talk about out of place transients...

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 28 Jan 2009, 23:15

Now granted RDU (Raleigh Durham International) gets its fair share of weekly military traffic, anything from the almost weekly Meridian T-45s and Whiting Field/Oceana T-34s to Seahawks from the west coast. There's also the Apache unit based at the airport, but for some reason for the last two days, there have been two RAF Tristars parked out on the FBO ramp. Anyone know of any exercises going around around the carolinas they might be here for?

Garysb · Post by **Garysb** » 28 Jan 2009, 23:56

Des

You would mean Tristars

Tridents are subs and if they are on the ramp its a very high tide!

Gary

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 29 Jan 2009, 00:18

lol, yeah those

off to edit the original post

CrazyDunc · Post by **CrazyDunc** » 29 Jan 2009, 14:56

Des,

Two 41(R) Sqn GR4s Left Conny earlier this week heading Stateside for Ex Highrider, so the Tristars may have been their tanker support? That's the Only RAF Assets that have headed stateside in the past week.

HTH

D

MIKE JG · Post by **MIKE JG** » 29 Jan 2009, 16:10

Des did you look up their flightplans on Flightaware.com ?

That will usually show you their IFR routing and you can get an idea of where they've been to lately.

CelticWarrior · Post by **CelticWarrior** » 29 Jan 2009, 17:54

The Royal Marines conduct exercises with the USMC in the Carolinas every couple of years. It's a pretty large deployment (for us

), including air farce and naval helicopter support, ships, the works.

I'm not saying this is what they're there for, but if anyone knows of any big USMC manoeuvres taking place about now, then that would be my guess.

In fact I seem to remember a nasty crash at night a few years ago resulting in some fatalities on one of the previous events

CrazyDunc · Post by **CrazyDunc** » 29 Jan 2009, 18:13

MIKE JG wrote:Des did you look up their flightplans on Flightaware.com ?

That will usually show you their IFR routing and you can get an idea of where they've been to lately.

Just Checked all of the Arrivals/Deps for the Last week, No Joy

i've put a post on Fighter Control so ill report back!

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 29 Jan 2009, 20:38

I get off work in a couple minutes, gonna stop by the airport again and see if they're still out there

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 29 Jan 2009, 22:47

they're gone.

jetmax · Post by **jetmax** » 29 Jan 2009, 22:58

Not sure what is going on. We had a Tornado stop at KGSB for gas 2 days ago. I also saw on af.mil that the RAF is at Ft Polk this week

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123132911

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 29 Jan 2009, 23:19

jetmax wrote:Not sure what is going on. We had a Tornado stop at KGSB for gas 2 days ago. I also saw on af.mil that the RAF is at Ft Polk this week

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123132911

hmm, I guess it came over here with the Tristars, odd they didn't just go to Seymour as well, not that far of a distance

jetmax · Post by **jetmax** » 29 Jan 2009, 23:39

We have no parking space at the present time. They are completely redoing the 916 ARW Ramp. We've got KC-135 stuck in every free spot of the ramp

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 30 Jan 2009, 00:05

jetmax wrote:We have no parking space at the present time. They are completely redoing the 916 ARW Ramp. We've got KC-135 stuck in every free spot of the ramp

ohhhh, well I guess that solves that then

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 07 Feb 2009, 23:50

just found out from a mutual friend that works at one of the FBOs here that were a couple GR4s here as well during the week as well with the two Tristars, dang I wish I would've known in advance

CelticWarrior · Post by **CelticWarrior** » 07 Feb 2009, 23:54

reconmercs wrote:just found out from a mutual friend that works at one of the FBOs here that were a couple GR4s here as well during the week as well with the two Tristars, dang I wish I would've known in advance

Is there a 5* hotel anywhere nearby?

reconmercs · Post by **reconmercs** » 08 Feb 2009, 00:07

there's three nearby, then a couple lower end ones as well