Amazingly cool and interesting plane footage

[Yertis]

Eric Mc said:

Thank you.

Jargon is the enemy of communication.

As I frequently tell my accountant.

[Eric Mc]

They're the worst.

[MartG]

Good save - helicopter engine failure at low altitude just after takeoff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYBf3XPwvaU

[LotusOmega375D]

B1-B & KC-135 Norway report on BBC website.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-56300515

[DavieBNL]

MartG said:

Good save - helicopter engine failure at low altitude just after takeoff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYBf3XPwvaU

Some interesting discussion on the accident here, maybe not always best to post a vid so soon after!

http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2021/01/robinson-r44...

[swampy442]

MartG said:

RizzoTheRat said:

I've seen a C17 reverse under it's own power, and I've been on a Jetstream that did it, but I've never seen a fighter do it before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBE41A9VT3Q

A Tornado pilot once told me how they bemused some USAF ground handlers by reversing into their parking spaces when on a joint exercise once

No doubt followed by a double engine change!

[eharding]

DavieBNL said:

MartG said:

Good save - helicopter engine failure at low altitude just after takeoff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYBf3XPwvaU

Some interesting discussion on the accident here, maybe not always best to post a vid so soon after!

http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2021/01/robinson-r44...

Ouch. From the video it certainly looks as if the magneto switch was in the Off position throughout the flight. I've known cases in fixed wing aircraft where the engine has fired when the prop was being pulled through due to a faulty magneto switch, but never where the faulty switch led to someone getting airborne with it in the Off position - we live and learn.

A brief Google seems to show that in earlier R44s the magneto switch in the 1 o'clock position was "Both", whereas in the later models the 1 o'clock position is 'Off', so maybe the combination of faulty magneto wiring plus muscle memory of the earlier version in the mag checks?

Edited by eharding on Monday 8th March 12:55

[FourWheelDrift]

Boeing 727 testing RATO for getting out of engine problems at high altitude airports during take off.

[Eric Mc]

Rocket assist was also tested on the Comet -

[Baron Greenback]

[swampy442]

The full video of the above GIF. An amazing aircraft


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvwF6EVblbQ&t=...

[Baron Greenback]

swampy442 said:

The full video of the above GIF. An amazing aircraft


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvwF6EVblbQ&t=...

What a lovely sound of an engine.

[Baron Greenback]

Real Engineering done a new vid on Engineering of the X-15. amazing engineering for the time and seat of the pants flying also.

[MartG]

Look at Life - Thunder in Waiting - Vulcan Bomber - 1960

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z43ndOGrLdk

[Speed 3]

Oops.....

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

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

Took this, this week... Biggles obviously facied playing indycar.

[Baron Greenback]

Speed 3 said:

Oops.....

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

Amazed the helipad wasn't more secured down, been under Chinook and they was amazed of the downdraft and these must be about the same or more.

[JuniorD]

Baron Greenback said:

Speed 3 said:

Oops.....

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

Amazed the helipad wasn't more secured down, been under Chinook and they was amazed of the downdraft and these must be about the same or more.

Well, that's cardboard helipads for you!

[hyphen]

JuniorD said:

Well, that's cardboard helipads for you!

+1 what on earth was is it made of.

[FourWheelDrift]

hyphen said:

JuniorD said:

Well, that's cardboard helipads for you!

+1 what on earth was is it made of.

Looks like those lightweight jigsaw type floor mats you can put down in your garage.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Garage-Floor-Tile/s?k=Gar...

Although more likely the matting you normally walk on around the tents and displays at events like the Goodwood FoS when the ground has been a bit wet.