slowpoke

not a plane spotting geek lol just thought its gonna be interesting seeing the plane we will all be flying on in a few years time take its first steps

confirmed today it will depart tolouse 10.30 am local time so 8.30 am here

should be live on sky news or some news channel

matt

PhilM

Amazing feat of engineering

Many a bitter yank out there though (Boeing 7E7 is better etc lol)

Rhys

Cool, though i think i will still be asleep when it takes off

slowpoke

apparently now with bst and french local it will be 9.30 in the uk she takes her first steps

is that right pet if in tolouse she takes off at 10.30 ????????

matt

Andreas

Any bets going?

slowpoke

with regards to what ???????

Exeter J

Suppose it is a small forward step, compared to the big backwards one taken when Concorde was grounded

slowpoke

i hope the bloody thing does lift off ok part of me is inside that plane lol

jamie - still to me classed as a backward step since concorde left the skies, good thing is i can walk round concorde anytime now as one is at manchester airport

matt

rs_daz

Its too damn big I hate planes as it is lol

I just sence more death as it can carrie more plp

Exeter J

Like the 747 eh!! - Get these statistics.. out of the 1000 made, 1.5% have crashed not including the ones that have been blown up by terrorists etc!

- I sometimes used to here the Sonic Boom from Concorde here as they hit the afterburners once out over the atlantic

slowpoke

i so wish i could of flown on concorde the true lady of the skies

funny fact........... in all the time concorde was in service the RAF had nothing that could catch it lol

at least i can say ive sat in the cockpit of it even if it is a museum peice now

matt

rs_daz

My old mans been in an antinoff or how ever u spell it now thats a massive plane ..Do these planes have to sit on the run way with full power with the brakes on b4 take off like them

slowpoke

pmsl not with the new trent 900 engines they have on the a380 they down !

matt

EscortWRC

The Antonov 124s that have flown into Boeing Field in Seattle have to run their engines at full power for 5 min with the brakes on to close up the clearances in the 'hot section' before taking off.

Western engines use 'active clearance control' which is not a feature on the Russian engines.

I'm going to let time be the judge on whether or not the A380 is a success, but I suspect that it will only be used successfully on trans-oceanic routes and for cargo.

I know for certain that I don't want to show up at an airport with 600 other people on the same plane and go to baggage claim. Its also very likely that you won't be the only plane there at the time, creating an even bigger mess.

There are only 4 airports in the US that have expressed an interest in upgrading the facilities to accomodate the A380. LAX, JFK, Memphis (cargo), and one other one that I can't remember. The common explanation is 'why spend a billion dollars for 2 or 3 flights/day?' Hard to argue with that logic.

vroooom ptssssh

any pics of the bad boy?

JoeE30

yup here she is...................

MadMac

Azrael

I think you overdid it a little bit. "Air supremacy" version of the Tornado has been in the service for quite a while. And it goes how fast Mach 2? Or maybe my memory is failing me.


And there always are middle range AA missles and long range SA missles.

rs_daz

vroooom ptssssh

Thats a big lad innit, well onwards and upwards for the aitrtour industry, cant be bad

Anonymous

small aint it

MadMac

I had a look into this cus I couldn't believe it and gotta admit I was surprised!

Every version of Tornado I could find could only do 2300kph is is Mach 1.93

Concord could do mach 2.2!

However the RAF had 118 F4 Phantoms which could do mach 2.4

Azrael

I checked on the book and it says that ADV version can do ~Mach 2.2. And in modernised avionics version can be armed with AMRAAM/ASRAAM missles - they do what mach 4? mach6? Enough...


In terms of high speed there is no match for Mig-25 in fighter plane class

buzznwood

Well if the government of the day hadn't of canned the BAC TSR.2 then the RAF wouldn't have had a problem keeping up, still at least a verison of it's engines went onto good use hmmm I wonder where .

Martyn

Its live on sky news now

Dunccoss

i wouldnt want to clean and polish that on a sunday morning

MadMac

Yep just found that one to. But I think slowpoke was just talking about the actual aircraft performance

Hmmm Foxbat, Mach 2.4 Its a lardy bastard thou

EscortWRC

Mig 25 Foxbat was good for Mach 3.5, but they had to change engines after each flight that they went that fast.

They were built to chase SR-71s

Rhys

The Cold war Jets were awsome

steve rs

how did it get on did it fly? because i heard they weren't 100% it would

Adam_BlackRS

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4488361.stm

Flew, no reported problems so far

Rhys

Yeah it went easly enough.


Cant see why they would think it would fly as there are bigger cargo planes out there.

There a HOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUGGGGGEEEEE Russian cargo plane the biggest in the world i think and that thing is just crazy! Fitts like a Train with a couple of carriges in side

EscortWRC

Antonov AN-225 makes the A380 look small

Rhys

Think thats the one mate, fookin massive aint it

Isnt there only 1 working one now?

Adam_BlackRS

Just a tad.....

Rhys

EscortWRC

It is called "Mryia" (?sp) which means 'dream'

I've seen an AN-124 up close and it is freaking huge. The -225 is bigger still.....YOWZA

slowpoke

another interesting fact for you,

the rear wings (elavators) on the myria are the same size as a 747's main wings

matt

PhilM

Not sure, but I have a feeling the new Boeing PhantomWorks "Pelican" will dwarf everyfuckingthing Ugly but fuckiiing HUGGGGGGGGGGGGGE. Do a search! I would but am on 56k

EscortWRC

http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers...mber/i_pw.html

and another 'odd' one.....called the 'Caspian Sea Monster'
http://davidszondy.com/future/Flight/GEV.htm