Just out of curiosity - Airplane Guys

Blimey, I thought all the Phantoms had long gone.
One story I read a few years ago was that one avionics upgrade had a console sticking out over the backseat guy's legs.
Heaven help him if he tried to eject.
 
Ya gotta see this one....

19-foot Ukrainian Antonov Myria

This aircraft weighs more than 200 lbs and has two gas turbine engines and four electric ducted fans - for a total of 104 lbs of thrust. I'd guess that the performance with that T/W ration would be termed "sprightly".
 
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An impressive rc model. Perhaps a shame the landing was rather eventful.
Yes - but honestly, it is pretty tough to keep a large model like that together on a rough field in gusty winds.

I suspect that the outer engines are sort of break-away items that can be re-attached without major drama.

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What is this. Bit of a giveaway is the RAF signature
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One of the most successful, most overlooked or underrated aircraft of the postwar era?
Yes! And one of the few combat aircraft we have ever bought from a foreign country. In fact, NASA still flies 3 of 'em for high altitude research.


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Canberra. But no idea what variant - presumably a bomber? One of the most successful, most overlooked or underrated aircraft of the postwar era?
Hi Raymond,
when I was at BAC we had a Canberra that was used as a flying test bed for several different Bristol jet engines.
When it had two Bristol Olympus (Concord) engines mounted in place of it's stock Rolls-Royce Avons it'd vertical climb until it pierced the cloudbase.
 
Hi Raymond,
when I was at BAC we had a Canberra that was used as a flying test bed for several different Bristol jet engines.
When it had two Bristol Olympus (Concord) engines mounted in place of it's stock Rolls-Royce Avons it'd vertical climb until it pierced the cloudbase.

Dad was an airshow nut and took a lot of 8mm film when we went to them. This is back in NZ when i was a toddler.

The canbera was the NZ fighter plane and in one of the airshows there was 4 Camberas doing formation flying and on one pass they split and went in all directions, one of them went straight up, did exactly what you said and punched a hole in the clouds. the hole could be seen for quite a while after the plane disappeared. seen that movie so may time it feels like a memory but i wouldn't have been much older than 4.
 
Another of my favorites from that era, the B-58 Hustler. In 1961 it set a record over the 2000km course with 2000kg payload of 1062mph... piloted by Major Henry J. Deutschendorf, Sr.

His son, Henry J. Deutschendorf Jr. was more commonly known to the world as John Denver


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Positive news?
C'on Jim everything has a positive....................It was just a flat battery, jump start and away it went....................the pilot wasn't hurt................only worms were killed when it ran off the runway, 36 to be exact and 100 hospitalized with 10 in ICU, all expected to make a full recovery. The grounds man doesn't have to mow that area for weeks saving money on overtime................

see positive in everything...........
 
Ha! Really? And to think John Denver died in a plane crash because he didn’t know how to switch gas tanks on his Burt Rutan custom built plane.
A bit more too it than that...
Denver was actually a good pilot by all accounts. He had over 2500hr, owned and was type rated in a Lear Jet.
The Rutan designed Long EZ was built about 10yrs before Denver bought it. Per the drawings, the fuel selector was supposed to go just under the instrument panel between the pilots knees.

The builder deviated from the drawings and mounted it on the aft bulkhead, just over the pilots left shoulder. The problem with that was you had to take your right hand off the stick and rotate your shoulders to the left to reach it with your right hand. The natural tendency when twisting left like that was to extend your right leg. That results in a steep spiral to the right and your hand isn't on the stick to control/right the airplane. At the low altitude he was at when the engine sputtered, there wasn't time to recover and we all know the rest...

Not saying he wasn't at fault... he was in that he wasn't sure about his fuel state.
Never go flying without knowing exactly how much fuel's on board and which tanks it's in. It's a mistake that still kills pilots to this day.


Denver's Long EZ...

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Not his... but here's a Long EZ in flight. It's a beautiful, high performance bird.

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Denver in front of his Lear Jet that he used to fly to his music gigs...

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He was also a trained aerobatic pilot. Here he is with his Steen Skybolt...

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