A Spitfire, a Lancaster bomber and a Tornado just flew over my house on the way to the Air Show. - General Discussion Discussion

[–] samoanjoes (58586) a year ago

I thought this was going to be a parody of my puns.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (39847) a year ago

I was thinking this as I typed it.

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[–] samoanjoes (58586) a year ago

I don't know my planes, but we have a Labour Day airshow on the Toronto harbour every year called the Snowbirds.
https://media.freshdaily.ca/static/articles/202048-snowbirds-toronto.jpg?w=2048&cmd=resize_then_crop&height=1365&quality=70

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[–] AndyKing1967 (39847) a year ago

Looks like the Canadian version of the Red Arrows.

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[–] nyctc7 (44104) a year ago

A Spitfire, a Lancaster and a Tornado walk into a bar...

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[–] AndyKing1967 (39847) a year ago

They just flew over again (it’s the last day today).

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[–] Mrmojo4700 (21711) a year ago

Wow! It’s so great that there are still some of them still around in flying condition.

In the early 2000s a B17 landed at our local airport and I got to tour the inside of it while it was on the runway. The thing I was amazed most about was all the mechanics that were controlled by cables and other crude methods that would never be used today. It had to have been a physical ordeal to fly one of those things.

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[–] CreosoteXmp37 (294) a year ago

Many planes today still employ the use of cables and rods, it's just that they aren't visible to the passenger.

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[–] Mrmojo4700 (21711) a year ago

You would think with the use of hydraulics and electric switches that cables wouldn’t be used for too many things.

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[–] CreosoteXmp37 (294) a year ago

It's not a matter of cable vs hydraulic. Yes there are some aircraft that use cables/rods to directly operate flight controls, but cables and rods are still employed on aircraft with hydraulic flight controls. The manual inputs via cables and/or rods act on hydraulic selectors or modules to port fluid pressure to a particular control surface actuator. Cables are often employed as back-up controls for redundancy as well.

"Fly by wire" aircraft are a different matter, but with them hydraulic power still does the heavy lifting ( so to speak ) of moving a control surface. The "by wire" is just a command to a hydraulic servo, and even these aircraft employ a limited number of cables for back-up control of certain key systems.

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[–] Mrmojo4700 (21711) a year ago

That all make sense and certainly in back up and redundant systems, as you said.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (39847) a year ago

I got a lot lump in my throat when they went overhead. My grandparents and grand uncle were in the RAF and I can only imagine what they went through standing up to the Nazis.

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[–] Padeen (6459) a year ago

Here's a photo I snapped a few years ago of a B17.
https://imgur.com/a/7QQa71N

I believe the planes belong to the Coolings Foundation.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (39847) a year ago

Stunning!

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[–] Padeen (6459) a year ago

Sadly is crashed back in 2019, killing 7 people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress_crash#:~:text=On%20October%202%2C%202019%2C%20a,on%20the%20ground%2C%20were%20injured.

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[–] AndyKing1967 (39847) a year ago

Oh bloody hell.

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[–] [deleted] a year ago

There'll be bluebirds over...

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[–] AndyKing1967 (39847) a year ago

22 miles of water changed the outcome of the war.

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[–] [deleted] a year ago

and a lot of trips across the atlantic

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[–] AmeriGirl26 (15105) a year ago

I guess life isn't boring where you live ;)

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[–] AndyKing1967 (39847) a year ago

‘Sunny’ Bournemouth is a cool place to live.

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