Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)

[Baron Greenback]

I see Boeing awarded US$1.2 billion for first eight F-15EX fighter jets!
https://newatlas.com/military/boeing-contract-firs...

[anonymous-user]

Baron Greenback said:

I see Boeing awarded US$1.2 billion for first eight F-15EX fighter jets!
https://newatlas.com/military/boeing-contract-firs...

Slightly unusual making a more advanced version for a foreign nation (Qatar), and then adopting the new version for the USAF.

Normally you’d get the USA buying it and then selling similar versions to foreign nations.

Nice to see the F15 continue though.

[Baron Greenback]

El stovey said:

Slightly unusual making a more advanced version for a foreign nation (Qatar), and then adopting the new version for the USAF.

Normally you’d get the USA buying it and then selling similar versions to foreign nations.

Nice to see the F15 continue though.

I thought that the. I reread it and its a more high tech version of the Qatar version just for USA. No way they would sell the hypersonic missile to overseas.

[irocfan]

[Caruso]

Eric Mc said:

I think the stripe is actually dark blue (in line with NASA's house colours).

I liked the all metal 003 and 008 which also, at various times, carried large areas of dayglo orange or bright red.

It's a surprisingly smiley face for something that had the potential to be, to quote Robert Oppenheimer, "the destroyer of worlds".

[james_TW]

Baron Greenback said:

I see Boeing awarded US$1.2 billion for first eight F-15EX fighter jets!
https://newatlas.com/military/boeing-contract-firs...

Interesting that pilots can transition "in days, not years" there...

[Eric Mc]

Just like with the Boeing 737 Max. Oh wait.......

[mko9]

james_TW said:

Baron Greenback said:

I see Boeing awarded US$1.2 billion for first eight F-15EX fighter jets!
https://newatlas.com/military/boeing-contract-firs...

Interesting that pilots can transition "in days, not years" there...

A lot of this is modernizing the components, not changing the airframe. Better engines to offer supercruise and longer range, conformal fuel tanks to increase range and weapons capacity, Upgrade and/or integrate the targeting pod, etc. The RADAR in the current F-15C is an AESA with much of the same capabilities of the F-22 or F-35. They already carry the same missiles, use the same JHMCS helmet. The F-15Cs are getting pretty old, and even the F-15Es were all built in the 1980s, so starting with a zero hour airframes.

[Baron Greenback]

AN-225 takeoff Anchorage
https://youtu.be/VdT7eqTWKrA?t=367

[Ayahuasca]

Baron Greenback said:

AN-225 takeoff Anchorage
https://youtu.be/VdT7eqTWKrA?t=367

Optical illusion (I hope) but the port wing looks a bit droopy!

[FourWheelDrift]

Ayahuasca said:

Baron Greenback said:

AN-225 takeoff Anchorage
https://youtu.be/VdT7eqTWKrA?t=367

Optical illusion (I hope) but the port wing looks a bit droopy!

Just the curvature of the earth.

[DoubleD]

The left and right wing look a bit droopy

[james_TW]

Baron Greenback said:

AN-225 takeoff Anchorage
https://youtu.be/VdT7eqTWKrA?t=367

No matter how many videos of this I watch, it never ceases to amaze me that it actually takes off...

[Ayahuasca]

Hang on lads, I’ve got a great idea!

[Fastdruid]

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/157090

There's a video of it too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBfqiKukVps

[AER]

It floats surprisingly well!

[anonymous-user]

Fastdruid said:

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/157090

There's a video of it too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBfqiKukVps

They pushed a buccaneer off an aircraft carrier to make a safety film about avoiding aircraft falling into the sea?

[MartG]

El stovey said:

Fastdruid said:

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/157090

There's a video of it too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBfqiKukVps

They pushed a buccaneer off an aircraft carrier to make a safety film about avoiding aircraft falling into the sea?

Yes - it was an obsolete S.1 though

[anonymous-user]

MartG said:

El stovey said:

Fastdruid said:

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/157090

There's a video of it too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBfqiKukVps

They pushed a buccaneer off an aircraft carrier to make a safety film about avoiding aircraft falling into the sea?

Yes - it was an obsolete S.1 though

Still though, that’s a big plan for a safety video.

Presumably it was also used for training ie the recovering the aircraft itself etc?

[FourWheelDrift]

El stovey said:

MartG said:

El stovey said:

Fastdruid said:

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/157090

There's a video of it too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBfqiKukVps

They pushed a buccaneer off an aircraft carrier to make a safety film about avoiding aircraft falling into the sea?

Yes - it was an obsolete S.1 though

Still though, that’s a big plan for a safety video.

Presumably it was also used for training ie the recovering the aircraft itself etc?

They did one for aircraft carriers as well but it proved too expensive to repeat.