The difference in the assortment of colours is astounding. Props for Skoda for offering some fun colours on their cars (at least in some markets).

Correct on most points, except the last. Oceanic flights are always planned to be close enough to land that in case of an engine failure they have enough fuel to reach an airfield.

There is no “rolling coal” over here, at least not intentional. The only diesels that smoke are usually the badly maintained ones in older cars.

E-type, don’t you mean Testarossa?

Probably, since that is a rubber bumper MG B with what looks like massive offroad tires.

That’s not a hold line, it’s the movement area boundary. The actual holding position is not on this picture, it’s further to the left. The other line is the ILS critical area boundary.

Not the first time the UK military was associated with Star Wars:

Fair enough, I was going off of stuff I learned in flight school, which was a while ago. Turboprops are a bit voodoo to me now :P (737-driver at the moment)

Starting off with the propellers “feathered” (that’s what it’s called) is so you don’t blow away everything behind you or overpower the brakes. In the feathered position the prop produces the least amount of thrust. Seems counter-intuitive but with the prop as you wanted it, it would produce a lot more thrust and…

Same here, I had to look twice. Does have a certain elegance to it though.

Yeah, but you can’t really compare the 2. One is a an aircraft that has been in service for 45 years and has had 1500+ examples built, operating all over the globe, the other was in service for 33 years with only 14 (plus 6 prototype & development aircraft) built and operating (besides some special charters) only the…

No they don’t, not the newest ones at least. They have something that is called an ISFD (Integrated Standby Flight Display). It’s a small display, about the size of a normal artificial horizon you find in a Cessna, which has a battery back-up to operate when the power system fails.

There is a beautiful Do-24K in the Dutch National Militairy Museum. Apparently the restoration is so good that it could be made airworthy within a few weeks.

Low level night departures over Paris are always spectacular, you can easily pick out the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Louvre, etc.

$288 million a piece? A commercial 737 comes out to 50 to 87 million, depending on the deal made by the airline. So that is a minimum of $200 million for the militarisation.

I don’t think that this is Chris liking the EB110 more than F40, more a comparison about the level of technologies used in both cars.

The F40 is a relatively simple car compared to the EB110.

And SpaceShipOne, Grumman F-14, General Dynamics F-111, MiG-23, Mig-27, Panavia Tornado, Rockwell B-1, etc, etc. Your point being?

Difficult to say, as I was not there. Those situations are very dynamic, it might look good enough at one point and more people are landing and it can go completely haywire the next.

Winds were at 35-36 knots gusting to 50-55. Generally to calculate the crosswind component one takes the full steady wind (35) plus half of the gust (55-35 = 20, 20/2 is 10), so if the wind was at 90 degrees it would have been a 45 kts crosswind. Winds were predominantly from the north, approx 300 degrees. Landing was…

That roll is not pilot induced, that is all gust of wind catching the underside of the upwind wing an pushing it up.