Awesome, butDeep Sea Isopod wrote:I know the Harrier made an appearance on the previous page, but these photo's are one's that I took, and I love the Harrier.
why wasn't I invited? ... 
Harrier is indeed worth loving! Thanks!Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!
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why wasn't I invited? ... Harrier is indeed worth loving! Thanks!"It's just a fact: After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F!"
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I saw a Harrier flame-out at an airshow 2 years back. Not a nice sight.
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!
When i was in the US, I was quietly eating some cake at a friend of a friend's birthday party, and one of these bad boys flew directly overhead. One of the most awesome sights I've ever encountered. The sheer enormity of the damn thing was something I hadn't considered, but its fucking HUGE! Contrasting dead black against the sun behind it only made it more intimidating and impressive.
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Does it actually exist yet, or is it just a virtual aircraft?GenesForLife wrote:
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Looks like a shoop/CGI to me.klr wrote:Does it actually exist yet, or is it just a virtual aircraft?GenesForLife wrote:
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!
Well, if that one counts, these suckers can fly orders of magnitude further than that ever did, methinks...wolfréalt wrote:Once you've tasted flight you'll forever walk the earth, with your eyes turned skyward... [img <Cut WBPage20b-ex.jpg > /img]
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A guy from the Red Bull display team fell flat on his face trying to lift off at the Sanicole airshow this year with one of those.BrettA wrote:Well, if that one counts, these suckers can fly orders of magnitude further than that ever did, methinks...wolfréalt wrote:Once you've tasted flight you'll forever walk the earth, with your eyes turned skyward... [img <Cut WBPage20b-ex.jpg > /img]
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Re: Aircraft Appreciation thread #3 - Beautiful Aircraft!
Google mapping Sanicole has it looking like rather flat terrain... what was he using for lift? (I've never seen anyone trying to launch from flat ground into a thermal...)leo-rcc wrote:A guy from the Red Bull display team fell flat on his face trying to lift off at the Sanicole airshow this year with one of those.BrettA wrote:Well, if that one counts, these suckers can fly orders of magnitude further than that ever did, methinks...wolfréalt wrote:Once you've tasted flight you'll forever walk the earth, with your eyes turned skyward... [img <Cut WBPage20b-ex.jpg > /img]
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One of those lawnmowers with a prop attached to it. And running.BrettA wrote:Google mapping Sanicole has it looking like rather flat terrain... what was he using for lift?leo-rcc wrote:A guy from the Red Bull display team fell flat on his face trying to lift off at the Sanicole airshow this year with one of those.BrettA wrote:Well, if that one counts, these suckers can fly orders of magnitude further than that ever did, methinks...wolfréalt wrote:Once you've tasted flight you'll forever walk the earth, with your eyes turned skyward... [img <Cut WBPage20b-ex.jpg > /img]
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Ahhh... different sport. I've never used power - don't need it in many environments and I'd guess it kind of gets in the way of the aesthetics of flight, not to say making it way more difficult to get up a mountain. I just love 'raw flight' - lol.leo-rcc wrote:One of those lawnmowers with a prop attached to it. And running.BrettA wrote:Google mapping Sanicole has it looking like rather flat terrain... what was he using for lift?leo-rcc wrote:A guy from the Red Bull display team fell flat on his face trying to lift off at the Sanicole airshow this year with one of those.BrettA wrote:Well, if that one counts, these suckers can fly orders of magnitude further than that ever did, methinks...wolfréalt wrote:Once you've tasted flight you'll forever walk the earth, with your eyes turned skyward... [img <Cut WBPage20b-ex.jpg > /img]
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Not posting pictures, but some observations.
[1] I've seen the B-1B Lancer at Mildenhall. Impressive when you realise that this is a bomber aircraft that carries 20 tons of bombs, yet the pilot can throw it around the sky like a fighter jet. The party pieces at Mildenhall included a 45° semi-ballistic climb from takeoff, a supersonic fly-past at 300 feet over the crowd, and some angle-of-attack gymnastics that take serious skill in an aircraft that's as long as three articulated lorries. Oh, and four afterburners are seriously impressive when you hear them close up.
