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  1. MJB

    Anyone else like Birds AND planes?

    At one stage, each airline would have its own flight planning department that supplied, originally on paper, all relevant documentation for each flight - these included Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs), current airfield info (departure, en route and destination airfields, diversion airfields)...
  2. MJB

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    The Red Arrows display season is now over. They go to Cyprus to hone or amend various current displays (next years' rules may have changed) or develop and practice new routines. MJB
  3. MJB

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    From the videos, it wasn't a head-on collision, but rather the P-63 turned into the B-17, an attempted overtaking manoeuvre** resulting in a collision because the arc of the P-63's turn wasn't tight enough. MJB **According to reporting of ATC instructions...
  4. MJB

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    The image is reversed, judging by the lettering and numerals... MJB
  5. MJB

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    Perhaps enhanced endurance is not so critical for the WC135... The designation does suggest bog-standard... MJB
  6. MJB

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    Turbojet engine spares can't be abundant these days... MJB
  7. MJB

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    Two Ospreys**, in loose echelon port, flew north at c200kt 500ft over the town yesterday... MJB**No, not Pandion haliaetus...
  8. MJB

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    From comparing the exhaust patterns in the video, it looks like No 4 engine was shut down, and so the approach would require minimum yaw compensation. MJB
  9. MJB

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    The account mentions 'a mishap on take-off', but given that reporters generally don't have even the most basic understanding of aircraft, your suggestion is, so far, more plausible, for that offers more explanation as to why several other people on the flight deck were injured, presumably from...
  10. MJB

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    I don't know. Where does it say he was in the hover? I merely noted that it wouldn't work in that mode... The word 'would' here is used in the context "to talk about hypotheses (when we imagine something)", which is standard, everyday usage... MJB
  11. MJB

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    That wouldn't work in the hover... MJB
  12. MJB

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    But it does have floats that in flight form the wingtips, but are lowered for water landings. Technically, the Catalina is an amphibian, although some, I understand can land only on water, the undercarriage either being removed or made inoperative...
  13. MJB

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    The BBC quite rightly, has an item on the memorial in Normandy to honour veterans, noting that the unveiling was accompanied by a fly-past by the Red Arrows. Unfortunately they unthinkingly used a stock photo of the Red Arrows when they flew Gnats and not Hawks... See the image here: British...
  14. MJB

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    At the suggestion of my radar Trade Manager on 111, Chief Technician Chalky White, we began a first-line investigation of the Phantom FGR2's AWG-12 radar, whose mean time between failure (MTBF) in primary mode was 1.3 flying hours, to discover if there was anything basic contributing to that...
  15. MJB

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    By that time, had 43 got FGR2 with AWG-12 radars? When I did the engineering plan for Treble-One's move to Leuchars from Coningsby in 1975, 43 had numerous (18?) FGA1 Phantoms with AWG-11 radars. 111 had only 10 aircraft out of a 12-aircraft establishment: another was on major servicing and...
  16. MJB

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    Yes. As you can (just) discern from the full-size image, there are tiny wisps of cloud, which could indicate that the air is supersaturated with tiny water droplets, but clouds haven't fully formed because the air is relatively free of fine particulates such as dust. However, an aircraft slicing...
  17. MJB

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    The matting comes into its own when the grass is waterlogged. I've seen a Sea King bogged down after delivering a casualty in Inverness... It needed airbags inflated underneath it before it could lift off. MJB
  18. MJB

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    At 2.54 running time, something (a strop?) drops off the aircraft. Not one of the USAF's better 'aid to the civil power' days... MJB
  19. MJB

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    Given that the Hawk fleet including the Red Arrows has been grounded, probably in an abundance of caution, that suggests a technical problem. Perhaps the APU didn't deploy or there were more red or orange warnings illuminated than normally expected from an engine shutdown... MJB PS The latest...
  20. MJB

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    It's interesting that there was no fire. If the crew had engine failure at a reasonable altitude, the shut-down drills would allow the engine to cool through windmilling, and they may have been trying to reach Culdrose for a dead-stick landing. The Hawk has an auxiliary power unit, which should...
  21. MJB

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    When I was at RAF Lyneham in the 1960s, if you mentioned in print where an individual aircraft had been in the past week, the Official Secrets Act would be brandished ominously at you! How times have changed... Mind you, at that time there were no security fences encircling UK RAF airfields and...
  22. MJB

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    Airbus A400M, probably one of the RAF's fleet. MJB
  23. MJB

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    Google Translate in this instance, works well enough! MJB
  24. MJB

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    I've seen a few aircraft like that from countries whose aircraft engine life was appreciably shorter than in the West... From looking at videos shot from the ground and taking the timing of the event as accurate from flight tracking websites (19 minutes), I suspect the crew had already...
  25. MJB

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    I noted this story on the BBC News website (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-55446454), but I didn't recognise one of the aircraft's name and model designation, and so I looked it up. ("Meanwhile, the US ski-equipped Basler aircraft flew 2,200km from the US McMurdo research station to...
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