Posted on 04/05/2012 6:13:41 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Setback: Leaks when the Voyager refuels jets have led to concerns it will be delayed entering service
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2125439/Fleet-13billion-refuelling-planes-built-RAF-dont-work-British-aircraft--compatible-American-jets.html#ixzz1rAg0SBwf
Is this the same as the Tanker that lost to Boeing then got tied up legally here for years (thanks John McCain) then was selected, Boeing appealed, and eventually went back to Boeing.
(kewl pic though :-)
I would have thought NATO had standards, but what do I know?
If the entire system works ok w/our jets, then the problem has to be with the receiving plumbing on the Tornados, yes ?
</masterful grasp of the obvious 8^>
Joe Lucas at work again.
We think the same way ... let’s see, we use the Imperial standard (ft, inch, gallong ...) and England uses the metric standard ... I’d guess this would be a good place to start.
(Yet, another masterful exercise in the obvious).
England uses metric, SAE and Imperial. All can be found on UK machinery.
I’ve also seen what was called “soft metric” on DOD designs, which meant that SAE standards were used to the nearest metric value called out. Works fine for things you weld together, but not so good for systems that connecct mechanically.
Boeing knows refueling, sounds like the probe is a bit smaller on the RAF fighters.
Just sayin'.
(if it works, i'll send 'em a bill ;-)
I suspect that 75% of the papers readers have no idea what a Lancaster is. Sort of shows how Britain's military capability deteriorated since WW II.
Imagine an article in an American paper attempting to describe an F-22 or an F-35 by comparing it in size to a P-47 or a P-51;;
Couple wads of chewing gum otta do the trick.
That's the max rate of the Chobham 805E Fuselage hose drum unit - it may just be a problem dialing it back to the approx. 1500l/min fighters can accept fuel at.
The HDU wing 905E pods deliver fuel at the same rate the older pods Chobham have been building for 40 years and it's hard to see Tornados taking fuel from Victors and VC-10s for all that time and suddenly developing a problem with the new tanker.
Soft metric?
Once the Mad Mullahs endure a few months of living in the 8th Century like their false profit, the system will be modified to supply fuel to European fighter bombers. I can't believe nobody here on FR couldn't discern the obvious.
Which is why McDonnell Douglas beat Boeing when the KC-10 was selected.
Point set and match. If the fool Mc Swain stayed home at his nursing home the nation as a whole would be better off.
Remember he voted for the 4 liberal judges on the SCOTUS. An every other lame brained Judge supposedly to get along him and Nobama are a matched pair prima facial evidence that seniority does not rain supreme but rather stupidity does......:)
That was a term used on a ship construction program I used to be part of.
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