The Hangar Club (Aircraft Fan Club)

[AlTech]

Welcome to "The Hangar". This is a thread dedicated to the appreciation of aircraft. This can be anything which flies including: Drones, Commercial Airliners, Fighter jets, helicopters and solar panel planes.

 

Please feel free to discuss anything related to Aircraft so long as there is no profanity or any inappropriate text or images .

 

You can also discuss material choices of aircraft, pricing, availability and of course where to fly as well as your flying experiences (either as a passenger or pilot).

[Djole123]

I'm going to start with my favorite monster of an airplane, the A3XX

 

I just love how they were able to cram so many passangers and still have 4 jet engines. Wow.

[Real_PhillBert]

I've always had a soft spot for the MD 530F, light turbine helicopters FTW!

 

 

 

Unfortunately I cannot even come close to being able to afford one.

[AlTech]

1 minute ago, Djole123 said:

I'm going to start with my favorite monster of an airplane, the A3XX

 

I just love how they were able to cram so many passangers and still have 4 jet engines. Wow.

I've always loved the 747....... the 747-8 is really nice. I heard that Boeing didn't design a new bigger plane cos it would cost too much money and people are looking for more fuel efficient plane.

[Djole123]

2 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

I've always loved the 747....... the 747-8 is really nice. I heard that Boeing didn't design a new bigger plane cos it would cost too much money and people are looking for more fuel efficient plane.

Oh 747 is also pretty good.

 

The A3XX is esentially the FX-9590 of airplanes; good old architecure, has a lot of power but consumes a lot of power

[AlTech]

1 minute ago, Djole123 said:

Oh 747 is also pretty good.

 

The A3XX is esentially the FX-9590 of airplanes; good old architecure, has a lot of power but consumes a lot of power

let me guess. It's like the A380 except it fits more passengers and consumes more power.

 

The 747-8 would be like the FX-8370E of airplanes. Somewhat power efficient but just brute force performance.

 

I also like the 777 but it doesn't seem as special. Hopefully 777X will be nice .

[bob345]

Going to start off with one of my favorite aviation related videos

 

 

[themctipers]

Heliporn

[AlTech]

6 minutes ago, themctipers said:

Heliporn

Please no............

 

LMAO!!!!!!!!

 

+1 if you can tell what Airplane it is without cheating.

[Djole123]

4 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Please no............

 

LMAO!!!!!!!!

 

+1 if you can tell what Airplane it is without cheating.

It's a Beluga. It's so goddamn ugly that... just...

 

It looks like a capacitor that's just about to blow

[Merc.]

5 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Please no............

 

LMAO!!!!!!!!

 

+1 if you can tell what Airplane it is without cheating.

This looks like Airbus beluga. They made six of these (correct me if I'm wrong). It is used for transporting airplane parts.

[theninja35]

I wonder if we have any pilots on the forums? I've been interested in taking lessons for my rotary-wing license, but I think my want for flying has been replaced by my dream of becoming affiliated with motorsport.

 

I will never give up my dream of flying in one of these one day, though.

[AlTech]

Just now, Merc. said:

This looks like Airbus beluga. They made six of these (correct me if I'm wrong). It is used for transporting airplane parts.

I thought they only made like 3 or 4. But yeah that's the beluga and here's the Boeing counterpart

 

[AlTech]

And make sure everyone to follow the topic !

[Sunshine1868]

27 minutes ago, Djole123 said:

I'm going to start with my favorite monster of an airplane, the A3XX

 

I just love how they were able to cram so many passangers and still have 4 jet engines. Wow.

you are aware its an A380, right? Not only is it in production, but they fly...A LOT!  

[anonysrom]

2 hours ago, theninja35 said:

I wonder if we have any pilots on the forums? I've been interested in taking lessons for my rotary-wing license, but I think my want for flying has been replaced by my dream of becoming affiliated with motorsport.

 

I will never give up my dream of flying in one of these one day, though.

Just an Airbourne Sensor Operator who sits in the back operating various types of equipment and sensors in them, but who occasionally gets chance to get behind the controls (Fixed Multi-Engine, but I've always had a fascination with Rotary). I also hope to get a Rotary-Wing PPL one day, then an Instrument Rating, Commercial, CFI and so on.

