Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 3)

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Eric Mc said:

naturals said:

I've seen St Elmo's many times from the flight deck. Pretty sure you need positively (or negatively?) charged clouds hitting the airframe to achieve that though?

Just reading the above linked Wiki on The Kopp–Etchells effect - "The effect is often and incorrectly believed to be an electrical phenomenon, either as a result of static electricity as in St. Elmo's Fire"

Stand corrected. What causes the glow?

Believed to be pyrophoric particles abraded from the leading edes of the rotors by airborne sand.

[irocfan]

[Ayahuasca]

[MartG]

International lineup

[Eric Mc]

And the slowest plane in that line-up was.....?

[MartG]

Eric Mc said:

And the slowest plane in that line-up was.....?

'The Harmonious Dragmaster'

[Smollet]

Eric Mc said:

And the slowest plane in that line-up was.....?

Javelin I’d guess

[FourWheelDrift]

It's also the oldest, we should have the Lightning there to match the years. Unless it was war games practice and we'd heard it was going to be at night in a storm.

[Dr Jekyll]

Smollet said:

Eric Mc said:

And the slowest plane in that line-up was.....?

Javelin I’d guess

Although the rumour was that would go a bit faster if you turned the afterburner off.

[Eric Mc]

Dr Jekyll said:

Although the rumour was that would go a bit faster if you turned the afterburner off.

True - in certain situations.

That's if it had an afterburner. Earlier versions didn't.

[Ayahuasca]

Eric Mc said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Although the rumour was that would go a bit faster if you turned the afterburner off.

True - in certain situations.

That's if it had an afterburner. Earlier versions didn't.

None of them had an afterburner.

Some of them had reheat.

Happy New Year!

[irocfan]

[Caruso]

irocfan said:

I can't quite identify those 2.

[BrettMRC]

Pair of bones?

[FourWheelDrift]

Intercontinental mashed potato seeking missiles.

[Ayahuasca]

[irocfan]

[Baron Greenback]

Scale of the aircraft is nuts ^^^ love to see how the Stratolaunch looks in comparison, ok military v civil aircraft is unfair comparing/

[Eric Mc]

The C5A is still very large.

The Stratolauncher may never fly again.

[DavieBNL]

The C-130 looks almost silly small!