Author Topic: Interesting or unusual planes?  (Read 385877 times)

T42

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1350 on: 17 August, 2017, 02:41:29 pm »
DBY, an old Bell cuckoo that offers joyrides over this area - "Whirlybirds" vintage, like this but with added duct tape:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_47
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Jaded

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1351 on: 17 August, 2017, 05:27:23 pm »
It is simpler than it looks.

T42

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1352 on: 18 August, 2017, 09:21:49 am »
DBY, an old Bell cuckoo that offers joyrides over this area - "Whirlybirds" vintage, like this but with added duct tape:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_47

I priced their rides yesterday, thinking vaguely about taking the missus for a birthday flip, but at 10€/minute it's not really on.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1353 on: 01 September, 2017, 05:40:06 pm »




C17 Galaxy doing touch and go practice at Newquay Airport (Raf St Mawgan), which is about 2 miles away, and flying in front of the garden or over our heads depending on which direction it turns.

Its been going on for well over an hour.  Yesterday it was an A400 M

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1354 on: 01 September, 2017, 07:04:25 pm »
That's a C-17 Globemaster III*, which does indeed look like a chibi version of the C-5 Galaxy.



* You'd think the Americans would be a bit more imaginative after using the same name for two previous transport aircraft.
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1355 on: 01 September, 2017, 08:09:35 pm »
Indeed it is. Name eluded me. Anyway, it stopped after the best part of two hours.

Torslanda

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1356 on: 07 September, 2017, 09:15:35 am »
Last night an A380 on approach to Manchester over the M60 at Stockport.

Nothing that big should be able to fly, hanging in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't  . . .
VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Oscar's dad

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1357 on: 07 September, 2017, 09:37:04 am »
Last night an A380 on approach to Manchester over the M60 at Stockport.

Nothing that big should be able to fly, hanging in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't  . . .

 ;D

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1358 on: 07 September, 2017, 06:01:07 pm »
Last night an A380 on approach to Manchester over the M60 at Stockport.

Nothing that big should be able to fly, hanging in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't  . . .

For the ultimate in "how the f*** does that get off the ground, never mind stay up!?" see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya#/media/File:Antonov_An-225_with_Buran_at_Le_Bourget_1989_Manteufel.jpg

At the other end of the airliner scale, I've just spotted a De Havilland Dragon Rapide fly in a southerly direction over Pompey, circle round and head off eastwards while I was tidying up post-gardening.
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1359 on: 07 September, 2017, 06:06:49 pm »
Talking of which, it's quite fascinating to see what remains of the Soviet space shuttle...

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1360 on: 07 September, 2017, 06:55:45 pm »
Only the test articles* and the second orbiter, which never flew, remain - Buran was destroyed in a hanger collapse.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/06/stunning-images-of-abandonded-soviet-space-shuttles/

In some respects, Buran was superior to the US shuttle, but it's misfortune was to be in development just as the Soviet Union was collapsing under the weight of its inherent contradictions.

* Trufax - one of the test articles was fitted with a cluster of jet engines at tail end and could get off the ground under its own power, without the aid of a GBFO rocket. After a slightly chequered post-Soviet life, it's now safely parked in a German aerospace museum.
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

T42

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1361 on: 08 September, 2017, 09:44:34 am »
It'd be a right kick in the head if it were now the only means to get USAnians into orbit.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Steph

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1362 on: 08 September, 2017, 09:17:24 pm »
Only the test articles* and the second orbiter, which never flew, remain - Buran was destroyed in a hanger collapse.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2015/06/stunning-images-of-abandonded-soviet-space-shuttles/

In some respects, Buran was superior to the US shuttle, but it's misfortune was to be in development just as the Soviet Union was collapsing under the weight of its inherent contradictions.

* Trufax - one of the test articles was fitted with a cluster of jet engines at tail end and could get off the ground under its own power, without the aid of a GBFO rocket. After a slightly chequered post-Soviet life, it's now safely parked in a German aerospace museum.

I know of the place---I want to go! Two separate sites
https://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en/
https://speyer.technik-museum.de/en/
Mae angen arnaf i byw, a fe fydda'i

Torslanda

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1363 on: 26 September, 2017, 12:34:49 am »
Saturday afternoon at Wing, Polar Bear and I became aware of a distinct rumbling engine note from the North. We were overflown by the Lancaster and two Spitfires, one a 'clippie'. Fairly low, around 500 feet.

VELOMANCER

Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

Andrij

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1364 on: 26 September, 2017, 08:05:38 am »
Sunday afternoon I watched The Blades flying three of their Extra EA-300s over the Warren Classic Car Show from a lovely vantage point along NCN1.
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1365 on: 26 September, 2017, 08:46:52 am »
Sunday afternoon I watched The Blades flying three of their Extra EA-300s over the Warren Classic Car Show from a lovely vantage point along NCN1.

Sorry, but I must have missed something! What's the point? To prove that aeroplanes can fly faster than cars? We knew that already.

Andrij

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1366 on: 26 September, 2017, 09:07:20 am »
As a local came past she mentioned the display was part of the car show (which also explained the fancy cars I had seen on the road).  TBH, the connection between a car show and an air display had me scratching my head, but the display was quite entertaining.
;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

TheLurker

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1367 on: 26 September, 2017, 05:00:33 pm »
...the connection between a car show and an air display...
Petrol, ICEs and MOAR POWER!  *Cough* Oh. Dear.  Please excuse me I don't know what came over me there. :)
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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1368 on: 06 October, 2017, 05:44:32 pm »
Not really sure where to put this, so dropping it here.


Unbelieveable AIRBUS A380 HARD CROSSWIND LANDING during a STORM at Düsseldorf

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1369 on: 18 November, 2017, 09:02:43 pm »
The Dalek flying saucer has been up again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-39884174/airlander-10-takes-to-the-skies-again

Oopsie.

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The world's longest aircraft has collapsed to the ground less than 24 hours after a successful test flight.

The Airlander 10 - a combination of a plane and an airship - was seen to "break in two" at an airfield in Bedfordshire, an eyewitness said.

Owner Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd said it appeared the Airlander broke free from its mooring mast, triggering a safety system which deflates the aircraft.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-42037832
"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." ~ Freidrich Neitzsche

Kim

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1370 on: 18 November, 2017, 11:48:32 pm »
That's quite a sensible failsafe, really.   :thumbsup:

T42

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1371 on: 19 November, 2017, 08:33:26 am »
And all that lovely He floats away for ever.

http://www.nature.com/news/helium-map-jpg-7.10384?article=1.12933
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Kim

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1372 on: 19 November, 2017, 12:23:26 pm »
As ways to waste helium go, developing a thing that could revolutionise air travel seems like a reasonably worthwhile one.  As does preventing a BFO aircraft blowing away and potentially harming people, tbh.

Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1373 on: 20 November, 2017, 10:49:51 am »
Saw a Piaggio Avanti go over my house with a strange whooshy sound a while ago; not sure I've ever seen one in the air before.

Guy

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Re: Interesting or unusual planes?
« Reply #1374 on: 22 November, 2017, 08:13:10 am »
Concorde

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42024835

I had forgotten just how beautiful that thing was
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