Am i the only person here interested in Heavy Aviation Metal?

[Bealman]

OK... the local paper informs me that the 747-400 will arrive at our local airport between 7.40 and 8am on Sunday. The airport is about 10-15 minutes south of where I live, so it should rattle our windows a bit.

If I get a pic I'll post it here. 

[Agrippa]

Believe it or not it was once possible to fly BEA from Glasgow to Edinburgh, my brother
was a planespotter and still in short trousers and did it unaccompanied.

Some good pix in this topic, is it only for civil aviation?

[Trainfish]

my brother was a planespotter and still in short trousers and did it unaccompanied.

Was he ashamed of his legs then?

[Agrippa]

 

and he was only 25 at the time.....

[Tom U]

my brother was a planespotter and still in short trousers and did it unaccompanied.

Was he ashamed of his legs then?

Oh!! by unaccompanied, I thought he meant without the benifit of a backing group, or massed pipe band, sort of...mono capella (is that wearing one Tam o' Shanter??)

[Trainfish]

Believe it or not it was once possible to fly BEA from Glasgow to Edinburgh, my brother
was a planespotter and still in short trousers and did it unaccompanied.

Some good pix in this topic, is it only for civil aviation?

I think I've found his shorts!

[Agrippa]

Gawd, these gags are getting worse......

[javlinfaw7]

I did that journey myself in a British Airways Viscount 802 the flight then went to Aberdeen

[Trainfish]

Gawd, these gags are getting worse......

You're right, they're pants!





We need a "Get my coat" smiley

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Shortest flight I have been on was Changi to Paya Lebar in Singapore.
As the crow flies, only about 15km - but an A300-600 couldn't fly it like a crow, we had to go way out to sea to catch an approach path back into Paya Lebar.

...short flights, you wanna try choppers.  Anything between 20 mins and 4h wearing this type of gear gear:





...Choppers a re pretty darn big now (some foot room at least, your 'oppos knees still up in your privates but not so friendly now) -just wish they made the windows a tad larger! I still think the Eurocopter is still pretty big for what it does these days.



All that safety brief stuff in modern fixed wing craft these days, I reckon it's 95% placebo! 99.9% in a chopeer.

[Bealman]

Getting all excited here... 747 due over me house in 9 hours! Hopefully I'll get some pics.

It is quite a famous plane, as it was the first to fly non-stop from Sydney to London, in a time which apparently is still a record.

Three of it's engines will be removed for reuse by Qantas, so says the paper.

[Agrippa]

Three of it's engines will be removed for reuse by Qantas, so says the paper.

Presumably after landing....

[Jon898]

I once worked with a guy who had been an instructor pilot in choppers for the US Marines (in Somalia, no less).  He explained that helicopters don't really fly, they just vibrate so much that the earth rejects them.

[Bealman]

Well the 747 I've been ranting on about just flew over the house. Not as noisy as I thought it was going to be! I managed a couple of pics, but they're not real good.

[Bealman]

As I said, not real good.... could be any old plane anywhere. Still, that tree is in my backyard, honest, guvner.
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