Jet powered biplane

[bungeejumper]

Another Gloucestershire loony. "Basically a poor man's Harrier"

And he did the conversion in his shed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-englan ... r-64788578 . Guy Martin, it's time to raise your game.

BJ

[AsleepInYorkshire]

Another Gloucestershire loony. "Basically a poor man's Harrier"

And he did the conversion in his shed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-englan ... r-64788578 . Guy Martin, it's time to raise your game.

BJ

I'm surpised the airframe can cope with this addition. They must put some great stresses and strains on it.

AiY(D)

[pje16]

I want one

[Mike4]

I want one

Bet you'd crash it!


(I want one too.)

[pje16]

I want one

Bet you'd crash it!


(I want one too.)

See you in hospital then

[88V8]

Another Gloucestershire loony. "Basically a poor man's Harrier"

I'm amazed he's allowed to fly it, but hooray if it's not strangled in red tape.

Not for me, I have to say, just watching the video made me feel airsick...

V8

[Mike4]

Another Gloucestershire loony. "Basically a poor man's Harrier"

I'm amazed he's allowed to fly it, but hooray if it's not strangled in red tape.

Not for me, I have to say, just watching the video made me feel airsick...

V8

If that troubles you, DON'T watch this 9-year-old old video by a chap of himself free-climbing a radio tower!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INbKYq0 ... ictionPark

[bungeejumper]

I'm amazed he's allowed to fly it, but hooray if it's not strangled in red tape.

Not for me, I have to say, just watching the video made me feel airsick...

Me too. On a half-related point, we were out in our garden nearly 30 years ago when a modern replica of the Red Baron's Fokker triplane came flying over, quite low. Rather exciting.

Not so exciting was that, just twenty minutes later, it clipped a tree during a mock dogfight at Stourhead and caught fire, and that was the end of the pilot. Loads of schoolchildren watching the display, worse luck. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/18805. You can overstate the manoeuvrability of a slow-moving biplane, especially when the wind changes. But then, I imagine that 100 years of product design must have improved the survival odds?

BJ

[ReformedCharacter]

Another Gloucestershire loony. "Basically a poor man's Harrier"

BJ

Yes, but not as loony as Maurice 'Captain' Kirk, whose headlines I've enjoyed reading for decades after he got into trouble for brandishing a shotgun whilst flying into an airport in Bristol, apparently attempting to shoot rabbits.

A former vet stalked a Conservative MP for more than a year and sent a letter containing white powder to her home, a jury has heard...Kirk contacted Pow to enlist her help over another case in which he was suing the police after being cleared of fixing a machine gun to a vintage plane.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/10/former-vet-stalked-somerset-mp-for-more-than-a-year-court-hears

An elderly British pilot disappeared while attempting to fly his 1940s light airplane the length of Africa without either radio or satellite navigation equipment, prompting a search and rescue operation...Organisers of the Vintage Air Rally said he had been asked to withdraw because of a lack of satellite tracking or a working compass on his 1943 Piper Cub plane...The self-styled "Flying Vet" was kicked out of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for "disgraceful conduct" in 2002, following his court cases.

In 2008 he was arrested and briefly detained at a psychiatric unit after landing a replica First World War biplane close to US president George W Bush's Texan Ranch.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/23/maverick-pilot-72-goes-missing-flying-across-africa-1940s-plane/

'Flying Vet' Maurice Kirk needed hospital treatment following the crash in Lower Durston. The Air Accidents Investigation Branch has released a report into the incident in the early evening of May 26 this year. Experienced pilot Mr Kirk, 76, had only recently acquired the 14-year-old GY201 Amateur Built, G-BEBR light aircraft. The plane came down after it misfired at about 400 feet and did not produce sufficient power to enable him to land back on the strip. The AAIB report added: "He therefore initiated a field landing and as he approached the field from the east his vision was impaired by the setting sun. "He reported that he attempted to select full flap but found the flap handle jammed. "He then 'inadvertently' pulled back on the control column, which resulted in the aircraft stalling near to the ground and landing heavily."

https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/19647238.flying-vet-maurice-kirk-survives-plane-crash-lower-durston/

And that's just some of it

RC

[swill453]

Another Gloucestershire loony. "Basically a poor man's Harrier"

I'm amazed he's allowed to fly it, but hooray if it's not strangled in red tape.

Not for me, I have to say, just watching the video made me feel airsick...

If that troubles you, DON'T watch this 9-year-old old video by a chap of himself free-climbing a radio tower!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INbKYq0 ... ictionPark

There's a whole movie about two people stuck 2000 feet up a radio tower - Fall https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15325794/

Scott.

[pje16]

There's a whole movie about two people stuck 2000 feet up a radio tower - Fall https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15325794/

Scott.

Seems like it's on Netflix

[Hallucigenia]

"In theory it should be able to hover like a Harrier"

...except to do so would involve rotating the jets through 90 degrees, cutting through the lower wing....

[pje16]

There's a whole movie about two people stuck 2000 feet up a radio tower - Fall https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15325794/

Scott.

Seems like it's on Netflix

it's No.1 in Films today
certainly has a good opening
back to the sofa now

[XFool]

Climbing the Tallest Chimney in Europe

Some people are insane...

[csearle]

"In theory it should be able to hover like a Harrier"

...except to do so would involve rotating the jets through 90 degrees, cutting through the lower wing....

I think what he meant was to point it up and be able, like Harrier, to stay still within the air around him. C.

[staffordian]

"In theory it should be able to hover like a Harrier"

...except to do so would involve rotating the jets through 90 degrees, cutting through the lower wing....

I think what he meant was to point it up and be able, like Harrier, to stay still within the air around him. C.

That's the impression I got. Looked like it could do a vertical(ish) climb, then just remain stationary at the top of the climb, 'balancing' on the power of the jet engines instead of falling away in a stall.

[bungeejumper]

I think what he meant was to point it up and be able, like Harrier, to stay still within the air around him. C.

That's the impression I got. Looked like it could do a vertical(ish) climb, then just remain stationary at the top of the climb, 'balancing' on the power of the jet engines instead of falling away in a stall.

A fat lot of good that would be at an air display. Not if it was kicking out that much smoke. Nobody could see a blooming thing.

BJ