Official Plane Spotting Thread II

[koresh]

Night Spotting







Camera : Nikon D90
Lens : Nikkor 70-300 VR

 

[seii7]

anybody caught the old crane Japan airlines livery?
didnt have my camera with me when i saw it this morning

 

[gilcrest]

Snap shots of a Departing C-17 (AK 80051)

Off to its route !

 

[gilcrest]

Another F15SG

Slow, Slow & Braking !

An F5 on Finals

 

[Canew]

Snap shots of a Departing C-17 (AK 80051)

Off to its route !

Nice shots you have there, Bro.

 

[Ahren]

I saw the same plane...grab a quick shot. Not idea it was a C-17 until I saw this thread. Plse pardon the colour.

 

[erkuan]

I saw the same plane...grab a quick shot. Not idea it was a C-17 until I saw this thread. Plse pardon the colour.

thank you for sharing, wonderful shot !!:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

erkuan

 

[9V-Orion Images]

Another F15SG

Slow, Slow & Braking !

Will it be faster for the extremely high drag inducing dorsal airbrake to be undeployed than for the F110-GE-129C engines to spool up and achieve sufficient RPM to maintain TO/GA thrust in the event of a go-around during landing?

.. Or is the F110-GE-129C engines too powerful even at minimal idle thrust RPM and thus necessitate the inflight deployment of the dosal airbrake during landing approaches to significantly increase the AoA?

:think:

 

[erkuan]

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the first time to see something like this, it is like flying in silent mode.

 

[beanokim]

I don't think any airplane has such high idling thrust that would necessitate opening the speed brake throughout the approach. If that were the case then the pilots would literally need to ride the brakes on taxi so as not to have the speed run away and that would be an extremely poor design. This is probably more an attempt to slow to approach speed than anything else. I've seen lots of videos on youtube on F-15s landing and they all open the speed brake just prior to touchdown.

Will it be faster for the extremely high drag inducing dorsal airbrake to be undeployed than for the F110-GE-129C engines to spool up and achieve sufficient RPM to maintain TO/GA thrust in the event of a go-around during landing?

.. Or is the F110-GE-129C engines too powerful even at minimal idle thrust RPM and thus necessitate the inflight deployment of the dosal airbrake during landing approaches to significantly increase the AoA?

:think:

 

[gilcrest]

Will it be faster for the extremely high drag inducing dorsal airbrake to be undeployed than for the F110-GE-129C engines to spool up and achieve sufficient RPM to maintain TO/GA thrust in the event of a go-around during landing?

.. Or is the F110-GE-129C engines too powerful even at minimal idle thrust RPM and thus necessitate the inflight deployment of the dosal airbrake during landing approaches to significantly increase the AoA?

:think:

Surprisingly, this was the only one on circuit doing a high speed approach deploying the air brake on the numerous occassion as oppose to the rest whom came in normally.

It gave the feel that he/she was doing a F1 on a chicane on a circuit by braking incessively.

Here's one with the trainer noticing on a F5

 

[vonlichenstein]

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the first time to see something like this, it is like flying in silent mode.

Gulfstream G550

 

[erkuan]

Gulfstream G550

Thank you for the name of this air-craft

 

[gilcrest]

F15 C/D from 18 Tactical Wing

First time hear the F15 whistle on approach, similar to the F16

 

[Minimalis]

Snap shots of a Departing C-17 (AK 80051)

Off to its route !

He's a long way from home, isn't he.

 

[Minimalis]

Plane over Punggol Promenade

P3C over Punggol?

 

[9V-Orion Images]

F15 C/D from 18 Tactical Wing

First time hear the F15 whistle on approach, similar to the F16

IIRC, the General Electric F110-GE-129C variable convergent-divergent exhaust nozzles on our RSAF F-15SGs are hydraulically actuated as compared to the Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-100/2xx pneumatically actuated variable convergent-divergent exhaust nozzles used on the USAF fleet of F-15s thus explaining the absence or presence of the whistling between the two counterparts.

 

[sthang]

WOW! nice thread. didn't notice this. Thanks

 

[erkuan]

manage to take a few shot after seeing this aircraft flying around....

 

[9V-Orion Images]

manage to take a few shot after seeing this aircraft flying around....

That's also a Gulfsteam G550 (business jet variant) operated by Pacific Flight Services (PFS), a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies (ST) Aerospace, primarily utilised to qualify RSAF transport cadet or trainee pilots on the RSAF G550 Conformal Airborne Early Warning (CAEW) aircraft.