Boeing spoils Farnborough 2014 Air Show for Everybody Else

[aroa]

Good grief...

Hope there wasnt a cockpit video view of all that, hand held iphone... CAsA would have cancelled his licence on the spot and put him out of a job a la J Quadrio.

So it handles like an F-787. No coloured smoke or a "cobra manoeuvre" so it was toned down a bit..!!

Those that have a prob with that should stay home in bed. Dangerous world out there.!

Nobody fainted yonks ago when a Vulcan bomber took off and rolled on climb out. And the noise of 4 x Olympus on afterburner was rib busting !
But outdone by 9 EE Lightnings in stream take off and 85 degree climb..18 x on burner...was positively earthquaking. They went up and out of sight like God pulling a string of beads into heaven.
Aah ..the good old days.

[nitpicker330]

aroa-----love your description of the Lightenings gold

[Scuffers]

Since when has the Vulcan's engines got afterburners? (are you thinking Concorde?)

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Practised not only in the 'Sim', but also here in de 'real life'.....

Enjoy, and watch the go-around at 1.57min or so.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZRKm6PG918

Looks N I C E .....

[Phalconphixer]

Didnt Airbus and TAP already set the standard back in 2007?

TAP Airbus A310 Low Pass Turn - Portugal Airshow 2007, Evora (Uncut HD Version) - YouTube

[Capetonian]

The best, I think.
Darryl Tarr is the son of the late, great Wrex Tarr.

[mudpig]

I think the sticklers saw in the touch and go maneuver that it exceeded 15º AOB and was lower than 50ft in the turn.

[Captain Gidday]

Sorry Captain. In GA, the shiny side is on top. The muddy side points (mostly) towards the wide brown land.

No need to apologise Cheer Up. You are correct. That's how the expression went in GA when I think back. In these days of fully painted aircraft, due to the composites, there is no shiny side anyway, but back in the day....

Shiny side down.

[VH-Cheer Up]

Captain G, trust the painters to try to confuse the pilots.

In those days the steam driven AHI didn't have blue and brown paint on it either... Things were just black and white. Sigh...

[Old Fella]

Dreamliner antics

The B787-9 demonstration was impressive, but for those who think it was "over the top" take time to go to the link and watch the "displays" at Birmingham.

Watch These Seat Soiling Crosswind Operations From Birmingham, England

[underfire]

forget roll authority...how about SAM 7 avoidance!

[Oakape]

Boeing didn't spoil anything. The blame lies elsewhere.

[fireflybob]

The turn after the touch and go looked like a normal departure from Funchal - "initiate a turn, not later than gear retraction" or leaving Belfast City to the south west during the troubles!

Really the display committee should grow some b***s and tell the whiners where to go.

[Oakape]

Some pretty poor x-wind techniques in the Birmingham video. Have people forgotten what ailerons are for?

[601]

In those days the steam driven AHI didn't have blue and brown paint on it either.

The AH I saw on a VC10 back in the 70s was upside down!!

[pianokeys]

Go Boeing

I don't know what the problem was I thought displaying an aircraft at an Air show was to display the aircrafts performance. Good on you Boeing a great display. Sounds like Airbus could not match this. If Airbus tried this the Aircraft would probably have Crashed. The last person who tried to demonstrate a Boeing and put it through its paces got in trouble with the chief that was the B707.

[TWT]

Last person in trouble was the captain of a CX 777 doing a low pass at Seattle on a delivery flight.

[Ollie Onion]

Amateurs compared to:

Boeing 707 Barrel Roll - Pilot Tex Johnston Performs Roll In Dash-80 Prototype Aircraft In 1955 - YouTube

[Helol]

Due to the MH017 crash, Boeing didn't display their aircraft on the Friday.

[500N]

That is one hell of a piece of video of Tex barrel rolling that aircraft.
Thanks for posting, I haven't seen that in years.