The Aviation Thread [Contains Lots of Awesome Pictures]

not far from my home there is a nightclub that has a plane on the parkinglot, don't think you can enter it though

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(couldn't find a better pic)

That would be a Vickers Viscount, by the look of it.

:smile:
 
just ask the pilot to land on the pilons

i mean, how hard can it be :p
 
After 314 wrecked 747's they found a guy who got it right :p
 
Fairly big. Operational empty weight on it is 383,000 lbs (174,000 kg). Strip the engines and avionics and most of the interior and it will get even lighter.
 
I had an internship at a crane company during the last 6 months. Our biggest crane lifts 3200 (metric) tons. So the 747 is really nothing... even the smallest one lifts 330 tons (crawler crane).

You can lift that 747 even with a truck crane. Any plane is insanely light weighted for its size.
 
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"The plane?s feathering is cantilever and twin-fin. It consists of centre section and two stabilizer consoles, two parts of the altitude wheel and two fins with direction wheels."

wut?
 
Went to the UK recently and visited the fleet air arm museum in Yeovilton.

In this photo are:
BAC Concorde 002 (G-BSST)
Hawker P1127 (bottom left - harrier prototype)
Bristol Scout D (top of photo)
Handley Page HP115 (far left - under Concorde wing)
BAC 221 (centre front)
Hawker Hunter T8M (under the nose of Concorde)

https://pic.armedcats.net/g/gt/gti138/2010/11/01/fleetairarm_lores.jpg
 
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Dear America: Please give us this instead of the F-35 JSF BS.
 
No :tease:

Also the coastline in that F-22 photo looks a lot like a lot of coastlines on this little island. I think the photo might have been taken while the F-22s were here earlier this year.
 
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a firefighterplane with jet engines below the wing?

i thought that didn't work, caus when they refill, chances of the engines sucking in water are to big?
 
a firefighterplane with jet engines below the wing?

i thought that didn't work, caus when they refill, chances of the engines sucking in water are to big?

Don't you mean drop instead of refill? I don't think they'd try to refill a 747 while in flight?

If so, then they solved the problem by placing the nozzles at the rear of the plane, behind the engines.

https://pic.armedcats.net/c/cr/crazyrussian540/2010/11/04/747_retardant_drop.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/c/cr/crazyrussian540/2010/11/04/superdrop_02mediacopy.jpg
 
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