Old aircraft keep going… and going…

[pzkpfw]

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Cant see the logic in operating a two engine jet in marine environment safety wise. Jets are efficient at high altitudes.
Most of our P3 work is at low altitude doing resue sAR which props are good for.

Very late but just noticed this.

A thing I once read about the RAF Nimrod (based on the Comet) is that the jet engines were much less easy to detect than turbo prop engines, by the subs they are trying to hunt.

[Moi]

Just watched the Last Flight of the Vulcan Bomber with Guy Martin. He gets around some nice stuff. Magnificent plane, from an era when Britain could still do stuff. [in 1992, the RAF sold off the last airworthy Vulcan, XH558, and it was bought for £25,000 by a private owner]
Guy Martin: Twenty-five thousand pounds! You do think, initially "God. Pay £25,000 and get a Vulcan bomber. Great." But then you've got to think "How am I gonna explain that to the missus".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5256700/

Was a good watch... a slightly sinister aircraft and that "howl"!


There was one at the opening pageant for Auckland International in 1966... had to check, it was an RAF Vulcan.

I want to know if Spook flew one?

[pzkpfw]

Was a good watch... a slightly sinister aircraft and that "howl"!


There was one at the opening pageant for Auckland International in 1966... had to check, it was an RAF Vulcan.

I want to know if Spook flew one?

Have you heard of this one? http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post...-years-of-news

[T.W.R]

Was a good watch... a slightly sinister aircraft and that "howl"!

Must have been a daunting prospect for the pilots who flew them, with the no manual override if anything went wrong (basically just fell out of the sky )
And knowing if they were scrambled into action the fact was that by the time they reached Norway the UK had been hammered by nukes, as the flight commander said "it was a case of do to them what they've already done to us"

[Moi]

Have you heard of this one? http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post...-years-of-news

Not only did the Vulcan touch the ground, so did a RNZAF Sunderland...

[pritch]

Not only did the Vulcan touch the ground, so did a RNZAF Sunderland...

That's the one I remembered.

I see the Evening Pest says that was the biggest ever air pageant. It may have been but they would say that, the London Christchurch Air Race a few years earlier was getting up there though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_aRwxQsEwM

[jim.cox]

the London Christchurch Air Race a few years earlier was getting up there though.

Who needs a plane? flapping those RAF moustaches would be all any aircrew needs to stay airborne

[Delerium]

Maybe not. I can't recall mention of an Orion actually finding a submarine in a warlike situation. Can remember hearing many mentions on the news of rescue missions though. Presumably rescue is good.

Peacekeeping is OK too, even when there was no peace to keep and peacemakers might have been a better term. Of course the hard left would be happier with no military at all.

Its happened. and 4 P8's wont be enough to replace the orions.

[BuzzardNZ]

Just watched the Last Flight of the Vulcan Bomber with Guy Martin. He gets around some nice stuff. Magnificent plane, from an era when Britain could still do stuff. [in 1992, the RAF sold off the last airworthy Vulcan, XH558, and it was bought for £25,000 by a private owner]
Guy Martin: Twenty-five thousand pounds! You do think, initially "God. Pay £25,000 and get a Vulcan bomber. Great." But then you've got to think "How am I gonna explain that to the missus".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5256700/

That was a good watch. There's another doco on youtube about how they were used during the Falklands war which was really interesting, highly recommend watching it.

[jasonu]

That was a good watch. There's another doco on youtube about how they were used during the Falklands war which was really interesting, highly recommend watching it.

This one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Yl8ntVS-4

[pete376403]

That's the one I remembered.

I see the Evening Pest says that was the biggest ever air pageant. It may have been but they would say that, the London Christchurch Air Race a few years earlier was getting up there though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_aRwxQsEwM

I can vaguely recall being in the car with the family, parked on the side of the road somewhere in the hills above Rongatai,along with huge crowds watching . 1959 so would have be 6 years old

[BuzzardNZ]

I can vaguely recall being in the car with the family, parked on the side of the road somewhere in the hills above Rongatai,along with huge crowds watching . 1959 so would have be 6 years old

My mum saw that too, she was up at Victoria uni and saw it fly in over the harbour. It almost crashed when it attempted to land ...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post...bers-near-miss

[ellipsis]

For a second or two when I first saw one of the lumbering beasts on a slow fly by I thought my head was going to pop with the noise and that it was sliding backwards.

[AllanB]

What a friggen load of money!

[TheDemonLord]

A thing I once read about the RAF Nimrod (based on the Comet) is that the jet engines were much less easy to detect than turbo prop engines, by the subs they are trying to hunt.

Very true. Apparently the P3 Orion can be heard "further away than you would think"