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[Pilotasso]

Hey Bucic - when you say terrain clearance will this do? :D

 

 

:shocking: ooohhhhhhhhh! Thats Madeira island--Funchal airport (I call it airstrip)--. Known for European tourists for its near tropical weather and bombastic new years fire works. I lived there from 1982 to 84. The runway sections on pillars did not exist back then. We called it, the "airliner aircraft carrier", because it was very hard to land there and planes would apply full brakes and reversers on touch down. Quite a spectacle for the people passing the nearby road (they even stoped to watch). for the passengers it was like a roller coaster, both on aproach as the touchdown. NOT for the faint hearted! There was a fatal accident in 1978, a liner skided on landing and flew off the edge into the sea. Im am not joking.

 

 

 

2 years ago a 747 landed there to test the new runway patch :D

Made it..barely :D

Edited July 12, 2010 by Pilotasso

[Bucic]

I took a closer look... and... where the hell aircrafts go after they taxi out of the runway?!

[Pilotasso]

Its the grey patch near the controll tower. Its small and it can only stand a few planes. They do rotate fast though.

 

Theres an alternate airport, is Porto santo island a few miles away. Its basicaly asphault on a patch of sand just above sea level :D

[Lucas_From_Hell]

To the lower deck? :D

 

As someone mentioned reversers, I noticed that pretty much every time, independant of the runway lenght, Brazilian airline pilots apply it on landing. It is indeed safer in some way, but does anyone know any extra reason for such proceedure to be standard (or for not doing it in Europe)?

[Pilotasso]

Its not used in europe for fuel economy. Liners use it on this airport, so you avoid unscheduled bath :D

[L4key]

My personal aviation commitee would certainly ban this... thing.

BTW, is it towable? :D

 

:megalol:

 

 

To the lower deck? :D

 

As someone mentioned reversers, I noticed that pretty much every time, independant of the runway lenght, Brazilian airline pilots apply it on landing. It is indeed safer in some way, but does anyone know any extra reason for such proceedure to be standard (or for not doing it in Europe)?

 

Think it's a fuel saving measure.

[Antartis]

The UK has lifted the covers off its Taranis unmanned combat air system technology demonstrator, which will be flown for the first time in 2011.

Revealed at BAE Systems' Warton site in Lancashire on 12 July, Taranis is the product of a more than £140 million ($210million) project involving the UK Ministry of Defence and an industry team including BAE, GE Aviation, Qinetiq and Rolls-Royce.

The development programme was launched in December 2006, and is intended to prove the UK's ability to produce a stealthy UCAS while maintaining sovereign capability over its technologies and equipment.

 

© Crown Copyright

 

"We have no dependencies on others beyond the UK," says Nigel Whitehead., group managing director of BAE's Programmes and Support operating unit. Should an operational requirement stem from the Taranis effort, a system could possibly be available in the 2018-20 period, he adds.

Air Chief Marshal Simon Bryant, commander-in-chief of the Royal Air Force's Air Command organisation, says a future UCAS could meet three of the service's key operating needs. These cover control of the air, attack and intelligence/situational awareness, he adds.

However, any future need hinges on the outcome of the Strategic Defence and Security Review, which will conclude around October.

 

© Crown Copyright

 

Whitehead confirms that Team Taranis has encountered "significant integration challenges" during the programme to date, citing areas such as aerodynamics, engine and systems integration and the demands of manufacturing a low-observable structure.

"A number of these technologies have been looked at before, but not all brought together in one platform," he says.

BAE has now invested more than £100 million in developing unmanned systems technology such as those needed to support autonomous operations, he adds.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/07/12/344300/pictures-uk-unveils-taranis-stealth-combat-demonstrator.html

[Avilator]

Think it's a fuel saving measure.

I would presume that it saves wear on the parts as well.

 

BTW, there are some great pics of Madeira on airliners.net.

[L4key]

We have the money for that!! Jeez...

[walker450]

Unmanned warthog mentioned:

 

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/darpa-plots-death-from-above-on-demand/

[jpm1]

Don't know if anyone's seen these - pic 2 is fairly impressive!

