DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
Their problem was not the wings, but the engines, that provided barely enough thrust to get the 747 into the air.
And were prone to blowing up ....
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Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Umm, I thought it was Sky Hooks? 🤔
classic33
Leg End Member
SKYHOOK invented by Heinz Erwin Frick, test pilot at BAe, and with specification No. 2104014, which was filed with the British Patent office in 1982?Umm, I thought it was Sky Hooks? 🤔
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
The Jaguar was a bit like that, underpowered.
They abandoned trials to navalise it after this one spent 30 minutes trying to catch up with the carrier.
They abandoned trials to navalise it after this one spent 30 minutes trying to catch up with the carrier.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Nah, the plane takes off, hooks up and waits whilst the earth rotates below, innit?
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gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Mare of mine had an interesting theory. Flights UK to Aus for instance, way over 12 hours and an extraordinary amount of fuel.
So why not develop an 'aircraft' that can just make geostationary orbit...then sit wait for Aus to come to it..in 12 hours
(Not serious but....)
figbat
Former slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Honestly, there's always someone who has to spoil everything with that "Science" stuff...
Punkawallah
Veteran
Technically, that’s an error in language rather than science . . .
I’ll see myself out.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
Damn facts getting in the way of a perfectly good theory!!!
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
A distant Chipmunk today. Used to see them all the time in the 70s, living on an airbase, dad used to work on them.
Also a (I believe) NAmerican T6 Texan, often doing the rounds around here, heard but not seen. Radial.engines are quite distinct so a good chance it was him on the other side of a treeline.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Lots of military stuff out today..mostly herd not seen..
This morning, two Typhoons high up, too high to see. Shortly after, two A400Ms headed out easyt, a fairly common flightpath from Brize Norton.
Just now , something different sounding, turned out to be a A320, fueller perhaps, shortly after, the two A400Ms headed back....and i notice a B52 incoming, just over Mablethorpe headed west
This morning, two Typhoons high up, too high to see. Shortly after, two A400Ms headed out easyt, a fairly common flightpath from Brize Norton.
Just now , something different sounding, turned out to be a A320, fueller perhaps, shortly after, the two A400Ms headed back....and i notice a B52 incoming, just over Mablethorpe headed west
Conrad_K
unindicted co-conspirator
- Location
- Little Rock, Arkansas
Bicycle landing gear meant they couldn't 'rotate' the angle of attack for takeoff, so the USAF had special runways built (or older ones extended) to let them build up enough speed to take off in level flight. There used to be a "JATO" rocket-assisted takeoff package that could be installed to allow them to use shorter runways, but those were abandoned long ago. So it's entirely possible for a B-52 to safely land on a runway it can't then take off from.
classic33
Leg End Member
T'weren't mine but @ebikeerwidnes who's post you quoted.
