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http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... canic.html

The Finnish airforce have released photos of the effects of the Volcano ash on an F-18 engine, these photos were taken after a mission on the morning of the 15th (Thursday):

Source - FlightGlobal


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Gary

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Must be the fall out from Iceland !

This is causing major headaches for everyone. I am waiting for my unit to return back to the US from an OIF deployment, but they are grounded now with the volcano and cannot fly over.

Wow!
Lufthansa and KLM should carry out some testing with aircrafts today in order to see whether or not the normal flying activity can be restarted... but this article is very explanatory!

Air Berlin and Condor moved some aircraft before Lufthansa announced their test flights. Saw them here:
http://www.radarvirtuel.com/

Small update from listening to the news this morning.

The RN have brought in the Ark Royal to get people home-unsurprising really.

A British Airways plane also did a test flight out of Cardiff-according to them there wasn't anything to worry about-the atmosphere was clear and the engines didn't fill with ash.

tango234 wrote:The RN have brought in the Ark Royal to get people home-unsurprising really.

That will help with about 1000 of the estimated 40,000 stranded. HMSs Ocean and Albion are also on the way, but the primary job of Albion is to recover about 500 soldiers of The Rifles who have completed a six month tour of Afghanistan (with the loss of 30 men and dozens wounded) from Santander, with available space being used for up to 300 civilians . The Rifles had been flown by RAFair to Cyprus and by contractor to Spain.

tango234 wrote:A British Airways plane also did a test flight out of Cardiff-according to them there wasn't anything to worry about-the atmosphere was clear and the engines didn't fill with ash.

But it's not known whether it flew through any significant amounts of ash because it wasn't fitted with any monitoring equipment. It may have been lucky enough to miss the ash, so this 'experiment' by BA is almost meaningless. Another test was flown in the west Midlands and found ash at levels below 3000ft.

There's a saying I've heard many times, "I'd rather be sat on the ground wishing I was flying, than flying and wishing I was sat on the ground".

All flying was suspended here at RAF Shawbury on Thu. I'm getting pretty good at the vector diagram now

Just spotted my first vapour trail over Birmingham for at least 5 days that I have seen.

Mark

campbeme wrote:Just spotted my first vapour trail over Birmingham for at least 5 days that I have seen.

Mark

Just checked with our ATC and apparently there are a few aicraft flying above UK airspace >FL360 and presumably above the ash cloud.

Well here at BA we are just saying that Iceland managed to achieve what the Cabin Crew couldn't do, ground us.

Just saw a flight to Heathrow from the Middle East go past-airspace now open again?