A question for you aviators out there...

[Shab]

The Soviet Bear bombers pushed thier blades to the limit. Apparently, NATO fighters that shadowed them during the cold war could only get so close due to the sonic booms coming off the blades - madness!

Yeah I've read something like that. The noise inside was absolutely deafening...

Sticking to the aviation theme, has anyone done any reading on the TSR2 project?

[Woodzie]

Sticking to the aviation theme, has anyone done any reading on the TSR2 project?

TSR2 the jet the yanks did not want us to have and would have had us at the forefront of delopment not behind the americans .......the saddest thing was every bit of the prototypes were distroyed down to nuts and bolts being cut up

[Shab]

TSR2 the jet the yanks did not want us to have and would have had us at the forefront of delopment not behind the americans .......the saddest thing was every bit of the prototypes were distroyed down to nuts and bolts being cut up

I take that as a yes then...

Possibly the single most damaging event in our entire aviation history [which is littered with quite a few].

[Woodzie]

I think Catseye Cunningham was the test pilot

[That Ruddy Squirrel]

TSR2 the jet the yanks did not want us to have and would have had us at the forefront of delopment not behind the americans .......the saddest thing was every bit of the prototypes were distroyed down to nuts and bolts being cut up

Erm - Been to Duxford ?


Trev

[Woodzie]

Erm - Been to Duxford ?


Trev

No enlighten me

[Shab]

I think Catseye Cunningham was the test pilot

Didn't know that.

I don't think my Dad ever got over it [he worked in the aircraft industry on and off since he left the RAF in the late fifties] although he never worked on the TSR2 itself. Even if you bring it up now, he turns a funny colour and spits words like betrayal and sold down the river etc. Thing is, he was right...

[That Ruddy Squirrel]

No enlighten me

Enlightenment - an exhibit there


Trev

[Woodzie]

Enlightenment - an exhibit there


Trev

I stand corrected and then found the other onehttp://www.bisbos.com/rocketscience/...traf/tsr2.html

[Shab]

It wouldn't look out of place now, 40 years later. Personally I think, of it's type, it's one of the most beautiful planes ever built...

[da SLUG man]

on a similar theme....

wind turbine generator things....

how do you stop the blade tips from passing the speed of sound?... they're LONG!... so don't have to be turning the hub very fast for the tips to be going silly speeds!...

or are they well away from it??

[Woodzie]

on a similar theme....

wind turbine generator things....

how do you stop the blade tips from passing the speed of sound?... they're LONG!... so don't have to be turning the hub very fast for the tips to be going silly speeds!...

or are they well away from it??

I think your answer is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_tu...d_construction matt but i am having fun understanding it

[Apache]

on a similar theme....

wind turbine generator things....

how do you stop the blade tips from passing the speed of sound?... they're LONG!... so don't have to be turning the hub very fast for the tips to be going silly speeds!...

or are they well away from it??

Well, assume the diameter is 100m, this is a circumference of 314m. You'd have to do more than 1 revs/sec to acheive speed of sound. When I've seen those big ones, they are rotating at well less than 1 rev/sec.

[Apache]

Erm - Been to Duxford ?


Trev

There's a complete airframe at Cosford. My old boss worked on the design authority for the cockpit when he was at Cranfield.

[mark g8awo]

Erm - Been to Duxford ?


Trev

And dont forget RAF Cosford