Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 3)

[CanAm]

Baron Greenback said:

Caproni Campini N.1 – Italy’s attempt at building the world’s first jet in 1940

A hybrid really, as the compressor stage was driven by a piston engine. So it was virtually a ducted fan with an afterburner.

[rodericb]

Not an amazingly cool picture as such but a bit of an odd find on Google Earth:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gQbpqmuEHYUPKAez8

Some guy in the middle of Thailand making a living tearing apart airliners for scrap....

[CanAm]

rodericb said:

Not an amazingly cool picture as such but a bit of an odd find on Google Earth:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gQbpqmuEHYUPKAez8

Some guy in the middle of Thailand making a living tearing apart airliners for scrap....

Nice find
Google Maps shows it as "Dumped Airplanes" and it's apparently a 'museum'!

[Den Den]

How the hell did it get there??

[CanAm]

Den Den said:

How the hell did it get there??

Fly-tippers?

[MartG]

CanAm said:

Den Den said:

How the hell did it get there??

Fly-tippers?

[Den Den]

CanAm said:

Den Den said:

How the hell did it get there??

Fly-tippers?

[MartG]

'Economy' seating on a '60s Pan Am 747

[Caruso]

MartG said:

'Economy' seating on a '60s Pan Am 747

Is it that the plane is bigger or the people are smaller though?

[havoc]

Caruso said:

s it that the plane is bigger or the people are smaller though?

I don't think either.
- It's on an offset 2-4-3 pattern, which is slightly better than the 3-4-3 the 747 was typically used in.
- the armrests are notable by their slimness, and there's no gap between headrests, which both probably add to the perceived width
- there's no overhead bins, which gives it a much airier / more spacious feel than a modern cabin.



Edit: Turns out it was a PanAm mock-up of how the cabin COULD look - hence the unreasonably high ceiling.

Edited by havoc on Thursday 7th November 08:01

[RizzoTheRat]

Impressive amount of legroom though

[hammo19]

Just imagine all the passengers wearing suits travelling back from Spain nowadays.

[havoc]

hammo19 said:

Just imagine all the passengers wearing suits travelling back from Spain nowadays.

Why, are they coming back for a court hearing?

[RizzoTheRat]

Ok so not the best photos, but I found the content pretty damn cool! I didn't realise one of the TSR2's had survived, so a very pleasant surprise to see it in the RAF museum at Cosford the other day.
As an added bonus, the EAP and the raspberry ripple Jaguar in the background were both in our department at uni while I was there and we had the opportunity to fiddle with them a bit on my course.





I was also please to see they'd mounted their Lightning in it's natural orientation

[MartG]

RizzoTheRat said:

I didn't realise one of the TSR2's had survived, so a very pleasant surprise to see it in the RAF museum at Cosford

XR222 survived too and is at Duxford

Edited by MartG on Thursday 7th November 20:26

[Ian Lancs]

RizzoTheRat said:

As an added bonus, the EAP and the raspberry ripple Jaguar in the background were both in our department at uni while I was there and we had the opportunity to fiddle with them a bit on my course.

I sat under the wing of FBW Jag on an open day thing in 94 to hear the words "you'll be able to play with this a lot during your course". The nearest I ever got to it was sat next to the Jordan 191 during my first year; despite doing some aero modules and being in trans tech building quite a lot...

[RizzoTheRat]

Ian Lancs said:

I sat under the wing of FBW Jag on an open day thing in 94 to hear the words "you'll be able to play with this a lot during your course". The nearest I ever got to it was sat next to the Jordan 191 during my first year; despite doing some aero modules and being in trans tech building quite a lot...

I guess the Jordan replaced the Jag? I think the Jag replaced the EAP in my first year, I definitely remember it being there but it was the Jag we got to play with.

[daqinggregg]

Not at all reminiscent of an aeroplane from the same period.



Who could have thought then that the USSR would not be able to economically pull off this miracle and the Tu-144 would forever remain a symbol of unfulfilled hopes? A dead-end branch of technical progress.



Alas, the age of these supersonic flights turned out to be short-lived, due to their high cost.



Civil aviation was the real pride of the USSR - all airliners were only domestically produced!

[DodgyGeezer]

have a wander on one at Sinnsheim

[aeropilot]

And by sad coincidence, both types had their commercial fates sealed as a result of a crash in Paris.