[Hackentosher]

2 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

I've always loved the 747....... the 747-8 is really nice. I heard that Boeing didn't design a new bigger plane cos it would cost too much money and people are looking for more fuel efficient plane.

Thus they made the 787 to compete with the much larger a380. Also, the a380 is very much in production and deployed everywhere. I saw at least 6 of them belonging strictly to British airways at Heathrow. 

 

Here's my contribution, armattan f1-6 fpv acro quad. It's taken a few different forms and ridden on the backs of a few different animals, but this is the only picture I can find of it and I'm away from home right now. 

[iamdarkbowser]

I've got this quadcopter and no room to fly it. @iamdarkyoshi put some "headlights" on the bit that holds the battery in place. It's battery is the same as the Hubsan X4 which both iamdarkyoshi and I have so I can get 3 flights until one of the batteries gets charged. The cowling for the X4 fits on this one as well.

[Sunshine1868]

5 minutes ago, Hackentosher said:

Thus they made the 787 to compete with the much larger a380.

no.... the 787 was NOT intended to compete with the A380. the 787 was intended to be a far more efficient counterpart to the 767 and 777. The A380 is designed to move large volumes of passengers from hub to hub, while the much smaller 787 was designed to efficiently move smaller (relative to the A380) volumes of passengers from smaller airports that are not hubs.

[straight_stewie]

3 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

This can be anything which flies including: Drones, Commercial Airliners, Fighter jets, helicopters and solar panel planes.

Spacecraft are aircraft too.

 

[anonysrom]

10 minutes ago, iamdarkbowser said:

I've got this quadcopter and no room to fly it. @iamdarkyoshi put some "headlights" on the bit that holds the battery in place. It's battery is the same as the Hubsan X4 which both iamdarkyoshi and I have so I can get 3 flights until one of the batteries gets charged. The cowling for the X4 fits on this one as well.

I got the same one with the same problem. However, I think the biggest problem is that it's hard to fly with my phone. You get the computer dongle? I want to do a work around so I can fly it with my controller.

[iamdarkbowser]

4 minutes ago, anonysrom said:

I got the same one with the same problem. However, I think the biggest problem is that it's hard to fly with my phone. You get the computer dongle? I want to do work around so I can fly it with my controller.

@iamdarkyoshi can explain better but what I understand mostly is he took the innards of a crappy USB playstation controller and put it inside a remote that was for another quad who's motors died and mapped the controls from that to the awesomely open source software on my phone. 

[straight_stewie]

If anyone is into good fighter jet videos:
 

F-14

Spoiler

 

F-18

Spoiler

 

 

Harrier

Spoiler

 

I have hard copies of all of these for posterity's sake. There were already 3 that I tried to post that are no longer on youtube. I update my personal list and repository of good military aviation videos from time to time as the mood strikes, so expect periodic updates to this post.

[Hackentosher]

50 minutes ago, Sunshine1868 said:no.... the 787 was NOT intended to compete with the A380. the 787 was intended to be a far more efficient counterpart to the 767 and 777. The A380 is designed to move large volumes of passengers from hub to hub, while the much smaller 787 was designed to efficiently move smaller (relative to the A380) volumes of passengers from smaller airports that are not hubs.

Right but I was saying that because these two aircraft were released rather close to each other, I would think that they would be competing for slots in an airline's fleet. However, I can see it being much more cost effective to deploy fewer more expensive aircraft that can carry large amounts of people than more smaller aircraft that carries fewer people. As for shuttling people shorter distances, airlines (larger ones like delta, American, and British) have plenty of 737's and a320's already deployed.

[Sunshine1868]

4 minutes ago, Hackentosher said:

Right but I was saying that because these two aircraft were released rather close to each other, I would think that they would be competing for slots in an airline's fleet. However, I can see it being much more cost effective to deploy fewer more expensive aircraft that can carry large amounts of people than more smaller aircraft that carries fewer people. As for shuttling people shorter distances, airlines (larger ones like delta, American, and British) have plenty of 737's and a320's already deployed.

the timing and cost/person does not factor in here; the planes are developed for two different types of missions - those missions being the things airlines look for. Boeing was not competing with Airbus with the 787..actually, airbus is building the A350 XWB to compete with the 787. it was merely a coincidence that the 787 and A380 came out in roughly the same time frame.