Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage

[Oilchange]

Its Aluminium matting and a massive hazard on an HLS )heli landing site).
Over time weather and mud, rabbits and voles and anything else that digs will undermine the edges which are most often poorly secured with spikes. Any downdraft from even a small helicopter will whip up the edge over and over until and it becomes detached and blows away like in the vid. Imagine that going through the disc!
Accident waiting to happen.

[MartG]

Speed 3 said:

Oops.....

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/hospital-helipad-in-camb...

Full Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObfdLy-QlsU

[Baron Greenback]

Stratolaunch or now names Roc (horrible name) has taken flight for the 2nd time for a 3hr flight.

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/stratolaunch-worlds-...

[FourWheelDrift]

Baron Greenback said:

Stratolaunch or now names Roc (horrible name) has taken flight for the 2nd time for a 3hr flight.

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/stratolaunch-worlds-...

Roc, great name.

[MartG]

FourWheelDrift said:

Baron Greenback said:

Stratolaunch or now names Roc (horrible name) has taken flight for the 2nd time for a 3hr flight.

https://newatlas.com/aircraft/stratolaunch-worlds-...

Roc, great name.

Named for the enormous mythical bird

[Baron Greenback]

MartG said:

Named for the enormous mythical bird

That make sense, learn something every day.

[Eric Mc]

The Blackburn Roc wasn't the most successful aeroplane.

[Tony1963]

I haven’t hunted through this thread to see if this has already been posted, so here goes.

We used to be shown this 1963 US weapons test video to wake us up during the more tedious RAF training courses in the 1980s. Some great footage.

https://youtu.be/DNqzRk_r1zM

[MartG]

Wildcats taking off, on their way to join HMS QE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhRWrtyGOI0

[JuniorD]

Not so much cool, but interesting and timely. An-124 getting loaded in Belfast with 3x18 tonne oxygen generators for transportation to India to assist their Covid-19 battle.

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/cor...

What an incredible, vital machine this aircraft is.

[Eric Mc]

That's an Antonov 124 - of which there are quite a few operational. The world's largest cargo plane is actually the Antonov 225 - of which only one exists.

[JuniorD]

Eric Mc said:

That's an Antonov 124 - of which there are quite a few operational. The world's largest cargo plane is actually the Antonov 225 - of which only one exists.

Like I said, "An-124" But thanks, on behalf of all the stupid people, for clarifying that An is an abbreviation of Antonov.

[LotusOmega375D]

I think Eric is referring to the incorrect headline in the newspaper article, rather than expanding the abbreviation. The An(tonov) 124 is not “the world’s largest cargo plane”.

[Eric Mc]

Thank you. The headline is wrong (no surprise there to be honest).

[GliderRider]

Eric Mc said:

The Blackburn Roc wasn't the most successful aeroplane.

It is really quite amazing that Blackburn managed to stay in the aircraft business for fifty five years, despite their only really memorable aircraft being the Roc & Skua, the Beverley, which was designed by General Aircraft, who Blackburn acquired in 1949, and the Buccaneer, their last design to make it into production.

The Blackburn Monoplane, which is the oldest surviving British aeroplane, was actually designed before the Blackburn Aeroplane & Motor Company was created in 1914.

[Baron Greenback]

So that what the tarmac is for before the runway thought the pilot of the C-160

[Oilchange]

Well they missed the runway completely there!

[shedweller]

I didn't want to start a new thread but - what's going on here?
Is it a ditching demo gone wrong?
From when it gets into the water - It doesn't seem to be shutting down but looks like he was trying to take off again?

Could somebody in the know explain? Or translate? Looks horrendous!

https://youtu.be/PN4WXG-t1Yg

[Oilchange]

At the start it looked like he had insufficient power to take off, engine issues? It appears he got into ground effect but as he climbed he lost lift and it came back down hard. So maybe he tried to taxi it through he water to the beach but the nose dug into a wave and pulled the front of the disc down into the water. Game over.
Just a guess.

[eccles]

Oilchange said:

At the start it looked like he had insufficient power to take off, engine issues? So he tried to taxi it through he water to the beach but the front dug into a wave and pulled the front of the disc down into the water. Game over.
Just a guess.

I don't suppose lowering the undercarriage whilst he was in the water helped!