The General Airplane Thread

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It struck me as funny that both of your pictures got the rotors at 90 degrees to the fuselage, as if they were regular fixed wings.
 
Something I like to do is look for articles about local things in Wikipedia that don't have pictures, and then go out and photograph them and post them up. Yesterday I noticed there were no photos for two relatively local airports; Bandera State Airport and Harvey Airfield. Bandera is an airstrip with no buildings, pavement or facilities just a few miles shy of the Snoqualmie Pass. Even though it's right next to the I-90 freeway, I've never seen it before. Didn't even know it was there. So I drove up there yesterday to have a look.

There's a gate so you can't drive up to it, but it's only a five minute walk. Apparently it's an emergency field and also used by the US Forest Service during high forest fire threat times.

Then I drove down to the town of Snohomish to photograph Harvey Airfield. I was lucky enough to see this biplane take off, do a couple fly-bys and then land.


Anybody know what kind of biplane that is?
 
Found this elsewhere on the internet, thought it was quite interesting. I really couldn't find the plane to begin with!

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I saw that fairly quickly, but dismissed it as ground features that just lined up right, like that face-in-a-rock on Mars. I still can't make out an actual airplane, just parts of what look like one.
 
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An intriguing announcement from Airbus: https://simpleflying.com/airbus-zero-emission-concept-aircraft/

I see this as being far more probable than any electric concepts being thrown about. Even being given another 15 years of development, I doubt batteries will have the energy density to be considered viable for long-haul aviation, especially since Airbus claims the liquid hydrogen will be stored in the tail of the aircraft, and (presumably) nowhere else.
 
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The An-225 is awesome - one I would love to see.

Here's a few recent ones of mine post-lockdown:

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Question for anyone who knows. What is up with the missile on the inner pylon on the right wing? The outer pylons have the typical Aim-120's, and the inner pylon under the left wing has what I presume is an Aim-9X, but the pointed tip on the inner right leaves me wondering. Anyone knows?
 
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Question for anyone who knows. What is up with the missile on the inner pylon on the right wing? The outer pylons have the typical Aim-120's, and the inner pylon under the left wing has what I presume is an Aim-9X, but the pointed tip on the inner right leaves me wondering. Anyone knows?
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It is a TACTS pod, which is used for training purposes. Basically it monitors training so the information can be analyzed once the aircraft is on the ground
 
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It is a TACTS pod, which is used for training purposes. Basically it monitors training so the information can be analyzed once the aircraft is on the ground
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Thanks for the info. Interesting design choice given its very close resemblance to a Sidewinder. Also curious that 4th plus generation fighters can't rely on their onboard sensors for later analysis of flight/combat data.
 
If you're in the western Florida / southern Alabama coastal area, or around Pensacola Bay, the Blue Angels are making the final official flight in the legacy F/A-18s this afternoon. They start training in the Super Hornets on the 16th, and go to El Centro in California in January for their winter training.

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I've heard a similar noise from a Spanish F-18 Hornet too, during a fast pass whilst displaying at RIAT 2009.

Clip of it here, at around 4m 58s...

 
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