RIAT 2012 Part 2

[hurricanemk1c 195]

Hi all!

Here ais part two of my RIAT posting

Pollution Control Do-228-212(LM) 57+04

French Navy Dassault Falcon 10MER 101

This is a German Navy P-3C Orion, 60+01

Dassault ATL-2 Atlantique 2 '15'

As requested - A-400M 'Atlas' - prefer the name Grizzly myself

Polish MiG-29A's 56 and 111

A MV-22B flying around

Sneaky peak at the F-111 at the Just Flight stand

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Nose of the 'Jap' tanker

Royal Jordanian Air Force Herky 345

The Norweigian Herky in the sun

First aircraft in, this being the Danish Herky B-583

Eurofighter ZK319

Love this sign, with various aspects crossed out!

Tornado ZE116

This is Sea Harrier, which wears the markings of ZH800. Actually, this is ZH801 - confused yet? Will be used as a gate-guard

Hawk XX204

The first really big aircraft - this being a B-52H 60-0042

For the railway enthusiast - 40068 was scrapped in 1983 at Swindon. This really is 94-0068

Overall look

And finally - 58-0100 is a KC-135R Stratotanker

Hope you enjoyed!

[aeromax 10]

awesome !!! superb. no further comments

[britfrog 180]

i have had the a400 flying over here for the last week with a photo lear jet alongside no doubt taking publicity pics, it makes a very singular noise totally unlike a fat albert in fact more like a beech starship than anything else.

[allardjd 1,853]

The Piaggio P180 makes a very distinctive noise too and I suspect that would be much like the Beech Starship. In the case of the P180, the word is that the prop blades (5-bladed) passing the exhaust ducts results in a sound profile that is very close to a square wave instead of the more typical sine-wave sound. It has what I'd describe as a "buzzing" quality to it.

I wonder, on the A400M, if it's because of turboprops on a fairly radically swept wing (the only other example I can think of is the Tu-95 Bear), or the fact that the engine pairs rotate "into" one another on each wing?

John

[mutley 4,498]

Thanks again Chuck, superb photos