The plane enthusiasts thread

[DaveReading]

Hopefully no-one's going to attack us.

They wouldn't dare, now we've got an aircraft carrier.

 

[Drago]

Well, when its operational and has its primary weapon system on board they won't.

 

[DaveReading]

Well, when its operational and has its primary weapon system on board they won't.

... and is fortuitously positioned within range of wherever the attack is coming from.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I hear the Battle of Britain flight has been grounded to a technical fault in their engines. It's not that well known carburetor fault where the fuel supply splutters under inverse G is it?

 

[midlife]

Miss Shilling's orifice helped .

 

[DaveReading]

I hear the Battle of Britain flight has been grounded to a technical fault in their engines. It's not that well known carburetor fault where the fuel supply splutters under inverse G is it?

No.

 

[Illaveago]

I was just looking for info on the web and all I can find is that they found a fault in one engine. A pin? Crank pin, Gudgeon pin? Safety pin?

 

[classic33]

...when the Charles Church Spitfire V went in, the engine issue that caused the accident was traced to the main crank bearing shells or something, and that did indeed affect every Merlin that was overhauled by the same company.
&
"Oil analysis when servicing one of the engines has found bits of metal in the oil. Grounded as a precaution until they find out where it's come from."

Griffon engines not included. Just serviced by the same company.

Update from earlier today

View: https://mobile.twitter.com/RAFBBMF/status/898177906500829186/photo/1

 

[Yellow Fang]

Miss Shilling's orifice helped .

It was a pity it was nick-named that. Schoolboy humour and disrespectful. I'd have called it Tilly's Ring.

 

[Cycleops]

Anyone visit the Clacton Airshow who can report?

 

[Illaveago]

I heard some low flying jets earlier on this afternoon. Any ideas as to what they were? Red Arrows?

 

[DaveReading]

I heard some low flying jets earlier on this afternoon. Any ideas as to what they were? Red Arrows?

Depart Norwich - 1242
Flypast Foxearth - 1255
Flypast Leonard Cheshire Home - 1259
DISPLAY CLACTON - 1300
Arrive Norwich - 1330
Depart Norwich - 1530
Arrive Exeter - 1610
Depart Exeter - 1810
Flypast Dartmouth - 1818
DISPLAY SIDMOUTH - 1830
Flypast Shaldon Regatta - 1852
Arrive Exeter - 1855

https://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/displays/redarrows2017displaytransits.cfm

 

[Illaveago]

Depart Norwich - 1242
Flypast Foxearth - 1255
Flypast Leonard Cheshire Home - 1259
DISPLAY CLACTON - 1300
Arrive Norwich - 1330
Depart Norwich - 1530
Arrive Exeter - 1610
Depart Exeter - 1810
Flypast Dartmouth - 1818
DISPLAY SIDMOUTH - 1830
Flypast Shaldon Regatta - 1852
Arrive Exeter - 1855

https://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/displays/redarrows2017displaytransits.cfm

Thanks, it sounds as though it must have been the Reds.

 

[smokeysmoo]

Saw this BAE 146, tail number ZE701 come into Manchester Airport yesterday.

Don't know who was on board but apparently it is widely used for "Royal and VVIP passengers".

 

[Illaveago]

Saw this BAE 146, tail number ZE701 come into Manchester Airport yesterday.

Don't know who was on board but apparently it is widely used for "Royal and VVIP passengers".

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I think Boris Johnson was out in Libya the other day. I think they showed him at the airport with a 146 in the background.