Aviation Geeks unite?! Anybody else care about planes here?

[Candleicious Ghost]

Thanks for clearing that up.

Usually Mr Hewes restores tanks and other armoured vehicles but this time he visits the last Victor that took flight.. by accident in 2009

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They also look around inside a Nimrod and there are other aircraft as well like a F-104, Lightning, etc
About the 2009 incident:

Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Hey that tiny jet in the background reminds me of the jet from the Bond movie Octopussy

Anyway found a video of it in particuler

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[John Clark]

Haven't watched the video properly yet, but a BAC Jet Provost and Hawker Hunter as well there. Nice

 

[Marc]

well the FAA has given boeing some good news with the 737 Maxx-10 finally being certified a mere 9 years after it was first revealled and according to wiki 3 years later then the planned entry into service.

in the mean time Airbus has been flying the A321 Neo since 2017 and pretty much eating boeing's lunch thought it's got orders for the about 600 of them (some were conversion from small Maxx models). The -10 is supposed to have a 5% fuel saving per seat over the 321 Neo but you have to wonder about how extra the airlines have spent on fuel waiting it to enter service.

US certifying Boeing’s largest 737 Max after years of delays, AP source says

The U.S. government is set to announce the certification of Boeing's 737 Max 10 jet Tuesday after years of delays, a Transportation Department official told The Associated Press.

www.thestar.com

Now all Boeing has to is get the 777X into service.

A number of airframes has been built for customers but with issues in development and the design changes they're not keen on taking and one is reported to have been scrapped as it wasn't cost effective to retrofit to bring it up to current design standards.

 

[Roundabout]

the SR-71 and before that the A-12 were intended as reconnaissance aircraft to fly high and fast and not have a repeat of the U-2/Gary Powers incident

The russians had titanium but they didn't have the skunkworks or the material skills.

About the titanium, it is a fascinating story how the U.S. obtained the titanium that was used to construct the SR-71.

Vladimir Lenin allegedly said, "the capitalist will sell us the rope with which we will hang them".

It wasn't quite as dramatic as a hanging, but in a bit of a twist, it was the Soviets who sold the titanium to the U.S. for the SR-71s that was used to spy on the Soviets.

https://simpleflying.com/how-cia-secretly-bought-soviet-titanium-build-sr-71-blackbird/

It was a masterful operation by the CIA. The cia established a network of shell companies that appeared innocuous enough that the Soviets sold them the goods.

The sr-71 was an engineering marvel. It is fitting that the spy plane also had a backstory filled with cold war intrigue.



As impressive as the SR-71 was -- no blackbird was ever shot down -- there was apparently, at least one, close call.

The soviets came up with a tactic, using their mig-31s and radar arrays, to give them the possibility of intercepting and shooting down a Blackbird.

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From what I read, blackbirds generally did not fly over Soviet airspace, not giving the Soviets the excuse to actually shoot at a blackbird.

 

[Marc]

The soviets came up with a tactic, using their mig-31s and radar arrays, to give them the possibility of intercepting and shooting down a Blackbird.

have to admit if the was soviet aircraft used to try an intercept SR-71s, my money would have been on the Mig-25 because it was designed to intercept a Mach-3 aircraft albeit on that was much larger one - the B-70.

 

[Roundabout]

^
I don't know, but before the mig-31 entered service, the soviets might have sent up mig-25s to intercept blackbirds.

As far as I know, there aren't any reported target locks by any mig-25 on any blackbird.

 

[The Space Umpire]

An informative watch

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[Marc]

An informative watch

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the Ki 1 "not only did it look like a brick, it flew like one"

 

[The Space Umpire]

the Ki 1 "not only did it look like a brick, it flew like one"

Rex (Chris) has a dry sense of humour.

 

[Marc]

Rex (Chris) has a dry sense of humour.

He's not the the only one

 

[The Space Umpire]

He's not the the only one

I call his bon mots Drachisms.

 

[Marc]

well the return of supsersonic commercial air travel has taken a hit.

Boom have decided there's more money to be made in gas turbines for to generate power for ai data centres then in supersonic jets so are pivoting.

Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers

Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.

arstechnica.com

thouugh the company says the turbines it's designing for power generation will also benefit the aircraft engine.

I guess it also keeps them in business and could fund the aircraft development or they could eventually decide power generation is where the real money is.

of course the ai bubble could burst and the economic impact means there's no demand for either of the company's products.

 

[Santaman]

Gas turbines will always be in demand, they're used to generate power and also are used to power pumps in certain industrial applications.
And yeah, may the bubble burst as soon as possible.

 

[publiusr]

They are making blades out of single crystals…Hackaday had an article on Syngas recently.

Earlier on November 1st, 2026, a Learjet crashed at high-speed:

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Learjet With Nine Passengers Aboard Crashes in Florida

A Learjet 60 carrying nine people crashes into a Florida ...

www.complex.com

Ice looks to have been a problem. I wish this was A.I. fakery.

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Scuttlebutt about no horizontal stabilizer:

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/nine-people-dead-in-learjet-crash-in-south-florida-officials-say.52486/#post-954509

This has been a grim year.