Boeing spoils Farnborough 2014 Air Show for Everybody Else
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Boeing spoils Farnborough 2014 Air Show for Everybody Else
Apparently a few people miffed by the aerobatics display conducted with the 787-9 at Farnborough, "Dreamliner Extreme Moves Ruffle Feathers", according to the SMAge:
Now everyone else has been told to turn it down.
"Stick to rate one in the circuit, be a good chap! Be a good Nigel and keep it shiny side up."
Now everyone else has been told to turn it down.
"Stick to rate one in the circuit, be a good chap! Be a good Nigel and keep it shiny side up."
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I just watched that a couple of minutes ago.
"prompting one stomach-turning maneuver to be banned."
Which maneuver ruffled feathers ?
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It seems that there are two articles and two videos, I had watched the "short" version.
that didn't include the take off.
"prompting one stomach-turning maneuver to be banned."
Which maneuver ruffled feathers ?
Edit
It seems that there are two articles and two videos, I had watched the "short" version.
that didn't include the take off.
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Touch and go according to the article. I would have thought the right jink immediately after take-off (from the T&G) would have been the target for finger pointing. Looking at that stbd wingtip, it was like a windy day approaching the touchdown zone on 16R at YSSY... Plenty of potential for a scraped pod or wingtip.
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Apparently a few people miffed by the aerobatics display conducted with the 787-9 at Farnborough
Seems someone else was taken aback by the manoeuvres, too. Must say it was a heart stopper for the oldies watching
Bring back Tex and the barrel roll
Wusses!
BTW Cheer Up, the shiny side traditionally stays on the bottom, in airline service.
Wusses!
BTW Cheer Up, the shiny side traditionally stays on the bottom, in airline service.
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You could comfortably say that if the touch and go continued on rwy hdg til 500' there wouldn't be a stink. I have to say, the first image into my head when I saw that video was Hollands B-52 stalling off it's 90• aob down to a firey end, but I suppose thats a bit dramatic.
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to me, the right hand stab looked closer to the ground than the wingtip.
either way, i thought it looked well judged. dont see the problem myself. be great to be there.
either way, i thought it looked well judged. dont see the problem myself. be great to be there.
This event still shows that humans are in charge, not the computers:-)
It's good to see that whilst the anti-fun police reign in the world these days that someone brings just a touch of normality & excitement to the masses, makes you feel you are alive
It's all about risk these days, everything we do everything we invent from a toothbrush to a modern day jet liner has had some sort of risk assessment applied.
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It's good to see that whilst the anti-fun police reign in the world these days that someone brings just a touch of normality & excitement to the masses, makes you feel you are alive
It's all about risk these days, everything we do everything we invent from a toothbrush to a modern day jet liner has had some sort of risk assessment applied.
Wmk2
I thought it looked great
The A350 would probably have continued on straight ahead, and chopped some trees at the end of the runway anyway. 
I dare say the whole demonstration flight would have been formulated, practised and refined in the Simulator well before anybody got into the aeroplane and did it for real.
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What drivel.
It would have been practised to death in the sim.
There's no way the big easy would have allowed their prize jet to be chucked around by some cowboy (god rest dear Tex's soul).
A combination of misleading camera angles and a media beat up I say.
And at the end of the day - it is a jet.
Even at that size, they can do pretty spectacular things, when one doesn't have to worry about bank angles and spilled coffee.
It would have been practised to death in the sim.
There's no way the big easy would have allowed their prize jet to be chucked around by some cowboy (god rest dear Tex's soul).
A combination of misleading camera angles and a media beat up I say.
And at the end of the day - it is a jet.
Even at that size, they can do pretty spectacular things, when one doesn't have to worry about bank angles and spilled coffee.
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That's a bloody great vid Amazing, we are watching aviation at it's most developed stage, I only wish I could be around when the next 100 yrs rolls by
I hear now that the A380 has cabin door leak issues, just saw it on the news. Christ who'd wanna be in on the plane design/making game~:-(
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Amazing, we are watching aviation at it's most developed stage, I only wish I could be around when the next 100 yrs rolls byI hear now that the A380 has cabin door leak issues, just saw it on the news. Christ who'd wanna be in on the plane design/making game~:-(
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