General aviation/airplane news and chat

[petee]

 

[petee]

6th December 2022

The last ever Boeing 747 rolls off the assembly line. #1574, to go to Atlas Air (freight company)

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Such a stunner

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I never flew in one. Did I miss anything?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I never flew in one. Did I miss anything?

Going up a staircase on a plane.

Sitting further forward than the pilots.

Loads of bogs made for easy entry to the mile high club…

 

[spitfire]

 

[petee]

 

[spitfire]

Probably takes about 10 minutes to get to grips with flying this.

As batteries improve and they become more powerful they will surely see off the lightweight helicopter market? No more R23's falling from the sky.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[strung out]

Easier to get a parking space at work for that compared to my usual helicopter.

 

[spitfire]

Easier to get a parking space at work for that compared to my usual helicopter.

My pilot drops me off at the entrance and then goes off to park it in the nearest school playground.

Can't clamp a 'copter!

 

[porp]

I wasn't expecting to read the word "homologated" today. It is a word I used to pretend to understand in a previous job, but nothing to do with flying...context was scientific research

 

[nick]

Probably takes about 10 minutes to get to grips with flying this.

As batteries improve and they become more powerful they will surely see off the lightweight helicopter market? No more R23's falling from the sky.

don't trust this message .That tweet is from Scottie. He has a strong aversion to anything with rotary wings

 

[spitfire]

 

[Dogsauce]

Probably takes about 10 minutes to get to grips with flying this.

As batteries improve and they become more powerful they will surely see off the lightweight helicopter market? No more R23's falling from the sky.

I look forward to the day when limitless electricity from fusion power makes the crass inefficiency of this means of transport not a problem.

 

[bcuster]

 

[HAL9000]

Surviving a plane ditching (if you have a fear of flying, you might want to give it a miss). What was most interesting is what he did the next day.

BBC World Service - Witness History, Miracle on the Hudson

 

[spitfire]

 

[A380]

 

[Dogsauce]

That’s a big coop.

 

[High Voltage]

Pretty shite stealth, if you ask me - that's as clear as the nose on me face, be better if it was painted blue FFS

 

[bcuster]

Pretty shite stealth, if you ask me - that's as clear as the nose on me face, be better if it was painted blue FFS

not so clear to a radar operator...

 

[Dogsauce]

Someone at DARPA has obviously stolen one of my old junior school notebooks and meticulously plagiarised one of the ’designs’ I’d done on the inside of the back cover.

 

[bcuster]

 

[High Voltage]

Someone at DARPA has obviously stolen one of my old junior school notebooks and meticulously plagiarised one of the ’designs’ I’d done on the inside of the back cover.

It's fucking annoying when "they" do that

When lasers and death rays become a bit more powerful I'm convinced that most of my "blue sky" thinking from over 55 years ago will be appearing on a battle field "near you"

 

[High Voltage]

<through gritted teeth>The. Camouflage. Patterns. Don't. Match.

You'd think they'd have one stencil pattern but now I envisage there being a team of highly strung "creative types" arguing heatedly about Pantone Colours and should there be a blob or another wiggly line

 

[spitfire]

<through gritted teeth>The. Camouflage. Patterns. Don't. Match.

You'd think they'd have one stencil pattern but now I envisage there being a team of highly strung "creative types" arguing heatedly about Pantone Colours and should there be a blob or another wiggly line

Oh, so you have come across the scale modelling community before then?

Spoiler: 747 tweet

 

[A380]

 

[T & P]

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Probably not very effective camouflage, but it might give a heart attack to any enemy pilot flying overhead, which would come equally handy.

 

[A380]

 

[Dogsauce]

Eggborough or Drax? I have an almost identical photo somewhere of a steam cloud AT-AT from ground level for one of those power stations.

 

[porp]

It's fucking annoying when "they" do that

When lasers and death rays become a bit more powerful I'm convinced that most of my "blue sky" thinking from over 55 years ago will be appearing on a battle field "near you"

I also think the world will come round to my way of thinking, at least when it comes to the 747SP mashup with the VC-10. I mean why have 4 rear mounted engines when you can add a Trident style auxiliary booster for that 5 engine look? Ultra long haul with a quieter cabin for that fantasy Moscow to Tahiti service