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Bedfordshire Airshow Avro Triplane Crash Video

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And they only built one originally. "During its service as a trainer it was crashed numerous times, including at least twice into the notorious Brooklands sewage farm."

Can you hit me up with some random, fun facts please?

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During the COVID lockdown, little tikes were the best selling car in the UK.

What strange old burdens are on your property?

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At my last house I couldn't build a boat in my garage...

There is a rumour that the F-14 pilots had to be 6ft+ is this true?

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Is it true that you can charter an Antonov 124?

Posted by NewAd8721@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 197 comments

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Yup. I built a website for a super yacht sale and rental business back in the 90s. Every single famous mega rich person's boat was available for a price. They all looked identical on the inside, much like their owners I suspect...

ShinMaywa US-2

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Yeah, they're search and rescue planes.

Show your age - what was your first ever email domain?

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Same! I'd completely forgotten it ended in .eng back then 🤯

What do Brits think of Madeira island? Have you ever been?

Posted by PearOk2126@reddit | AskABrit | View on Reddit | 169 comments

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I love it! Spent a few days there after a conference in Lisbon and spent my time on boats watching whales and dolphins and had an amazing time. Sadly it was before I started mountain biking - I really need to go back for that!

A Yakovlev Yak-38 (Яковлев Як-38) Forger taking off - the only operational Soviet Naval Aviation VTOL strike aircraft, operating mainly from Kiev-class heavy aviation cruisers

Posted by Xeelee1123@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 106 comments

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And 1960 for the P.1127, 1964 for the Kestrel.

Trip hop, acid jazz, big beat etc ... any love left for those 90's genres among older Brits ?

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That was a great day, but being reminded it was 35 years ago was less great!

Which flight demo team provides better performances in the skies across the U.S.??

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Ah yeah, apologies, the current one is ex RAF but getting it's new wing box over here. Seems we've been getting rid of our hercs for longer than I thought.

Which flight demo team provides better performances in the skies across the U.S.??

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It's not the OG fat Albert either - it's an ex RAF herc getting an overhaul and paint job iirc.

The Rockwell International D-645-3 strategic bomber design study.

Posted by vahedemirjian@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 47 comments

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If I remember correctly, the shape on top of the body was a wing for slow speeds that rotated 90° - at high speed the body did enough.

How does the Eurofighter Typhoon compare to its US 4/4.5-gen contemporaries?

Posted by Finbarr-Galedeep@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 560 comments

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Forgive me, what's PVI in this context? Don't know that one! It's a shame the Anglo-Japanese programme to add AESA to the meteor didn't get anywhere... I'd be interested to know from an expert what difference you'd say the Eurofighter and Gripen E having AESAs on a swashplate for greater than 180° coverage would have?

How does the Eurofighter Typhoon compare to its US 4/4.5-gen contemporaries?

Posted by Finbarr-Galedeep@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 560 comments

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They can't - the radar isn't big enough! Something like the E-7 uses L band, which is better but still microwave wavelength. Using multi static radar - multiple emmiters and receivers - is probably the best solution, using unmanned drones to emit.

How does the Eurofighter Typhoon compare to its US 4/4.5-gen contemporaries?

Posted by Finbarr-Galedeep@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 560 comments

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Yeah, it's got some serious EW capabilities too apparently - basically waited until it can do what the F35 radar does, bit with a bigger dish on a swashplate so it can see sideways and slightly behind...

How does the Eurofighter Typhoon compare to its US 4/4.5-gen contemporaries?

Posted by Finbarr-Galedeep@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 560 comments

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The latest ones have AESAs - some of the older ones are being retrofitted too - the RAF ones for example.

The Department of War Has Shot Down a Friendly Drone…

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BBC NEWS | UK | 'Missile error' led to RAF deaths https://share.google/H4Nv1NjOVe5VwEuex A patriot battery shot down RAF tornados because they didn't turn the IFF on. Then blamed the aircrew.

What are those strange ‘warts’ on the Eurofighter pilot’s helmet?

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The eurofighter will show what information it has wherever you look, yeah. Its not got 360° visual feeds like the F35, but does have a lot of other stuff to show from the aircraft itself and others - it will generally know where everything else is! And there other thing helmets like this do is let the pilot look at something and lock their weapons on and shoot, even if they're behind them.

The Boeing 757 Excalibur Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) Flight Test Aircraft sporting a new radome and many blisters and with its ram air turbine deployed

Posted by Xeelee1123@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 19 comments

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Yeah, I wondered when I first saw this if they were expecting the power usage of all the kit to potentially exceed what was available. Going to be very interesting to find out what's under all those bumps!

Boulton Paul Overstrand

Posted by Flucloxacillin25pc@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 40 comments

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So much wrong there, but I'm most disturbed by whatever the hell they did with the rudder. How can that be the best solution to whatever problem they're trying to solve?

Boulton Paul Overstrand

Posted by Flucloxacillin25pc@reddit | WeirdWings | View on Reddit | 40 comments

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It would really fuck up a fighter with a merlin engine though!

SNC's "Freedom Jet" " bids to be the Navy's trainer and looks a little weird.

