For those who like Aircraft pictures

[Lochgorm]

2 hours ago, boxbrownie said:

I like what you did there……very nice 👌

Not quite sure if you are inferring that some photo trickery has taken place here but I can assure you that the photo was taken from a Hercules during a formation trip from Boscombe Down to Hatfield in 1991.

[boxbrownie]

9 hours ago, Lochgorm said:

Not quite sure if you are inferring that some photo trickery has taken place here but I can assure you that the photo was taken from a Hercules during a formation trip from Boscombe Down to Hatfield in 1991.

Not at all…..I just meant the one statement covering both aircraft.

[The Blue Streak]

Tornado Spitfire and  Jag on a recent trip to an Airforce Museum. 

Edited September 1, 2022 by The Blue Streak
Extra photo.

[St Enodoc]

2 hours ago, The Blue Streak said:

Tornado Spitfire and  Jag on a recent trip to an Airforce Museum. 

Wagga?

[The Blue Streak]

17 minutes ago, St Enodoc said:

Wagga?

Nearly. 🤣 On the other side of the country. Bullcreek in WA. The Tornado is a new addition kindly donated by the RAF.

Edited September 1, 2022 by The Blue Streak
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[spikey]

Anybody know what exactly are the short sticky-uppy bits at the back end of a B-1, as clearly seen at 5'00" in this video?

 

 

[Andy7]

I assume you means these bits. I think they are vortex generators to tumble the air. Not sure why they are around the tail though. Normally seen on wings at the trailing (none moving) section.

[Lambton58]

On 27/08/2022 at 20:06, boxbrownie said:

There is something gorgeously clean about the Comet’s lines

De Havilland were very good at producing stunning looking planes

[boxbrownie]

18 hours ago, Andy7 said:

I assume you means these bits. I think they are vortex generators to tumble the air. Not sure why they are around the tail though. Normally seen on wings at the trailing (none moving) section.

To reduce drag at the tail section, produce small vortices which as you say tumble past where the air would normally meet and cause turbulence drag.  
 

Basically the vortices are too busy whizzing around to get their act together (literally) and cause drag.😉

[mezzoman253]

Just browsing and found this interesting video on the B-1.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U-s1tCxzHY

 

Rob

[Jeff Smith]

INS Vikrant - there have recently been news items about this Indian aircraft carrier being commissioned.  It will carry MiG-29Ks with take off apparently from the ski-ramp with no catapult, although there may be one on the angled deck.  The Wiki does not mention catapults.  Pictures from BBC News.

[boxbrownie]

13 hours ago, Jeff Smith said:

INS Vikrant - there have recently been news items about this Indian aircraft carrier being commissioned.  It will carry MiG-29Ks with take off apparently from the ski-ramp with no catapult, although there may be one on the angled deck.  The Wiki does not mention catapults.  Pictures from BBC News.

Hope the 29 floats well 😄

[BR traction instructor]

An American friend has sent these still pics from a video of a Super Scooper fire plane type fighting forest fires near his home in The Rockies…

 

BeRTIe

Edited September 4, 2022 by BR traction instructor

[Johann Marsbar]

This Pan Am film from the early 1940's has just been posted on YT.....

 

 

Quite a bit of flying boat (and other aircraft) activity in the first 20 minutes or so, then it becomes more of a travelogue, though there are several interesting shots of road vehicles in Honolulu, Manilla (including a brief glimpse of a tram) and Hong Kong.    There is also a short narrow gauge rail line on Wake Island that I'd never heard of!

 

[55020]

I guess this is an OK photo.  Taken at Perth, WA at the beginning of the month.

 

 

 

Edited September 6, 2022 by 55020

[J. S. Bach]

Interesting photo-manipulation there. None of the elements make any sense when combined. What is really is that most of the people are looking off to the right and NOT covering their ears against the noise. If that were real, that jet would be quite LOUD!

[Fat Controller]

On 04/09/2022 at 03:11, BR traction instructor said:

An American friend has sent these still pics from a video of a Super Scooper fire plane type fighting forest fires near his home in The Rockies…

 

BeRTIe

Back in the end of the 1970s and beginning of the eighties, we spent about 8 months travelling around Southern France, doing whatever work we could find. When work was short, we lived at the side of Lac du Salagou, north of Beziers.

Salagou had been built for two reasons; a supply of water to irrigate the many local vineyards and orchards, and a re-watering base for the recently-introduced 'Canadairs'. These were the antecedents of the ones in the photos. Some days, if there was a big fire, they'd be flying over every five minutes- you'd even see several planes lined up to  refill, sometimes queue-jumping.  They seemed to very skilled pilots, but they had quite a high attrition rate, not surprising given the conditions they were flying in.

[Johann Marsbar]

"It's the Blimp, the Blimp......"

 

 

40 years ago today at Farnborough Airshow !

Rather amazingly, that was the only photo I took there that day, having lost interest in Aircraft at the time.........

[J. S. Bach]

2 hours ago, Johann Marsbar said:

"It's the Blimp, the Blimp......"

 

40 years ago today at Farnborough Airshow !

Rather amazingly, that was the only photo I took there that day, having lost interest in Aircraft at the time.........

When I lived in Ft. Lauderdale, the Goodyear blimp was a common sight as it was based about three miles or so north of my house.

[PMP]

On 06/09/2022 at 14:08, J. S. Bach said:

Interesting photo-manipulation there. None of the elements make any sense when combined. What is really is that most of the people are looking off to the right and NOT covering their ears against the noise. If that were real, that jet would be quite LOUD!

It’s actually real, there’s two sets of multiple images by two photographers who were standing next to each other, and the aircraft did two passes. 

It’s obviously taken with a large telephoto lens due the foreshortened perspective, and you can see this is a different pass as the people are in different places.

[BMacdermott]

Hello everyone

 

A very poor screengrab from mobile phone video footage.

 

HM Queen passing almost over my house in Milton Keynes on her way from Edinburgh to Northholt last night (photo at 1840). An historic moment that I didn't expect to witness as southbounds are usually some miles further west of me. The flight seemed to be on 'normal route' but then went eastwards to Northampton area before turning south towards me, then westwards again.

 

Although I had no tracking trouble myself, I gather that Flightradar 'crashed' due to a high number of trackers!

 

Brian

 

 

[Metr0Land]

34 minutes ago, BMacdermott said:

 

Although I had no tracking trouble myself, I gather that Flightradar 'crashed' due to a high number of trackers!

 

Brian

 

I normally use ads-b exchange for tracking military though yesterday didn't make any difference apart from the 'crash'.  When you bring up the display click on 'U' button top right to show just military.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/

 

Flight number was KRF01R - am guessing King's Royal Flight 01-Rex?

[PMP]

Callsign = Kittyhawk used for VVIP flights including Royals, heads of state and senior politicians.

01 is the flight number, R= Royal family member/s on board. ‘Category’ B flight so gets priority over other types of flight excepting Cat A , which are blues and two’s life at risk type  tasking.

Edited September 14, 2022 by PMP

[boxbrownie]

Check out the Globemaster Reg………then flip the picture upside down 😉

[Metr0Land]

ZZ177 for those that don't know

 

ZZ177 by Rob Reedman, on Flickr