BIG HEADLINE posted:

Apparently that's just one of eight pages/sections. Here are links to the whole thing: https://www.heritageconcorde.com/flightdeck-detail

moparacker posted:

More LEGO Concorde crossposting. Pilot Of Unknown Size for scale

Syncopated posted:

How big would the Concorde model be if it was the same scale as the little lego dudes?

e: rough math suggests that it would be about 1.2 - 1.5 meters, since the minifigures (the technical term apparently) are just above 4 cm tall.

Cojawfee posted:

You can't scale minifigs to be the same as humans

FuturePastNow posted:

I guess they own the IP or whatever but Airbus taking credit for the Concorde is a lol

hobbesmaster posted:

So yes, “Airbus” created Concorde and more importantly would’ve maintained it from 2000 until its retirement.

hobbesmaster posted:

Concorde was made as a partnership between Sud aviation and British Aerospace Corporation. Sud was merged into Aerospatiale in 1970 and merged into EADS in 2000. BAC was reorganized as BAe and then merged into EADS at the same time. EADS renamed themselves Airbus in 2014.

So yes, “Airbus” created Concorde and more importantly would’ve maintained it from 2000 until its retirement.

FuturePastNow posted:

Just like the Boeing DC-3

Psion posted:

yeah, most of the sites have rewind

adsb-fi's replay feature is, as it was on adsbx, impossible to find in their terrible UI, but: https://globe.adsb.fi/?r
flightradar24 has a button in the UI for it, Playback. here's an example of yesterday at yyc: https://www.flightradar24.com/2023-08-09/18:25/20x/51.11,-114.99/8

Dr_Strangelove posted:

Boeing AH-64

Lord Stimperor posted:

Okay here goes my ramble.

I'm really falling for, what I don't know how else to call other than 'light Euro aircraft'. You see, Europe doesn't have the big GA monoliths like Textron/Cessna or Lycoming and what have you. Most countries here also don't have anywhere near the sort of GA community or industry that the US seems to have, with like 25% of the entire world's share.

But WW2 and the cold war were done, there remained a bunch of small companies, spread out all over the continent, which put little engines into glider aircraft, and who leapfrogged right to MoGas and transplanted Daimler TDI-engines. Universally, these companies seem to have a little workshop and warehouse in some Central European town no one ever heard of. And they all seem to trace back to some dude who liked flying gliders in the interwar period and kept tinkering on them throughout the cold war. And now their grandchildren are at it. So they're building what amounts to beefed up TMG. But rather than wood, steel tubes, and painted fabric with the occassional lawnmower engine, they're doing it with the most modern and sleek power plants, materials, and avionics you can get.

I've sat in some of these planes, and they're all a ton of fun. And depending on the exact type, they even come with a (albeit legally mandated) rescue chute, which is nice! They do offer much less utility than a Skyhawk, what with being limited to 2 POB and rather low MTOW and speed. But then again, I reckon if you want to go somewhere, you're not taking a Skyhawk anyway, you'd get in the car, on a train, or on an airliner. And these little bugsmashers can also make do with much, much less cost than a Skyhawk.

One of the ones below, the Pipistrel Velis, is fully eletric. They're kind of wild. I see them fly regularly and know someone who teaches on them. Might book a discovery flight just for the fun of it. When they're at the holding point, the propeller just stops spinning completely because electric planes can just do that. When they cross the runway threshold, they also often just close the throttle completely, so they come in whisper quiet, with a dead prop. It's really neat. Unfortunately they come without any creature comforts. I think they're not even outfitting them with any sort of LED light as the current state of tech means they need to shave of every excess gram of weight. But they seem like cool little fun things.


Little charming buzzers for happy moments.

Sagebrush posted:

It's just a big white tube you guys

vessbot posted:

I've seen many of these as jokes, but I'm pretty sure I've actually seen the Space Shuttle on a billboard for real? And the F-15. Don't quite remember

Sagebrush posted:

It's just a big white tube you guys

Phy posted:

Finally remembered to check this out, and it was a Cessna Skymaster. Which is what I kind of figured based on it being general-aviation-shaped and not ancient existing in large enough numbers that it's reasonable I would see one flying into Cowtown, but nice to be able to confirm it. Thank you!

”The Toronto Star” posted:

Every weekday morning, starting at 6:30 a.m., Dahmer takes off from Buttonville airport in his Cessna Skymaster. Weather permitting; he’s in the sky for the morning and afternoon rush, usually for about five hours a day, but sometimes longer, depending on the traffic.

“I’ve got the best job in the world,” says Dahmer, offering a quick inspection of his aircraft, which he has tricked out with its own broadcast studio. The various data links gather information from police, the ministry of transportation and other traffic spotters. The equipment allows him to broadcast daily to 680News, The Fan 590 and 570 in Kitchener, where Dahmer grew up.

quote:

Records indicate that the Cessna 337 was also certified, equipped, and maintained in accordance with existing regulations and approved procedures. It sustained substantial damage to the left vertical tail and rudder. The aft portion of the upper half of the vertical tail was torn off along with the upper half of the rudder. The forward portion of the upper half of the vertical tail was bent inwards and displayed an imprint of the Cessna 172 nosewheel tire. The lower portion of the vertical tail and rudder were slightly deformed.

Xenoborg posted:

Certainly for Boeing claiming ownership of the F-15 and F/A-18.

MrYenko posted:

shame on an IGA posted:

Reject A-10, embrace OV-10

MrYenko posted:

And least forgivably, they were instrumental in grounding it.

(They turned off the support faucet.)

BobHoward posted:

It was its time. It was undeniably a very cool airplane, but it was also a dinosaur from a very different era.

Jean-Paul Shartre posted:

Is there a breakdown of directional demand for Concorde services? At least to my all significant travel happening in the 2000s sense, my naive thoughts are that there'd be a differential in eastbound v. westbound demand. I know that there weren't lie flat business seats back then, but an NYC-LON or NYC-PAR flight, even leaving at 9am, arrives too late to salvage the business day, so the choice is to still to travel the day before and spend the night in a hotel vs on a plane. However, the use case seems quite a bit clearer westbound, and so I'd expect higher demand. Am I just thinking about this in the wrong way for the 80s/90s context, or is there data to bear it out?

quote:

Concorde's load factor was imbalanced between eastbound and westbound transatlantic trips. Westbound trips recorded a higher load factor because in local time, Concorde arrived before it departed. Thus Concorde actually lengthened the usable day when flying westbound.

slidebite posted:

When did layflats first become a common thing?

I could imagine taking Concorde to JFK and a roomy 747 and a layflat on the way back to Europe.

Otherwise, I'd still want to take the concorde back to get home 2x as fast.

Xenoborg posted:

Certainly for Boeing claiming ownership of the F-15 and F/A-18.