The Airplane Thread

[flybigjet]

My wife got me this for a stocking stuffer.

Pretty damn cool, considering I've flown this exact tail.

The company has these from a lot of different aircraft. Sadly, there aren't any UAL 737's-- I would have snapped up one of those as well.

R.

[Llarry]

A new Chinese 6th generation fighter -- the Shenyang J-XD2 -- has flown for the first time. It may be an unmanned aircraft. It certainly has an unusual layout, with lots of wing area.

[M-technik-3]

Originally Posted by flybigjet

My wife got me this for a stocking stuffer.

Pretty damn cool, considering I've flown this exact tail.

The company has these from a lot of different aircraft. Sadly, there aren't any UAL 737's-- I would have snapped up one of those as well.

R.

I would have to look at my log book to see how many hours in 451 but 45 late was a great jet for a perdiem reserve bum.

451 was going to be the display bird at Travis if memory serves me. Did a Westover Non M crew fly it DM to get chopped up? I was on last B Model flight out of Dover shortly before I retired in Feb 17 due to could not pass the hearing anymore. TF-39's and APU and lawn darts when I worked as a contractor.

[M-technik-3]

Here two I have not seen mentioned

McDonnell XP-67 Moonbat with a blended wing


and the Lockheed XP-49 a more powerful derivative of the P-38

[Lady Jane]

F-15 vortices at the Machynlleth Loop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_Loop

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

F-15 vortices at the Machynlleth Loop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_Loop

Attachment 3629888

Looks like chemtrails to me!

[Llarry]

Since I *forgot* (gasp!) Tomcat Thursday, here's some Phantoms for Friday.

[Llarry]

In 2011, U.S. Navy aviation celebrated its centennial with a number of aircraft that were painted in legacy colors. Only aircraft that were not deployable were to be painted, which resulted in a number of training and test aircraft wearing historical schemes.

As the training squadron for electronic attack aircraft, VAQ-129 at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington, was one of the units that featured historical paint jobs.

In the foreground is an EA-6B Prowler with markings similar to those of early 1942, while the EA-18G in the background is painted up in 1945 colors.

[Lady Jane]

Gear well of a 737 MAX.

Quiz for flybigjet : Name all the components alphabetically and order of importance.

[Llarry]

Originally Posted by Llarry

A new Chinese 6th generation fighter -- the Shenyang J-XD2 -- has flown for the first time. It may be an unmanned aircraft. It certainly has an unusual layout, with lots of wing area.

A clearer photo shows the aircraft, now identified as the J-36, as a manned fighter. And the manufacturer is Chengdu, not Shenyang. But Shenyang is *also* flying a 6th gen prototype -- see my post below...

[Artemis]

A user of a gaming forum posted restricted material (military documents) in an attempt to prove an argument related to the Eurofighter Typhoon’s radar systems:
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/clas...thunder-again/

Do not share classified info. Period.

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

Looks like chemtrails to me!

The Mach Loop. Contrails.

[Llarry]

New Shenyang fighter prototype in flight tests. Like its Chengdu counterpart, also presumed to be a 6th generation fighter.

This is a bit like watching aviation developments in the USSR in the 1950s and 1960s -- a guessing game.

The Chinese also have a bomber under development. They are working like crazy to develop new hardware.

[Artemis]

Adding the Royal Canadian Air Force in the mix for Lady Jane.

08:41 - 09:13: Turkish pilots to the photographers: "Peekaboo!"

[V1_ROT8]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Gear well of a 737 MAX.

Quiz for flybigjet : Name all the components alphabetically and order of importance.


Attachment 3630284

That’s not a United 737… no NGS system and I’m not sure what the red loop around the bottom of the well is. I’ll have to take a look the next time I do a walk-around for the FO 🤪

EDIT

The NGS system should be there you just can’t see it from this angle because it’s blocked by the hydraulic reservoir in the lower right corner of the picture.

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by V1_ROT8

That’s not a United 737… no NGS system and I’m not sure what the red loop around the bottom of the well is. I’ll have to take a look the next time I do a walk-around for the FO 🤪

EDIT

The NGS system should be there you just can’t see it from this angle because it’s blocked by the hydraulic reservoir in the lower right corner of the picture.

You realize that my post was meant as a joke, right?

[V1_ROT8]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

You realize that my post was meant as a joke, right?

I know, but I thought this was the airplane geek-out thread, so I geeked out a little 🤣

I’m genuinely curious about the red loop/bundle of wires though. I’m pretty positive our aircraft don’t have that. Maybe this is a MAX10 and it’s related to the telescoping main gear?

[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by V1_ROT8

Maybe this is a MAX10 and it’s related to the telescoping main gear?

It is a MAX 10 according to the source.

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by Artemis

The Mach Loop. Contrails.

'Twas a joke for the chemtrail conspiracy theorists. My car puts out chemtrails in the winter sometimes...

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by V1_ROT8

I know, but I thought this was the airplane geek-out thread, so I geeked out a little
I’m genuinely curious about the red loop/bundle of wires though. I’m pretty positive our aircraft don’t have that. Maybe this is a MAX10 and it’s related to the telescoping main gear?

Originally Posted by V1_ROT8

I’ll have to take a look the next time I do a walk-around for the FO

Orange/red wiring is a tell-tale sign that it's a test plane, no production model.

It's a MAX 10 test plane.

[Llarry]

Chinese Navy Flanker-X2s are being readied for service aboard China's first large deck conventional catapult takeoff and arrested landing aircraft carrier, the Fujian (CV-18).

The electronic warfare/electronic attack version (J-15D) carries EW pods and is broadly the equivalent to (though considerably larger than) the U.S. Navy EA-18G.

The second photo shows two J-15T fighters -- one with aerial refueling equipment -- and a J-15D.

The best guess is that the carrier Fujian, which is about the size of the now-retired U.S. Navy CVs at perhaps 80,000 tons, will be joined by multiple nuclear-powered carriers in future years.

[M-technik-3]

737-800 crash today, appears gear up and flaps looked at maybe 40% at best. Did not declare an emergency as well. Not Good.

The tail as always survives, I imagine the two crew out the 181 total souls were in rear seating area.