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Typhoon down.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27768001

Damn...

Unfortunately named airbase though.

Sukhoi T-50 (PAK-FA) seems a bit flammable.

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Damn...

Unfortunately named airbase though.

Interesting that stated similar incident at the same airbase in 2010.

Makes me think something specific to do with temperature / humidity / air quality / pressure.

Engine failure on approach basically.

That's not fire, it's the radar-absorbent paint melting because it got wet.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/766498411843120049.jpg

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/766498412327675825.jpg

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/766498413384015537.jpg

Just finished watching the Red Arrows at Biggin Hill (with binoculars from the garden here in Forest Hill). Surprisingly good view. Now me and the missus really want to go to an airshow. What's the best one this summer?

Nose gear failure?

One would assume so

Bunnyhop competition.

Ouch. You can see his bonce hit the canopy at least twice.

Looks like an old video...

Obv gone viral since some hippety hack spotted it...

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/fighter-jet-loses-front-landing-gear-lands-vertically-1596642128

June 7th? EATS HIPSTER HAT

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28065288

Pretty cool how much they improved the balloons...
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/google-balloons-year-later

This is possibly one of the coolest things I've ever seen, I want one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunders-Roe_Princess

"I'll see your super yacht, and raise you my Nuclear powered flying boat, Mr Bond"

I have huge love for explosive diagram;

When I was a kids, I was obsessed with book that show every single transport in explosive diagram, do anyone know of it?

Their hovercraft were awesome, glad I went into one before they're no longer in service.

I guess nuclear was/is to heavy for aircraft.

Lead shielding etc. Only for subsnships.*

None the less, beautiful airframes.

*WIG I wonder...

I guess nuclear was/is to heavy for aircraft.

Not too heavy, but too messy and tactically and strategically redundant in the face of other options developed before nuclear powered aircraft matured.

I have huge love for explosive diagram;

I've got a degree in explosive diagrams, or technical illustration as it's more formally known. Unfortunately my career took a different direction (the craft I started studying doesn't even exist anymore), but I've still got this...

Never got the opportunity to do any planes, despite a visit to the Eurofighter assembly line at Warton.

I have huge love for explosive diagram;

every single transport in explosive diagram, do anyone know of it?

I've got a degree in explosive diagrams

Technically, what we're looking at here are cutaway views, not exploded views. Exploded views are the things Shimano publish as pdfs for all their components, e.g.

Searching for 'cutaway' gets loads of results
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=aircraft+cutaway&tbm=isch

Good work...

The infamous Gee Bee! (Death plane)

http://atmelcorporation.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/gee_bee_cutaway.jpg