The plane enthusiasts thread

[Smurfy]

Anorak alert! I am going to Orlando for a couple of weeks later this month to find some much needed .

I will be flying with BA, and the sensible way would be Glasgow-Gatwick-Orlando. However they fly the Boring 777 on that route. I used to do regular flying back in my youth, and loved the original "jumbo jet", Boeing 747. BA seem to be phasing them out in favour of the new Airbus 380, so I saw that there was a flight option to go Glasgow-Heathrow-New York JFK- Orlando. The Heathrow-JFK leg is on one of these, so despite the inconvenience of an extra stop, that is the way I am going! The 747 is a thing of beauty, unlike the more modern replacements, and chances to fly on them are becoming rare.

Spot the pitot tubes (they are quite small)

 

[Spinney]

Spot the pitot tubes (they are quite small)

Probably a similar size to those on other aircraft...

 

[Smurfy]

Probably a similar size to those on other aircraft...

True, but on a 747 they are going to be quite small compared to the aircraft.

 

[Spinney]

True, but on a 747 they are going to be quite small compared to the aircraft.

So really, your comment wasn't that the pitot tubes are small, but that the 747 is BIG

 

[classic33]

Worlds largest aircraft is due into Manchester again next week.

 

[Andy_R]

pfft...you lot know feck all about planes....here's a proper one....

 

[Smurfy]

Somewhere I've got a pic of peering through the cockpit window on the approach to Lukla. Might try and find it sometime.

If you've never heard of Lukla, look it up! An interesting runway, to say the least!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS79aQuMe9I

 

[Andy_R]

Nonsense, this

is a plane.

Who the f*ck decided to call that a plane tree? It's so plain a ninja would have a nervous breakdown trying to hide in it. Chameleons would go into meltdown.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I fly fairly regularly to the Scottish Islands and it's usually in one of these -

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Last year, my wife flew up to Stornoway, on business (at the Hospital), she said it was quite a journey

Which island is it, where the planes land on the beach?

 

[DaveReading]

Which island is it, where the planes land on the beach?

Barra.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Unfortunately I don't go to Barra cos that looks interesting. I'm off to Benbecula in a few weeks though.

 

[Creamcrackered]

Flock of gliders waiting for better weather

 

[Hyslop]

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One of my abiding memories of an air display at the then RAF Finningley years ago,that and a Vulcan scramble.

 

[vernon]

pfft...you lot know feck all about planes....here's a proper one....

That looks like a profiling/moulding plane. Far more interesting than a plain plane.

 

[classic33]

If you count crashing as a landing, and few supporting records.