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Forbidden love

S-76 Prototype vs Final Product

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One more thing - once you get to 4 rotors, and modern computers and sensors, you can control the drone by just varying the speed of the simple electric motors. This makes them incredibly simple mechanically, and those sensors and computers make them incredibly easy to control. Compare this to a traditional helicopter - look at the rotor on those, especially the centre, and you'll see an incredibly complex piece of machinery, along with engines that also need lots of maintenance. That's not suitable for consumer gear. Now, as others said, add in at least 2 more rotors and electric motors and one can fail without losing control. That's very attractive as well, and we're starting to see some manned helicopters look at using them for short range civilian use, like air taxis. They are a lot less efficient though, which is why we still use traditional single and dual rotor helicopters for everything else - plus batteries aren't enough for typical helicopter ranges, so they'd still need maintenance intensive gas turbines to generate electricity.

The final Airbus Beluga ST retired yesterday (#5). Here she is back in 2020

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The last one is staying at Broughton in the UK, where they make Airbus wings - it'll be used to promote careers in STEM to local kids!

Was this the most well-designed combat aircraft of its era?

Posted by Finbarr-Galedeep@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 451 comments

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Well designed is a very complicated thing to measure - it takes into account so many things. Some of those things would include, for example, being easy to make or easy to land, where the spitfire frankly sucked. And eras are complicated - you would have a hard time saying 1938, 1942 or 1945 were the same era in terms of performance. Having said all that... The spit was at or around the top of the fighter game from its introduction to the jet age, and stuck around for a decade after that started. It is the aircraft every WW2 fighter is compared to, it probably shot down more axis aircraft than any other, and in 1939 if the Luftwaffe was coming it was the aircraft you wanted over your head. In 1945 when a kamikaze attack was on its way, it was still what you wanted protecting you. Not the one you wanted to land afterwards, admittedly, but after 6 years of the most intensive technological advancement we've ever seen, there it was. There was no month in WW2 it wasn't competing with something else as the top dog, but there wasn't really a month when it wasn't. And those competitors changed over and over again, from Germany, the US, Japan, Russia, but none were there all the way through.

Today in Aviation History (December 24th): In 1952, the British Handley Page Victor Took Its First Flight

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All three V-bombers comfortably exceeded that though - even the Short Sperrin, the back up plan if they were too ambitious, had more than twice that range. The victor had a range of over 5,000 nm and a conventional payload of 35,000 lb. How conservative the original specification was can be seen by looking at the Canberra - a WW2 design could carry a nuclear weapon half that distance just as fast and as high...

The difference in the area of the wing of the B747 and the A380

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DAMNIT wrong one!

The difference in the area of the wing of the B747 and the A380

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r/unexpectedpratchett

What prototype or mockup plane would you have loved to see fly in your lifetime? Your favorite prototype/mockup planes designs ?

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TSR-2, Avro arrow and Valkyrie, the holy triumvirate of mid -cold war cancelled beauties...

What British brands do you root for and do you actually shop there?

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Suggested that starving an entire country to death was a bad thing...

Anyone know what this guy is doing?

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I would love every part of that except the motorbike!

Anyone know what this guy is doing?

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Got me every bloody time on gran turismo!

Anyone know what this guy is doing?

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Nah, constant height!

Battle to save last Dambusters bomber from Swedish environmentalists

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Yeah, give the telegraph a chance to combine ww2 nostalgia, xenophobia and anti-environmentalism and they're going to jump on it like a newspaper owner on an offshore tax dodge...

What's a British slang term you use regularly that you suspect most non-Brits wouldn't understand?

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Chuffed, nesh, mardy...

Hopefully whatever under all that tape will buff out

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https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/czzQ9uGzsv

What’s the best British sports film or film that really captures sport & culture in the UK?

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It's a classic, what are you on about? /S They filmed that at half time during a real match and kept begging us to stop chanting "Beano" while he missed penalty after penalty...

Were there any weird/silly things banned at your school?

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Same on both, including the batman symbol! I was once knocked unconscious playing British bulldog after a freak parka hood grabbing incident so I didn't mind that one...

Exercise PINION TITAN currently underway in the UK

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I thought we'd retired the gazelles, great to see them still going! A childhood favourite. Which given I'm over 50 probably means we should have retired them...

Need help identifying this engine

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That's the car brand - it's separate to the engine maker these days...

Anyone want to guess the ingredients in this incredible piece of AI slop?

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Yeah, it's pulling in some right old crap at the moment, think I'm blocking every third post at the moment.

Need help identifying this engine

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It is incredible! Who makes this? Rolls Royce. Ah. Scheisse.

The F-111A Aardvark ejected the entire cockpit as a capsule—are there any cooler ejection systems than this?

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I just was a patent for that from Lockheed in 1928! [https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1odazsl/what\_should\_i\_do\_with\_lockheed\_martin\_patent/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1odazsl/what_should_i_do_with_lockheed_martin_patent/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

How do I get rid of an unwanted sword?

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You could also send a message to this guy: https://www.thierrytheswordguy.com/ And find out what it's worth, if it's worth selling etc. But yeah, the swords reddit is the place! If you do just want rid of it I'm only in South Yorkshire so happy to run up to you and help 😁

Why are Toasters so Primitive?

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Imagine if you could tell it what colour toast you wanted, rather than more or less how long you wanted it to toast for!

What’s a weirdly British thing you didn’t realise was British until someone pointed it out?

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Never heard that one and I'm in Sheffield, that's proper local!

How can I stop the rain from hitting my face on hikes?

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I remember that book! It was amazing!