[2] The B-2A Spirit also turned up at Mildenhall. That one is spooky. The plane flew over the crowd, and none of us could hear it. The announcer over the tannoy was making more noise than the plane. It just moved through the sky, a solid black wedge that looked more like a hole in the sky than a real plane, and once it got off the ground, it looked as if it was held up by antigravity rather than aerodynamics. It's literally out of this world to behold in the metal.
[3] If you want noise, step forward those nice, politically correct, peace loving Swedes. When you stand within 200 feet of a Saab Viggen doing a full afterburner takeoff, you know what noise is. This thing made an apocalyptic din. It was so loud, the sound vibrations were playing funny tricks with my heart rhythm. This is an aircraft that can deliver CPR without the need to put hands on the patient. Oh, from the standpoint of an aerodynamicist, thanks to the arrangement of the forward canards and delta wings on a Viggen, it is, in effect, a supersonic biplane.
[4] Su-27s are pretty impressive too, especially when the pilots manifestly don't give a damn about crashing. The Cobra stunt is fun to watch. I saw this beast at RAF Waddington a few years back.
[5] Never seen an SR-71 in the metal, but whoever designed that knew how to make an aircraft look drop dead gorgeous. It looks futuristic even now, and it first flew in 1962 or thereabouts. Flying one, however, requires some special skills, and also requires the crew to wear space suits. This isn't only because the aircraft operates at altitudes above those at which a face mask can provide sufficient oxygen for human respiration, but because in the event of an ejection at full speed, the crew would be faced with a heat pulse equivalent to being inside a pizza oven. The space suits provide protection against this. They also allow the aircrew to be plumbed into a cooling system, because at maximum flight speed, the cockpit interior temperature climbs as a result of the outer integument (including the cockpit glass) heating to high temperatures. The glass can reach 120°C, and the outer skin of the aircraft can reach over 260°C, and without the space suits, the crew would not be able to operate the aircraft at high altitudes and high speeds.
[1] I've seen the B-1B Lancer at Mildenhall. Impressive when you realise that this is a bomber aircraft that carries 20 tons of bombs, yet the pilot can throw it around the sky like a fighter jet. The party pieces at Mildenhall included a 45° semi-ballistic climb from takeoff, a supersonic fly-past at 300 feet over the crowd, and some angle-of-attack gymnastics that take serious skill in an aircraft that's as long as three articulated lorries. Oh, and four afterburners are seriously impressive when you hear them close up.
[2] The B-2A Spirit also turned up at Mildenhall. That one is spooky. The plane flew over the crowd, and none of us could hear it. The announcer over the tannoy was making more noise than the plane. It just moved through the sky, a solid black wedge that looked more like a hole in the sky than a real plane, and once it got off the ground, it looked as if it was held up by antigravity rather than aerodynamics. It's literally out of this world to behold in the metal.
[3] If you want noise, step forward those nice, politically correct, peace loving Swedes. When you stand within 200 feet of a Saab Viggen doing a full afterburner takeoff, you know what noise is. This thing made an apocalyptic din. It was so loud, the sound vibrations were playing funny tricks with my heart rhythm. This is an aircraft that can deliver CPR without the need to put hands on the patient. Oh, from the standpoint of an aerodynamicist, thanks to the arrangement of the forward canards and delta wings on a Viggen, it is, in effect, a supersonic biplane.
[4] Su-27s are pretty impressive too, especially when the pilots manifestly don't give a damn about crashing. The Cobra stunt is fun to watch. I saw this beast at RAF Waddington a few years back.
[5] Never seen an SR-71 in the metal, but whoever designed that knew how to make an aircraft look drop dead gorgeous. It looks futuristic even now, and it first flew in 1962 or thereabouts. Flying one, however, requires some special skills, and also requires the crew to wear space suits. This isn't only because the aircraft operates at altitudes above those at which a face mask can provide sufficient oxygen for human respiration, but because in the event of an ejection at full speed, the crew would be faced with a heat pulse equivalent to being inside a pizza oven. The space suits provide protection against this. They also allow the aircrew to be plumbed into a cooling system, because at maximum flight speed, the cockpit interior temperature climbs as a result of the outer integument (including the cockpit glass) heating to high temperatures. The glass can reach 120°C, and the outer skin of the aircraft can reach over 260°C, and without the space suits, the crew would not be able to operate the aircraft at high altitudes and high speeds.
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