Topic: What's your favourite aircraft? (Read 225619 times)

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #150 on:** December 18, 2009, 06:01:51 pm »

wideawake · « **Reply #151 on:** December 18, 2009, 06:09:38 pm »

Sorry Martin - I couldn't resist!

Happy Christmas

Guy

DickyD · « **Reply #152 on:** December 18, 2009, 06:17:30 pm »

Quote from: wideawake on December 18, 2009, 06:09:38 pm

Sorry Martin - I couldn't resist!

Happy Christmas

Guy

Well done Guy, beat me to it.
Thing of beauty, I think not.

Now this is a thing of beauty.

wideawake · « **Reply #153 on:** December 18, 2009, 06:44:06 pm »

Quote from: DickyD on December 18, 2009, 06:17:30 pm

Well done Guy, beat me to it.
Thing of beauty, I think not.
Now this is a thing of beauty.

Absolutely right Dicky. One of my best memories in my' 30odd years at the BBC is of working on the outside broadcast of the prototypes takeoff from Filton.

I was sorry that I couldn't be there when she landed back there for the last time but I was booked to work at BBC wales that day. Looking back I rather wish I'd given up the fee and gone to Bristol anyway!

Guy

oldernovice · « **Reply #154 on:** December 18, 2009, 08:38:11 pm »

For me has to be the P51. Over ten years ago at La Ferte Alais, I was fortunate to have to a superb over the crowd line display from one returning from another display...............superb

Jim

787Eng · « **Reply #155 on:** December 18, 2009, 08:54:52 pm »

Quote from: Martin - Admin on December 18, 2009, 05:50:04 pm

What's the major differences between the 777 and the 787?
(...apart from a nice paint job!)

Well its probably easier to say what is common between a 787 and a 777.....the builder....Boeing

The Dreamliner (787) is made from composit, ie the wings and fuselage etc are made in Carbon Fibre....
Its going to be one fantastic Airplane when its in service.

"If it ant'e Boeing, I ant'e Going"

Mark

Wasyl · « **Reply #156 on:** December 19, 2009, 04:25:15 am »

Quote from: regiment on December 12, 2009, 07:37:59 pm

a lot of them did not stay up ask the german airforce

Although its only the German crashes that we remember,the Canadians lost 50% of theirs the Americans 36%, the only country that lost the minimun was Norway,
The Germans called it the Widowmaker,or the Flying Coffin,..In the 70,s Hawkwind brought out an album called,Capt Lockheed and the Starfighters,..on the front cover was a flight of 3 Starfighters arranged like a flight of ducks on a fireplace wall,.on the reverse cover, the same 3 Starfighters were lying on the floor in bits,

Wullie

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #157 on:** December 19, 2009, 10:42:14 am »

Yes but the statistics ( size, steating, range.) seem to imply it's a replacement for the 777.
I thought it was going to be a lot bigger....

Quote from: 787Eng on December 18, 2009, 08:54:52 pm

Well its probably easier to say what is common between a 787 and a 777.....the builder....Boeing
The Dreamliner (787) is made from composite, ie the wings and fuselage etc are made in Carbon Fibre....
Its going to be one fantastic Aeroplane when its in service.

"If it ant'e Boeing, I ant'e Going"

Mark

787Eng · « **Reply #158 on:** December 19, 2009, 04:44:41 pm »

Quote from: Martin - Admin on December 19, 2009, 10:42:14 am

Yes but the statistics ( size, seating, range.) seem to imply it's a replacement for the 777.
I thought it was going to be a lot bigger....

No its about the same size as a 767, and looks to be its replacement.
There is going to be several variants but the current is -8 followed by a bigger -9

787-8
18ft Wide
2 Aisles
210-250 Passengers
7,650-8,200 NMI Range
Cruse 0.85 Mach
484,000lbs Max takeoff weight.

Here are some good websites to get the finer details

http://www.kpae.blogspot.com/
http://787firstflight.newairplane.com/ffindex.html
http://www.newairplane.com/

Mark

Peter Fitness · « **Reply #159 on:** December 19, 2009, 09:43:15 pm »

Qantas originally ordered 115 787-8 and -9s but have since reduced that to 85. The delay in roll out means that none will wear the flying kangaroo colours until at least 2013. The 787 will replace many of Qantas's 767s, most of which are more than 20 years old. Some of them will go to JetStar, Qantas's low cost subsidiary.

Peter.

