Mark from the States and RAF's Quick Reaction Alert Crews Reaction
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I was stationed at RAF Coningsby back in the 80’s. Tornados back then !
Hi Mark, as Chris said, the first pilot "Jon" used to be in the Red Arrows, the RAF display team, and was on their last big North American tour in 2019. He was interviewed on US TV, with his full name revealed!!! I was texted a message in Sept 2019 to go to Coningsby and pick up a Typhoon, and deliver it by road to RAF Hendon Museum N. London. I couldn't for the life of me workout why they were putting a current fighter in a museum! When I arrived, I was directed to the memorial flights' hanger, there I found out I was picking up their grandaddy. The worlds' only original, complete,WW2 Hawker Typhoon, on it's way home after a tour of Canada. I spent a very pleasant afternoon drinking tea and watching the modern Typhoons, while the guys from RAF Cosford Museum loaded me.
Awesome
Nick Sykes I remember the Germans not being at all happy with the British naming the (Euro Fighter) Typhoon because there had been the second WW plane of the same name, I was a little surprised that they objected baring in mind how "open" they are about that period of their history, but I can see that it might be upsetting for some shouldn't laugh really 😁
i'm 20 mins away from coningsby where these jets are i have spent may an hour watching them train and react to QRA .....make me proud seeing them .....
A very close relative of mine works as a civilian engineer at Coningsby following his years in the RAF. When visiting it's customary to stand on the mound beside the perimeter fence and watch a couple of Typhoon "unrestricted" climb-outs. Most impressive! Worth watching airshow footage of the "Tiffy" display.
Lessons learnt from WW2 Mark have been saved SAS another example. Thanks for your reaction.
Mark. There was an incident last week where the Typhoons from Coningsby had to fly supersonic, causing sonic booms over York, to intercept a suspect plane & force it to land.
Yes
Whenever I look at the Typhoon at the front, I'm reminded of a great white shark! Such is the menacing appearance.of it.
If it's any help Mark a flight lieutenant is the equivalent rank to the USAF captain. The reply about reserves was , as mentioned below, that we had none in 11 group. The reserves we had were too far away to have arrived in time to serve any useful purpose. It was always a pleasure flying in to the Falkland Islands when a pair of Phantoms came up and took station on either side to escort us in
Typhoon jets are original Euro-fighters and designed and made by 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇩🇪 for the Royal Air Force, Aeronautica Militare, Luftwaffe. Makes more sense for nations to chip in and pool our resources when designing fighters, just as in our new type 26 frigates which the Canadians and Aussies have chipped in with the UK. You guys and Chinese are just way in front when it comes to spending power. Lol
Mark great video again,, take a look at some the "Mach Loop in Mid Wales Videos RAF and US and Euro air forces flying through the Mountains often at lower level than the spectators
131 miles from Coningsby to London and the Typhon does it on 10 minutes ! ..... crikey !
Your theme tune is very catchy, I was stood having a pee at work and was singing it in my head
Haha thank you.
RAF Conigsby is near Lincoln as is RAF Scampton which is mentioned but the base isn’t seen only a control room was recently closed, the base is historic due to 617 Squadron The Dambusters based there during WW2 and their mess still stands today also The Red Arrows The RAF’s display team which has moved to RAF Waddington also near Lincoln the only city in Lincolnshire was based there. Flight Lieutenant Jon has flown with The Red Arrows. The RAF Bunker is now a museum. The BBMF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is several Hurricanes, Spitfires, a Lancaster Bomber and a Dakota transport plane.
Very cool
Nice one Mark.
Good video.....seen before but good to see again. nice one Mark
Maybe ten years ago there was a plane not responding to radio calls and the Typhoons from Coningsby were sent to find out what was going on, they flew right over the village where I live, they were in such a hurry they were still quite low but they were already through the sound barrier and the two largest and loudest sonic booms I have ever heard shuck not just the village but Doncaster too, Coningsby is maybe 70 miles south by road but much less by air of course, there was a French private plane over the North Sea and not responding, they intercepted and had landed at Newcastle I believe in 20 minutes from taking off, the radio wasn't working but the pilot wasn't aware of this, he/she must have pooped themself when they saw the planes beside them, the skill of the pilots is hugely impressive.
In Wales over the Snowdonia national park aircraft from all over Europe including the US military bases go to fly the Mach Loop at speed, people go to watch and take photographs/video the mostly fighter aircraft doing what they do best, there are plenty of videos on TH-cam, some are very impressive :)
Wow
superb
This is pretty much just down the road from me, very much RAF country, Lincolnshire is known as Bomber County because of the sheer number of Bomber Command airfields around here in WW2. I’m just on the border and I can think of at least 5 that are less that 5 miles away from where I’m sat now - a couple are still in use, one as an airfield and one as part of a museum I used to volunteer at.
