Flying the world's fastest plane.. great video

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I work in aerospace so would like to see that but when I click the link it says that the clip cannot be viewed in the UK as it is a BBC Future programme and for overseas users of the world service site only? Shame.
 
CMAC said:
I've flown one of them, quite responsive but not as fast as I'd like, got shot down 3 times in a row so back to the Apache attack helicopter now
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Would that be on the xbox or PS3?
 
Snelly said:
I work in aerospace so would like to see that but when I click the link it says that the clip cannot be viewed in the UK as it is a BBC Future programme and for overseas users of the world service site only? Shame.
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And I thought it was the UK taxpayer that paid for the BBC
 
Two facts about the planes mentioned above:-

1 - THe SR-71 Blackbird was named incorrectly at it launch, the president, Reagen, I think it was messed up the name, it should have been called the RS-71, A Reconaisance aircraft with Strike capability, but he said SR-71 in error.

2 - The A-10 Warthog's multi barrel cannon, the Gau8/a Avenger fires a shell the size of a milk bottle and when fully loaded, should the pilot decide to empty all the shells, the last one has left the cannon before the first one hits the target, a pretty rapid firering weapon.


You have to love the A-10, but in the jet age, my favourite plane has to be the BAC English Electric Lightning, saw one at an air display and boy can that plane climb, the pilot came along the runway at about 100ft, pointed the nose to the sky and it soared like a home sick angel.
 
Khamelion said:
2 - The A-10 Warthog's multi barrel cannon, the Gau8/a Avenger fires a shell the size of a milk bottle and when fully loaded, should the pilot decide to empty all the shells, the last one has left the cannon before the first one hits the target, a pretty rapid firering weapon.
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Was on a MOD excercise at Otterburn ranges years back and had the dubious pleasure of having an A-10 coming over my head firning live rounds at an old transit van on the other side of the valley. If the Pilot had sneezed I wouldn't be here now! And they can fly with only half of 1 wing left!

On the SR-71, I heard (so not sure if true) that the pressure at the altitude they flew at was so high that the plane was virtually falling apart on the ground, fuel seeped from the tanks and everything rattled. Once at altitude everything tightened up.
Hope that is true!
 
Imurg said:
Was on a MOD excercise at Otterburn ranges years back and had the dubious pleasure of having an A-10 coming over my head firning live rounds at an old transit van on the other side of the valley. If the Pilot had sneezed I wouldn't be here now! And they can fly with only half of 1 wing left!

On the SR-71, I heard (so not sure if true) that the pressure at the altitude they flew at was so high that the plane was virtually falling apart on the ground, fuel seeped from the tanks and everything rattled. Once at altitude everything tightened up.
Hope that is true!
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That is true on the SR-71, on the ground it leaked like a sieve, all the joints were designed to expand at altitude due to the heat friction created at flying at mach 3.
 
Khamelion said:
That is true on the SR-71, on the ground it leaked like a sieve, all the joints were designed to expand at altitude due to the heat friction created at flying at mach 3.
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Just love some of these flying beauties and the ingenuity of those flying them (the dam buster come to mind)

If the Brits want to build something like this or the dambusters today, wont get past the first elf & safty guy...
 
Other British aircraft inventions, Hawker Siddley Harrier, copied by the Russians with their Yak-36, also the space shuttle was a British invention.
 
Khamelion said:
Other British aircraft inventions, Hawker Siddley Harrier, copied by the Russians with their Yak-36, also the space shuttle was a British invention.
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What a piece of equipment the harrier was, worst bit of busines selling them to the united states marine corp for £64 million
 
No, worst bit of aviation business was letting the Russians have a load of our early (NENE) jet engines, thereby allowing them to reverse engineer the design and develop them themselves.

P.S. I live a few hundred yards away from where the first jet engined aircraft flew.
 
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