The Airplane Thread

[Lady Jane]

End of an era:

The Last 747 Jumbo Jet Leaves Boeing's Everett Factory
54 years after the first 747 was produced, the 1,574th and last leaves Boeing's Everett, Washington widebody factory for flight testing.


https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-last-...verett-factory

[Llarry]

Originally Posted by Llarry

A great shot of an F-4 Phantom in the vertical. Two 370-(US)gallon underwing fuel tanks but no armament. What a beast!

Looking at the exhausts, I now see that is an RAF/RN F-4K or F-4M with Spey engines instead of J-79s.

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by Llarry

A great shot of an F-4 Phantom in the vertical. Two 370-(US)gallon underwing fuel tanks but no armament. What a beast!

On the last day of Air Intercept Controller school in the Navy, they showed a similar picture, though of an F14. The instruction was to never, EVER put your fighter in this position to the bad guy!

[Dang3r]

Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

On the last day of Air Intercept Controller school in the Navy, they showed a similar picture, though of an F14. The instruction was to never, EVER put your fighter in this position to the bad guy!

This one of the very first lessons, when you into the jet fighter class: Forget all show and silly cinema maneuvers and do it from the beginning correct.
A straight upward climb is not only limited by the sky but by thrust and gravity. If you're staying too long you would just stall the plane and spool down in circles. That's not funny, neither training nor show.

[Lady Jane]

Neptune P2. In service from 1955 to 1970. Th aircraft had a perfect safety record with the RCAF. Then they were sold to become fire bombers. Some are still in use today.

Original livery w/o the jet pods.



Updated livery with jet pods.

[evil-G-nius]

I shot these a few weeks ago

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by evil-G-nius

I shot these a few weeks ago

The sky looks too perfect…

[Llarry]

And now for something completely different, I present Charles Zimmerman's "flying flapjacks." The proof-of-concept V-173 prototype dates from 1942 and the operational XF5U-1 prototype did not fly before the end of World War II. In the general drawdown after the war, the F5U fell victim to cost-cutting and was destroyed before its first flight. It did do engine run-up testing and had problems with the props. The Navy decided that it was not worth further tests.

Famed aviator Charles Lindbergh flew the V-173 and, like the Vought test pilots, found that it was practically un-stallable and could be flown at very high angles of attack.

[vreihen16]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/682O0H2gPX0



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[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/682O0H2gPX0
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I was working a mid once and I had to call the Center for a code as our system was down for the nightly maintenance. They gave me the code 4879 (or some such code), which didn't sound right, but hey, at 0300 what does sound right?! The pilot called bake a few minutes later saying he couldn't enter the code because his transponder was broken and didn't go past a 7. THAT'S WHAT'S WRONG!!!! There is no 8 or 9 in 444444444444444transponders.

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

I was working a mid once and I had to call the Center for a code as our system was down for the nightly maintenance. They gave me the code 4879 (or some such code), which didn't sound right, but hey, at 0300 what does sound right?! The pilot called bake a few minutes later saying he couldn't enter the code because his transponder was broken and didn't go past a 7. THAT'S WHAT'S WRONG!!!! There is no 8 or 9 in 444444444444444transponders.

7700

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

7700

911, what is your emergency?

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by JJ 911SC

911, what is your emergency?

There are 3... 7500, 7600 & 7700. One is hijack, one is comm failure and one is general emergency. There's also a secret code for suspected drug runners. No, I won't tell the code.

[Fly320s]

Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

There are 3... 7500, 7600 & 7700. One is hijack, one is comm failure and one is general emergency. There's also a secret code for suspected drug runners. No, I won't tell the code.

Do drug runners actually squawk that code? Or is that something ATC can assign to their data block without the pilot knowing?

[Lady Jane]

The CF-105 Arrow. If you wanted to get my Dad going, all you had to do is mention it as his Squadron was scheduled to get them instead of the used Voodoos purchased from the USAF and BOMARC missiles that couldn't even get out of their silos. Never let important defense decisions in the hands of politicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow

[Llarry]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

The CF-105 Arrow. If you wanted to get my Dad going, all you had to do is mention it as his Squadron was scheduled to get them instead of the used Voodoos purchased from the USAF and BOMARC missiles that couldn't even get out of their silos. Never let important defense decisions in the hands of politicians.

That is one gigantic fighter! By comparison a CF-104 or -101 would look like a toy airplane! The CF-105 was definitely an engineering marvel and a product of its time; a nuclear WW3 was coming and the -105 was well-suited for that role. As it happens, the USAF F-105 was the same: a monster powered by the monster J-75 engine and designed around the delivery of nuclear weapons. Actually, the two -105s had the same engines; it's just that the CF-105 had two of them!

The US -105 went on to be a workhorse of the Vietnam war in a role it was not designed for; nothing we had, with the possible exception of the A-1 Skyraider, was well-suited for that war. We just had to make do.

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

The CF-105 Arrow. If you wanted to get my Dad going, all you had to do is mention it as his Squadron was scheduled to get them instead of the used Voodoos purchased from the USAF and BOMARC missiles that couldn't even get out of their silos. Never let important defense decisions in the hands of politicians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow

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Love the Cobra, too.

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

Love the Cobra, too.

I was thinking about dscabra when I saw this picture. An iconic plane deserves an iconic car.

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

I was thinking about dscabra when I saw this picture. An iconic plane deserves an iconic car.

Back in the '70's, a good friend of my dad owned a for-real 427 Cobra. At the same time, he owned a for-real P-51D Mustang.

He and wife had no children, so that kind of explains how he could afford to own and operate such expensive machinery on a Greyhound bus-driver's salary. He drove and she dispatched.

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by Fly320s

Do drug runners actually squawk that code? Or is that something ATC can assign to their data block without the pilot knowing?

It's quite discreet. Any more could give it away.

[NickyC]

Has any aircraft ever looked more bad ass?

The Tornado and A10 are my favorites of all time.

[flybigjet]

Well.....