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Mark, some years ago there used to be two different types of QRA carried out by the RAF. QRA as shown in the video has been a role performed in the RAF for many many years. Back in the day when I was considerably younger than the knackered old shit that I am these days, I used to be a weapons engineering technician (armourer) in the RAF. My first posting after completing a two year RAF apprenticeship was RAF Leuchars in Scotland. In those days they were the only Unit in the UK with a QRA responsibility - intercepting Soviet aircraft probing British defences out over the North Sea. I wasn't on a squadron but I worked in Missile Servicing Flight (aka Missile City to most people on base). Two aircraft were always live armed and on readiness, and when one aircraft was dispatched to carry out an interception it was immediately 'written off' as being assumed to have been shot down - until such time as it returned. Another aircraft would be prepared as a replacement, and working in Missile City we had to provide another 'war load' to the squadron on QRA - there was two types of aircraft at Leuchars then Lightnings (the old type) and Phantoms, and we always had live missile loads for each type of aircraft on permanent readiness. There was a duty that lasted over one night for a period of 12 hours, and it was carried out by everyone on the base below the rank of Corporal. It was called aircraft guard and there were three of you taking it in turns to patrol around the two aircraft that were on QRA. They didn't have their own hangars then, but were left armed up out in the open on the aircraft pan. As a means of defence you were armed with a pick axe handle! I did the duty just once... in the middle of winter - it was bloody freezing, the only shelter provided was an old caravan (trailer) at the edge of the pan that wasn't connected to electricity, or had any heating.
The other type of QRA was provided in Germany and was offensive rather than defensive in its task. I did two separate tours at RAF Brüggen, the first was in the Station Armoury and the second tour was on a Jaguar squadron and so I was liable to do QRA duty. There were four squadrons of Jaguars at Brüggen and QRA there involved each squadron providing one aircraft armed with a nuke, each squadron's aircraft was in readiness for a period of one month and would then be taken off QRA and a fresh aircraft prepared to replace it. Each squadron took it in turns to be the 'duty squadron' and as the duty squadron, would have to provide a 'spare' aircraft so that a total of five aircraft were always on readiness. Duty squadron lasted for one month. QRA at Brüggen was based in a special fenced off area with armed RAF Police in watchtowers and patrolling police with dogs. You hoped that those aircraft NEVER left the ground, because if they did it would mean the shit really had hit the fan big style. Doing duty on QRA was a doddle - and was very much welcomed (by me anyway) - you would have to do a daily flight servicing on the aircraft - I was a Corporal then, so it was me, a junior rank and the Pilot. We'd walk round the aircraft checking various fluid levels etc and the Pilot would run up the electrics to make sure his instruments and boxes were working OK, and that was it - 20mins max. The rest of the day was your own to spend in the crew room reading a book, watching films on the VCR (yes it was THAT long ago) or whatever. The duty - for the groundcrew - was a 14 day duty, 24hrs on and 24hrs off, it was a sleeping duty (i.e. you slept there) and at least once during your duty the alarm would sound any time of the day or night to test your readiness. You'd have to do a Usain Bolt to your aircraft and then run the aircraft up (NOT starting the engines) in readiness for the aircraft to roll - to test how quickly you could respond. Your 24hrs period 'off call' was your own to do with as you liked - you weren't required to go into work. So it was a popular duty. I'm sorry I appear to have rambled on quite a bit, but your reaction channel is one of the more 'must see' ones.
Wow...just wow. Thank you for your service Chris. This was so interesting to read about. Thank you for the kind words at the end I appreciate it and glad you're watching with me.
