Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
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this is quite funky...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCWjByenDsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-VNSJMiNt0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCWjByenDsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-VNSJMiNt0
Edited by irocfan on Thursday 30th July 12:00
irocfan said:
this is quite funky...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCWjByenDsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-VNSJMiNt0
I thought this was the pictures thread....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCWjByenDsM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-VNSJMiNt0
Edited by irocfan on Thursday 30th July 12:00
Is it wrong to extend a work trip at extra cost to the company so you can watch the Blue Angles?
Whilst they were great to watch, the Red Arrows are better with a more interesting display, and IMHO a more technical display. But there isn't such thing as a bad fast jet flying display (apart from getting burnt)!
Whilst they were great to watch, the Red Arrows are better with a more interesting display, and IMHO a more technical display. But there isn't such thing as a bad fast jet flying display (apart from getting burnt)!
Edited by smack on Sunday 2nd August 09:20
yellowjack said:
iiyama said:
Ginetta G15 Girl said:
iiyama said:
What would be the reason for getting to that angle in the first place?
Careful perusal of that photo would indicate that there is nowhere near 90 degrees AoB (Angle of Bank). It's more like 60 degrees.At 60 degrees AoB, in a level turn, you would be pulling 2G which (I would guess) is about the limit for a KC135.
Any more than 60 degrees and the formation must be descending (which would IMO not be a very safe place to be).
"Confidence in your equipment" training - you occasionally test your gear to the extremes of it's design brief. Rarer still, you'll be required (under strict safety regimes) to exceed stated sfaety limits. It demonstrates to the user that the design limitations are safe and allow full utilisation of all the features at the stated extremes.
I've pulled a bar-mine with a rope attached to my armoured vehicle to demonstrate the efficacy (or possibly not ) of the anti-disturbance add-on fuse. I've driven an armoured vehicle transversely across a slope minus just a few degrees off the stated 'tipping point' to prove that it won't roll over unless the stated angle of the slope is exceeded. I've watched pre-tour firepower, and weapons effects demonstrations where our issued helmets and body armour have been subjected to small arms and IED effects.
It's all in the name of increasing crew confidence in the equipment upon which their lives will often depend. All the testing will have been carried out in computer simulations, laboratory testing, and in destructive testing during the development of said equipment, but there's no substitute for letting personnel see for themselves that the kit does indeed work as intended (and sometimes beyond).
A different sort of 'amazingly cool picture of aircraft':
Chap's got some other graphics, too: http://cigeography.blogspot.fr/search/label/Fact%2...
Chap's got some other graphics, too: http://cigeography.blogspot.fr/search/label/Fact%2...
EskimoArapaho said:
A different sort of 'amazingly cool picture of aircraft':
Chap's got some other graphics, too: http://cigeography.blogspot.fr/search/label/Fact%2...
I've estimated that to be somewhere in the region of 1,000 - 1,500 aircraft.Chap's got some other graphics, too: http://cigeography.blogspot.fr/search/label/Fact%2...
Amazing to think during WWII there were >1000 aircraft on a single raid.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/bombercommandthethou...
Caruso said:
EskimoArapaho said:
A different sort of 'amazingly cool picture of aircraft':
Chap's got some other graphics, too: http://cigeography.blogspot.fr/search/label/Fact%2...
I've estimated that to be somewhere in the region of 1,000 - 1,500 aircraft.Chap's got some other graphics, too: http://cigeography.blogspot.fr/search/label/Fact%2...
Amazing to think during WWII there were >1000 aircraft on a single raid.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/bombercommandthethou...
hammo19 said:
Caruso said:
EskimoArapaho said:
A different sort of 'amazingly cool picture of aircraft':
Chap's got some other graphics, too: http://cigeography.blogspot.fr/search/label/Fact%2...
I've estimated that to be somewhere in the region of 1,000 - 1,500 aircraft.Chap's got some other graphics, too: http://cigeography.blogspot.fr/search/label/Fact%2...
Amazing to think during WWII there were >1000 aircraft on a single raid.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/bombercommandthethou...
Mutley said:
Think I read that the current number of RAF aircraft is less than pre ww2 numbers. Can't recall the source, think it was a redtop paper. The reasoning is that warfare has changed, requiring a different Air Force
Vastly less I would think. Excluding training aircraft maybe 300 or 350 including perhaps 100 helicopters.In WW1 RAF strength was 20,000 aircraft.
In the 1920s, the RAF decreased massively in size - to such an extent that the governments of the day were minded to disband it as an organisation. In the event, the policy of air policing in Afgahnistan, Palestine and the North West Frontier of India convinced the Treasury that maintaining a small RAF for such duties was worthwhile and cost effective.
Even then, the RAF had to make do for over a decade with obsolete World War 1 designs to carry out this task.
Even then, the RAF had to make do for over a decade with obsolete World War 1 designs to carry out this task.
Mutley said:
Think I read that the current number of RAF aircraft is less than pre ww2 numbers. Can't recall the source, think it was a redtop paper. The reasoning is that warfare has changed, requiring a different Air Force
It's nothing to do with Capability and everything to do with the fact that it is always easier for the Politicos to slash Defence while steadfastly refusing to address the real spending problems.Dr Jekyll said:
Vastly less I would think. Excluding training aircraft maybe 300 or 350 including perhaps 100 helicopters.
Currently we have 192 Front Line fast jets. By 2019 with the binning of Tornado and Tranche 1 Typhoon we will have 52 plus whatever Tranche 2 Typhoons have been delivered. Current estimate is that the Front Line fast jet fleet will number 127. That doesn't take into account F35 but firstly no-one really knows how many we will buy and secondly AIUI the entry into service has been delayed till 2020.Gassing Station | Boats, Planes & Trains | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff