Weird planes

[ffsear]

I saw a Beluga taking off from Toulouse today - probably empty as it did a pretty mean climb out. I have a properly terrible picture somewhere.

check out Tolouse airport on Google earth. They got a few old relics parked about the place.

 

[mauvais]

check out Tolouse airport on Google earth. They got a few old relics parked about the place.

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I can see some of it with my actual eyes although I could do with a pair of binocs or something.

 

[ffsear]

Didnt realise, its actually a museum

Aviation museum adjacent to Airbus factory - Ailes Anciennes Toulouse, Blagnac Traveller Reviews - TripAdvisor

 

[A380]

You used to be able to go in to a museum and then go onto a gallery and watch the A380 being assembled.

 

[existentialist]

check out Tolouse airport on Google earth. They got a few old relics parked about the place.

[snip]

You revealing an email address there, ffsear ?

 

[fishfinger]

Obvs I took that with a calculator after a pint of absinthe.

That's not flying. You just glued its nose to the side of a building

 

[existentialist]

That's not flying. You just glued its nose to the side of a building

I'll have some of that glue. The sole keeps coming off one of my boots.

 

[fishfinger]

I'll have some of that glue. The sole keeps coming off one of my boots.

He probably used aeroplane glue.

 

[2hats]

DARPA phase 2 VTOL x-plane:

and sub-scale test model:

 

[HAL9000]

DARPA phase 2 VTOL x-plane:

and sub-scale test model:

with so many fans, I wonder if this practical in terms of cost and maintenance

 

[A380]

Filper Beta 200 helicopter - development history, photos, technical data

 

[A380]

Tacit Blue

 

[HAL9000]

Tacit Blue

have blue is better looking

 

[fishfinger]

Home made octo-copter:



Flying starts at ~4:30

 

[A380]

Home made octo-copter:



Flying starts at ~4:30

Shut up and take my money.

 

[Spymaster]

Transporting an engine.

 

[mauvais]

Transporting an engine.

Someone once told me they'd flown on one of these, and I thought it sounded like a right load of bollocks. Some Googling did eventually show it up as real though.

The climb rate on that thing must be even worse than usual.

 

[Spymaster]

I reckon it also looks far too close to the tip of the wing for comfort.

I'd be very nervous watching that bounce up and down in turbulence if I were a passenger.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[DownwardDog]

Transporting an engine.

That's a Photoshop, the A340 has no fifth nacelle capability.

E2A: and it obviously wouldn't be carried outboard if it did.

 

[Chz]

Modern engines being powerful as they are, they ferry them by flying on three. No need for a 5th pod. It was most common on the Tristars and DC-10 derivatives, though the early 747s were underpowered enough to need a spare pod as well.

The A340 that did the engine testing for A380 looks all kinds of wrong, though.

 

[Spymaster]

That's a Photoshop, the A340 has no fifth nacelle capability.

E2A: and it obviously wouldn't be carried outboard if it did.

Ahhh, cheers.

It does look dodgy now you say that. I'd expect that wing tip to be on the ground.

Weird thing to Photoshop though.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Ahhh, cheers.

It does look dodgy now you say that. I'd expect that wing tip to be on the ground.

Weird thing to Photoshop though.

A real conspiracy solved by a missing shadow!

 

[Spymaster]

A real conspiracy solved my a missing shadow!

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Well spotted Miss Marple.

 

[A380]

That's like the story about a US fighter pilot being told to go around because a B52 had called mayday for an engine failure. "Oh no, not the dreaded seven engine landing."

 

[2hats]

More engines - Pratt and Whitney's modified 747SP stub winged engine testbed:

 

[pogofish]

Tacit Blue

 

[Idris2002]

Handley Page Manx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[DotCommunist]

interesting that that POS killed a few people. I wonder how many people these abominations have racked up between them? Has to be in the 1000s I'd have thought