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Post by Gavin Archery on Nov 18, 2010 14:18:43 GMT
Let me have a guess, it's a toy for children, not a nice plane you have to visit an airport to se nice planes Yes! You live in France don't you?
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Post by Kent Yellow on Nov 18, 2010 15:12:58 GMT
What are peoples’ favourite/worst airports? (yes, many can be horrendous experiences)
Always liked (in no particular order):
1) Changi (Singapore) 2) Barajas (Madrid) seriously cool 3) T5 Heathrow
Always hated:
1) Rome Leonardo da Vinci 2) JFK 3) Washington Dulles
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Post by HKYellow on Nov 18, 2010 23:42:14 GMT
What are peoples’ favourite/worst airports? (yes, many can be horrendous experiences) Always liked (in no particular order): 1) Changi (Singapore) 2) Barajas (Madrid) seriously cool 3) T5 Heathrow Always hated: 1) Rome Leonardo da Vinci 2) JFK 3) Washington Dulles Agree Changi is the best. Hong Kong is pretty good. One of my bugbear's is "duty free", put the price up cause of "high rental" charges, and put the things with highest margins on sale, so even though they are duty free, are still a rip off when you check prices. Food and beers so expensive
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Post by Lone Gunman on Nov 19, 2010 21:51:31 GMT
There's a lot of civil aviation chat going on on this thread, but I detect a distinct lack of anything proper and military. Gavin's Typhoon avatar excepted!
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Post by HKYellow on Nov 20, 2010 0:31:15 GMT
There's a lot of civil aviation chat going on on this thread, but I detect a distinct lack of anything proper and military. Gavin's Typhoon avatar excepted! Military also included. Here is a question, how would you rank the fighter planes of WWII in the order they came out? My view Me109 Hurricane Spitfire FW190 Zero Mustang Me262
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Post by Gavin Archery on Nov 21, 2010 16:22:04 GMT
If anyone has ever seen the typhoon at an airshow, you'll probably agree its' almost like the ultimate fighter plane in that it can turn on a sixpence yet accelerate like a rocket.
And fav airport is London City and least fav is Gatwick.
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Post by Lone Gunman on Nov 22, 2010 18:37:52 GMT
There's a lot of civil aviation chat going on on this thread, but I detect a distinct lack of anything proper and military. Gavin's Typhoon avatar excepted! Military also included. Here is a question, how would you rank the fighter planes of WWII in the order they came out? My view Me109 Hurricane Spitfire FW190 Zero Mustang Me262 Some tough comparisons. Chucking the 262 in there is a bit of dead end since it was so superior in some areas of performance to the piston-engined aircraft and didn't realistically have a comparable opponent until the last couple of months of the war. I broadly agree with the list but i'd argue the mustang was superior to the Zero, though it came into service much later, as it trumped the Zero's main advantage, range, and the zero was by 1943-44 becoming obsolete. I'm not sure I understand the 'in the order they came out' bit. In some cases, like the Mustang, the aircraft was necessarily superior because it didn't emerge in its definitive form 'till very late '43. meanwhile the Hurricane was a very good fighter in 1939/40 but had actually been declared obslete by the time the P-51 was entering service in large numbers with the USAAF.
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Post by Gavin Archery on Nov 23, 2010 9:25:59 GMT
Anyone remember the Lightning. Basically a rocket with wings and a tail and a cockpit. And probably the loudest aircraft I've ever heard.
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Post by Lone Gunman on Nov 23, 2010 19:22:47 GMT
Anyone remember the Lightning. Basically a rocket with wings and a tail and a cockpit. And probably the loudest aircraft I've ever heard. Fatstest fighter ever in RAF service I belive and certainly and one of the fastest fighters of all time. Lighting pilots used to 'buzz' U2s. They'd climb as far as they could put the nose down and 'zoom' the aircraft. Just as they were on the point of stalling they'd hit reheat. They'd get just high enough to look out, wave at the U2 pilot and then stall out again. You won't hear any U-2 pilot rell you that though ;D ;D
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Post by Gavin Archery on Nov 23, 2010 21:37:27 GMT
I think Prof Brian Cox who did the universe programme went up to the edge of space in one.
I remember as a kid at airshows looking forward to the lightning as it was so loud.
