Aviation & Aircraft Photo Discussion Thread *Mod Warning Post 1*

sully2010

sully2010 wrote: »

True it will be very interesting to see how they compare.

Am I right in saying the green area on the nose is the only area on the fuselage skin that is aluminium alloy and the rest composites? Why is this does anyone know?

The nose is likely to be constructed from aluminium but Airbus is currently running trade-off studies considering a one-piece carbon fibre structure. According to Gordon McConnell, A350 Chief Engineer, a carbon fibre structure would need titanium reinforcements for birdstrike protection, thus the aluminium structure is the best cost-wise.
Wikipedia

Begs the question..why is the 787's nose fully carbon fibre?

RadioRetro

pclancy wrote: »

A tight and short right hand visual approach to Wellington's Rwy 16 in a Sounds air Cessna Caravan.

iPhone footage, it does that with props. Other than that, nice flight and lucky you.

pclancy

Nokia Windows Phone but yeah most budget cameras seem to have the same issue

Blue Punto

Blue Punto wrote: »

OH NOOOOO
Look at the poor KLM MD11

I need to book a flight soon to fly on one of these
Guess ill go to Montreal soon

My MD11 adventure begins today
Looks like PH-KCA is doing to the flight which is the oldest in the fleet
KL671 to YUL
Happy days :-)

de biz

MD-11 to YUL today should be routeing overhead Belfast.

PM sent.

Enjoy!

Blue Punto

de biz wrote: »

MD-11 to YUL today should be routeing overhead Belfast.

PM sent.

Enjoy!

Absolute fantastic flight and crew so friendly
Flight deck no problem and captain more than happy to chat

MD11 is such a nice machine to fly on
Beats an Airbus by miles in my opinion

smurfjed

MD11 is such a nice machine to fly on
Beats an Airbus by miles in my opinion

can't agree with u... Up front the MD11 and L1011 are great, but down the back, the tail engine just creates too much noise and vibration.

Smurfjed

Blue Punto

smurfjed wrote: »

can't agree with u... Up front the MD11 and L1011 are great, but down the back, the tail engine just creates too much noise and vibration.

Smurfjed

Horses for courses

RadioRetro

smurfjed wrote: »

can't agree with u... Up front the MD11 and L1011 are great, but down the back, the tail engine just creates too much noise and vibration.

Smurfjed

I've flown on the DC9 (MD11), Boeing 727, BAC 1-11, Caravelle and one type whose designation escapes me over the (many) years. To the best of my memory, in none of them was the vibration or noise noticeably worse than on wing-mounted engined aircraft. In fact I've found the noisiest and shakiest to be turbo-prop engined a/c.

donvito99

RadioRetro wrote: »

I've flown on the DC9 (MD11), Boeing 727, BAC 1-11, Caravelle and one type whose designation escapes me over the (many) years. To the best of my memory, in none of them was the vibration or noise noticeably worse than on wing-mounted engined aircraft. In fact I've found the noisiest and shakiest to be turbo-prop engined a/c.

Sat down the back of a KLM MD-11 to Accra once, and it is noticeable compared to say, an A330, in my view.

Chop Chop

The wingspan on the A350 is enormous, also westdub's photo's are awesome, the detail is astonishing.

Blue Punto

PH-KCK will be my taxi for the return trip
Hope the window is not as scratched for pics



Flight cancelled so a night in the Shereton with a view of the airport

Its an AF 747 to paris tonight instead now

newcavanman

shanman wrote: »

Photos of the German Border Guard SA330J Puma's used in Garda colours for the Pope's 1979 visit can be seen at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanair/8247258166/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanair/8247257930/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanair/8247257654/

I was standing beside these where they were parked in the phoenix park on the morning of the mas . loads of plain clothes gardai with uzis running around, but no one minded a daft teenager wandering around looking inside the choppers . Those were the days

merisi

merisi wrote: »

Excellent collection. Plenty of types of which good colour pictures are quite rare.

Lovely collection of pictures. Very rare colour ones indeed:DFairplay.

RadioRetro

Ah the Viscount, loved them (EI and BEA, sadly never travelled with Manx)... http://www.flickr.com/photos/24101413@N03/8581742788/ Thanks for that EchoIndia!

andy_g

EchoIndia wrote: »

Twenty-five years ago this summer:

G-BFZL Viscount 836 by Irish251, on Flickr

Ah now that brings back memories of spotting at dublin as a kid never flew on one though.

May take a trip out to malta i believe theres one there doing sight seeing trips.

EchoIndia

andy_g wrote: »

May take a trip out to malta i believe theres one there doing sight seeing trips.

Unfortunately there are no flyable Viscounts anywhere now. The last one/s were in the DRC, I think.

andy_g

Could of swore there was an advertisement for it will get the other half to confirm as shes living there

RadioRetro

Is the Avro a museum exhibit or in some sort of isolation, Carvair?



And if that's a retro scheme, nice!

Tenger

I guess these were shot in MAN?

The RJX was the 'next generation' Bae146 that was launched round about 2000. 9/11 killed the program and the only prototype is parked up at MAN in the viewing area..

smurfjed

I remember that they tried to sell them to us, but before discussions got too advanced, they moved the sales office to Toulouse and from that point the urgency seemed to diminish, it was as if they were worried about the conflict of interest with the A320 family.

smurfjed

Scone190

RadioRetro wrote: »

Is the Avro a museum exhibit or in some sort of isolation, Carvair?



And if that's a retro scheme, nice!

Yea I took them that indeed is manchester its parked up in the viewing area G-IRJX was last commercial airliner fully built in the UK , there is a trident and nimrod are also parked up in the manchester viewing park. You can board them all I have more photos I might upload them later . And yes that was the retro livery was a nice treat that day as we left dublin on the early FR flight and pissed rain all day haha !!!

Peregrine

Dunno if I'm allowed to ask this here but I definitely didn't want to start a new thread.

Has anyone got any good wallpaper type pictures that I could use?
I was thinking of getting it printed on a mouse pad to be more precise, thought it was time I needed more aviation pictures on my stuff

smurfjed

moss.ie wrote: »

interesting visitor to Shannon this evening - USAF Georgia ANG E8-C JSTARS 96-0043
callsign "Peach 69" about to touch down Rway 06 @EINN for a splash n dash.



The E-8C JSTARS (Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System) is a heavily modified Boeing 707 functioning as a battle management/command and control platform.

that looks like Flaps 50 for landing, so does this mean that these aircraft are only STAGE 2 Noise Certified?

smurfjed

EchoIndia

As this is a military aircraft, I doubt there is any noise certification as such. From the photos, the engine nacelles are as per the original 707 design with no visible hush-kit modifications. There was a programme to re-engine these aircraft with JT-8D-219 engines but this seems to have been suspended, as explained here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_E-8_Joint_STARS

Stealthirl

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Dunno if I'm allowed to ask this here but I definitely didn't want to start a new thread.

Has anyone got any good wallpaper type pictures that I could use?
I was thinking of getting it printed on a mouse pad to be more precise, thought it was time I needed more aviation pictures on my stuff

Not sure if its ok to reply here to you but since they are AC pics heres some i have on rotation for my desktop. There all thumbs click for fullsize

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cuterob

Whats the deal with the Omni 767? is it operating a flight under someone else?