After successful trials, the entire Voyager fleet will be re-engined and adapted for carrier onboard delivery work.
Carrier onboard delivery (COD) is the use of aircraft to ferry personnel, mail, supplies, and high-priority cargo, such as replacement parts, from shore bases to an aircraft carrier at sea.
The new contract, worth £145Bn, will be put to tender today and will involve converting 14 airframes and adding Rolls-Royce T406 engines. The engines, dubbed April-J by the firm, are unique when it comes to this kind of aircraft. For take off and landing the engine nacelles are directed vertically (90° to fuselage), while for forward flight they are rotated parallel to fuselage.
14 Voyagers are in the UK’s fleet, nine are in the RAF’s ‘core’ capability and the other five are considered ‘surge’ aircraft and are often leased to airlines when not required.
It should be noted that one or two of the surge fleet remain in the Air Tanker livery and are ofte flown permanently on MoD transport duties to the Falkands, Canada and locations.
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Amazing, maybe we’ll see a carrier full of jets for once!
thanks for that!
You know what you’ve started now Chris. 😉
April fools
nice one 👍
Nice try . Happy April fools !!
Yup nice try
🙄 morning guys
No, wait everyone this could work………..😎
UK
UK defence is a serious subject there is enough ridicule on the site,stop wasting time and space
Bore off mate.
On the offensive eh,zzzzzzzzz
Will the Carrier be Airbourne as well when taking on stores I’ve seen it in a Marvel movie Hope Nick Fury knows what he’s doing when conducting these tricky manoeuvres
Didn’t Armstrong Whitworth put forwards a V/STOL transport at the same time as Harrier? Would have been instead of the Hercules.
Would have used F35 style thrust vectoring for takeoff and a similar flight pattern, with a STOL takeoff and vertical landing with 35,000lbs payload.
Well, that’s an interesting idea even if April Fools! Very good as usual.
Not even funny, just boring. I guess nothing else to report on.
Do you genuinely not understand how April Fools Day works?
Yes I do. But you don’t understand that you need to be funny and witty. This is neither.