of the wing whilst at full afterburner!!

Concorde Paris anyone??

O dear, as you put it like that, So this isn't normal then?

[moonie31]

Its a very common occurence, most have usually vented by the time they get to the end of the runway. In very rare circumstances, i have heard it could drain the wing of fuel, but a pilot would soon notice this in his cockpit checks he carries out every 5 minutes or so.

Not sure of the amount of fuel the collector tanks can hold ( i was an electrician/avoinic NCO) but its part of the servicing procedure to drain them before and after a refuel.

Moonie

[ATCManch]

Hi Moonie,

Yep, used to see this happen a lot as they taxied out.....

but in a runway caravan at Marham that would have been spotted by Air Traffic and I'd have thought the take off aborted if caught in time - thats the whole point of the caravan, I'd have been firing Reds left, right and centre

Tony

[GARYKING]

This morning saw the delivery of the first 2, two seater Typhoons for the Royal Saudi Air Force.

ZK069/301
ZK070/302






Also ZG773 was back up on air test with a new panel fitted to the airframe after reporting 'vibrations' last week. This aircraft was again 'venting' fuel from the wing on take off, but nothing like last weeks.

[GARYKING]

Its been a few weeks since I posted anything interesting, but today turned up trumps with a nice departure. She arrived Monday afternoon HZ-132 instead of the normal desert coloured C-130.