The plane enthusiasts thread

[Cycleops]

You might be interested in this latest fitment to the B-52 bomber, the CSRL as it's called is an on board ordnance storage system that is being retrospectively being fitted to the elderly bomber. It's can hold various types of missiles and bombs.


View: https://youtu.be/RFp-n2b9pTs


I can never look at these planes without thinking of Major Kong sitting on The Bomb in the cavernous bomb bay and whooping as it's released.

 

[midlife]

I thought the rotary launcher for the B52 had been around for a few years?

 

[Jameshow]

I was at a job next door to Leeds/Bradford (Yeadon) Airport sat in the van, when there was a huge noise as a C17 Globemaster was taking off, not something you would expect at a civilian airport, but I had also seen one coming in to land at Newcastle Airport during the summer, don't know why they would be going to those airports though.

I wondered if they delivered PPE / medicines during the pandemic too?

 

[DRM]

I wondered if they delivered PPE / medicines during the pandemic too?

There was a lot of flights in/out of LBA during lockdown, so quite possibly, I've also noticed a lot of old military vehicles being transported up & down the A1(M), that I suspect will be heading to Ukraine, but I would have thought they would be delivered to an RAF Airfield for transporting out there, as that is where the trained load handlers are, and it's out of sight so that the public can't see whats being sent out there

 

[Badger_Boom]

…and it's out of sight so that the public can't see whats being sent out there

I think the MoD regularly post what it’s sending on its news feed so there’s not much secrecy involved.

 

[classic33]

There was a lot of flights in/out of LBA during lockdown, so quite possibly, I've also noticed a lot of old military vehicles being transported up & down the A1(M), that I suspect will be heading to Ukraine, but I would have thought they would be delivered to an RAF Airfield for transporting out there, as that is where the trained load handlers are, and it's out of sight so that the public can't see whats being sent out there

Locally the military were running the first testing stations during lockdown. They had the staff and transport required.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

See, l think, the last photograph

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/t...esting-geographs.215788/page-290#post-6419747

 

[Cycleops]

Film about the Walrus and ongoing restoration at Duxford:


View: https://youtu.be/AfKCdiU6p8Y

 

[DaveReading]

Film about the Walrus and ongoing restoration at Duxford:


View: https://youtu.be/AfKCdiU6p8Y

That will be fabulous to see!

 

[gbb]

Airbus M400 flew over yesterday headed south west. Oxford way perhaps, often see military transports headed that direction.

 

[Cycleops]

I know it's not of much relevance to most on here but I thought I would report that Ghana is in the final stages of preparations to re launch it's flag carrier later this year. An order was placed for three 787s in 2019.

There have been past iterations which failed , mostly due to mismanagement and corruption leading to them wound up. Their last aircraft a DC 10 is still around after being turned into a restaurant and is situated right next to the new Kotoka airport in Accra which is very well planned and executed airport and has been voted the best in Africa.
Considering there isn't a flag carrier anywhere that is making money I hope this time things can work out.

https://simpleflying.com/ghana-airlines-q3-2022-launch/

 

[Jameshow]

Airbus M400 flew over yesterday headed south west. Oxford way perhaps, often see military transports headed that direction.

Brize Norton..

 

[figbat]

Brize Norton..

Yep, that’s where the C17s and A400Ms are based.

 

[DaveReading]

There have been past iterations which failed , mostly due to mismanagement and corruption leading to them wound up. Their last aircraft a DC 10 is still around after being turned into a restaurant and is situated right next to the new Kotoka airport in Accra which is very well planned and executed airport and has been voted the best in Africa.
Considering there isn't a flag carrier anywhere that is making money I hope this time things can work out.

There is a very old saying in the airline industry to the effect that the way to make a small fortune is to start with a large one.

 

[Bromptonaut]

Airbus M400 flew over yesterday headed south west. Oxford way perhaps, often see military transports headed that direction.

The Daventry Radar Corridor runs from a little south of Peterborough across Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire. Military traffic including Hercules, A400M, C-17 and A330 transports use it several times a day between Brize and points east. Other types like the B-52 when out stationed at Fairford and the Bell Osprey tilt rotor are also common sights/sounds.

Aircraft normally transit the corridor at 10,000 feet (or rather FL100) so that they're crossing the N/S traffic from LHR etc and to/from Birmingham or East Mids in a safe and predictable way. Birmingham inbounds from the south tend to be either below at FL90 or above FL110 depending on whether BHX's runway is being used towards the North West (33) or SE (15).