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Spotted out of the window at Heathrow on my way to Ironman Frankfurt. It was sitting in front of a Virgin Atlantic hanger. I am guessing something old and military looking at the jet on the tail? Weird that it has no windows etc though...
Spotted out of the window at Heathrow on my way to Ironman Frankfurt. It was sitting in front of a Virgin Atlantic hanger. I am guessing something old and military looking at the jet on the tail? Weird that it has no windows etc though...
It looks like it has scorch marks on the side of it...maybe it's used to train firefighters fight fires in aircraft?
Yes, i thought that too.Originally Posted by MrJim
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Used for firefighter training.
Think it can be used for all possible combos of plane size and engine location. Not that you'll see any trijet's at Heathrow these days!
Yep,just found this article which has pictures of it:
http://your.heathrow.com/behind-the-...t-firefighter/
peterb (19-07-2017)
Question answered. Thanks Hexus massive.
It's there to make all the other airplanes feel better about themselves and their livery.
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CAT-THE-FIFTH (19-07-2017),Phage (19-07-2017)
lol.
Looks like a DC10 ?
'We use a mock-up of a 747/MD11 aircraft made of steel to re-enact fire scenarios.'
Initially I thought it was an abandoned Guppy conversion of a DC10(or something similar),but if you look at it closely it looks more like a static structure.
I have a friend of mine who flies the Dreamlifter (And oher 747's). It looks like a cool job to do once.
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Ahh, the Antonov that doesn't so much as take-off as flies straight and relies on the curvature of the Earth to gain altitude!
The picture in the OP is the Jolly Green Giant for fire training. They showed it in action on a Heathrow documentary the other month. It is surprisingly expensive (a few million).
How does that compare to a similarly-sized plane capable of flight?
I think you could pick one up from the scrappies for under a million. However, it would only be good for one fire before it melted! I am only going by memory of what the firefighter said about it, but I think it has a lifespan of 20 years or so, and said it was due for renewal in a few years for several million. When you consider it is a controlled environment that has to withstand a fire every week (I guess) for a few years, it needs to be pretty beefy.
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