The plane enthusiasts thread

[Drago]

Kike a kind of V/STOL Deltic?

 

[Landsurfer]

Who’s actually using the VSTOL variant as a main combat airframe ?
Are the majority of F-35’s the non VSTOL variant ?

 

[DaveReading]

Who’s actually using the VSTOL variant as a main combat airframe ?
Are the majority of F-35’s the non VSTOL variant ?

AFAIK, the only current/planned operators of the F-35B are the USA, UK, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Singapore.

 

[MichaelW2]

I think they got fed up waiting for someone to invent a turbofan electric generator.

Done

https://www.honeywell.com/us/en/pre...power-hybrid-electric-aircraft-run-on-biofuel

 

[MichaelW2]

Who’s actually using the VSTOL variant as a main combat airframe ?
Are the majority of F-35’s the non VSTOL variant ?

The US Marine Corps dropped their first bomb onto a person from F35B in 2018.

 

[Drago]

The US Marine Corps dropped their first bomb onto a person from F35B in 2018.

And then the following week they dropped one on an enemy!

 

[DaveReading]

Done

https://www.honeywell.com/us/en/pre...power-hybrid-electric-aircraft-run-on-biofuel

Not really.

The linked article, as the title suggests, describes a turbogenerator whose purpose is to generate the electricity needed for an aircraft's electric motor(s).

A turbofan, on the other hand, is an engine that directly produces thrust to propel an aircraft.

 

[TheDoctor]

Kike a kind of V/STOL Deltic?

Now that I would like to see!

 

[gbb]

As our factory is right on the end of the former RAF Alconbury runway (the base is now a development of industry, housing etc)..occasionally you hear a very low heavy prop aircraft pass but its usually too late by the time you get out of the building to take a gander.
Whoooooooosh, over went a C130 Hercules type military aircraft, watched as it flew about 200ft above the now being dug up runway then banked off and into the distance.
Perhaps they were former residents to the base, having a look as they flew past

Low and loud , cant beat it .

 

[DCBassman]

You've never seen a Herc land until you see one using a tailhook and arrestor wire...

 

[DCBassman]

Actually, they didn't, but they could pull up on the short Stanley runway almost as quick as a Phantom on a wire!
Harriers...who needs runways?

 

[neil_merseyside]

You've never seen a Herc land until you see one using a tailhook and arrestor wire...

I've seen the videos of one landing on an aircraft carrier but that was without wires, how short is the landing with wires?

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I've seen the videos of one landing on an aircraft carrier but that was without wires, how short is the landing with wires?

On an arrestor, about 60 yards.
Normal landing length depends on all sorts of factors, headwind and load being key ones, but they can stop empty in a headwind within a few hundred feet.

 

[DCBassman]

On an arrestor, about 60 yards.
Normal landing length depends on all sorts of factors, headwind and load being key ones, but they can stop empty in a headwind within a few hundred feet.

The runway at Stanley was far too short for anything military really, the Hercs were the only large aircraft to use it without RHAG. The building of Mt Pleasant was under way during my stint. As a denizen of Ground Radio Flight, we had a grandstand view of the airfield.

 

[DaveReading]

Normal landing length depends on all sorts of factors, headwind and load being key ones, but they can stop empty in a headwind within a few hundred feet.

And there's always a headwind on a carrier.