I’ve seen that video before or one similar. I noticed the siren just before takeoff and wondered if it was done by the airport to warn people.
Holy crap. Great video LSL. Thanks. i didn’t know there was a flying version of it in assistance. I’ve never seen a cartridge start jet engine. I’ve seen a piston engine started and I have the cartridge used to start it. You can also see the finger speed brakes on the wings in the video. I wanted to see both since reading about the Canberra and B-57 version of it.
The old B-52Ds had explosive cartridge start. The cart was about the size of a 1lb coffee can. I don’t know if the current B-52Hs still have it in addition to a more typical “huffer” external air cart or cross-bleed start.
The whole point of the explosive cartridge start system is that there’s lots less spool-up time, and you can start as many engines simultaneously as you have hands to manipulate throttles / fuel levers and eyes to watch gauges. Which for a nuclear alert bomber (or fighter interceptor) was (is?) an important time saver.
Listening to the radials overhead, pull out Flightaware to see Doc doing a flyby. The next engine I ran out on the front steps to see a P-51. Hmmm, maybe I’ll take a flight right over her house. How cool would that be! Look up their website, where the cheap flights are over $3000. That’s just a little more that I’m willing to spend on a whim.
Wait until Ticketmaster takes over the website billing.
In other news, the old saying about any landing you can walk away from is a good one!
How about swimming?
This year.
But the second half of the saying is a great landing is one where you can reuse the airplane.
That might have been a good landing. Looks like it wasn’t a great one.
Missed it by that much.
For sale, Floats, Bottoms kept out of water when not in use.
With enough time and effort, you can reuse just about anything:
In 1997, the Hellenic Air force contacted Dassault to recover Mirage 2000EG 210, which had crashed at low speed during a final approach. The aircraft was lying in 5 m (16 ft) of sea water, and it was felt that a rebuild could be attempted provided that corrosion had not set in. After three days in the sea, the Mirage was successfully brought to the surface and immediately washed with fresh water and Ardrox 6345 while still lying on the rescue barge. The airframe was taken to terra firma, where it was dismantled, and the largest components – fuselage and wings – were subsequently immersed in a purpose-built pool filled with water and Ardrox 6345, before being dried and covered with Ardrox 396-1E28. All these components were then stored while the experts assessed the feasibility of a rebuild.
Eventually, the wings and fuselage were sent to France for a major rebuilding effort, and it is anticipated that the fighter will be brought back into service in mid-2003. A successful first flight was carried out by Dassault test pilot Eric Gerard at Tanagra in March 2003 (left).
Speaking of recoveries, I haven’t found an update since they tugged out of the sea at the runway end:
I found that one also in my search for airplanes that have been submerged and recovered to flight condition.
There are a few more that have been restored to museum condition, which is obviously not the same thing. A lot more rare when the aircraft flies again! We’ll have to see about that Poseidon.
Seems to me that naming an aircraft model ‘Poseidon’ is just asking for it.
It’s a sub chaser but it’s supposed to be done from the air.
Next year won’t be over the house anymore (she’s moving). Tell ya what, I’ll split the cost with you for this weekend. Since this one isn’t over the house either, I’ll pay he $89.40 if you’ll pay the rest for the short ride.
Hey, gotta give those Navy folks some credit. At least it was in the water right side up. 
Did better than the movie cruise ship or the pontoon Cessna upthread.
When Challenger exploded on launch and crashed into the ocean, there were people who objected to ‘its replacement’ being named Atlantis. (Never mind that Atlantis flew a year before the disaster.)
Not the only thing about Heathrow’s boss:
Heathrow’s chief executive has expressed his “deep regret” at being uncontactable and sleeping through the power outage that upended the travel plans of 200,000 passengers earlier this year.
Thomas Woldbye slept through two emergency notification calls and “several” phone calls from Heathrow’s chief operating officer, Javier Echave, in the early hours of the morning after a fire at a nearby substation knocked out power supplies to the airport.
IOW …
Always leave your phone switched off and in your parked car before getting in your GF’s car for the ride to the hotel.
Amateur. You give your GF the phone and set it on vibrate.
I’m imagining 200,000 hand signed apologies similar to the scene in The Jerk.