Posted on 06/12/2015 11:47:49 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
Boeing is preparing to make a big splash with its stretched Dreamliner at the Paris Air Show this year. How do they plan on doing this? The old school way, by putting the 300,000 pound beast through its paces in front of a huge crowd, max performing the carbon fiber jet like it was an F-15, as seen in the video below:
There is an all-out war for orders between Boeing’s 787 and Airbus’s A350. Paris gives Boeing a chance to seal some deals right in Airbus’s backyard. Also of interest is the airline that will be emblazoned across the 787-9’s fuselage during the display.
Vietnam is increasingly becoming a player on the world stage, with a growing export economy and tightening relations with the U.S. As a result, the nation is now making its tender as an international travel and business destination, one that is not afraid to embrace the latest technology. This, along with being an early 787-9 customer, will bring the Vietnam “brand” to show center on a world stage.
If you are not checking airline ticket prices to the city of lights, baguettes and rude cabbies at this very moment after seeing this awesome video then you must have other plans. Not to worry, Flight Club will update you on the key aerial happening in the skies over Paris next week as the big show gets underway.
Several years ago, at an air show at Dover AFB, I watched a C5-B take off, straight up, then loop before landing. I’ll never forget that sight. Simply breathtaking.
Interesting wingtip design. I bet they were peeling their kit off the ceiling after that initial pushover.
I doubt laughing, a pilot would understand how much thrust it takes to do that. Probably drooling to have that engine in his little mustang. It would look a little funny though.
Impressive take off. Wow.
Not quite like a fighter jet. Impressive, though, in some areas.
A friend flew 747’s. He said that sometimes they need to move one from on airport to another. The only payload is a pilot and enough fuel to get to a nearby airport. No passengers, no luggage, no service items. He said the performance was like a fighter jet.
the idea first came to me and Mooshell about 3 years ago...
A C5? WOW!!! That must have been some sight!
Looked like they were practicing for a take off at John Wayne Airport.
http://m.ocregister.com/articles/john-364661-wayne-airport.html
Impressive demonstration of the 787!
I’ve seen film of the Sikorsky CH-53 doing loops, barrel rolls, aileron rolls and a Split-S. The aileron roll was also filmed from the cockpit.
Sometimes manufacturers will pull out all the stops (to use a musical analogy) to demonstrate their product!
BTW, sitting still on a runway, side-by-side, the CH-53D would beat an F-4 Phantom to 4,000’ altitude, an A-4 Skyhawk to 5,000’.
When I went to Egypt with the MFO the air strip at Sharm el Sheik was under construction so we got off the DC8 stretch in Cairo and flew in on Egypt Air 737. All of the EA pilots are Egyptin AF reserve officers and apparently they train any time they are in the air. Wow! Did things I never wanted to see in a commercial air liner.
Kind of like driving an unloaded big-rig
Charlie can fly.
LOL.
Impressive, but not fighter jet performance by a long shot.
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I worked on C5 A&B’s at Dover for a number of years...color me highly skeptical.
Yes, but can it barrel roll, loop or Immelmann turn? How about LAHS runs? Now, THAT would be impressive.
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