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This popped up on my YT feed earlier:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw6rtsxixfA&t=...
The quality is very good. Don't the DC-6 and the A340 look very graceful?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw6rtsxixfA&t=...
The quality is very good. Don't the DC-6 and the A340 look very graceful?
cherryowen said:
This popped up on my YT feed earlier:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw6rtsxixfA&t=...
The quality is very good. Don't the DC-6 and the A340 look very graceful?
We've got at least six A340s operating out of Bournemouth. Well, I don't know how many actually "do the flying" as the conversion process from passenger operation to freighters is ongoing, but they are here on the ramp. Ex-Iberia, -Virgin, and -Etihad aircraft among others. With a westerly wind we regularly glimpse them from our bedroom window, climbing out of the airport, and with a (rarer) easterly wind they approach quite low over Canford Heath, where I've been overflown by them a couple of times while out MTBing... https://european.aero/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw6rtsxixfA&t=...
The quality is very good. Don't the DC-6 and the A340 look very graceful?
This video...
...was offered up on my Google feed recently. The Buffalo Airways Canadair CL-215 firefighting water bomber apparently "struck a submerged tree stump" while operating from a lake in Canada. Stripped of engines and other parts, and with most of the fluids pumped out, it was recovered to Yellowknife by a Ch-47 Chinook owned by the Billings company. Expected to be repaired and returned to service in 2024.
Another view of the same lift...
...with a camera fixed to the starboard wing of the 'Scooper'
Edit: A view from another aircraft...
...was offered up on my Google feed recently. The Buffalo Airways Canadair CL-215 firefighting water bomber apparently "struck a submerged tree stump" while operating from a lake in Canada. Stripped of engines and other parts, and with most of the fluids pumped out, it was recovered to Yellowknife by a Ch-47 Chinook owned by the Billings company. Expected to be repaired and returned to service in 2024.
Another view of the same lift...
...with a camera fixed to the starboard wing of the 'Scooper'
Edit: A view from another aircraft...
Edited by yellowjack on Tuesday 14th November 22:44
yellowjack said:
We've got at least six A340s operating out of Bournemouth. Well, I don't know how many actually "do the flying" as the conversion process from passenger operation to freighters is ongoing, but they are here on the ramp. Ex-Iberia, -Virgin, and -Etihad aircraft among others. With a westerly wind we regularly glimpse them from our bedroom window, climbing out of the airport, and with a (rarer) easterly wind they approach quite low over Canford Heath, where I've been overflown by them a couple of times while out MTBing... https://european.aero/
When I was young in the '70s the skies in that area (specifically Lytchett-way) were very loud with Spey-engined BAC 1-11s being airtested from Hurn, and stripey Canberras and other stuff in and out of Tarrant Rushton. It was also an RAF low-altitude corridor so Buccaneers / Harriers / Jaguars and Vulcans tearing about at '250' feet.Baron Greenback said:
He normally plays and restores tanks but this is one of my fav plane for sure.
I really like this guy and his mates. very funny, down to Earth and his enthusiasm is infectious. Also I liked the way he used his Merc as a ladder to get into the Victor.
Being more of a civil Aviation fan, anyone know anything about the Comet that was featured?.
Edited by texaxile on Wednesday 20th December 20:56
texaxile said:
Being more of a civil Aviation fan, anyone know anything about the Comet that was featured?.
It is Canopus, the last flying Comet (in 1997). Delivered new to A&AEE Boscombe Down and used as a trials aircraft throughout its life.Edited by texaxile on Wednesday 20th December 20:56
texaxile said:
Baron Greenback said:
He normally plays and restores tanks but this is one of my fav plane for sure.
I really like this guy and his mates. very funny, down to Earth and his enthusiasm is infectious. Also I liked the way he used his Merc as a ladder to get into the Victor.
Being more of a civil Aviation fan, anyone know anything about the Comet that was featured?.
Edited by texaxile on Wednesday 20th December 20:56
knight said:
That's bloody lovely
Many, many years ago when I first set up a YT account the first "favourited" vid was similar to that. French pilots messing about to a chillout soundtrack. Hang on.............................
cherryowen said:
knight said:
That's bloody lovelyMany, many years ago when I first set up a YT account the first "favourited" vid was similar to that. French pilots messing about to a chillout soundtrack. Hang on.............................
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