The plane enthusiasts thread

[Illaveago]

https://www.radarbox.com/data/aircraft/BROU#

Puts one nearby. Does the time look right?

That must have been it .
I'm impressed with myself that I identified it !

 

[Illaveago]

I used my old Macdonald World Air Power Guide book from the 60's to identify the plane. It shows a drawing of the side view of the aircraft with a brief description.

 

[classic33]

Don't know about radarbox but having seen Flightradar24 demonstrating flight congestion on BBC news earlier on I had a look at that. Useful amount of usability on the free version even if you need to refresh it every half hour or so, and it returns to what you were looking at. Having followed a flight from Liverpool John Lennon which happened to pass near my house which I heard above the cloud cover dead on time with the screen info I was suitably impressed. Some experimentation showed info on military and private flights too. No doubt it has its drawbacks for the cognoscenti but it's all new to me. Might be tempted to go for the paid version sometime in the future.

UK Air Traffic Control had a problem earlier this morning. Leading to stricter flight rules being used.

 

[DaveReading]

No. An otter still has a single rudder .
I think it was a Max Holste MH 1521 Broussard. A French plane built between 1954 /59.

This example is one of the relatively rare civil versions of the Broussard - it has an exemption from the CAA that allows it to display (fake) French Air Force markings instead of its allocated UK civil registration.

It's usually to be found as Oaksey Park airfield.

 

[Illaveago]

This example is one of the relatively rare civil versions of the Broussard - it has an exemption from the CAA that allows it to display (fake) French Air Force markings instead of its allocated UK civil registration.

It's usually to be found as Oaksey Park airfield.

Oaksey airfield is near Kemble . I went there years ago.

 

[gbb]

Spitfire G-CTIX (twin seat) just flown over Peterborough earlier then over the fens around Ramsey and back toward Duxford

 

[Dolorous Edd]

Flew in an Embraer E195-E2 a few days ago. As the engines spooled up they emitted a mini Vulcan howl. Apparently the engines they use (Pratt & Whitney PW1000Gs I think?) are known for this. Never noticed it on an aircraft before, I definitely came over all DEFCON 1.

 

[DaveReading]

Flew in an Embraer E195-E2 a few days ago. As the engines spooled up they emitted a mini Vulcan howl. Apparently the engines they use (Pratt & Whitney PW1000Gs I think?) are known for this. Never noticed it on an aircraft before, I definitely came over all DEFCON 1.

The "G" is a clue that it's a geared-fan engine. While they have been around for years, it's only relatively recently that they have been used on airliners.

 

[rogerzilla]

I spent half an hour at Royal Albert Dock yesterday, where you get an unrestricted view of the whole London City runway just across the water. Due to the short runway, you're mainly going to see British Airways Embraer E190 jets, but they're satisfyingly close and noisy.

 

[gbb]

View: https://youtu.be/S1TA7sTkQsM?feature=shared


The one thing that struck me...the B17, the Catalina, when you stand near them, they're not as big as I thought they'd be. Now the Short Sunderland, on static display...is freekin HUGE.

 

[Illaveago]

View: https://youtu.be/S1TA7sTkQsM?feature=shared


The one thing that struck me...the B17, the Catalina, when you stand near them, they're not as big as I thought they'd be. Now the Short Sunderland, on static display...is freekin HUGE.

I thought the same about the Liberator .

 

[Dolorous Edd]

On Lake Zurich today (yeah I know). Two aircraft flew overhead 'in formation' - something that looked very much like a P38 Lightning (twin boom, with a noticeable lump in each boom) plus another more normal (but I assume vintage) aircraft that I did not recognise with fat roughly constant chord wings with very squared off wingtips

 

[Drago]

View: https://youtu.be/S1TA7sTkQsM?feature=shared


The one thing that struck me...the B17, the Catalina, when you stand near them, they're not as big as I thought they'd be. Now the Short Sunderland, on static display...is freekin HUGE.

The Herky always seemed pretty big to me, but...

The Galaxy is a serious chunk of airplane.

 

[Cycleops]

I spent half an hour at Royal Albert Dock yesterday, where you get an unrestricted view of the whole London City runway just across the water. Due to the short runway, you're mainly going to see British Airways Embraer E190 jets, but they're satisfyingly close and noisy.

Did you see many BA 146s? Getting quite old now. Last time I was in London City there were quite a few, mainly Swissair.
When I was running the Hobbystores shop in Chelmsford I had a customer who used to fly them, said you had run the engines almost flat out all the time because of their meagre power output.

 

[Illaveago]

The Herky always seemed pretty big to me, but...

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The Galaxy is a serious chunk of airplane.

I too thought that the Hercules was big until I saw a programme on the Beeb of the airport on the Falkland Islands of one parked next to a Vickers VC 10. The VC10 made it look tiny .