Random aviation photos

originally posted by: EartOccupant
a reply to: Bigburgh

Excuse my ignorance, but "Practicing touch and goes:

Could that be some fast delivery or fast evacuation of some/ones/things ?

Not ignorant at all. Not asking would have been.

Zaphod answered

a reply to: Bigburgh

Good eye. Yes.

I believe these were for a carrier take off test flight.

I'll dig through my old pics a bit. I have some more NG testing stuff that's not from the classified realm. Triton take off and flight, and some Fire Scout tests.

a reply to: Bigburgh

Yes.

a reply to: AnonyMason

It was during carrier demo flights, yes. They threw refueling in as kind of a showing off demonstration.

a reply to: Zaphod58

a reply to: penroc3

I took these pictures at my local airport- Bournemouth International Airport. It is a small airport, with a very large runway. It was used during ww2. I believe it was known as RAF Hurn, due to its exact location, Hurn. Concorde has used the airport in the past. Now as you can see British Airways are using it as a storage site. In total there were about a lot of BA planes, including the rare 747 in Landor Livery, as part of BA's heritage celebrations. The BA747 'One World' plane is there, but tucked away out of a good camera shot. It is a difficult place to get any photos. A few Virgin Atlantic planes were hiding on the other side.

a reply to: blackbird9393

British needs to park their first A350 there. Or at least get the damn thing blessed.

Yea that would be great, but I'm mega happy I have seen the special 747 in heritage livery. I follow a few spotter pages and a few months ago I saw their pics and thought there was no way i would get the chance to see that........

a reply to: Zaphod58

a reply to: blackbird9393

I always love catching those. Southwest has a bunch painted for various states. It's interesting to see those.

Exactly, there are another 2 BA planes painted in different types of livery. It adds to plane spotting i think and makes it more special. Also in the UK, we have less of a chance to see these compared to the States for example


a reply to: Zaphod58

Had another incident hasn't it? Involving a 777 I believe

a reply to: Woody510

Yep. Horizontal stabilizer hit an Emirates 777.

a reply to: Zaphod58

oof

a reply to: Woody510

Third time it's been damaged, and two hydraulic failures.

a reply to: Zaphod58

Yeah it's having a rough start too life isn't it. Wonder if it'll be like that one car you seem to get in that life that is just plain bad luck

a reply to: Woody510

Apparently the A350 really has problems with the 777. Cathay Pacific just ran one of their A350s into the stabilizer of one of their 777s.

Airbus released pictures of their first A3R test using an A330MRTT and a Portugese F-16.

a reply to: Zaphod58
Maybe they could give Boeing a few tips on how to make a system like that actually work satisfactorily? It makes you wonder where the USAF might be now if they had stayed with the KC-46 instead of the steaming pile that became the Pegasus?