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SASless
19th Sep 2006, 16:15
http://www.avphoto.com/lcf/E7G8940.jpg
Seems the 747 airframe can be modified...how many cruise missles would this hold?
brickhistory
19th Sep 2006, 16:39
One REALLY, REALLY big one!
WTF is that used for?
Crossbleed
19th Sep 2006, 16:46
EVA Air maintenance got the contract to build them. They haul big bits of the 787.
It's got a hinged-tail an flies un-pressurised I believe.
Performed at the Taipei maintenance base, Taiwan.
Surely that's the Airbus A380!! And I thought it would never be allowed in the USA because it was too big/ugly/European.
EODFelix
19th Sep 2006, 16:53
Just a thought, could it be the modified 747-400 designed to carry the structures for the proposed 787 to Everett? Mod design included a 5ft extension to the vertical fin with only the cockpit being pressurised, with a 300% cargo load increase.
brickhistory
19th Sep 2006, 16:53
too big/ugly/European.
oh the irony........................:}
Blimey, brick, you saw it!!! You're not supposed to because you're..........oh never mind.
alex_holbrook
19th Sep 2006, 21:48
'Tis the 747 LCF (Large Cargo Freighter). Article P16 this month's FI.
Conan the Librarian
20th Sep 2006, 01:02
I liked the Vulcan B.3 meself...
Conan
Pontius Navigator
20th Sep 2006, 06:58
It's the prototype for Blair Force One. The full length expansion is to accommodate his head as he goes to the toilet.
747 survives survives accidental overpressurisation during test as engineer lets gauge go round twice.
"itīs a bit bent, but we think we got away with it, and hopefully the customer wonīt notice", says Boeing spokesperson...
baboon6
20th Sep 2006, 13:06
Isn't there a "Guppy" version of the Airbus A3xx used to haul parts?
TurbineTooHot
20th Sep 2006, 15:55
Pontius Navigator: It's the prototype for Blair Force One. The full length expansion is to accommodate his head as he goes to the toilet.
Mate, surely the ears alone would require a Guppy!! See below:
http://content.ll-0.com/teachersnetwork/teachersnetwork_e_a000547467.JPG?i=032306093222
hobie
23rd Sep 2006, 20:58
Did you wonder what it might be like inside? .... :confused:
http://www.boeing.com/randy/images/lcf_lg.jpg
movadinkampa747
23rd Sep 2006, 21:35
Amazing......The really Boeing747-400 Large Cargo Freighter flew for the first time at 10:38 a.m. (UTC/GMT +8 hours) today, initiating the flight test program that will finish in U.S. FAAcertification.
The two-hour, four-minute flight ,exactly, was the first of 250:sad: expected flight test hours for the unique freighter, a specially modified 747-400 that will transport major composite structures of the all-new 787 Dreamliner.
So really it has bugger all to do with the military.............:bored:
Flap62
23rd Sep 2006, 22:51
So if today was its first flight, how did it get from Taiwan to Seattle then?
movadinkampa747
23rd Sep 2006, 22:53
So if today was its first flight, how did it get from Taiwan to Seattle then?
Who knows and who cares........I made it up.
QFIhawkman
23rd Sep 2006, 23:28
Who knows and who cares........I made it up.
There really are some c*cks on this site. I despair. Someone posts something they find interesting, and someone else has to immediately shoot them down. Let people have some fun.
movadinkampa747
23rd Sep 2006, 23:51
I am having fun. Thankyou for your concern though. Anyway who made you chief cockerel..........:ok:
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
24th Sep 2006, 01:16
That photo isn't really the inside of the LCF...
...it's the inside of the hangar at Cardington
I thought it was the prototype Boeing hydrogen powered airyplane. ;)
Confucius
4th Oct 2006, 14:23
Isn't there a "Guppy" version of the Airbus A3xx used to haul parts?
Yes.
http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/stbeluga/index.html#stbeluga3
And for some reason the image hasn't appeared.
Here you go ....
and very sleek it looks too .... :)
http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0163222
http://eu.airliners.net/photos/middle/2/2/2/0163222.jpg
SASless
4th Oct 2006, 17:33
The British design team influence is plainly obivious! Looks like a Vickers with a case of the Mumps!:ok:
Hubie,
That was the newer Beluga, a Guppy is this even more horrendously ugly thing:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1101554/M/
Isn't there a "Guppy" version of the Airbus A3xx used to haul parts?
yep lancs, but I was answering the above question ..... look closely and you will see A3XX bits and pcs ...... well, wings ...engines and rudder and a bit more I guess .....
I have to say I've seen both of them in real life and they both look $$$$$$ awfull .... :p ..... but they do the job :D