Cardiff International Airport Update

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"GSADB" DA42MPP Twin Star G-SADB ..go-round 14:54 and departed back to Gloucester

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Based Aircraft Movements

Residents active today: G-NICB, G-OLIV



Ad Hoc Charters/One off Airliner movements

Parked on stand 3 is B738 G-TAWO



BAMC Happenings

Current inmates (B777 x6)

G-VIIA B772 25/04/20 9170 - Current, Storage
G-YMMJ B772 01/06/21 9178 - Current
G-YMMH B772 14/06/21 9172 - Current
G-VIIH B772 17/06/21 9173 - Current
G-YMMA B772 04/07/21 9177 - Current
G-VIIM B772 28/07/21 9175 - Current​
 
St Athan Airfield Airfield open 09:00-17:00 ..runway in use 25

Residents active today: G-MCGP, G-NWOI

Landing at 11:07 from Lee-on-Solent is "Coastguard GU" AW189 G-MCGU ..parking on the SAR apron to be based
Departing at 12:27 to St.Mary's, Isles of Scilly is "GBOMU" PA-28-181 Archer II G-BOMU ..landed 16:18 back from St.Mary's, parking at Horizon ..departed at 16:44 to Blackbushe
Landing at !3:10 from EBBR/Brussels is BEL9901 "Beeline 9901" A319 OO-SSK ..parking on Echo for eCube Solutions

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Ok then let's put a date into the mix.

July 24, 1993

Here is some info.

You'll get it now. :)

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 wreckage

MSN 2960525887 - Russian Air Force "26 red" - TsAGI Zhukhovsky Research Institute "526".

24/07/93 w-o in mid-air collision with MiG-29 925 during display at RIAT Fairford.

circa1996 wreckage scrapped at Enstone, cockpit and other parts saved

circa 1998 Fenland & West Norfolk Aviation Museum took charge.

01/07/19 to St Athan.
 
On July 24, 1993, two MiG-29s of the Russian Air Force collided in mid-air and crashed at the International Air Tattoo (IAT) 1993 RAF Fairford

In that incident no one was hurt as the crash occurred away from public and after ejecting, the two pilots landed safely.

Investigators later determined that pilot error was the cause, after one pilot did a reverse loop and disappeared into the clouds, the other one lost sight of his wingman and aborted the routine.

The collision occurred as the pilots attempted a cross-over.

A split-second after the pilots ejected, the jets broke up in mid-air and crashed to the ground.

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For the 1993 Air Tattoo, the Russians had sent two Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets, especially decked out for the display circuit in the colours of blue, yellow, and black.

The pilots were two of the best civilian test pilots the Russians had at the time, Sergey Tresvyatsky and Alexander Beschastnov from the Gromov Flight Research Institute at Zhukovsky (near Moscow). Tresvyatsky was also a cosmonaut.

During the final stages of the demo flight at Fairford, both pilots were expected to position themselves at diametrically opposed points on a loop and chase each other around it. Unfortunately, it did not work out that way.

At about 1,000 feet (300 meters), a mid-air collision occurred due to a combination of adverse weather conditions, faulty design of the flight plan (parallel loop), and human pilot error.

Both aircraft were destroyed, with Tresvyatsky’s jet losing a wing and Beschastnov’s jet effectively broken in two.

Both pilots reacted instantaneously and ejected almost immediately as if automatically, which further confirmed the Western world's notion of the “Russian robotic pilot”.

Both pilots landed safely on parachutes, and both crippled jets crashed in unpopulated areas. Nobody was injured.

Western aviation experts were amazed at how the ejection seats had successfully handled the complex ejection situations that the two Russian pilots had encountered.

Tresvyatsky had ejected while the airplane was inverted (aka “punch-down”), and Beschastnov had ejected while his MiG-29 was in a vortex (simultaneously spinning on all its three axes of movement — vertical, lateral, horizontal).