 

http://www.airlineempires.net/blog/2008/04/british-airways-777-lhr-crash-pictures/

 

impressive ... pilot skills !!!

[IvanK]

Do yourselves a favour and read the pilots own book "30 seconds to impact" by Brian Burkhill. What happenned to him (and his family) after this incident is a travesty !

[mikoyan]

Old school flying :pilotfly:

 

[mikoyan]

DC3 from "Aerorapidisimo" super-fast airlines!. This flying Gram pa goes to the forgotten corners of Colombia which the State, nor the violence can't reach. (shame that it is on spanish) The little town on this video runs tanks to the old Dc-3; the only truck in the town, was brought there by the DC3; The energy generator for the town, was brought by the dc3, the meat, eggs, fruits, household electronics everything! when they are loading the airplane the captain says to the truck driver "watch, don't scratch your truck" the captain said that because the truck was too close to his jewel airplane! (minute 9:00 fist video)

 

 

Part 2

 

Edited July 13, 2010 by mikoyan

[mvsgas]

This is old, just looked cool I think

http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060818-F-2171A-194.JPG

Live fire

An F-16 Fighting Falcon fires an AIM-9 missile off the coast of South Korea during a live-fire

exercise Aug. 18. The F-16 is assigned to the 80th Fighter Squadron at Kunsan Air Base, South

Korea. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Allen)

 

http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/060816-F-2171A-072.JPG

Live air-to-air missiles fired first time in Korea

An F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot fires one of the first air-to-air missiles launched by a South

Korean-based F-16 on Aug. 16. The live fire is part of a process for implementing a weapon

system evaluation program for jets assigned to Kunsan Air Base, Korea. (U.S. Air Force

photo/Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Allen)

[Namenlos Ein]

J-15.

 

[Lucas_From_Hell]

:doh:

 

...aaaand China reminds us once again of why it has such fame.

 

As a friend of mine said, "Ukranian MoD guys can sell their mothers, as long as you're paying well" :music_whistling:

 

China was looking to buy Su-33s from Russia. Initially, it wanted 50, but then they said only 2 were needed for, ermm... "testing". Russia said it wouldn't be selling anything less than 24.

 

Quite reasonable, considering the recent Su-27SK/J-11B incident (and others involving license-built aircraft), but as we see now, it didn't stop them.

[Pilotasso]

Is that the PAK-FENG???

[mikoyan]

Look at it on the bright side; the Chinese copying the su-27 and su-33 means that in the future this birds will be available for the civilian market

like it happened with al the migs copies.

So... they were able to buy su-33s from Ukraine? Sukoi and Lockheed are going to have to improve security surrounding the t-50 and f-35 or else we will see j-35s and pak-chengs j-50 :megalol:

[Lucas_From_Hell]

As far as I know, they bought two prototypes from Ukraine and worked with them.

 

Also, the carrier they're planning to operate the J-15 from is a Admiral Kuznetsov-class carrier bought from - guess who - Ukraine.

 

So, again, "sell their mothers, as long as you pay well".

 

There's no need to improve security because of the Chinese. Sukhoi and Lockheed just need to keep it away from Ukraine :music_whistling:

[winz]

A L-39 Albatros crashed two days ago in Czech Republic during a training flight. Pilots reported fire in engine. Both, an experienced instructor and a young student ejected safely after bringing the plane out of urbanized area.

[Bucic]

A L-39 Albatros crashed two days ago in Czech Republic during a training flight. Pilots reported fire in engine. Both, an experienced instructor and a young student ejected safely after bringing the plane out of urbanized area.

 

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=75601

[Namenlos Ein]

Operation Frantic

 

 

After Luftwaffe attack on the night of 21 June 1944.

 

Picture of the memorial in Poltava, Ukraine:

 

Additional photos:

 

• http://photos.state.gov/libraries/moscow/29754/WWII/
  
• http://www.99bombgroup.org/
  

Poltawa 1944 – US Bomber aus der Ukraine

Edited July 14, 2010 by Namenlos Ein

[Namenlos Ein]

French Air Force Rafales Go Nuclear

 

 

[Teknetinium]