Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
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D4VE 3LL said:
Ayahuasca said:
Identify the aircraft:
Made more challenging than it needs to be by rubbish quality of my phone camera.
Hawk T2 or Hawk 128?Made more challenging than it needs to be by rubbish quality of my phone camera.
M-J-B said:
knight said:
Not exactly a cool pic 
Story?Edited by spitfire-ian on Tuesday 31st August 11:16
spitfire-ian said:
M-J-B said:
knight said:
Not exactly a cool pic
Story?Bit of polish should sort it out
Interesting the aircraft owners markings are painted over. Like you wouldn't know who the airline is!
Ginetta G15 Girl said:
The prize goes to dr-gn! Give that man a cigar! 
The HS125 series uses a liquid de-icing system. The leading edges are, in fact, a series of tiny honeycombs and the fluid is pumped through here before flowing back across the aerofoil surface. Hence they can not be painted.
If you look at a Dominie just prior to start up, you will see a wet splatter on the ground beneath the leading edges where the Pilot's Assistant has run the anti-icing timer whilst the Captain has done his (or her) walkround.
Is that not technically anti-icing then? De-icing use the black expanding bag type leading edges. The HS125 series uses a liquid de-icing system. The leading edges are, in fact, a series of tiny honeycombs and the fluid is pumped through here before flowing back across the aerofoil surface. Hence they can not be painted.
If you look at a Dominie just prior to start up, you will see a wet splatter on the ground beneath the leading edges where the Pilot's Assistant has run the anti-icing timer whilst the Captain has done his (or her) walkround.
On the Learjet we have anti-icing, the leading edges of the wings are heated by hot air from the engines whilst the tail and engine intakes are protected by electrically heated mats. Pedantic I know.
Just on firing through prop blades,
iirc the first pilot to do it just had "deflector" plates fitted to the back of his prop, then the mechanic timer was developed that would stop the gun from firing when a prop blade was in the way (similar to a cambelt/cam arrangement)
Some very cool pictures in this thread
iirc the first pilot to do it just had "deflector" plates fitted to the back of his prop, then the mechanic timer was developed that would stop the gun from firing when a prop blade was in the way (similar to a cambelt/cam arrangement)
Some very cool pictures in this thread
D-Angle said:
In fact looking at the filename it may even be the same one as 2 were shipped over to the States for evaluation at the end of the War, and the one in the Smithsonian was tested at Patuxent River whilst the other one was tested by the USAAF at Freeman Field.
Edited by blueedge on Tuesday 31st August 19:13
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