Author Topic: Interesting or unusual planes? (Read 387813 times)

Kim · « **Reply #1400 on:** 05 March, 2018, 02:14:57 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 05 March, 2018, 10:32:53 am

Can't say I was taken with the film, but Ken Wallis was a hero.

Autogyro.
Vertical landing space rockets.
Volcano Layer.
Piranha tank.

(I know, it reads like Elon Musk's shopping list, but really, what's not to like?)

clarion · « **Reply #1401 on:** 05 March, 2018, 02:54:01 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 05 March, 2018, 02:14:57 pm

Quote from: clarion on 05 March, 2018, 10:32:53 am
Can't say I was taken with the film, but Ken Wallis was a hero.

Autogyro.
Vertical landing space rockets.
Volcano Layer.
Piranha tank.

(I know, it reads like Elon Musk's shopping list, but really, what's not to like?)

Connery's excruciatingly racist* Japanese disguise?**

* Though not as bad as the Mickey Rooney cameo which spoils Breakfast at Tiffany's
** I have got the right film, haven't I?

Kim · « **Reply #1402 on:** 05 March, 2018, 04:57:31 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 05 March, 2018, 02:54:01 pm

Quote from: Kim on 05 March, 2018, 02:14:57 pm
Quote from: clarion on 05 March, 2018, 10:32:53 am
Can't say I was taken with the film, but Ken Wallis was a hero.

Autogyro.
Vertical landing space rockets.
Volcano Layer.
Piranha tank.

(I know, it reads like Elon Musk's shopping list, but really, what's not to like?)
Connery's excruciatingly racist* Japanese disguise?

Well yes, but it's a Bond film. From the 60s. Sexism and horrendous racial stereotyping are pretty much compulsory.

(Also, I do know how to spell 'lair', but it seems my finders don't.)

Steph · « **Reply #1403 on:** 06 March, 2018, 12:13:31 am »

There was always the Genghis Khan bio pic 'The Conqueror'. Any guesses as to who played the lead?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_(film)

T42 · « **Reply #1404 on:** 06 March, 2018, 10:09:50 am »

Judging from the aftermath, "The Cankerer" would have been a better title.

Steph · « **Reply #1405 on:** 06 March, 2018, 12:26:22 pm »

It's odd; I tend to conflate the other one, with Omar Sharif as GK, and there's always what started this little discussion off, Clarion's yellowface. I remember how Chinese people were always played so realistically by white men squinting and trying to look buck-toothed while standing in a hunched posture.

Torslanda · « **Reply #1406 on:** 26 March, 2018, 02:38:09 pm »

Passing Tollbar End yesterday on the way to the Bearodrome I was surprised to spot a Vulcan.

So that's Coventry airport . . .

Steph · « **Reply #1407 on:** 29 March, 2018, 11:33:14 am »

I was there last week, staying in the Chace. I knew of the museum, but didn't have a chance to visit. Bollocks. I saw they had a Vulcan, XL360, which has been named 'city of Coventry'. You can actually get into the cockpit.

Martin · « **Reply #1408 on:** 21 May, 2018, 03:45:59 pm »

New F35 jump jets (which can apparently do VTO as we ll as L) due in RAF Marnham next week

I wonder if they'll fly down the Mall in July?

spesh · « **Reply #1409 on:** 21 May, 2018, 05:51:36 pm »

Quote from: Martin on 21 May, 2018, 03:45:59 pm

New F35 jump jets (which can apparently do VTO as we ll as L)

Up to a point, Lord Copper...

Technically, the F-35B is the STOVL variant - Short Take-Off, Vertical Landing - rather than V/STOL. Yes, vertical take-offs can be done on the F-35, but in practice, it somewhat limits the fuel and ordnance load you can take off with, and the USMC found that when operating from austere forward bases, the jet efflux from the F-35B was wrecking tarmac and concrete, so they had to develop a heat-resistant landing mat.

To illustrate why, check out this video of F-35B operations, and note how the deck of the USMC flat-top glows red-hot as the plane touches down.

https://youtu.be/Eiop4hrBJO4?t=3m05s

The Fleet Air Arm are looking to use a rolling vertical landing technique in order to allow them to recover to the carrier with a greater load of unexpended fuel and ordnance, while reducing wear and tear on the engine/lift system and the carrier flight deck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRVL

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due in RAF Marnham next week

RAF Marham, if you please.

Jaded · « **Reply #1410 on:** 27 May, 2018, 05:30:09 pm »

Quote from: Steph on 29 March, 2018, 11:33:14 am

I was there last week, staying in the Chace. I knew of the museum, but didn't have a chance to visit. Bollocks. I saw they had a Vulcan, XL360, which has been named 'city of Coventry'. You can actually get into the cockpit.