Aside from the superb and amazing fast reactions of both pilots, recognition eventually set in that it was a truly remarkable product that saved the two Russian pilots' lives — the Zvezda K-36D ejection seat.
 

Saturday 31/07/2021​


Cardiff IAP Airport open 09:00-18:00 & PPR ..runway in use 30​

Visitors

Parked on the Cambrian apron is Gulfstream G280 N280LS ..departed at 09:03 to KBGR/Bangor as "N280LS"
Parked on Golf with Global Trek is Lockheed C-130T Hercules 165159/CW-159 ..departed at 10:01 to LERT/NAS Rota as CNV3109 "Convoy 3109" ..landed 19:50 back from Rota with the same c/s, parking back on Golf
Landing at 12:03 from Rougham is "GIOCJ" PA-28R-200 Cherokee Arrow II G-IOCJ ..parking on the GA apron ..departed at 17:42 to the East

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Training Flights & Flybys

Training today were:

"N808VT" PA-28R-201 Arrow III N808VT ..go-round 10:14 and departed back to Denham
"Helimed 67" H145 G-WENU ..go-rounds 10:59, 11:19, 11:34 and departed back to the Heliport
"Exam 91" DA42NG Twin Star G-LDGF ..go-rounds 15:16, 15:31 into a visual circuit and departed back to Oxford

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Based Aircraft Movements

Residents active today: G-BBTY, G-BOPC, G-OLIV, G-WARO



Ad Hoc Charters/One off Airliner movements

Parked on stand 8R is JS41 G-MAJB



BAMC Happenings

Current inmates (B777 x6)

G-VIIA B772 25/04/20 9170 - Current, Storage
G-YMMJ B772 01/06/21 9178 - Current
G-YMMH B772 14/06/21 9172 - Current
G-VIIH B772 17/06/21 9173 - Current
G-YMMA B772 04/07/21 9177 - Current
G-VIIM B772 28/07/21 9175 - Current


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St Athan Airfield Airfield open 09:00-17:00 ..runway in use 25

Residents active today: G-AXIR, G-CERD, G-NWOI, G-OFTI
 

Sunday 01/08/2021​


Cardiff IAP Airport open 09:00-18:00 & PPR ..runway in use 30​

Visitors

Parked on Golf with Global Trek is Lockheed C-130T Hercules 165159/CW-159 ..departed at 10:35 to CYYR/Goose Bay as CNV3109 "Convoy 3109"
Landing at 10:10 from Kemble is "GSNUZ" PA-28-161 Warrior II G-SNUZ ..taxied round and departed at 10:18 back to Kemble

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Training Flights & Flybys

Training today was: G-WARO



Ad Hoc Charters/One off Airliner movements

Parked on stand (3) is B738 G-TAWO



BAMC Happenings

Current inmates (B777 x6)

G-VIIA B772 25/04/20 9170 - Current, Storage
G-YMMJ B772 01/06/21 9178 - Current
G-YMMH B772 14/06/21 9172 - Current
G-VIIH B772 17/06/21 9173 - Current
G-YMMA B772 04/07/21 9177 - Current
G-VIIM B772 28/07/21 9175 - Current


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St Athan Airfield Airfield open 09:00-17:00 ..runway in use 25

Residents active today: G-AXIR, G-CERD, G-MCGU, G-NWOI, G-OFTI​
 
BAMC Happenings

Current inmates (B777 x6)

G-VIIA B772 25/04/20 9170 - Current, Storage
G-YMMJ B772 01/06/21 9178 - Current
G-YMMH B772 14/06/21 9172 - Current
G-VIIH B772 17/06/21 9173 - Current
G-YMMA B772 04/07/21 9177 - Current
G-VIIM B772 28/07/21 9175 - Current


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St Athan Airfield Airfield open 09:00-17:00 ..runway in use 07 ..to 25 13:40

Residents active today: G-AXIR, G-AZCZ, G-EEKY, G-MCGU, G-OFTI
 
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