Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Eric Mc]

Dr Jekyll said:

Remember seeing one at Farnborough in the late 70s early 80s, supposed to be economical or something.

It was at the 1988 Farnborough Air Show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BMNaXc1rL8

[SystemParanoia]

tuffer said:

SystemParanoia said:

Can the boom do helicopters ?

Did you happen to see that on Twitter?

No, random google pic to help frame my question

[Speed 3]

Dr Jekyll said:

AlexC1981 said:

Something new to me. Unducted fan / propfan engines. They look a bit alien.

Remember seeing one at Farnborough in the late 70s early 80s, supposed to be economical or something.

It was more efficient but they couldn't quell the noise without shrouding it (and then it becomes more turbofan-like). GE did revisit it recently but came to the same conclusion I understand.

[Eric Mc]

It was astonishingly loud, I remember.

[yellowjack]

Eric Mc said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Remember seeing one at Farnborough in the late 70s early 80s, supposed to be economical or something.

It was at the 1988 Farnborough Air Show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BMNaXc1rL8

Shocking to watch that footage in light of Shoreham. 40 tonnes of airliner climbs steeply then executes a right turn over central Farnborough before it's really had an opportunity to get properly established.

Post Shoreham there are all sorts of restrictions on far more capable and "designed for dynamic manoeuvres" classic military jets, yet for decades SBAC Farnborough shows permitted prototype and early production models of some really heavy transport aircraft types to execute turns over a densely populated urban area. Throwing an A380 about over 65,000 people (not including airshow attendees) doesn't make sense in the modern safety-conscious age as far as I'm concerned.

FFWD to recent local newspaper articles and the Farnborough Air Show organisers are assuring us that they are at the forefront of airshow safety policy.

I don't want to derail this thread, and fuel a debate that's covering this sort of ground in threads elsewhere. It just occurred to me, watching that particular clip, how bizarre the venomous criticism of the Shoreham organisers is, when compared with the potential for carnage if an aeroplane was to have an 'unintentional interface with terrain' on The Meads shopping centre on a busy Sunday morning...

[Eric Mc]

Might as well ban the Farnborough Air Show.

I wonder why they are building this then -

Edited by Eric Mc on Monday 20th March 10:50

[JuniorD]

Eric Mc said:

It was astonishingly loud, I remember.

The Irish Air Corps specced it on their stealth bomber

[Steve_D]

yellowjack said:

Shocking to watch that footage in light of Shoreham. 40 tonnes of airliner climbs steeply then executes a right turn over central Farnborough before it's really had an opportunity to get properly established....

Been that way for many a year.
Seem to remember an aircraft demonstrating its performance with an engine out. (No idea of make/model or year). Then pulling a tight turn onto the dead engine resulting in eventual contact with the roof of the airfield fire station.

Steve

ETA Breguet Atlantique 1968

Edited by Steve_D on Monday 20th March 12:56

[MartG]

[MartG]

Eric Mc said:

It was astonishingly loud, I remember.

Of course it was loud - what else uses sets of blades going past each other to function...

[MartG]

Aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, Homestead AFB 1993.



Before you ask 'why didn't they fly them away from the storm', the two damaged F-16s were undergoing deep maintenance and couldn't be made flyable before the storm hit, so they just closed their hangar and hoped for the best...

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

In those days we still had the Harrier detatchment in Belize. We would routinely truck LOX (Liquid Oxygen) from Homestead AFB out to Belize.

That year we had to use McDill AFB instead.

It took quite a while to clean Homestead up.

[Tango13]

SAC lost about two thirds of its B-36 fleet in something like 5 minutes back in 1952.

All but one were rebuilt/repaired and continued to fly except one that became the NB-36

[Eric Mc]

Must have been pretty windy to blow a B-36 about.

[FourWheelDrift]

Eric Mc said:

Must have been pretty windy to blow a B-36 about.

Tornado direct strike - http://www.tailsthroughtime.com/2010/06/prior-to-a...

[Stickyfinger]

[tuffer]

[AstonZagato]

Well they've tied it to the lamp post so it shouldn't be able to go anywhere

[jmorgan]

MartG said:

Was about to wonder "what the heck".......

Then me brain sorted it out.

[tuffer]