@@MarkfromtheStates I did three tours at RAF Coningsby, in fact my final tour in the air force was at Coningsby. My first time followed my first tour at Brüggen, and I was on 228 OCU (Operational Conversion Unit) which was equipped with Phantoms, an OCU trained two types of pilot, either newly qualified young pilots for whom it was the final link in the chain from entry into the RAF to graduating to fast jet pilot. Or it would train experienced grizzled pilots whose career hitherto had been on another type of aircraft but were converting to fly the Phantom. An OCU would typically have approximately twice the number of aircraft of a normal squadron, 228 OCU had in excess of 20 aircraft - I can't remember the exact number, but the type of work was similar to working on a squadron. My 2nd time at Coningsby (again after returning from Brüggen) I was in ASF (Aircraft Servicing Flight), I was part of the small armament team there. ASF was independent of the squadrons but took aircraft from them to carry out scheduled maintenance that was to a deeper level than would be carried out on a squadron. Armourers were there to remove (and refit afterwards) things such as external fuel tanks, weapons pylons/carriers and ejection seats etc so other trades could gain access. My 3rd and final time was as a Sergeant. By that time Coningsby was no longer operating Phantoms, but Tornado aircraft instead. But it was still home to the Phantom Servicing School which gave pre-employment training to ground crew of all trades prior to them being posted to a Phantom Unit. I went there to be an Instructor on the weapons part of the school, it really was the life of Riley. There was me and just one other on the weapons side, we held courses that were only about six students in size. The course only lasted for two weeks and there was only about four or five courses a year. Just to give a little perspective, when I did the Phantom course almost 20 years earlier it lasted for six weeks! But I didn't enjoy the 'high life' for very long - would you believe that Communism collapsed in Russia, and with it all that the powers that be could see was a peace dividend, and couldn't downscale and decommission assets quickly enough. The Phantom was by then an old aircraft and so was the first to go and with it my cushy job. I moved on to the Tornado and 18 months later I came out of the RAF. Recent events in Ukraine have shown the folly of the wholesale slashing of numbers of personnel across all three services, the selling off and scrapping of equipment and assets, and the closure of bases. Presumably, those in government think that just by snapping their fingers, everything will be magically restored to pre 1991 levels. It just goes to show that whether you like it or not (and I'm fully aware that a lot of people DON'T like it) you cannot ever compromise on defence spending. The primary responsibility of any government above all else, is the security and defence of the nation.
Amen brother
Funny how the pilots ask to remain anonymous for their own security and they removed all their name tags and squadron badges from their flying suits, but then they are filmed with their names on the side of the aircraft and squadron colours clearly visible. LOL
Lol
in the USA you have the same set up but call it Zulu Alert
Hello it me again. And thank for watching this, really hope you enjoyed it. And I have another video but it about all services. It is about who defends britian. It show most of the services. Here it is th-cam.com/video/PdYInG9a7zw/w-d-xo.html
Hope you enjoy, keep these great reactions up. We appreciate all reaction about these topics that aren't covered a lot. ❤
Thank you
I take it you like Aviation. If so, if you visit us, you will have to visit Imperial War Museum at RAF Duxford. Its an interesting place.
Yes please
A great video as always mate. There's a show called "Ross Kemp In Afghanistan" First off you can't get more British than Ross Kemp, He is a actor turned war time journalist and he's show are amazing viewing. This short video is of him in Afghanistan with British troops under fire. th-cam.com/video/LR7-Uwzsp9E/w-d-xo.html
Thanks
I was in my garden which is under the flight path for Manchester Airport when there was an almighty roar and 2 jets roared overhead. Apparently they were off to intersect a passenger jet that was thought to have a bomb onboard. Minutes later I saw them escorting the jet into Manchester and a man was apparently arrested.
wow
You should watch a training exercise when the UK tested the US responses to a nuclear threat, and the RAF managed to "nuke" America, twice
Yes that was an interesting and rather disheartening video... LOL
The ‘no reserve’ thing has sort of been twisted a bit over time, he just meant there were none in 11 Group, there were still plenty in the other groups, it was more of a matter-of-fact statement than a dramatic or concerned one. Still impressive though, and although it must have been terrifying for the average Briton at the time and the bravery and dedication of those fighting it was second-to-none (as I’ve mentioned I’m utterly obsessed with the Battle) the Germans were the underdogs in the Battle of Britain. Something James Holland mentions quite a bit too.
The RAF outnumbered but due to the introduction of RADAR that gave the advantage of early warning a leveled the playing field they knew where to position the aircraft in advance and saved on fuel and maintenance. ( WW2)
Another history changing invention
@@MarkfromtheStates Yes indeed Sir Robert Watson-Watt invented RADAR.
He Asked the RAF to fly over the test area and targeted the aircraft with a radio beam and it bounced back to his station and was detected on his RADAR screen. It was primitive but effective.
There was or may be an article on TH-cam you might want to do a review on it on your channel .
@@MarkfromtheStates Hi mark just had a look on YT there is losts of video on the birth of RADAR the original Idear was build a death ray but that failed ended up with RADAR instead.
Check out Operation Black Buck (Falklands War).
I've seen the operations room on camera the other one off... They are good at the details
Hi again Mark. I just came across another video you may enjoy. It's a film produced by the Imperial War Museum focused on the air war in the Falklands, specifically how the untested in battle and outnumbered Royal Navy Sea Harrier's took on the Argentine air force. - th-cam.com/video/5Lw8eWE7aQ8/w-d-xo.html
Right on thank you
Can you react to Zulu last battle scene.
It's that when they sing?
@@MarkfromtheStates beware, in real life no singing. They changed some of the characters and names of Regiments for some reasons.