Thread: Airliner chat

Spanish pilot Ignacio Lombo gives a thumbs up from the cabin of the European military transport Airbus A400M, after landing at San Pablo aerodrome in Seville, southern Spain, 11 December 2009, following the maiden flight. The plane, built by European EADS, is part of a 20 billion euro project threatened by soaring costs after a two-year development delay. After running its four TP400-D6 turboprop engines for several minutes, the A400M taxied towards the runway and took off. On board the plane travelled captains Ignacio Lombo of Spain and Edward Strongman of the UK and four French engineers

What a waste of Money, what could they have bought and have been using, instead of wasting money on this...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqAW5zZser4&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube- Vulcan XH558 Survival Appeal[/ame]

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

YouTube- Vulcan XH558 Survival Appeal

Brilliant, I was in argiland and like most of us who were BEL thought we were just wasting our time. It was very hard to hide our elation in amongst the locals shock when the BBC announced the Vulcan’s had hit the runway. I still go a bit goo goo over it.

Originally Posted by clean32

Brilliant, I was in argiland and like most of us who were BEL thought we were just wasting our time. It was very hard to hide our elation in amongst the locals shock when the BBC announced the Vulcan’s had hit the runway. I still go a bit goo goo over it.

I bought a DVD of the Vulcan with footage taken at various airshows including from the cockpit from here:

www.planestv.com

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

YouTube- Vulcan XH558 Survival Appeal

Unfortunately it's just so expensive to keep such aircraft going, that the "party" they refer to in the pleading videowill be over one day, and I don't know if it's going to be in 2 years or 20 years time, but they can't keep them in the air forever.

these dedicated enthusiasts, like the Lowys here, put huge effort and expenditure into keep these things airborne, but as far as requesting donations goes, I'd rather donate to help people live, not to keep aeroplanes alive that should be in a museum.

Originally Posted by 87County

Unfortunately it's just so expensive to keep such aircraft going, that the "party" they refer to in the pleading videowill be over one day, and I don't know if it's going to be in 2 years or 20 years time, but they can't keep them in the air forever.

these dedicated enthusiasts, like the Lowys here, put huge effort and expenditure into keep these things airborne, but as far as requesting donations goes, I'd rather donate to help people live, not to keep aeroplanes alive that should be in a museum.

just like all series 1 & 2 Landrovers aye

Originally Posted by clean32

just like all series 1 & 2 Landrovers aye

Not quite .....

If something critical breaks when you are driving an older vehicle at around 70km/hr there's a good chance that you will pull up unscathed.....however..

if something critical breaks on an old warbird when you are doing around 200 kts at any altitude you would be very lucky to survive

Originally Posted by 87County

Not quite .....

If something critical breaks when you are driving an older vehicle at around 70km/hr there's a good chance that you will pull up unscathed.....however..

if something critical breaks on an old warbird when you are doing around 200 kts at any altitude you would be very lucky to survive

well that’s why they are so expensive to keep in the air, rebuilt, inspected, tested and with the post WW2 stuff there are back up systems/ manual over hydraulic for example.

Cant say that for a rebuilt series