F-111 Closes Brisbane Airport

[Pass-A-Frozo]

'I wouldn't have done it for those jet plonkers, they're totally overrated!'.

hahaha.. nice one AOTW!

[Woomera]

Buster. Thought you'd made an error with your statement: "All aircraft, up to 5 engines...."

Googles B-52 - you're right - guess what I find: Engine No 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5A, 5B, 5C!

I'll be darned!!!

Woomera

[Air Ace]

And the "Dornier DO-X was a flying boat powered by no less than 12 engines arranged in tandem atop its huge wings", numbered 1, 1a, 2, 2a, 3, 3a, 4, 4a, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c!!

[Point0Five]

'Busted Bomber Puts Kibosh on Champion Caribou Crew'

I'm sure that the good people from People magazine, or Picture for that matter, would used a headline more along the lines of:

'Boobs Out Bapfest as Smoo-tiful Caribou Pounds Pig's Spadge'

[Chronic Snoozer]

Speaking of B-52s, I read once that a pilot lamented that after a double engine failure in the BUFF, the dreaded 'six engine approach' was a real bitch to fly.

[HotDog]

Please, let's give the Thronomisters a break. It's getting quite boring, don't flog a dead horse.

[Buster Hyman]

Thank you Woomera. I think its important to be aware of CASA's diligence in these matters and to keep the public informed. It's only when you have an amount of designated engines beyond 6 that you can count additional Number 2 engines...for example, the Spruce Goose had no less than 3 Number 2 engines. This shouldn't be suprising to the casual observer, given the success of that aircraft.

Another interesting fact about the Spruce Goose was that Howard Hughes was reluctant to install a Thronomister on this aircraft. Henry Kaiser, his partner of sorts in the project, actually insisted upon it and the Thronomister actually contributed to the only flight of the aircraft!

[CAR256]

number zero engine

I was under the impression that if more numbers were required for the naming of engines beyond 5, zero or negative numbers can be used... ie. for the B-52, -2, -1,0, 1,2,3,4,5. In random order code for that particular hour, of course...

[Buster Hyman]

Very true, however I believe that to be a FAA regulation. CASA has yet to sign off on that system.

[The Voice]

geeze Sunfish you were a bit lucky, that 76 has had a bit of a reliability problem the last couple of weeks! Least you left there

[4SPOOLED]

one of my mates flew QF from townsville to brisbane, and was diverted to coloundra i believe? and had to wait in the a/c for 3 hours without any food and was served water as an interim...he said it was a shocker but QF handled it well considering the situation.

By the time he got to perth, it was 2:30 when he was due at 10:30

So we had to hit the turps the following night instead.

Poor bugger is over to get married aswell.....

[Milt]

Engine numbering.

What number is assigned to the APU.?

And how do the Navies number theirs? I have heard of Port outers and Starboard inners but any recent aviator will have long since given up on those terms!!

Never did refer to the F-111 engines as anything other than left and right. Numbering the wing hard points opens up another can of worms.

[J430]

I'd like to see that B737 @ YCDR

4spooled

I assume you meant Maroochydore as it would make a really interesting day for a few people if they landed at Caloundra.

Anybody really know what happened to the PIG?

J

[Taildragger67]

Trident III had 5 donks. 3 main, booster and APU.

[Woomera]

The Shin Meiwa amphibian had five donks - four on the wing and one breathing under the hull.

I know why no aircraft has more than five donks. Piluts kan't kount beyond five wff one hand!!!

[ASKARI]

How about a C130 with 6 JATO Rockets installed....would that be 1,2,3,4,J1,J2,J3,J4,J5 and J6 (?) although I believe with all the terrorist guff happening, the numbers are randomly reviewed hourly and new assignment combinations are issued to each crew 5 minutes before startup (and can be changed in the air if a threat exists.) Can get quite scarey in the chocks if you fire up J3 instead of the APU!

[4SPOOLED]

Um.. its that airport 60kays out of brisbane that people are passing through to get to the gold coast...

Can't remember what it's called but that was the one

[1_engine_driftdown]

Would that aiport be Coolang... correction, Gold Coast?
It's still got CG as its ident... Cold Ghost

[Sal-e]

Pity two 777 (I believe Emirates and one of the asian carriers) had to divert simply because they couldn't tow the F111 off the runway.
I was crewing a B737 and was instructed to hold initially over Moreton Island for around 15 minutes before being offered rwy14. That too was a waste of precious fuel. There wasn't much left in the tanks. Thankfully, the F111 was moved before too long.
How did they eventually tow the F111 away?
If ever the RAAF decides to carry out exercises in the area, they should always consider the possibility of landing at BNE and should have basic support equipment at BIA.
Diverting an airliner because of the lack of something as insignificant as a tow bar seems absurd.

[The Voice]

well, I guess it was marginally better than a another written off hull ..