The plane enthusiasts thread

[Illaveago]

I heard 2 B1's going out yesterday heading South West. I couldn't see them due to cloud but my brother saw them .

 

[gbb]

Another thing you see regarding military aircraft, is occasional aircraft in the air, being tracked by adsb, but give no identification (or type iirc). I have occasionally noted it with stuff flying out of the south west.

 

[gbb]

Interestingly, gauging height of aircraft is guesswork for the most part, even low flyers.
Thursday, just driving along the A1M, Morborne radio towers just to the side, an A400 flew right overhead and slightly to one side of the mast....so 500ft then. Seems to be the favoured altitude for them, nearly always see them at this height.

 

[DaveReading]

Another thing you see regarding military aircraft, is occasional aircraft in the air, being tracked by adsb, but give no identification (or type iirc). I have occasionally noted it with stuff flying out of the south west.

Planes don't normally transmit details of their ID or type. It's up to the flight trackers to work that out from the transponder address.

 

[gbb]

Planes don't normally transmit details of their ID or type. It's up to the flight trackers to work that out from the transponder address.

Doubtless. The intent is the key, staying under the radar (metaphorically speaking) in all probability.

 

[dicko]

I saw some interesting planes whilst at Castle Combe race circuit yesterday. A 2 seater Spitfire flew around the circuit and a dark blue biplane circled near the track. A bit later in the afternoon I saw 3 dots away towards Yate flying across towards the South. I took a photo which still isn't very clear on my camera which looks like 2 biplanes and a high wing monoplane. One of the biplanes looks like an old SE5!

Like this one ? My brother at an Auckland airfield 2014

 

[gbb]

Coming across a few more if dad's paintings...

(Probable) Nieuport 11 or 12 facing a (probable) Fokker Eindekker

 

[Illaveago]

Coming across a few more if dad's paintings...
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(Probable) Nieuport 11 or 12 facing a (probable) Fokker Eindekker

Where is is as I can't work out the glass reflection?

 

[Punkawallah]

Eindekker, certainly, although I think with the half cowl on the engine, forward stagger and ‘v’ strut wings I’d incline to some sort of Neuport. Can’t remember a two seat version off the top of my head.

 

[DaveReading]

Eindekker, certainly, although I think with the half cow on the engine, forward stagger and ‘v’ strut wings I’d incline to some sort of NeI port. Can’t remember a two seat version off the top of my head.

The OP has already suggested a Nieuport 11 or 12 - the latter was a two-seater.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Boeing doing convertibles now - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67899564

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Boeing doing convertibles now - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67899564

Wow - that would scare my wife witless!
She always like both of us to have our belt done up whenever possible - just in case - which a lot of people don;t like doing
but it does make sense - even bad turbulence can cause havoc if people and not tied down

 

[figbat]

Boeing doing convertibles now - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67899564

Have been since 1988

 

[Illaveago]

Boeing doing convertibles now - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67899564

I see that Boeing are maintaining their standards!

 

[a.twiddler]

Have been since 1988
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As I recall. that was a well used aircraft, was a few decades old, not one that had been delivered new to the airline just a few months ago. It's surprising that such a long lived and well tried design should be having structural problems in its newest iteration. Computer problems, well that was shocking enough for a company like Boeing but bits falling off in this day and age?

It's not like the pioneering age of aviation where it would be knocked together in a shed by a bloke with a slide rule in his pocket, a pencil behind his ear, and a fag hanging out of the corner of his mouth. He would have been the test pilot, too.