The plane enthusiasts thread

[Jameshow]

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.

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Funny little plane now they all seem so beige in design!

 

[MichaelW2]

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.

Catalina is a legend. Any warplane with a kitchen on board sounds good to me.

 

[simongt]

Any warplane with a kitchen on board sounds good to me.

The Short Sunderlands of Coastal Command all had kitchens - !

 

[DRM]

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

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The Galaxy is a serious chunk of airplane.

I saw one coming into land at Newcastle, from the Brunswick industrial estate, you genuinely wonder how on earth something that size can fly, despite a basic idea of the principles of how aircraft do fly, the approach line had the thing really low as it went past, a very impressive sight

 

[DCBassman]

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 .

When the VC10 was new, it was pointed out that its horizontal tail surface was the same size as a Spitfire...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

When the VC10 was new, it was pointed out that its horizontal tail surface was the same size as a Spitfire...

I do love a 'Viccy 10', I wont deny (also I'd prefer a Hurricane)

 

[figbat]

I do love a 'Viccy 10', I wont deny.

Me too - I grew up around Brize Norton and my dad worked on the VC10s.

 

[Jameshow]

When the VC10 was new, it was pointed out that its horizontal tail surface was the same size as a Spitfire...

Wing?

 

[DCBassman]

Wing?

The same size as the whole plane, near enough...but yes, same span. EDIT: in fact, over two metres wider!

 

[MichaelW2]

Saw a youtube vid last night with test pilot legend Eric Winkle Brown explaining why US fighters with the exception of P51 were no good as v high alt escort fighters but the Spitfire had the best high alt handling. All to do with critical Mach.

View: https://youtu.be/VQzSQUQ33OQ?si=fEU6g2rSZaf0c8YJ

 

[Jameshow]

Tbh spitfire + descendants and p51 were the pinnicle of prop aeroplanes. Once jets came in there wasn't the development, until turbo prop regional jets and faster trainers.

 

[figbat]

The same size as the whole plane, near enough...but yes, same span. EDIT: in fact, over two metres wider!

As a kid I used to look at the VC10 tail plane and wonder if it could be made into an aircraft.

 

[Landsurfer]

The Short Sunderlands of Coastal Command all had kitchens - !

Nimrods had a kitchen .... i kept getting stuffed to do coffees when we were in flight ...

 

[DaveReading]

Making coffee at 15,000 feet in an unpressurised aircraft is interesting ...

 

[Landsurfer]

Making coffee at 15,000 feet in an unpressurised aircraft is interesting ...

Getting the water boiled would be the hardest part ............