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Post by snafu on Nov 24, 2010 12:12:25 GMT
I think Prof Brian Cox who did the universe programme went up to the edge of space in one. I remember as a kid at airshows looking forward to the lightning as it was so loud. Me too. I remember an Abingdon airshow where a Lightning came along the runway at full chat and then pulled up into a near verticle climb. I can remember the ground shaking as if there was an earthquake and within seconds the Lightning was no more than a distant speck. The only plane that would outshow the Vulcan if we ever saw one again (no chance ).
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Post by Gavin Archery on Nov 24, 2010 13:35:22 GMT
I used to like the rare appearance of the B52 at some of the Suffolk airshows too. Such a slow cumbersome aircraft in comparison.
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Post by Kent Yellow on Nov 24, 2010 14:17:27 GMT
I used to like the rare appearance of the B52 at some of the Suffolk airshows too. Such a slow cumbersome aircraft in comparison. T'was at Farnborough this year, Gavin - as was the Vulcan. The Vulcan needed so much priming to fly that they wheeled her off the display area about 3 hours before she took to the skies...a mighty fine sight it was too.
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Post by Gavin Archery on Nov 24, 2010 14:39:57 GMT
I used to like the rare appearance of the B52 at some of the Suffolk airshows too. Such a slow cumbersome aircraft in comparison. T'was at Farnborough this year, Gavin - as was the Vulcan. The Vulcan needed so much priming to fly that they wheeled her off the display area about 3 hours before she took to the skies...a mighty fine sight it was too. It's hard to believe the Vulcan is from the 1950's originally. The sight of one in flight is beauty to behold.
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Post by Lone Gunman on Nov 24, 2010 15:12:34 GMT
T'was at Farnborough this year, Gavin - as was the Vulcan. The Vulcan needed so much priming to fly that they wheeled her off the display area about 3 hours before she took to the skies...a mighty fine sight it was too. It's hard to believe the Vulcan is from the 1950's originally. The sight of one in flight is beauty to behold. There's a video on youtube somewhere of Roly Falk the Avro chief test pilot barrel rolling a Vulcan at Farnborough. EDIT: Here's the link, its toward the end of the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPuTgcrA2Zs&NR=1To my knowledge the tin triangle was the only british aircraft ever to defeat NORAD's eary warning systems during an opfor exercise in the sixties.
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Post by Gavin Archery on Nov 24, 2010 15:17:22 GMT
I just wanted to mention the red arrows too. Britain at its best.....
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Post by snafu on Nov 24, 2010 22:12:51 GMT
My favourite Vulcan vid... just slightly spoiled by a country bumbkin West Country (Wiltshire?) accent. Turn up your speakers to eleven. ;D
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Post by scoob on Nov 24, 2010 22:40:56 GMT
I think Prof Brian Cox who did the universe programme went up to the edge of space in one. I remember as a kid at airshows looking forward to the lightning as it was so loud. Me too. I remember an Abingdon airshow where a Lightning came along the runway at full chat and then pulled up into a near verticle climb. I can remember the ground shaking as if there was an earthquake and within seconds the Lightning was no more than a distant speck. The only plane that would outshow the Vulcan if we ever saw one again (no chance ). I remember watching a lightning do a display for a recruitment day at Radley College when I was a kid. I was on my bike nearby and stopped to watch and it did the verticle climb directly over me. I remember looking up and seeing this double tube lit up going up like a rocket. The noise was awesome and I will never forget those few seconds.
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Post by Gavin Archery on Nov 25, 2010 9:05:25 GMT
Me too. I remember an Abingdon airshow where a Lightning came along the runway at full chat and then pulled up into a near verticle climb. I can remember the ground shaking as if there was an earthquake and within seconds the Lightning was no more than a distant speck. The only plane that would outshow the Vulcan if we ever saw one again (no chance ). I remember watching a lightning do a display for a recruitment day at Radley College when I was a kid. I was on my bike nearby and stopped to watch and it did the verticle climb directly over me. I remember looking up and seeing this double tube lit up going up like a rocket. The noise was awesome and I will never forget those few seconds. There are probably many things in your life you'll never forget, and if you have ever been lucky enough to see a lightning, it's something that lives with you forever.
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Post by cookie7oufc on Nov 27, 2010 15:43:01 GMT
Im living in Toulouse France at the moment, working on the the A380 programme. It really is a fantastic aircraft.
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