The plane enthusiasts thread

[gbb]

Circa 90 tons, fuelled, ready to fly
Another idea location would be with the Panton brothers museum
You can ride in a Lancaster, as it's taxying there, imagine doing the same in a Vulcan


You can get very close to their Lancaster, as it's started up, you feel 4 Merlins, as much as you hear them

Dad once related his experience early in his RAF career, sitting in a Mosquito doing an engine run up. Bloody scary for the uninitiated, propellers howling a few feet away from you and all the noise and vibrations from the engines .
He was actually quite squeamish, didn't like danger, hated flying with vengeance ( perhaps because he worked on recovery crews in the 50s in Germany, the sight of 10 ot 20 men , still strapped in their seats, crushed all together as the seats sheared off in a crash....probably makes an impression on you...and not a good one )

 

[Jameshow]

35t

Minus the engine 20t??

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

35t

Minus the engine 20t??

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan

Having perused that, I was thinking of the fully-fuelled, & armed, weight
Sorry

 

[figbat]

35t

Minus the engine 20t??

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Vulcan

1.6T per engine apparently, so around 6.5T total.

 

[wiggydiggy]

I think early afternoon was stated

I might have a trip over, I saw it flying last flight maybe) a few years back. Would be good to hear it at least again.

 

[Cycleops]

Tragic crash at an air show in the States In Dallas. A B17 and Bell Kingcobra collided in midair. The Kingcobra had the B17 on its blindside when turning and all aircraft and crew were lost:

https://theaviationist.com/2022/11/13/b-17-and-p-63-kingcobra-collision/

 

[Illaveago]

Tragic crash at an air show in the States In Dallas. A B17 and Bell Kingcobra collided in midair. The Kingcobra had the B17 on its blindside when turning and all aircraft and crew were lost:

https://theaviationist.com/2022/11/13/b-17-and-p-63-kingcobra-collision/

Saw that earlier.
Sad !

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Saw that earlier.
Sad !

Juts seen the video before I came on here

Very sad

The article was saying they were not sure if anyone had got out - but I can't see it from the height without ejector seats

I saw something similar at Fairford many years ago - 2 Migs collided
but both had ejector seats and got out
but the crowd, at least were we were, couldn't see any parachutes - never seen such total silence from such a large crown every before

 

[Cycleops]

Don't know if you've seen about the guys in Scotland who have been making a Sopwith Strutter replica for the last twenty years. We'll, it's nearing completion now, story here:

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman....king-replica-of-first-world-war-plane-3780022

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Friday 18th

Pontefract Airfield Memorial
Pontefract Park/Racecourse

Adjacent to jct32/M62
The 'wedge' in the background is 'Xscape'

https://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/pontefract/

If you look at the map, below the photograph, there's a (dotted lines) track running into the centre of the racecourse, the memorial is approximately there; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5259651

 

[FishFright]

Shame it can’t go out in a blaze of glory & leave the Russian army a nice present from 5 miles up like the Argentines got!

Imagine how great it would be to go to war with Russia just so we could show of some obsolete tech? No ? Me neither.

 

[wiggydiggy]

The Vulcan will be running it's engines this Sunday between 1000 and 1400, I can't make it myself sadly.

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/tim...nov-20-before-being-put-to-sleep-forever/amp/

 

[DRM]

Imagine how great it would be to go to war with Russia just so we could show of some obsolete tech? No ? Me neither.

Might be obsolete but it’s probably far superior to anything Putins got, any was tongue in cheek, but I guess that flew over your head as well!

 

[FishFright]

Might be obsolete but it’s probably far superior to anything Putins got, any was tongue in cheek, but I guess that flew over your head as well!

Don't be daft.

 

[classic33]

Imagine how great it would be to go to war with Russia just so we could show of some obsolete tech? No ? Me neither.

There's the Tupolev Tu-95(Bear), over 60 years before it saw combat service. And it's still flying.