OT: VE day warplanes

[Steve Firth]

Let him have it Huge.

[Brimstone]

Perhaps the B17 should go on one last operational sortie? ;)

[nightjar]

You would have to ask the Basler Corporation the exact details of how they do it, but they find it economic to do so to produce their very successful BT-67 tuoboprop version of the Dakota.

Colin Bignell

[Dave Liquorice]

Hitting somthing hardish too hard is the dangerous bit. Control doesn't come into it but may help reduce the impact.

The planes involved in 9/11 where under perfect control but it looked rather dangerous to me.

[nightjar]

That is why they have air speed indicators, backed up by stall warning devices.

Colin Bignell

[Depresion]

Shouldn't that be piss off from China or North Korea to here or the USA?

[Depresion]

David Blunket's short lived career as a fire juggler had a lower accident rate than the police.

[Marshall Rice]

In article , Mike writes

Depends on your definition of pulsed, but I'd be surprised if Herr Dr. Diesel's experiments didn't cover it.

Eh? That's a new one on me.

Hydraulic and desmodromic valves, certainly.

[PeterE]

[Fat Sam]

Yes...If they weren't airworthy, the CAA wouldn't allow them to fly...Even if they're still on the RAF's inventory (battle of britain memorial flight), they're still required to pass CAA standards....

They're also not allowed to fly below 250 feet unless they're in an ATZ or MATZ, and then only by direction of ATC....

[Fat Sam]

That's only happened twice to my memory in the past 10 years, and one of those was a relatively modern Yugoslavian Jet fighter/bomber

[Mike]

"nightjar .uk.com>" >

On a Spitfire ?

[Fat Sam]

The ones you really want to worry about are the Russian Air Force aircraft when they come over for air shows.... I had a tour around a Russian Condor, and a Candid...On the flight deck, half of the dials were missing....They'd been ripped out and sold for funds....Only those absolutely essential to flight were left behind.....

I've guarded Russian Flankers and Floggers when they've visited UK airshows....To say their tyres were threadbare was an understatement....And the bodywork was worryingly patchy.....

A Russian Hind helicopter that visited Aldergrove's 230 Sqn in 1997 for the annual Tiger Sqn Meet, crashed on it's way home after the meet, killing all crew, simply because it's engine seized up in mid air.... Ironically, the helicopter had to have several repairs by the RAF techies when it arrived at 230 Sqn....Apparently a lot of the parts from our Puma's are comaptible and interchangeable with those on Hind's....

[Fat Sam]

I've lived near there since 1994, and I can only recall 2 incidents....

[Fat Sam]

And there was a Yugoslavian jet....An Iskra or something like that....Relatively modern aircraft compared to the ones the OP was enquiring about....

[Fat Sam]

Guinness?....No the Irish have that already...

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[Alistair J Murray]

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How does it help in the "battle against the bad guys"?

Illustrate, with examples.

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[Fat Sam]

They're still used in the UK and US....Not in great numbers, but the fact that they still fly is testament to their build quality...