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G-DCPB...

Edit: That's in response to previous post in case it's appearing out of context at the top of anyone else's new page.

Another Royal chopper over my gaff wid a slight variation in ID.

Maybe a weekend taxi service to safer shores?

Got me interested in the actual Jubilee practice.... It's planned for tomorrow over the famous North Sea.
https://www.military-airshows.co.uk/press22/platinumjubileeflypast2022.htm

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Goddam needs to specify aircraft by type.

Guessing it basically VE Day

platty joobs flypast today

" The flypast will take place on the first day of the Jubilee weekend - Thursday 2 June.

It will last a total of six minutes and is expected to pass Buckingham Palace between 12.40pm and 1.15pm. "

platty joobs

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These two civilian looking helicopters just flew over the top of me in pretty close formation.

Apologies for the photo.

Am I right in thinking they've to be some kind of secret squirrel military flight?

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They look like AS365 Dauphins, so it’s possibly the SAS.

The comments about the RAF made me chuckle.

https://twitter.com/RealAirPower1/status/1544844353964806144

I’m used to red kites distracting me from work, but a Flying Fortress is a bit of a change just now, on its way from Duxford.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAwlWfXUrb0

I always feel uneasy seeing air show demos of large airliners, when they stand them on their wingtips and do high AoB turns at slow speeds. I know the FBW software keeps it safe, but I can’t help remembering the Fairchild AFB B-52 display going wrong (cw - it crashed):

https://youtu.be/182AepOJjMs

At 1:05 when the fuselage angle starts dropping, before the guy shouted ‘pull up’, was it already too late to correct it? Or could they have tried levelling out?

With the families of the crew watching on the ground. Bleak.

As soon as the nose dropped they were fucked. At that angle of bank 'pulling up' will only turn the aircraft sideways, and something like a B-52 doesn't have the roll-rate to correct the attitude quickly enough.

I know it’s a bit ghoulish but I’m slightly obsessed with air accidents. Am also addicted to this channel https://youtube.com/c/theflightchannel

Sally B!

The accident board stated that Holland's macho, daredevil personality significantly influenced the crash sequence. USAF personnel testified that Holland had developed a reputation as an aggressive pilot who often broke flight safety and other rules

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Fairchild_Air_Force_Base_B-52_crash

Potentially already too late when they entered that super-tight turn, as engines not spooled up, not enough power and started losing airspeed immediately

Indeed. They were already goners a good few seconds before the nose dropped.

The stuff about Lt. Col. Holland is interesting, but the incident as a whole is more informative on the topic of managing competence, and correcting poor performance. This accident was the result of serial management failures to address the problems with Holland that were well known to those around him.

Yeah, the wiki article lays it all out - shocking. You wonder how many others were doing the same shit but got away with it

Probably several factors used to show it off in a dramatic way:

Very light
Fire by wire protections turned off
High speed at rotation meant plenty of kinetic energy (speed) to trade off as potential energy (height) - notice how it levelled off pretty soon after take off when the speed would have fallen off towards the stall speed.
Test pilots!

Fire by wire protections turned off

Something something dreamliner

The very same!

The Calvine UFO photo finally breaks cover.

(Apologies for the Scum link).

Whatever the flying lozenge is, the aircraft in the background that the MoD claims was a Harrier looks a lot more like a Hawker Hunter to me (and the RAF was still flying 2-seat Hunters on the Buccaneer OCU at Lossiemouth, at the time).