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[AU] Light plane sparked terror alert
The RAAF came close to sending a fully armed fighter jet to shoot down a
light plane during last year's Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting. The light plane was detected flying towards restricted air space around the conference venue. Air Commodore Dave Pietsch said a fully armed F/A-18 Hornet fighter was prepared to intercept the aircraft and commanders had full authority to order the Hornet to shoot it down. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...050611557.html |
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Was reported in the media at the time.
Cheers Peter Cokley David Bromage wrote in message .. . The RAAF came close to sending a fully armed fighter jet to shoot down a light plane during last year's Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting. The light plane was detected flying towards restricted air space around the conference venue. Air Commodore Dave Pietsch said a fully armed F/A-18 Hornet fighter was prepared to intercept the aircraft and commanders had full authority to order the Hornet to shoot it down. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...050611557.html |
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:59:14 +1000, "Peter and Susan"
wrote: Was reported in the media at the time. Cheers Peter Cokley Can you tell us where please? I don't recall it being discussed here and I can't find anything via Google either. Thanks in advance Vector David Bromage wrote in message . .. The RAAF came close to sending a fully armed fighter jet to shoot down a light plane during last year's Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting. The light plane was detected flying towards restricted air space around the conference venue. Air Commodore Dave Pietsch said a fully armed F/A-18 Hornet fighter was prepared to intercept the aircraft and commanders had full authority to order the Hornet to shoot it down. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...050611557.html |
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commanders had full authority to order the Hornet to shoot it down. Certainly they have the authority. This does not mean they'd exercise that authority. In the U.S., to judge by a recent incident, the intercepting a/c are configured for slow flight. They first try to contact the offending a/c on the designated emergency channels, including 121.5 civil. (Pilots are required to monitor 121.5 "if able"; I'm not able, so don't do it. Instead I look around a lot.) The next step is to fire red flares. I'm not sure about the step after that, because to the best of my knowledge it has happened. Most likely it involves bouncing the lightplane around in fighter-induced turbulence. I doubt that the F-15/16/18 would go straight to missiles hot. all the best -- Dan Ford email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9 see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com |
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Vector wrote in message ... On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:59:14 +1000, "Peter and Susan" wrote: Was reported in the media at the time. Cheers Peter Cokley Can you tell us where please? I don't recall it being discussed here and I can't find anything via Google either. Thanks in advance Vector I read the Courier Mail which is the main paper in QLD and watch the evening news on TV. I recall this story made the Sth East QLD news [paper?] at the time. I seem to recall a feature article in the paper [usually mid section of paper somewhere around the Letters to Editor; not front news section] about the RAAF activities at the Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting. The event happened in Sth East QLD which is where I live so maybe it didn't make the NSW or VIC papers at the time. Some of the things I read in the paper regarding aviation in Sth East QLD don't always get a mention on this newsgroup. Cheers Peter Cokley |
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"David Bromage" wrote in message
.. . The RAAF came close "came close" to sending a fully armed fighter jet Which didn't even take off. to shoot down a light plane during last year's Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting. From WLM.............which wouldn't have got there in time to do squat. The light plane was detected flying towards restricted air space around the conference venue. Air Commodore Dave Pietsch said a fully armed F/A-18 Hornet fighter was prepared to intercept the aircraft and commanders had full authority to order the Hornet to shoot it down. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/...050611557.html -- The Raven http://www.80scartoons.co.uk/batfinkquote.mp3 ** President of the ozemail.* and uunet.* NG's ** since August 15th 2000. |
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"The Raven" wrote:
"David Bromage" wrote: The RAAF came close "came close" to sending a fully armed fighter jet Which didn't even take off. to shoot down a light plane during last year's Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting. From WLM.............which wouldn't have got there in time to do squat. In the chaotic and paranoid days following 9/11 I was jumped in a Cessna 210 by an F-15 approx. 30nm south of Miami near Turkey Point (nuclear) powerplant. If it took the same amount of time for the F-15 to fly 400nm from Panama City to Miami as it took me to fly 80nm from Marathon to Miami the Eagle driver had to have been cruising at more than 800 KIAS. -Mike Marron |
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On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:54:35 -0400, Cub Driver
wrote: commanders had full authority to order the Hornet to shoot it down. Certainly they have the authority. This does not mean they'd exercise that authority. In the U.S., to judge by a recent incident, the intercepting a/c are configured for slow flight. They first try to contact the offending a/c on the designated emergency channels, including 121.5 civil. (Pilots are required to monitor 121.5 "if able"; I'm not able, so don't do it. Instead I look around a lot.) The next step is to fire red flares. I'm not sure about the step after that, because to the best of my knowledge it has happened. Most likely it involves bouncing the lightplane around in fighter-induced turbulence. I doubt that the F-15/16/18 would go straight to missiles hot. It is not clear how effective a missle would be. A small aircraft doesn't have much of a heat signature,and what there is greatly reduced by the turbulence produced by airflow. Exhaust is at the front. In addition, the speeds are so low, that you don't get any leading edge heating. In short I am not at all convinced that an IR guided missile would be able to lock onto a prop powered 100hp aircraft. It just isn't much of an IR or a radar target... These things often don't have much of a radar signature. There is the Cessna that made it all the way to Moscow during the cold war and landed in Red Square.... |
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matt weber wrote:
In addition, the speeds are so low, that you don't get any leading edge heating. In short I am not at all convinced that an IR guided missile would be able to lock onto a prop powered 100hp aircraft. It just isn't much of an IR or a radar target... Plus speeds are so low that it would be hard to line up a cannot shot. This was the problem the RAAF had with the pilotless Auster in 1955. The Auster was going 30mph slower than the stall speed of a Meteor. Cheers David |
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From WLM.............which wouldn't have got there in time to do squat. They were acctualy based at Amberley, about 6 minutes away, duing the meeting. |
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