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Tiger
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25th Feb 03 at 18:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
At dinner they flew over work - 4 of em in diamond formation. Must have been 50,000ft dunno what they were but they had 3 engines each wing. Never seen anything like it before really.
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25th Feb 03 at 18:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
sure it wasnt a non lowered corsa on 17s?
CorsaLad
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25th Feb 03 at 18:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
they used to fly over my uncles house all the time, but then again they lived nesr an airbase. guess u dont?
Tiger
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25th Feb 03 at 18:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
No, normally they dont fly over so high - you could only tell how many engines they had by the trails they left - they were like specks though - wouldnt have thought they'd taken off from the UK to be honest.
PainZ
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25th Feb 03 at 18:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i dont know any bombers that have 3 engines on each wing...

B52s often fly in diamond formation however they have 4 each wing
Tiger
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25th Feb 03 at 18:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Well - im no expert - just what i saw.

No noise from em either.
PainZ
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25th Feb 03 at 18:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
well if they were at 50,000ft then theres no way u would of heard anything,

also its very unlikely any bomber would be that high, even if it was crusing, they very rarely go over 37,000ft.

Spy planes usally are in the 50-70,000ft range.
Tiger
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25th Feb 03 at 18:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Well ill be fucked if i know then - when you see jumbos right up high like little specs then thats what these were like.
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25th Feb 03 at 18:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by PainZ
i dont know any bombers that have 3 engines on each wing...

B52s often fly in diamond formation however they have 4 each wing




mmmmmmmmm can we tell who's the plane spotter
PainZ
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25th Feb 03 at 18:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
not really a plane spotter,

My dad use to take me to all the air craft shows when i was younger and ive always been kinda intro flight,

Thats why i wanna be a pilot

PainZ
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25th Feb 03 at 18:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
tiger can you remeber what colour the trail was coming from the engines?

Was it like a Dark smokey colour almost black or was it white ?
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25th Feb 03 at 18:34   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
cool,

i'v always wondered what the planes r that r way way in the sky and they leave a hugh white trail with them.

what r they????

cheerz
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25th Feb 03 at 18:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by craigpcg
cool,

i'v always wondered what the planes r that r way way in the sky and they leave a hugh white trail with them.

what r they????

cheerz


Its when the moisture is squeezed out of the air by the pressure indiffernces above and below the wing - commonly know as vapour trails, can happen at any altitude.

Light coloured trails Painz.
PainZ
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25th Feb 03 at 18:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
hmm dunno then,

b52s tend to spit out dark trials,
craigpcg
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25th Feb 03 at 18:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ah i wlaway thought i was the weather plane

Ojc
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25th Feb 03 at 19:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Could have been a B1 bomber, they look like they have 3 engines but don't.
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B1 have a bank of two engines under each wing at the back, B52's ahve 2 banks of 2 engines under each wing. very big
Ojc
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25th Feb 03 at 20:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
B1's have internal engines that you can hardly see.
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Ojc
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I think what you saw was a B52, and what you thought was the third engine was actually an external fuel tank.
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25th Feb 03 at 20:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
erm olly you can so clearly see the engine pods.
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25th Feb 03 at 20:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Sorry got the B1 mistaken for something else.
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b52

 
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