The plane enthusiasts thread

[gbb]

The design of them seems to have been around forever. While you don't really see crop spraying in the UK anymore, I do remember seeing these (or similar) as a kid , late 60s, early 70s swooping around fields.
Not sure if I've seen them on Kefalonia airport years ago. I wonder if the carry fire suppressant chemicals rather than water ? Or perhaps (more likely ?) Spraying olive groves, that perhaps makes more sense.

 

[figbat]

The design of them seems to have been around forever. While you don't really see crop spraying in the UK anymore, I do remember seeing these (or similar) as a kid , late 60s, early 70s swooping around fields.
Not sure if I've seen them on Kefalonia airport years ago. I wonder if the carry fire suppressant chemicals rather than water ? Or perhaps (more likely ?) Spraying olive groves, that perhaps makes more sense.

Apparently these are Greek Airforce fire fighters.

 

[DaveReading]

The design of them seems to have been around forever. While you don't really see crop spraying in the UK anymore, I do remember seeing these (or similar) as a kid , late 60s, early 70s swooping around fields.
Not sure if I've seen them on Kefalonia airport years ago. I wonder if the carry fire suppressant chemicals rather than water ? Or perhaps (more likely ?) Spraying olive groves, that perhaps makes more sense.

They typically carry water, but they are also capable of dropping dry chemicals.

The Dromaders are due for replacement by more modern Air Tractors which, as well as having a turboprop instead of the former's piston engine, will also be fitted with floats, allowing them to rapidly refill by scooping.

 

[gbb]

Once again, engine note sets the senses tingling...a whistling jet just flew over, old school jets sound quite different to modern. Didn't get to see it but a Vampire, out of Conningsby courtesy of adsb
Reasonably unmistakable, I watched a Vampire (perhaps this one) at Duxford a couple years ago, the whistle is very apparent.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Air Farce 1 will about at Prestwick, along with the orange jobby...

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Air Farce 1 will about at Prestwick, along with the orange jobby...

I presume our Scottish brethren will make their feeling known?

any other discussion had better go to "The Other Place" before the Mod get involved

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I presume our Scottish brethren will make their feeling known?

OH YES!!

 

[FishFright]

OH YES!!

Do it Janey Godley style

 

[DRM]

I presume our Scottish brethren will make their feeling known?

any other discussion had better go to "The Other Place" before the Mod get involved

i feel certain that there will be warm welcome upon arrival!

 

[gbb]

Two vintage fighters, turned out one was the BBMF Hurricane, the other, despite flying 'alongside' wasn't showing on adsb. Conningsby to Bedfordshire, over Peterborough, onto Boston ish then probably back to Conninsby.

Reasonable to assume the other fighter , while not sshowing on adsb, would have been a Spitfire.
While I didn't see or hear it, you can see PA474 Lancaster was over March at the same time, not far from here. I assume they split at some stage....

 

[Jenkins]

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While I didn't see or hear it, you can see PA474 Lancaster was over March at the same time, not far from here. I assume they split at some stage....

Possibly on its way to or from the Old Buckenham airshow.
Apparently there's supposed to be a flyby from the Lancaster later this afternoon here at Felixstowe as part of the town's carnival.

 

[DaveReading]

Two vintage fighters, turned out one was the BBMF Hurricane, the other, despite flying 'alongside' wasn't showing on adsb.

When aircraft are flying in formation, it's usual for only one of then to have the transponder turned on.

 

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We went to a remote floating camp on Knight's Inlet, British Columbia last week. A 69 year old Dehavilland Otter DHC-3 float plane took us there. It carries twelve passengers with one sitting in the co-pilot's seat. They stash your luggage in one of the floats. Great fun.

 

[DaveReading]

We went to a remote floating camp on Knight's Inlet, British Columbia last week. A 69 year old Dehavilland Otter DHC-3 float plane took us there. It carries twelve passengers with one sitting in the co-pilot's seat. They stash your luggage in one of the floats. Great fun.

One of a number of turboprop conversions of the original piston-engined DHC Otter.

 

[gbb]

We went to a remote floating camp on Knight's Inlet, British Columbia last week. A 69 year old Dehavilland Otter DHC-3 float plane took us there. It carries twelve passengers with one sitting in the co-pilot's seat. They stash your luggage in one of the floats. Great fun.

I always thought flying in a 'small' aircraft is something most of us never will do but would be great fun (and sometimes a bit scary too)
A handful of colleagues and myself used to travel to various global locations and one of them was in Paysandu (sp) near the Uruguay/Argentine border. She related later how they took a small single engine aircraft to fly out to a farm up country...as it took off, she said all you could see was this ever increasingly close tree line on the end of the runway they had to take off over...it was a fairly white knuckle ride for someone who's never experienced it apparently