General aviation/airplane news and chat

[mx wcfc]

Yes and yes!

lol small world. What a character.

He's my uncle.

 

[spitfire]

He's my uncle.

Well he’s a very generous man and such an experienced pilot, it was an absolute honour to be allowed a ride in his plane.

White Waltham members day was great. Lancaster, Yak, Cap232, Swordfish and topped off with a bonus flight gifted by Pete to a mate (he’s a local and member of the airfield), that had too many beers to take the seat so I took one for the team.

Amazing.



also paging bcuster for t-shirt action.

 

[mx wcfc]

Well he’s a very generous man and such an experienced pilot, it was an absolute honour to be allowed a ride in his plane.

White Waltham members day was great. Lancaster, Yak, Cap232, Swordfish and topped off with a bonus flight gifted by Pete to a mate (he’s a local and member of the airfield), that had too many beers to take the seat.

Amazing.

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Yep, that’s Uncle Pete. He took mrs mx up in it once for acrobatics over the Solent. I’ve flown in something else with him years ago.

 

[Elpenor]

Just been up in this.

Barrel rolls and loops. Let me “fly” it as well.

Fucking ace.

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Have you done the spitfire flights that run out of Headcorn aerodrome in Kent, in two seaters I think. They fly over my dads house most days. Wonderful to hear the engines. Don’t think it’s cheap and there’s a weight limit which rules me out at present. One day maybe

 

[Elpenor]

Remember there are bold pilots. There are old pilots. But there are no old, bold pilots

 

[HAL9000]

problems with making airships the next big thing..

 

[petee]

Fuck. Off.

Watch to the end and then let your brain work out what the yellow thing above his cockpit is.



But also

my tax dollars at work

 

[spitfire]

Have you done the spitfire flights that run out of Headcorn aerodrome in Kent, in two seaters I think. They fly over my dads house most days. Wonderful to hear the engines. Don’t think it’s cheap and there’s a weight limit which rules me out at present. One day maybe

Would love to but too rich for me, knocking on the door of £3k now.

I volunteer for Classic Wings at Duxford*, they also do 2 seater Spitfire flights, so I might get mates rates but even then...

I am going up in a Harvard at the end of the month, was my 50th birthday present. That's going to be fun.

White Waltham also have a 2 seater Hurricane.

2-Seat Hurricane Flights | Hurricane Heritage

Book flight experiences in the world’s only 2-seat Hawker Hurricane BE505, Harvard FE511 and fly alongside Battle of Britain survivor Hurricane R4118.

www.hurricaneheritage.com

Duxford Spitfire:
Maximum Height 6ft 6 inches (198cm), no minimum height.
Maximum weight 230 lb, 105Kg

*although I haven't been up there since before Covid, technically can go back any time, just need to get my shit together.

 

[bcuster]

 

[bcuster]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

O'Leary getting a pie in the puss in Brussels

 

[spitfire]

 

[bcuster]

 

[bcuster]

 

[petee]

O'Leary getting a pie in the puss in Brussels

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the one on the left looks shopped in.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

the one on the left looks shopped in.

Cardboard cutout of von der Leyen, just why he carts his sex-dolls around with him is no one’s business than his own, I guess.

 

[Chz]

The ultimate "just because you can doesn't mean you should" aircraft. Not that I wouldn't love to see one up close.

 

[bcuster]

The ultimate "just because you can doesn't mean you should" aircraft. Not that I wouldn't love to see one up close.

Notice how you can’t hear it as it passes directly over the crowd with a thousand microphones on record? The B2 is a truly remarkable aircraft; but like the Seawolf submarines, far too costly to mass produce…

 

[A380]

 

[bcuster]

 

[Elpenor]

teuchter has been so busy fighting cars today that he's apparently missed this piece of good news for the environment

France moves to ban short-haul domestic flights

MPs vote to stop flights where the journey could be made by train in under 2.5 hours.

www.bbc.co.uk

I think it's a good thing, on the whole. But then I get the feeling (could be wrong though), that you would usually have a fair chance of scooping reasonably cheap rail fares in France. Domestic flights (other than flight transfers) should be completely avoidable in the UK also where the two city pairs are well linked by rail, but only if one does not have to remortgage the house to turn out at a train station at peak time without having previously bought a ticket.

Still seem to be a lot of domestic flights from the airport I’m at - Lyon - though can’t judge exactly how far they are by train. I’m sure Paris must be less than that though

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Still seem to be a lot of domestic flights from the airport I’m at - Lyon - though can’t judge exactly how far they are by train. I’m sure Paris must be less than that though

They still allow domestic flights if connecting to an international one, also if the same journey takes more than 2.5 hours they can have a flight, so Lyon to Brittany, or Bordeaux, or anywhere other than Paris really...

 

[petee]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

St Barts, a very tricky landing.

 

[DownwardDog]

St Barts, a very tricky landing.

Why? Fly the glide slope and ignore the proximity warnings. It's not hard at all. Try it in a sim.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Why? Fly the glide slope and ignore the proximity warnings. It's not hard at all. Try it in a sim.

 

[Elpenor]

They still allow domestic flights if connecting to an international one, also if the same journey takes more than 2.5 hours they can have a flight, so Lyon to Brittany, or Bordeaux, or anywhere other than Paris really...

So its a fairly empty commitment given so many exceptions?

I’d do France again by train 100%

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

So its a fairly empty commitment given so many exceptions?

I’d do France again by train 100%

Marseille is easy by train, the south east, Nice area is not so good though.

 

[T & P]

What fucking twats.