Muzz Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Just seen this - http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/international/europe/2016/02/02/uk-signs-major-deal-military-aircraft-training/79686008/ 10 T-6 Texans seems like quite a small amount, not sure how many Tucanos are still operational. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Britman Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Hopefully they will take the name of Harvard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDumbrell Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Living just up the road from RAF Linton on Ouse where most (if not all) of the Tucanos are based, I'd say there was at least 20 based there. 10 T-6's would half the strength based there but then is there a requirement to have a large training fleet these days? As for the new Grob turboprops, I guess they're to replace the standard Grobs they use now with the ab initio training and university air squadrons. (Of which one squadron is also based at Linton). The Phenom jets I guess will replace the HS125's. Times are changing but at least the RAF is keeping up to date - mostly! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Fleming Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Hopefully they will take the name of Harvard. Currently they are using the name Texan within Ascent's publicity, the Grobs will be called Prefect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pin Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Funny. Grob in Russian means "Coffin". Not the best name for a trainer from my native Russian standpoint 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Cornes Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Once upon a time in, in a world far, far away there was a company called De Haviland, and its little brother British Aerospace. I wonder what happened to them? All we have now are Colonial imports!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bradley Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Once upon a time in, in a world far, far away there was a company called De Haviland, and its little brother British Aerospace. I wonder what happened to them? All we have now are Colonial imports!! I'm not quite understanding how this will work, or save money - there appear to be an inordinate number of companies getting a piece of the action - KBR, Elbit, Ascent, Lockheed Martin, Babcock, Affinity Flying Training Services, Embraer, all mentioned in one paragraph! Oh, for those simpler days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz Posted February 20, 2016 Author Share Posted February 20, 2016 Article in the latest AFM states the T-6 Texans are to be based at Valley, Linton on Ouse's future appear's to be in doubt. If the the number of Tucanos is around the 20 mark then that sort of reduction is probably due to the increase in the use of flight simulators in the training program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Foster60 Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 With recent order of aircraft for the RAF / FAA it look hard to see how this will allow for all the 'front seats' to be filled Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I suppose we could look on the bright side. We might get a mainstream injection molded kit of the T-6 out of Airfix, assuming things go well for Hornby Group and they don't go belly up. Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Fleming Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 You are probably looking at more simulator time as well as more time on the Grobs and Hawk T2s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Foster60 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 If you look at how many Grobs we have now, something will need cutting there. Same goes for the Hawk T2's. I guess there is a lot more sim's around. Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dambuster Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 I'm pretty sure that Linton doesn't figure in the training fleet basing plans. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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