britfrog 180 Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 whilst on the phone i heard a noise and looked up and saw this lot sadly i stood there gawping for a while before dashing in to get my camera We are accustomed to seeing a lot of the test flights here sometimes accompanied by a learjet camers a/c but this is a first Link to post Share on other sites
ddavid 149 Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Was that fly sh*t on the lens, Nigel? Might be the camera... Good catch - I bet that got the legs pumping? Cheers - Dai. Link to post Share on other sites
mike H 456 Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Well caught Nigel, I wonder what they were upto. Maybe off to an airshow or just having a Airbus away day. Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted September 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 i fancy the central a/c might be the a320 neo which had its first flight this week, the one on the right had sharklets, so it may be the various forms that the a320 has passed through, i can only guess , keep an eye on the airbus site and all may be revealed. but did they make a great soundtrack or what 10 engines in harmony. Link to post Share on other sites
J G 927 Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Looks like they were on CAP waiting to pounce on some unfortunate Boeing! Link to post Share on other sites
hurricanemk1c 195 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Nigel - they were all A350's. Flight here - http://www.flightradar24.com/2014-09-29/08:36/48x/CARBON1/4729048 Link to post Share on other sites
Corsaire31 419 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew Godden 943 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Execute a simple 30 sec search.....and who would have guessed you would find this. Link to post Share on other sites
hifly 925 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Typical! You can wait hours for your plane and then five come along at once. Question. How do you tell the difference between an Airbus A350 XWB and a Dreamliner?. Answers on a postcard please. Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Quote Question. How do you tell the difference between an Airbus A350 XWB and a Dreamliner?. Answers on a postcard please. The A350 is the one not on fire. The 787 is the one actually in service, carrying pax and generating revenue. John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
hifly 925 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Nice one John, thing is, they look so similar, I guess as ac design evolves then both companies will arrive at more or less the same conclusions. As an armchair plane spotter as a lad with my Observers Aircraft books I could recognise an IL62 from a VC10, a Trident from a 727 and so on. Nowadays I couldn't tell the difference between those little pug nosed A 318 to 321s, not that I really care. Call me old fashioned but the look of planes of yore had a certain physical distinction and aesthetic that is lacking in ac now. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 You're the victim of good engineering. The shape of new aircraft pretty much reflects the optimal shape for the materials and power plants that are available today, plus the preferences of the customer airlines, e.g. fuel economy over speed. If there's a significant change in those things, then you can expect that the general appearance of the new aircraft may change. I agree with you, however, airliners mostly all look pretty much the same and they stopped being interesting around the time of the Connie. John Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted September 30, 2014 Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 Nice one John, thing is, they look so similar, I guess as ac design evolves then both companies will arrive at more or less the same conclusions. As an armchair plane spotter as a lad with my Observers Aircraft books I could recognise an IL62 from a VC10, a Trident from a 727 and so on. Nowadays I couldn't tell the difference between those little pug nosed A 318 to 321s, not that I really care. Call me old fashioned but the look of planes of yore had a certain physical distinction and aesthetic that is lacking in ac now. I agree, aircraft of old were all fairly distinctive, Now they are all just tubes that look the same and pretend to be vacuum cleaners! Give me a brace of Conways over a couple of trents any day! Even the early B747s had a very distinctive growl when they took off! Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted September 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2014 as strange as it may seem they both use the same software now, called catia, developed by dassault systems boeing still uses a bit of its in-house software but catia is the nuts.so the boeing software has been relegated to supporting catia. A very good friend of mine gave me a demo a couple of years ago because most of the formula one teams use it as well as well as most car manufacturers and it is simply amazing how you can create 3D objects and send that info off to the lathe and it will make exactly the thing you were looking at, very similar in many ways to the 3d printers , hence all cars look alike aswill a/c as they all use the same book of rules. Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted December 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 had this sent to me today thought i might share it as a P.S. Link to post Share on other sites
hifly 925 Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 Thanks for that Nigel. Hope you're enjoying the Holis. Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted December 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 Thanks for that Nigel. Hope you're enjoying the Holis. thanks m8, getting used to driving on the wrong side of the road again Link to post Share on other sites
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