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Landsurfer

Veteran
Who’s actually using the VSTOL variant as a main combat airframe ?
Are the majority of F-35’s the non VSTOL variant ?
 

gbb

Legendary Member
Location
Peterborough
As our factory is right on the end of the former RAF Alconbury runway (the base is now a development of industry, housing etc)..occasionally you hear a very low heavy prop aircraft pass but its usually too late by the time you get out of the building to take a gander.
Whoooooooosh, over went a C130 Hercules type military aircraft, watched as it flew about 200ft above the now being dug up runway then banked off and into the distance.
Perhaps they were former residents to the base, having a look as they flew past ^_^

Low and loud :hyper:, cant beat it .
 
On an arrestor, about 60 yards.
Normal landing length depends on all sorts of factors, headwind and load being key ones, but they can stop empty in a headwind within a few hundred feet.
The runway at Stanley was far too short for anything military really, the Hercs were the only large aircraft to use it without RHAG. The building of Mt Pleasant was under way during my stint. As a denizen of Ground Radio Flight, we had a grandstand view of the airfield.
 
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