The plane enthusiasts thread

[Drago]

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.

I am partial to a bit of P51 goodness, but P47 Thunderbolt is my fave. Brute force solutions always appeal to me.

 

[figbat]

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.

I present the Martin Baker MB5. Developed too late to overcome the jet age, but what a plane it could have been.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

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

Considering they were based on the Comets, it still would have been considerably easier doing it then, than when hurtling through the air after the ruddy thing has disintegrated in mid ai... Sorry.

 

[Cycleops]

I am partial to a bit of P51 goodness, but P47 Thunderbolt is my fave. Brute force solutions always appeal to me.

You could call the P47 the Pit Bull of the skies. Didn't it have the same engine as the Vought Corsair F4U, P&W Double Wasp?

 

[DaveReading]

Didn't it have the same engine as the Vought Corsair F4U, P&W Double Wasp?

Yes, the R-2800 (as it was known as by the military) was pretty ubiquitous.

 

[Illaveago]

You could call the P47 the Pit Bull of the skies. Didn't it have the same engine as the Vought Corsair F4U, P&W Double Wasp?

Apparently it weighed the same as a Bristol Beaufighter.

 

[a.twiddler]

Considering they were based on the Comets, it would have been considerably easier than hurtling through the air after the ruddy thing has disintegrated in mid ai... Sorry.

The lessons learned about metal fatigue from the early Comet disasters were made freely available to other manufacturers, for the greater good, even though it led to the loss of the technological lead which the British aviation industry had in jet powered airliners post WW2. It could be argued that the Americans benefited most from this, with their vast production capacity. Later versions of the Comet were completely different beasts from the early aircraft but by the time the Comet 4 came out much larger (and thus more economic) aircraft such as the Boeing 707 were becoming available. The comet 4 was the first pure jet airliner to cross the Atlantic though that lead was soon matched by other aircraft.

 

[Cycleops]

I present the Martin Baker MB5. Developed too late to overcome the jet age, but what a plane it could have been.

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The influences and design cues from the P51 and Spitfire can be clearly seen.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I was watching Classic Casualty on 'Drama' earlier and it was the plane crash.

They used G - AVFM, which was a Trident 2E by then withdrawn and being used for training at Bristol Lulsgate.

In Casualty, it was flying for (obviously fictitious company) 'Pathfinder', which also looked suspiciously like a modernised version of BA Negus livery with Negus style 'Pathfinder' lettering and a compass logo on the tail.

On looking up 'FM', I see it was eventually scrapped but the Cockpit was kept and is now preserved at the South Wales Aviation Museum at St Athans:

https://www.planespotters.net/airfr...s-121-trident-2-g-avfm-british-airways/edw8mm

 

[Drago]

There was an episode of Crashualty many moons back which involved a helicopter. My Dad, who was.selling helicopters for his living back then, was incandescent with rage that theyd used not only three helicopters in the episode when showing the crash but three different models at that!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

There was an episode of Crashualty many moons back which involved a helicopter. My Dad, who was.selling helicopters for his living back then, was incandescent with rage that theyd used not only three helicopters in the episode when showing the crash but three different models at that!

Railway things are just as bad for continuity errors.

That said, there was an episode a few weeks back that had some fantastic footage of a RAF Seaking, which was supposedly rescuing injured climbers from a large gorge type thing.

 

[Jameshow]

Railway things are just as bad for continuity errors.

That said, there was an episode a few weeks back that had some fantastic footage of a RAF Seaking, which was supposedly rescuing injured climbers from a large gorge type thing.

Were the helicopter footage in the recent fastnet documentary historically correct?!🤔🤔🤔

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Were the helicopter footage in the recent fastnet documentary historically correct?!🤔🤔🤔

I haven't seen it, so don't know.

 

[DaveReading]

I was watching Classic Casualty on 'Drama' earlier and it was the plane crash.

They used G - AVFM, which was a Trident 2E by then withdrawn and being used for training at Bristol Lulsgate.

In Casualty, it was flying for (obviously fictitious company) 'Pathfinder', which also looked suspiciously like a modernised version of BA Negus livery with Negus style 'Pathfinder' lettering and a compass logo on the tail.

On looking up 'FM', I see it was eventually scrapped but the Cockpit was kept and is now preserved at the South Wales Aviation Museum at St Athans:

https://www.planespotters.net/airfr...s-121-trident-2-g-avfm-british-airways/edw8mm

I've always had a soft spot for the Trident, it was a joy to work on, though I didn't enjoy the one occasion where I had to crawl inside the wing.

 

[Jameshow]

I've always had a soft spot for the Trident, it was a joy to work on, though I didn't enjoy the one occasion where I had to crawl inside the wing.

Did you not have a ferret to hand?!!