Ghost in the shell · « **Reply #160 on:** December 20, 2009, 04:46:46 pm »

martin,
777 is an Aluminum can
787 is a plastic bottle

as for favorite airliner, it MUST have a big radial engine and a BIG prop

Ghost in the shell · « **Reply #161 on:** December 20, 2009, 05:09:14 pm »

music, aaaaaah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPFHfc1O1n4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbWA0sTX0O0

the sound of 4 wright cyclone radial engines working in perfect harmony,

aaaaah

Klunk · « **Reply #162 on:** December 20, 2009, 05:25:27 pm »

spitfire
horten flying wing
me 262
hunter
meteor nf11/ 13
concorde
jaguar
tornado
harriers
osprey tilt rotor
fairy rotodyne
phantom
se5a
fokker dVIII
MOSQUITO!!!
Lancasters
Wimpys
liberators
to name but a few!!

Ghost in the shell · « **Reply #163 on:** December 20, 2009, 05:29:35 pm »

Klunk this is for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=don2J7S8VjY now wheres the tune to 633?

Ghost in the shell · « **Reply #164 on:** December 20, 2009, 05:37:20 pm »

And another Georgous Warbird, the Consolidated PBY5A Catalina,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzrsUj-eLpo

There is no nicer aircraft sound than a turbocharged Radial engine.

swordfish fairey · « **Reply #165 on:** December 21, 2009, 11:31:15 am »

In my opinion, nothing comes close to this, mind you I am a bit biased as that is me in the back.It's a dirty job, but someones got to do it...all the best..

..Smudge

Arrow5 · « **Reply #166 on:** December 21, 2009, 11:54:13 am »

Slightly biased, I`ll say! How about the Albacore, the gentleman`s version ?

swordfish fairey · « **Reply #167 on:** December 21, 2009, 02:02:34 pm »

Quote from: arrow5 on December 21, 2009, 11:54:13 am

Slightly biased, I`ll say! How about the Albacore, the gentleman`s version ?

Are you inferring that I am not a gentleman??...

......The Albacore, mmmm what can you say about that, not a lot really.....Smudge..

Arrow5 · « **Reply #168 on:** December 21, 2009, 03:00:48 pm »

No not at all, just that it has a lid on so you dont get you hair ruffled by the breeze

bikerbabe · « **Reply #169 on:** December 24, 2009, 12:34:24 am »

I have to say that the f16-a is my all time favourite plane or should i say jet

Ghost in the shell · « **Reply #170 on:** December 24, 2009, 07:40:32 pm »

personally, id rather fly in a something with more than 1 engine.

Nordsee · « **Reply #171 on:** February 04, 2010, 11:49:27 am »

Quote from: Bluebird on June 05, 2008, 10:03:46 am

Hi there,

Now tell me, this is not the most beautiful aircraft you have set your eyes upon. To me.....it portrays the true British Spirit; politicians that do not know what they have, and, they are influenced by the outside world - the Managers of British businesses who make a mess of every decision and destroy all the British industries....they do not seem to realise what brilliant designers and inventors we have had and still have.

Aye, the TSR2. We had designed and built an aircraft far exceeding anything around at that time, but, what did the British Government go and do.....scrapped it...... :( .... what for, :( :( :(

Aye
john e
bluebirdThey were told to by their Russian Paymasters. The TSR2 exceeded every aircraft flying, it would have given NATO an advantage that would not have been equalled for another 15 years. That Government destroyed all the Building Jigs and Tooling so a later Govt couldn't revive the Project. (They had a Majority of 3 at the time.)

VIVALDI · « **Reply #172 on:** February 04, 2010, 12:06:40 pm »

Hello,

For me, my favorite aircraft is the Beaver. A very nice plane, good for everything!

@+, Phil!

rockets · « **Reply #173 on:** February 06, 2010, 06:22:31 pm »

Quote from: HS93 on June 05, 2008, 10:39:27 am

I saw a program about the TSR2 some years ago, it was scraped because the Americans wanted us to buy there plane , would not let us get a loan until the planes where scraped and all the jigs where destroyed, the American plane was then 3 years late .there was a plane at cosford and it was a lot bigger than you expect ,

Americans wanted to sell F1-11 to the Aussies. Aussies had agreed to buy TSR2. Yanks said scrap it or we call in your war debt. The rest is history.

I have worked on Tornado and you can see where much of the technology came from. Favourite aircraft I ever worked on was the Victor. I have actually worked on the TSR2 at Cosford when I was on airframes basic training.

Rockets.

Perkasaman2 · « **Reply #174 on:** February 06, 2010, 10:54:25 pm »

This F6 Lightning my brother flew - he did 1200 hours on various versions including this 6 at RAF Hendon Museum (shame it's displayed with wing tanks). I spent some amazing weekends at Binbrook, Lincolnshire where the last two squadrons ( 5 and 11) were stationed. He flew the last Lightening scrambled on Q alert. A sound never forgotten.

A film crew moved in and made 'Memphis Belle' when the lightnings were withdrawn and scrapped.

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wideawake

wideawake

oldernovice

787Eng

Wasyl

787Eng

swordfish fairey

swordfish fairey

bikerbabe

Nordsee

VIVALDI

rockets