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29 April 2005, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by KiwiGTI

Could the mystery plane be an Antonov?

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/801656/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/768367/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/664474/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/177719/M/

Been on that

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29 April 2005, 04:04 PM

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Truly, real life is stranger than photoshop.

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29 April 2005, 04:06 PM

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The first picture of the four is different, only has 4 engines. The last two pics are of a 6 engined one. Whats the first plane, looks like a beefy 747?

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29 April 2005, 04:08 PM

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^^^plane spotter^^^

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29 April 2005, 04:12 PM

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no but was very much into planes when at school and did the RAF cadet thing flying in various military aircraft

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29 April 2005, 04:15 PM

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Bit of useless info for ya, the loading area of the Antonov 225 is longer than the Wright bros first flight 8)

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29 April 2005, 10:18 PM

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The 4 engine thing is the An124 (Condor), about the size of a Galaxy.
The 6 engine thing is the An225 (Mriya), about the size of the Galaxy

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30 April 2005, 12:26 AM

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If we are getting all nostalgic, my favourite plane of all time is probably the English Electric Lightning interceptor from the 60's - I saw one doing a demo at the Mildenhall (IIRC) Air Show back in the late 60's, and the pilot took off, engaged reheat, stood it on its tail and it just climbed vertically. Rather impressive.....

The vertical climb rate of the Lightning was awesome. Compare it to any modern fighter and it would not be embaressed. BAe had Lightnings flying out of Warton until the mid '90's, I saw the last flight. They used them as chase aircraft, but had to slow down so the Tornados could keep up

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30 April 2005, 12:35 AM

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Compare it to any modern fighter and it would not be embaressed

Only in a straight line. Or vertical one

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30 April 2005, 10:00 AM

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Only in a straight line. Or vertical one

That is what I was alluding to. Using 50% of your fuel load in the first 3 minutes of flight isn't very practical

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30 April 2005, 12:50 PM

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did someone mention the guppy

http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=302364

Remeber watching them many times at Manchester

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30 April 2005, 01:13 PM

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I swapped trips in Singapore with a Lightning pilot for a Vulcan ride. The Lightning was really impressive of course and we were climbing vertically out of Tengah when he told me to do a few rolls on the way up! Quite a machine.

When he got the hang of the Vulcan it was all I could do to get him to agree that we had better end the trip for lack of fuel. He loved every minute of it

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