RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted July 9, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 9, 2019 21 hours ago, Kingzance said: This one I took over Spithead on Saturday "Fly me to the Moon"... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulcanbomber Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Found this memorial aircraft whilst on holiday in St.Anthony Newfoundland 11 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Darius43 Posted July 13, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 13, 2019 Taken at Heathrow on Wednesday whilst waiting to take off in an A330. Cheers Darius 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 On 11/07/2019 at 19:42, vulcanbomber said: Found this memorial aircraft whilst on holiday in St.Anthony Newfoundland A Canadian-built Catalina. I've watched their direct descendants, the Canadairs, in action in Southern France; the pilots are either very brave, or mad. They would come down, side-by-side on to Lac du Salagou to refill, and see who could get the water on board the fastest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted July 13, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 13, 2019 Not side by side but 4 in a row . 17 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 Canadian Armed forces going for a Saturday afternoon spin over the Bedford Basin in their helicopter.. (This is unusual as it normally flies only at night...) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted July 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 22, 2019 Hopefully not too far off topic. Planespotting Live goes out for 3 nights from tomorrow https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00071qg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted July 22, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 22, 2019 14 minutes ago, Metr0Land said: Hopefully not too far off topic. Planespotting Live goes out for 3 nights from tomorrow https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00071qg Let's hope itss better than trainspotting live otherwise I'll be wasting petrol going to Norwich airport to see a convair 990, a comet and 2 VC10s ...... or was that a recent dream Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 One from Mildenhall today................ Made a change to see a couple of Lakenheath based F-15's land there this morning and stay onsite for about an hour. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 The new Canadian Air-Force..? 4 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Bill said: The new Canadian Air-Force..? Given the order of the colours in the roundels, I think this could be an early example of Franco-British collaboration. Fuselage from UK, wings from France Edited August 30, 2019 by Fat Controller additional content 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold scottystitch Posted August 30, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 30, 2019 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold scottystitch Posted August 30, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 30, 2019 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodenhead Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 7 hours ago, Bill said: The new Canadian Air-Force..? 5 hours ago, Fat Controller said: Given the order of the colours in the roundels, I think this could be an early example of Franco-British collaboration. Fuselage from UK, wings from France Might be our back up for the F35 in case of software glitches and Chinese owned company components. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted August 31, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2019 Back in 2010 I visited Villa De Este at Tivoli in Italy. There was smoke coming from a neighbouring hillside and helicopters arrived to fight the fire. then the planes arrived and put on a spectacular display of skill. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted August 31, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2019 The skills to fly down the side in smoke really is impressive. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted August 31, 2019 Share Posted August 31, 2019 Those 'Canadair' pilots are incredible. About forty years ago, we were camping on the shores of Lac du Salagou, near Clermont l'Herault in the Languedoc. The lake was one of their preferred 'filling stations', and on busy days, they'd be out from dawn to dusk, water-bombing the local scrubland. They were a great contrast to the Pompiers' normal resources, which were largely 1945-era Dodge and GM 4x4 or 6X6 trucks, the ubiquitous jeeps, and fire-brooms and shovels. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted August 31, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2019 5 hours ago, PaulRhB said: The skills to fly down the side in smoke really is impressive. I don't know exactly all the weights involved but it must be strange flying the plane close above the lake to pick up water and suddenly you have to handle a plane that is several tonnes heavier than before. And likewise, after dropping the water, the plane must suddenly go very light. I saw recently in California that the Americans, who always have to be bigger, are doing this in full-size commercial jets (DC10s?). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted August 31, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2019 https://fireaviation.com/2019/05/07/getting-up-to-date-on-the-dc-10-vlats-at-albuquerque/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold russ p Posted August 31, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 31, 2019 The retro liveries look SO good and with so many airlines painting aircraft in them , doesn't this actually mean the old ones are best. It's the same with the railway those swirl liveries look bloody awful but no one dare actually say it . A livery on any form of transport should match the vehicle it's on rather than try and upstage it 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HitchinLoco Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 Not as dramatic or exciting as Fire Bombing. But had these do a refueling stop at London Luton Airport in the 90s on the way to Spain if I remember correctly. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 (edited) A few shots at the Delta Museum in Atlanta, dad invited to the "wings" presentation banquet for the incoming pilot training course. Feature in the main hangar is the "Spirit of Delta" B-767. "Cor, 777 engines ain't arf big!!!!" Edited September 4, 2019 by Ian Abel 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Pelham Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 5 hours ago, Ian Abel said: "Cor, 777 engines ain't arf big!!!!" That looks like an RB211, probably from their Tristar fleet. Too small for a 777 engine! Cheers, Mark 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Abel Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, pelhama said: That looks like an RB211, probably from their Tristar fleet. Too small for a 777 engine! Cheers, Mark Ta, no-one seemed to know/care when asked, just "big" and supposedly therefore the default was 777... oh well Makes sense to be from the L-1011 since they have the front of one in the museum also Edited September 4, 2019 by Ian Abel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Smith Posted September 5, 2019 Share Posted September 5, 2019 I think the fan blade snubbers probably give the RB211 heritage away. More modern large fans have swept snubberless blades.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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