I stood underneath that Vulcan a few years ago, I hope they have swept up under it - there were loads of bits of insulation, that I assumed had come off the wiring.

Jaded · « **Reply #1411 on:** 31 May, 2018, 02:31:23 pm »

Just come past on a low fly route...

Torslanda · « **Reply #1412 on:** 31 May, 2018, 06:50:49 pm »

Mach Loop?

ElyDave · « **Reply #1413 on:** 31 May, 2018, 08:34:14 pm »

Had a C141 going rather low over the house while I was out mowing the lawn.

spesh · « **Reply #1414 on:** 31 May, 2018, 08:58:01 pm »

Quote from: ElyDave on 31 May, 2018, 08:34:14 pm

Had a C141 going rather low over the house while I was out mowing the lawn.

If what you saw was a C-141, that would be very interesting and/or unusual, because the last C-141 Starlifter was retired in 2006, and the only survivors known to Wikinaccurate are all in museums.

Must have been a C-17 - same configuration, similar dimensions, but a bit fatter-looking (or as I described it several pages back, like "a chibi version of a C-5").

Jaded · « **Reply #1415 on:** 31 May, 2018, 10:51:49 pm »

Quote from: Torslanda on 31 May, 2018, 06:50:49 pm

Mach Loop?

North West Scotland. I think the parlous state of defence funding probably explains why that is the only low flyer I've seen this trip.

Wobbly John · « **Reply #1416 on:** 07 June, 2018, 06:37:47 am »

Quote from: Martin on 21 May, 2018, 03:45:59 pm

New F35 jump jets (which can apparently do VTO as we ll as L) due in RAF Marnham next week I wonder if they'll fly down the Mall in July?

Blimey they're loud! No photos as it was late yesterday evening when they flew over. I assume they were the F-35s - they were due in and it was an engine note I hadn't heard before. We are less than 20km from Marham as the ~~crow~~ F-35 flies.

Wobbly John · « **Reply #1417 on:** 07 June, 2018, 06:44:43 am »

Quote from: clarion on 05 March, 2018, 10:32:53 am

Can't say I was taken with the film, but Ken Wallis was a hero.

Only just caught up with this thread.

Ken Wallis was an ex-pupil of the school I work at. I used to see him driving through Ely towing an autogyro - There's a microlight airfield just outside Ely, and I guess he was still flying them well into his late 80's/ early 90's !

PaulF · « **Reply #1418 on:** 07 June, 2018, 01:51:49 pm »

Interesting selection in the plane park outside Budapest airport. Mainly Soviet era airliners and what looked like a DC-3 (it was dark!)

ElyDave · « **Reply #1419 on:** 07 June, 2018, 10:07:32 pm »

Quote from: spesh on 31 May, 2018, 08:58:01 pm

Quote from: ElyDave on 31 May, 2018, 08:34:14 pm
Had a C141 going rather low over the house while I was out mowing the lawn.

If what you saw was a C-141, that would be very interesting and/or unusual, because the last C-141 Starlifter was retired in 2006, and the only survivors known to Wikinaccurate are all in museums.

Must have been a C-17 - same configuration, similar dimensions, but a bit fatter-looking (or as I described it several pages back, like "a chibi version of a C-5").

Deffo not a c-5 I'd know those a mile off

It ma well have been a c-17, it was deffo big and fat

Haven't heard the F35s yet, but its been bloody noisy here lately

Steph · « **Reply #1420 on:** 08 June, 2018, 06:50:41 pm »

Quote from: PaulF on 07 June, 2018, 01:51:49 pm

Interesting selection in the plane park outside Budapest airport. Mainly Soviet era airliners and what looked like a DC-3 (it was dark!)

It is a Li-2, licence-built DC3.

PaulF · « **Reply #1421 on:** 08 June, 2018, 07:08:22 pm »

Quote from: Steph on 08 June, 2018, 06:50:41 pm

Quote from: PaulF on 07 June, 2018, 01:51:49 pm
Interesting selection in the plane park outside Budapest airport. Mainly Soviet era airliners and what looked like a DC-3 (it was dark!)

It is a Li-2, licence-built DC3.

Thanks!

Steph · « **Reply #1422 on:** 09 June, 2018, 05:40:52 pm »

The Antonov 2 is the biplane, and another is or was, rather oddly, built into a MacVomit on the way out from Pest to the airport. I stopped there for a cold drink when I rode there for my return flight.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #1423 on:** 16 June, 2018, 03:58:35 pm »

Clarion prepares for his maiden flight in a helicopter.

Torslanda · « **Reply #1424 on:** 16 June, 2018, 04:47:22 pm »

Jammy git!