Interesting or unusual planes?

[Jaded]

^ bugger. I missed it.

[mrcharly-YHT]

A few lucky people today.
And down to some skilful piloting.

That wasn't the only Pratt & Whitney engine on a Boeing to lunch itself on Saturday - a cargo 747 suffered engine failure after taking off from Maastricht, dropping bits of turbine blades over Meerssen, injuring one person.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-777-japan/regulators-probe-engine-blow-outs-as-older-boeing-777s-suspended-idUSKBN2AL0PD

Check for terrorist organizations shorting Pratt & Whitney

[Panoramix]

Yes, I've been in a Voyager on a refuelling flight. Much fun!

 

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=58889.msg2190398#msg2190398

and this wasn't included in the original post:



and we did this before we went up to Aberdeen

I suspect that this pilot was trained by the French navy!

I spent a non negligible part of my national service doing what they were calling an "Hippodrome". Often it was between midnight and 5 am so that we would get in Brest on schedule for the admiral to admire our planning skills. I am not too sure how burning 300 litre of diesel per hour sailing in circle in the Bay of Douarnenez sharpens you planning skills, nevertheless sunrise on the Western approach of Brittany is quite magical, so dead dinosaurs were burnt for the admiral and my eyes!

[ScumOfTheRoad]

A flight of 3 Chinooks no less just flew over Scum Towers, heading up the Thames.
A single one is not unusual.

[Jaded]

All Boris's Chinooks in one flight...

[Pingu]

Not so much the aircraft but the rotor/air/camera effect:


IMG_2587_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[TimC]

Seen yesterday in darkest Essex:

[TheLurker]

Nice. Don't recognise the flight of 4 in your 1st snap, but  Chipmunk, SE5a,  Albatross (?) and a Miles, mebbe a Magister?

[Mr Larrington]

Mr Google, he say “Druine D-31 Turbulent”.

No, nor me…

[TimC]

The Druine Turbulent was a French design of homebuilt aircraft (using a VW engine) that became extremely popular in UK in the 1950s. The Tiger Club has a separate section just for this aeroplane.

The Lurker - 100%. The SE5a is a 7/8 scale replica, and the Albatross is a full-scale reproduction built (to the original specification, apart from some metals) in New Zealand quite a while ago.

[pcolbeck]

The Lurker - 100%. The SE5a is a 7/8 scale replica, and the Albatross is a full-scale reproduction built (to the original specification, apart from some metals) in New Zealand quite a while ago.

7/8ths seems a bit pointless. Why not a full scale replica it wouldn't be much bigger.

[TimC]

The Lurker - 100%. The SE5a is a 7/8 scale replica, and the Albatross is a full-scale reproduction built (to the original specification, apart from some metals) in New Zealand quite a while ago.

7/8ths seems a bit pointless. Why not a full scale replica it wouldn't be much bigger.

Weight, expense and volume wise, it would be - and would need a far bigger engine and prop, I suspect, and that may not have been possible. It may also have had something to do with the limitations of where it was built, but that's just conjecture.

ETA: it turns out that there are very good, well-proven plans available for building this as effectively a kit aircraft, capable of being powered by an 85hp VW engine. The fact that something like 150 of these have been built would mean that getting it certificated to fly would be a great deal easier than a one-off full-scale replica.

[TheLurker]

No. camera, so no pic, but 1st Hurricane for some little while about midday.  Stooging along heading south west(ish).

[PaulF]

[TimC]

B17 (Sally B?) at RAF Abingdon (as was).

[spesh]

B17 (Sally B?) at RAF Abingdon (as was).

Worth noting that a couple of non-flyable replica B-17s were made for shooting the Tom Hanks/Steven Speilberg-produced Masters of the Air at Abingdon (think Band of Brothers, but with the 8th Air Force instead of the 101st Airborne Division).

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/masters-of-the-air-flying-fortress.html

[PaulF]

B17 (Sally B?) at RAF Abingdon (as was).

Worth noting that a couple of non-flyable replica B-17s were made for shooting the Tom Hanks/Steven Speilberg-produced Masters of the Air at Abingdon (think Band of Brothers, but with the 8th Air Force instead of the 101st Airborne Division).

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/masters-of-the-air-flying-fortress.html

Yes, it's one of those at Dalton Barracks/R.A.F. Abingdon. They're filming there again tomorrow.

[trekker12]

Flight radar showing AN225 due into Brize Norton in about 2 hours if anyone is riding past that way
Flight number UR-82060

[pcolbeck]

Flight radar showing AN225 due into Brize Norton in about 2 hours if anyone is riding past that way
Flight number UR-82060

That's interesting. UR-82060 is Antonov Airlines ie owned by Antonov. I wonder what a Russian transport is doing landing at an RAF base.
Strike that Antonov are Ukrainian now not Russian.

[spesh]

Flight radar showing AN225 due into Brize Norton in about 2 hours if anyone is riding past that way
Flight number UR-82060

That's interesting. UR-82060 is Antonov Airlines ie owned by Antonov. I wonder what a Russian transport is doing landing at an RAF base.
Strike that Antonov are Ukrainian now not Russian.

Antonov has never been Russian - a Ukrainian would be most insulted were you to suggest that to them. The company/design bureau was established when Ukraine was a Soviet republic, within the USSR.

[Pingu]

Airbus which did a few passes over Furryboottoon this lunchtime.


IMG_8336_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_3694_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr


IMG_3700_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr


airbus_a400m by The Pingus, on Flickr

[TimC]

Airbus which did a few passes over Furryboottoon this lunchtime.


IMG_8336_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

It's rare to see one in the air. Most of them are grounded with gearbox problems.

That's interesting. UR-82060 is Antonov Airlines ie owned by Antonov. I wonder what a Russian transport is doing landing at an RAF base.
Strike that Antonov are Ukrainian now not Russian.

There is only one AN225. It is uniquely capable in its weightlifting capacity, so it tends to get used for very unusual loads - such as perhaps a Challenger 2, or a complete Chinook.

[andytheflyer]

I seem to live on Route 1 for the RAF tankers shuttling between Brize Norton and Scotland. Hear them most days around late morning.  I think they follow the (Welsh) Dee valley as they must be lost otherwise.

[pcolbeck]

We had the A400M doing low level flying here last year (or maybe the year before). Very low with the tail gate down. Made a change from Eurofighters and F15s.

[pcolbeck]

Flight radar showing AN225 due into Brize Norton in about 2 hours if anyone is riding past that way
Flight number UR-82060

It was delivering some Pumas apparently. Oh and it broke stuff on departure:

https://youtu.be/BPu1Dj81-EE